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Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the latest episode of Radio Renaissance.
I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance, and with me, of course, is my indispensable co-host, and I'd like, first off, to wish all of you a happy Memorial Day coming up.
Of course, when one reflects on the racist, exploitative, neocolonial history of the United States, one wonders whether there's anything to memorialize at all.
After all, these were white soldiers for the most part, just slaughtering people.
In World War II, we slaughtered thousands of persons of color, you know, out there in the Pacific.
We even have an airport named after a great battle in which white people slaughtered 3,000 persons of color.
Are we going to memorialize those people?
I don't know.
Things are changing.
But be that as it may, it's going to be a three-day weekend, so make the most of it, no matter what your political views may be.
Now, as we often like to do, we would like to start with a listener comment.
And the listener says this, you both agreed, meaning myself and my co-host, that whites are pathologically altruistic.
This is not precisely correct.
Some sub-races of whites are pathologically altruistic, but not all.
Eastern Europeans are not.
And you can see this clearly when you look at the issue of immigration and other things.
American Scandinavians and Englishmen are Englishmen of the most pathological this may be a genetic difference or it could be caused by the level of high social trust and social capital that was built up in those societies.
Now it is certainly true Eastern Europeans are the only ones that are willing to maintain themselves as Healthy, coherent societies.
And they are fighting against a tremendous media and moral and political and in some cases economic headwind from the rest of us.
From the ones of us who are pathologically altruistic and suicidally crazy.
But, yes, we have to accept that.
And the funny thing is, it is only recently that whites have become so pathologically altruistic.
Up until 60, 70, 80 years ago, white people had a sensible sense of who they were, what their destiny was, and the distinction between themselves and other people.
But I thank our commenter for this comment.
Our listener is right to point out that not all of us are so horribly consumed by self-loathing and willingness to sacrifice our own interests for the interests of others.
Well, we also love to hear from you guys.
And it was about last year at this time when YouTube decided to pull the plug on the channel,
both Mr. Taylor's beautiful video channel, where he had about 130,000 subscribers,
the podcast channel, not one that we really promoted.
It was croaching in and croaching in on 30,000 subscribers.
So we do want to thank each and every one of you.
I want to reiterate what Mr. Taylor said.
Happy Memorial Day.
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If we got something wrong, we don't like that to be left uncorrected.
Now, First thing I'd like to do is a George Floyd update.
I mean, it does seem that you could rename the New York Times, you could call it the Daily George Floyd Update.
But Vermont Governor Phil Scott has just signed a proclamation designating Tuesday, that was Tuesday, just the day before, as George Floyd Remembrance Day.
May 25th, holy day.
Yes, it's a holy day.
On the anniversary of George Floyd's death, he marked the day with a proclamation, and I quote, so that we reflect on Mr. Floyd's death and remember why we must continue to acknowledge systemic racism and inequality in order to fulfill the promise of American freedom and justice for every citizen.
Oh, noble talk, so we must reflect on Mr. Floyd's death.
Now, Vermont is 1.4% Black, but I'm sure that systemic racism is just as deeply entrenched there as in the deep, deep South.
And so all those white Vermonters, I hope they reflected suitably.
It's funny, there's one quick anecdote for you.
You've seen the movie White Christmas, haven't you?
I don't believe I have.
Alright, Bing Cosby, there's a scene where they're taking a train from Florida to Vermont, and they make a joke about, eh, just gonna be a bunch of Republicans up there.
You watch that movie, I think that was made right after World War II, and, you know, the famous song, I'm Dreaming of White Christmas.
You watch that, you know, I probably watch it every Christmas, and I've always thought to myself, you know, Vermont is just the goofiest white people imaginable!
Yes.
And it's now you tell this story and you just think to yourself, what in the world?
That's what they said, a bunch of Republicans up there.
Vermont up until, I don't remember, I actually read somewhere where up until a certain year they never had a Democrat governor.
Well, it has changed dramatically.
And you know, the governor of Vermont's Republican.
Well, good for him.
So, Phil Scott's a Republican.
He is.
Well, I guess he's got the George Floyd bug.
But, you know, if you're going to call a day anything, it seems to me you should call it Derek Chauvin Day.
I mean, he actually did something.
Without him, what would George Floyd have amounted to?
I mean, after all, he was just a criminal and former porn actor passing fake currency.
Who really did something significant?
I mean, let's face it.
It was Derek Chauvin who was the excuse to riot.
George Floyd did nothing.
He just lay down on the street.
What?
I mean, it's like Rosa Parks.
All she did was sit down in the back of a bus, in the front of a bus, for half an hour, and she's famous.
Yeah, I was thinking back of this.
But, you know, think about this.
If somehow George Floyd had infiltrated the upper reaches of American society and found people practicing, important, powerful people practicing systemic racism and laid it bare, well, then there might be something to congratulate him for.
Derek Chauvin is the man who laid it all out.
He's the man who actually acted.
George Floyd was merely the receptacle and the vehicle.
Isn't that so?
Am I missing something?
Well, I'm trying to think back here.
Obviously, Ahmaud Arbery happened in April, I believe.
When did Breonna Taylor happen?
I can't remember.
So, you already had this pressure being built.
Yes.
It was obvious it was only going to take one moment.
To really set things off.
Well, but the point is, what's so special about George Floyd?
Now, of course, it is the alleged victim who is always the one who's memorialized, but the guy really did something.
Derek Chauvin.
They should call it the Derek Chauvin Memorial.
In any case, I suppose I can't be too serious about this, but let us not forget that on the very same day, on Tuesday, the memorial of this transfiguration of George Floyd, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris met with the family of St.
George exactly one year after the killing.
Now, they were supposed to be working on the George Floyd Justice and Policing Act, which, as I say, should really be the Derek Chauvin Justice and Policing Act, and brother Philonise, I'm not quite sure how to pronounce his name, but it's got this sort of African American panache to it, Philonise Floyd.
He told reporters at the White House, If you can make federal laws to protect a bird, which is the bald eagle, you can make federal laws to protect people of color.
Makes perfect sense.
It makes perfect sense.
You know, I guess there are no laws out there that protect people of color, so we need to pass a few.
That's right.
In any case, George Floyd's seven-year-old illegitimate daughter, Gianna Floyd, she showed up, and she played with Joe Biden, and according to observers, she had an absolute ball.
Good for her!
I'm sure he had a great time sniffing her hair.
Now, Kamala Harris said in her own statement that the family continues, quote, to show courage, grace, and resilience in the wake of Floyd's death.
Now, they had practically nothing to do with him while he was alive, but being related to him now is a pretty good deal, and I'm sure $28 million has helped them show courage, grace, and resilience.
Why, when someone dies of a fentanyl overdose, that's the About what you expect to have happen.
A day named after you for Vermont, where drug use is pretty prevalent among a lot of the citizens.
And 28 million dollars.
Well, it goes a long way.
The Floyd family met with the lead negotiators for this police reform bill in the Senate.
That's Senator Cory Booker and Senator Tim Scott.
These are the two black titans.
One Democrat, the other Republican, who are hammering out this vital and important legislation.
And the Flamp family also met with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Now, I'm sure the family has a whole lot to say about qualified immunity for police, how policing should be governed and organized in the United States, and I'm sure the legislators listened very, very carefully for the wisdom of the George Floyd family.
Now, there were six in the family group, including Gianna Floyd's baby mama, Roxy Washington.
Later, they met with reporters.
And now this seven-year-old Gianna, she is really a firecracker.
She led the family with fists raised in a call-and-response chant.
Say his name, she said.
George Floyd, they replied.
What's she going to be later on in life, you reckon?
I have a couple ideas.
Well, probably ought to keep them to yourself.
In a meeting with Nancy Pelosi, little Gianna said, change the world.
And everyone applauded.
Anyway, this legislation, this George Floyd policing bill, passed the House on strictly strict party lines, no Republicans voted for it, and has yet to be figured out in the Senate.
So we shall see whether what should be called the Derek Chauvin reform bill actually sees the light of day.
Now, I would like to point out that last weekend was a pretty frisky weekend.
There were at least a dozen mass shootings in the U.S., and this is reported by the Daily Mail.
This is the kind of place where you find these things.
The Washington Post wouldn't go into this.
Eleven dead, 69 wounded.
In Charleston, a 14-year-old girl, Ronjanae Smith, died on Piggly Wiggly Drive.
More than a dozen people were shot.
And Delonzo Gibson told a local TV station he heard gunshots, thought they were fireworks.
This was an unauthorized gathering where people were charging fees and serving alcohol without a permit.
Then, New Jersey turns out to have been a very hot spot.
In Jersey City, two people were killed and four were injured in what is described as wild gunfire.
Can't get much more in the details.
Then there was a raucous house party in Fairfield Township, New Jersey.
Came to an end when a man and a woman were shot dead and a dozen others wounded.
This was across the street from an African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Now, in Paterson, New Jersey.
Paterson just had a very, very frolic some time.
Five people suffered gunshot wounds when someone opened fire at a large gathering early Sunday morning.
I doubt it was church.
In Columbus, Ohio, a 16-year-old girl was killed and five other people, including a 16-year-old boy, were wounded when someone opened fire at Bicentennial Park.
Youngstown, Ohio, three people killed and three others injured when shots were fired at the Torch Club and Bar.
Now, according to Gun Violence Archive, so far this year there have been 225 mass shootings across the United States.
251 people dead and 919 wounded.
Now they, for their definition, it's a minimum of four victims shot, either injured or killed, not including the shooter.
So, as I say, it was quite the weekend.
However, and from what I can gather, every one of these dramas had an all-black cast.
But Hispanics should not feel left out.
They shouldn't.
On May 11th, Teodoro Macias, age 28, of Colorado Springs, got angry when he was not invited to a birthday party that his girlfriend was attending.
He drove up to the mobile home where the knees up was happening and he killed six adults, including his girlfriend, and then he shot himself.
So now, I would be remiss if I were to fail to point out that just last week, a white man killed nine colleagues at a rail yard in San Jose.
Now, of all of these mass shootings, which one got press?
Only because you and I, we read these stories.
I'm aware of all of them.
However, the only one that became a clarion call for getting rid, you know, I believe Governor Newsom of California.
Yeah.
I was very upset about that.
And which one did Joe Biden screech about?
The same one.
The same one?
I mean, of which one?
Do we know all about the killer?
Heard about his ex-wife and his ex-girlfriends?
And we know where he lived?
And we know what he had for lunch?
Why is all... And I thought black lives matter, for heaven's sake!
Why are we the least bit interested in this white guy?
You know, you forgot the one shooting that I think Takes the cake for all of them.
Yesterday was, two days ago was May 25th, the anniversary, and they were going to have nine minutes of silence there at George Floyd Square to commemorate Derek Chauvin having his knee on the back of Mr. Floyd.
Day before yesterday.
During what was broadcast on many of the, many of like ABC, CBS, NBC, they were showing footage from this solemn ceremony.
You hear pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop Well, that is a great way to celebrate George Floyd.
I think that's an entirely appropriate way to do so.
Memorial Day weekend's coming up.
Which city do you think is going to have the hottest, most fun-filled George Floyd celebration?
It could be a dead heat.
Philadelphia, Detroit, Baltimore.
I don't know.
Chicago.
Chicago's my guess.
Chicago's my big guess where black lives are going to matter the most.
In any case, for a complete change of pace, speak to me of Little League.
Well, I would love to speak to you about America's pastime if we weren't seeing what happened to the Boy Scouts.
Now, in fact, Little League.
If you recall last week, ladies and gentlemen, we talked about how Eagle Scouts must now get, what, a Black Lives Matter?
No, no, no, no.
We haven't quite decided that.
They're threatening to make an obligatory married badge for Eagle in diversity and inclusion and the adoration of Negroes.
Spoiler alert, it's going to happen.
In Little League Baseball, this has actually happened.
In the Commonwealth of Virginia, Little League Baseball coaches have been informed they will be required to undergo anti-racism training, similar to critical race theory, aka anti-white inculcation.
It's being taught in schools, coaches in Alexandria, which is not far from Washington D.C., a very, very tony area.
One of the wealthiest areas of the country, I might point out.
They were informed in an email by the Alexandria Little League Board President, Sherry Riley, that they must attend a May 24th workshop entitled, quote, Sports Can Battle Racism, end quote.
Quote, a Sports Can Battle Racism workshop document for coaches includes six core themes from create a caring climate to model anti-racist behavior.
Coaches are encouraged to teach themselves to perceive their own internalized racism and look for potential institutional racism in the community.
Well, you know, that's very important for little league coaches.
Racism starts young.
Racism starts out in the batter's box, apparently.
Coaches are also asked to be on the lookout.
Be on the lookout for moments they can use as an anti-racist learning opportunity.
I guess that means that if a white pitcher inadvertently beams a black batter, that needs to be a time to stop the game and to question whether the pitcher did that.
If he has, if he needs to internalize his racism.
You know, home plate is white, isn't it?
All the bases are white.
Oh my God.
Oh my God.
The balls are white.
Oh, well you gotta fix that.
Yes, what's next?
The training is going to cost up to $10,000 to institute to do this.
You know, it's, it's, this is just one of those stories.
I mean, little league baseball, you think this is a chance to have fathers and sons bond over just a wonderful sport, an opportunity to be out in the sun, develop teamwork.
Well, they can bond over fighting racism.
They can bond over Sitting around and stopping the baseball game at any moment where there's an opportunity to teach anti-racist thoughts.
So here's another example.
A white guy's at first base.
He steals second base.
The catcher is black.
He throws short hops to second baseman.
The shortstop covering the play.
The white guy steals the base.
That has to be racist because the catcher, he should have automatically capitulated and said, I can't steal on a black guy.
I don't know, I'm just trying to... Well, yes, I'm sure baseball is just riddled with institutional racism and they will suss it out.
But, you know, as I've said many times, the demand for racism far exceeds supply.
And some people supply it artificially.
And the latest of this is a black-owned automobile shop targeted for weeks by vandals leaving racist graffiti.
Duane Hainsworth's auto body and repair shop in Spring Lake, North Carolina.
People showed up and painted swastikas and KKK on his cars and left the message, Please leave.
I love the please.
It's very generous.
Very nice.
They also damaged vehicles.
Well, Haynesworth set up surveillance cameras to capture these racist perps and the very next day he caught two young black males trying to steal one of his cars Broke the windows on some of them, paint scratches, all the rest.
Now, one clue that might have tipped off the police was that they couldn't figure out how to paint a swastika.
Its arms are going in all kind of funny directions, but the Spring Lake Police Department has posted screenshots from surveillance videos and we're asking the public to help find the perps.
Now, This is an interesting thing.
On this occasion, it doesn't seem like this is set up by the owner.
Usually, you would expect the owner to have done something like this to get insurance, sympathy, all that.
But no, these are probably blacks who are there doing it, no doubt in the hope of covering their tracks.
And if they do manage to steal a car, the word will get out.
It's a white guy.
But on the subject of further faking going on, this coming Sunday's New York Times Magazine has an enormously long article written by a white academic named Sarah Villan.
And it is about this kind of fakery of people who pretend to be non-white.
And she writes about Jessica Krug and Rachel Donazal and said plenty of others have done this, but her particular target is a white woman named Andrea Smith who claimed to be Cherokee.
Now, she was a super enthusiastic Cherokee.
She was Cherokee plus plus plus.
As I read from the article, Andrea Smith began to make a name for herself in the early 1990s when she and her younger sister Justine moved to Chicago and started a local chapter of Women of All Red Nations, an activist organization that grew out of the American Indian movement.
And she goes on to write, Smith's intensity and singularity of focus were obvious.
Again, this was super Indian.
She taught at the University of Michigan.
She co-founded the national organization Incite!
Women of Color Against Violence and was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Oh, she was really beating the tom-toms for her people.
She worked with prominent activists, including her dissertation advisor, none other than that famous communist, Angela Davis, and she accepted a couple of Ford Foundations that were earmarked for underrepresented groups.
Well, she was first exposed in 2008 as a phony.
That's 13 years ago, if my math is correct, right?
Yes.
Okay.
But, according to this, after 2008, Smith no longer identified as Cherokee in her official biographies, but She continued to identify as an Indian for panels, interviews, lectures, and she often spoke as a representation of Native American views and causes.
Now this indignant white academic who's writing about this says, These stories have become common enough now that we can predict their narrative.
They begin with a confrontation, lead to revelation, followed by outrage, sometimes an apology before the guilty party slips into obscurity.
But the Smith story just keeps going.
This white woman is indignant that this woman has not been completely and totally cancelled.
And she contacted the University of Riverside, California, where this fake Cherokee teaches, and they said that Smith is a teacher and researcher of high merit, noting that it could not by law consider ethnicity when making hiring or promotion decisions.
What a joke that is!
That's a good way to get out of it.
And apparently there were Indian organizations that were praising her work for Indians.
But these white ladies are just so angry that this fake is getting away with it.
And now, let me quote further, now even though most native studies scholars no longer work with Smith, she has been publishing within adjacent fields like ethnic studies and has slowly built back a reputation.
This past spring she came out with a new co-edited collection from Duke University Press.
Outrageous!
Outrageous!
This is the Teflon fake Indian.
Now, this is interesting too.
Her younger sister Justine started building a career of her own based in part on claiming Cherokee identity and was offered a visiting faculty position at St.
Paul's School of Theology, which put out a news release saying, That it is believed that she will be the first full-time Native American woman to serve in any full-time faculty position in theological education in North America.
But she's white.
Of course, yes.
And this is known.
This is known.
Well, now this was some years ago.
She was outed.
And she got the axe, and she faded into obscurity just as she's supposed to.
Correct.
And that's why, that's why this lady, Sarah Viren, is so perplexed.
This huge, I mean, I can't tell you how long it is.
It must be 10,000 words.
10,000 words, clearly intended to destroy this woman's life and career.
Now, what does this really tell us?
Of course, none of this would happen if there were not rewards for being non-white.
I mean, there are huge rewards, and it really does boil down to, as our star writer Gregory Hood says, the question is not what, but who.
After all, this woman was such a rock-ribbed, hard-charging Indian that she got nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for doing good things for Indians.
She was a phony and she's got to go.
I'm just, I'm astonished that this enormous article has been written to finally hound her out of respectable society, despite all the things that she's presumably been doing for Indians.
Now, I must say, I did learn something important in this article.
I learned a new word.
What word is this?
The word is pretendian.
Pretendian.
A pretendian.
Pretendian.
Yes, apparently there's so many of them, they got a name for them.
Pretendian.
They're pretendians.
I think I told you this anecdote one time.
Growing up, people would always say, I think it was about the time the Disney movie Pocahontas came out, and everyone, everybody, very little, I grew up in an all-white area, and people would say... No wonder you're so unreconstructed.
Yeah, people would say, people would say, you know, If you look at yearbook photos, like almost everyone in the class, blonde hair, blue eyes.
One person tried to say they had Indian ancestry as if they were proud about it.
Like, they go, I had an Indian princess.
And I was like, I remember thinking to myself, why would you brag about that?
Because I don't know.
You were bad from the start.
Why would you brag about that?
Who cares?
You know, because I think we were learning about the Trail of Tears.
I thought, you know, I just immediately thought, OK, so these pioneering people came here and Look what all we accomplished, and now here we are, like you just said, we've got a person who's spending their entire life to advance themselves.
Not what but who, is the great question.
Not what but who.
And she threw herself into this with such extraordinary energy.
Mr. Kersey, speak to me, not of Indians anymore, but of climate change.
Of climate change?
And the social change that comes with climate change.
Yeah, you know, I'll make this one quick because it's one of these big Brookings Institute studies.
As we know, the left is completely in charge of the country now.
They get to do whatever they want to.
It's going to be very difficult for Republicans to stop a lot of stuff.
Well, this article points out that the iconic American suburban neighborhood that attracts families looking for, quote, safe and prosperous areas have been targeted many times.
We know that with the affirmatively furthering fair housing.
Under Obama, where they tried to say zoning laws are racist to keep certain people, i.e.
people of color, out of neighborhoods.
Well, now the left-leaning Brookings Institute is claiming that the unsustainable nature of the suburbs means they must be transformed in the name of preventing climate change.
They tout Joe Biden's ambitious and necessary goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to
50% of the amount in 2005 by 2030, with even bigger reductions by 2050.
Basically, they said this is going to require systems-level changes across every sector
of the economy.
But the big problem is, the central driver of the climate crisis is unsustainable land
use practices.
Simply put, the Brookings Institute tells us, the United States cannot reach its GHG reduction targets if our urban areas continue to grow as they have in the past.
After decades of sprawl, the U.S.' 's dubious honor of being a world leader in both building-related energy consumption and vehicle miles
Obviously, this study leaves out the most important point.
Why are suburbs created in the first place?
pollutes our water and requires higher relative emissions during the initial construction.
Obviously, this study leaves out the most important point.
Why are suburbs created in the first place?
Why do urban areas find such a paucity of white people when the suburbs around are created?
They're clear-cutted.
Single-family homes are built so that white people can have some semblance.
Or certain people can have a semblance of an old America that increasingly just doesn't exist.
Why do they drive such great distances to go to these office towers?
Because they love to pollute the atmosphere, I guess.
No, no, I just can't think of a single reason.
Yeah, and again, the article points out, gets the nitty-gritty of suburbia.
People have to drive cars, electric or not, to get from home to work again.
The report states, quote, Car-dependent neighborhoods lock us into a baseline of
harmful emissions while creating other climate impacts in the process
While neighborhood models were built around mass transit such as streetcars and at distance and and at distances
Friendly for walking and cycling newer neighborhoods frequently design all real estate to accommodate the
automobile in quote well
I guess the solution is to build a high-rise apartment building in my backyard and
Fill it with Muslims and Africans a lot of refugees need to give a taste of the American dream
And then you can have and you have noisy buses come in they can expand the Metro out here
You know feeders with with more buses to let people come in as long as single-family homes no longer exist
Well, you know, on the subject of urban planning, that leads to our next story, and it has to do with streetlights.
Streetlights have been shown to reduce violence.
A 2017 study in Brazil found that expanding street light in hot spots for violence dramatically reduced homicides because people prefer to shoot each other or kill each other in the dark, apparently.
Even a slight increase in illumination can reduce street crime, according to a long-range study in the Chilean capital, Santiago.
It showed that crime dropped by 20% with just one more hour of artificial light.
Isn't that interesting?
20%?
20% with just one extra hour of artificial light.
So, yes, crime thrives in the dark.
Well, in Jamaica, Thieves have made off with 525 streetlights during the first five months of this year.
525.
Now, streetlight theft was most common in the towns of Montego Bay and Portmore.
These are areas that, according to the U.S.
State Department, have Jamaica's highest rates of violent crime.
It's likely that many of these streetlights were taken to be sold off also as scrap.
Now, this is an interesting thing, and this is something that is coming to the United States, I'm sure.
Jamaica has struggled with this problem.
In 2011, the country temporarily banned the export of scrap metal after thieves caused an estimated $1 billion of damage To streetlights, to begin with.
Also, railway lines, water pipes, telephone lines, bridges, roads.
Hold on!
Road signs and other types of infrastructure.
You said a word, I'm not sure I heard it correctly.
Let me make sure that our listeners hear that.
Billion?
Yes, a billion dollars.
A billion dollars worth of infrastructure that disappeared.
Hey, there's a bridge.
There's metal in it.
Let's take it apart and set it for scrap.
Railway lines.
Yes, why not?
Now, what I want to know is, if this is happening in your country, can you get your act together sufficiently enough to ban exports?
This is an astonishing thing.
Jamaica, of course, probably has not a steel works or a foundry in the whole country.
And it was exporting metal.
I'm sure the problem is climate change.
The same things happen in Detroit.
We know that.
We always hear about people who are trying to steal the copper and they end up getting electrocuted.
That's right.
In St.
Louis, one of my favorite stories is they have some really nice bricks, some of the nicest houses.
In the early 20th century were built in St.
Louis and they're now all abandoned.
So what people do is they export the brick because the brick is so valuable.
It has no value in these abandoned neighborhoods, but they export the brick.
And so you drive by these gorgeous opulent houses, but they call them doll houses because if you go in the backyard, Mr. Taylor, you just see right through it because the whole back has been brick by brick pulled apart so that someone else can build a home in another city.
Well, this is recycling.
The Brookings Institution should be pleased.
White people are recycling all of these good raw materials.
But now, Jamaica, no doubt, no, Jamaica, I'm sure, got into this terrible fix because it was colonized.
And it was colonized by people who used Imperial measure.
But that little problem is going to be solved ponto-ponto, if I understand correctly.
Well, the racial reckoning has taken on basically every aspect of our life.
You know, we talk about looling baseball now.
People have to atone for their racism.
Oxford University is set to teach students that imperial measurements, including the mile, the inch, the yard, the pound, the ounce, are, quote, deeply tied to the idea of empire in a Colonizing Project.
So they've decided that in a bid to make science courses less geocentric, the university has suggested imparable measurements.
Basically, what they want to do is they want to decolonize plans for Oxford's Maths, Physics, Life Science departments, suggesting the teaching of the measurements in the curriculum may change.
It comes after a pledge from the Oxford Vice-Chancellor, Louis Richardson, to embed teaching on colonialism in the empire into courses and somehow diversify the math and life sciences curriculum.
Undergraduates and scholars will reportedly conduct research this summer to determine how Oxford science teaching can be made less Eurocentric, before drawing up proposals for lecturers to apply recommendations to the syllabuses.
Well, you know, they can start teaching black magic.
Voodoo!
Santeria!
What was we learned about last week?
The congresswoman from St.
Louis who somehow... The faith healer actually!
The faith healer and they rid themselves of COVID and her mentor somehow diverted... It diverted hurricanes!
Diverted Hurricane Katrina from Florida!
That's right!
They can decolonize science!
So, imperial measurements including weight, length, volume could also be given historical context in Oxford University's physics curriculum.
The British Imperial System was introduced in the 1824 British Weights and Measures Act and was widely adopted as the traditional systems of weights and measurements by 1826, prior to the adoption of the metric system in 1965.
Here's a great quote from an Oxford spokesman. Quote, the university supports the diversifying
STEM curriculum project, which is looking at how curricula might change to acknowledge questions
in diversity. Colonialism, we value the inputs of students in this work. All recommendations
arising from the project will be referred to departments to consider next steps.
So basically, after the Black Lives Matter protest, Oxford University has vowed to ensure
its degrees educated pupils on colonialism.
Awesome.
Um.
Pretty much that's it.
Well, that's enough.
That's more than enough.
Luckily, they're not going to tear down the statue of Cecil John Rhodes yet.
I wonder why not?
I think it's too big.
It's pretty cumbersome.
That would be no obstacle.
Okay, well, you know, on the subject of education, you'll be pleased to know that prospective teachers in the state of New York will no longer have to take the Academic Literacy Skills Test.
This was designed to measure reading and writing ability, which one would expect to be important for school teachers.
This decision marks a significant rollback of the state's certification requirements, but officials said the literacy test had become an unnecessary hurdle for certain prospective teachers.
Only 38% of aspiring black teachers and only 46% of aspiring hispanic teachers passed the test compared to 69%.
Now I'm glad to hear they're weeding out 30% of the whites just as well.
But they are preventing much larger numbers.
62% of blacks and 54% of hispanics from teaching.
So the test has got to go now.
The regents, who decide these things, insist that dropping the test does not present a lowering of standards.
I guess they would probably fail the test too.
I don't think they know what the word lower means.
No, no.
Or maybe they don't know what the word standards means.
But they pass the measure as an emergency regulation.
Just two days ago, Monday evening, and it will go into effect immediately.
Now, my question for you is, if this was an unfair exclusion of people of color, and even white people, are they going to sue?
Are the people who got booted by this, are they going to sue?
Why not?
They ought to sue.
But in any case, the standards have not been lowered, but apparently you no longer have to take the Academic Literacy Skills Test.
Now, as I understand it, there is some city that, Seattle I believe, that for the very same reason, because, just because this test was racist, it has to go, certain other things have to go too.
We've seen this a lot of places.
We saw this in Minneapolis, but the Inspector General, I'm sorry, In a recent letter to Seattle Police Chief Adrian Diaz, the city's Inspector General, Lisa Judge, stated that Seattle Police should, quote, strongly consider, quote, end quote, eliminating traffic stops for minor civil and non-dangerous violations.
According to Seattle Inspector General, Ms.
Judge, She stated that such stops should be discontinued for the safety of both officers and the public and for racial fairness.
And for racial fairness.
Racial fairness.
Judges charged by law with helping to ensure the fairness and integrity of the police system and its delivery of law enforcement services.
In her letter, she wrote that traffic stops should be limited to offenses that create a danger to the public.
I wonder if lights being out don't create danger.
It's not.
She does not list that.
She says reckless driving, DUI, school zone violations, and other similar circumstances.
She framed her recommendation as a request, but then went on to argue that routine traffic stops for minor civil offenses such as, here we go, expired license plates, Or burned-out taillights can at times result in unnecessary deaths, both to motorists and police officers.
Unnecessary deaths?
Is that because somebody runs into a car because the light's on?
No, absolutely not.
Mr. Taylor, that logic doesn't factor in.
What factors in is racial fairness.
She cites the recent cases of 20-year-old Dante Wright, who was fatally shot by police during a traffic stop, and Darian Jarrett, a New Mexico State police officer who was fatally shot during a traffic stop by a driver with an assault rifle.
She wrote that these stops are inherently dangerous, with officers approaching unknown persons, often in darkened vehicles, sometimes in remote areas.
So she added that many in the community believe traffic stops are inherently dangerous for different reasons, especially for people of color.
Especially for people of color, and they significantly infringe on civil liberties, so yes.
Okay, no more traffic stops.
Okay, well, I mean, we can defund the police, because they won't be making any stops, right?
Well, you know, we're not going to talk about, but a fun little anecdote for you.
A mayoral candidate in Atlanta, a black mayoral candidate who wants to defund the police.
Guess what just happened to him?
Do tell.
He had his car stolen by four black youths.
Ah, well, I'm sure he called a social worker to ask the social worker to get the car back for him.
I'm sure he did.
Well, let's see.
University of Illinois Chicago.
It used to have a law school named after John Marshall.
John Marshall School of Law.
Not anymore.
He had to be removed because of his connections to slavery.
Apparently, he owned slaves.
There's some controversy about this, but they dug up new evidence.
Doesn't matter.
Yeah, it doesn't matter.
It's just as long as you accuse him of being a slave owner.
Now, they say, by changing the name, This will ensure that our university continues to be a place where diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunity are supported and advanced.
Just like that.
Take the man's name off and wow, look what you can accomplish.
Now, the UIC, the University of Illinois at Chicago, put together a task force To look into this, a task force, and it recommends that the two remaining John Marshall Law Schools, one in Atlanta and one at Cleveland Marshall College of Law, also drop this horrible name.
They had a task force to do this.
What do you reckon?
Maybe three carriers and 20 escort ships?
The task force got to the bottom of this and John Marshall is no, no, no more.
But there's good news.
There's very good news.
The new name is not going to be George Floyd School of Law.
Okay.
It's not going to be Pocahontas School of Law.
Okay.
It's not even going to be named after Nelson Mandela.
It's just going to be the UIC School of Law.
Now, I think they missed a terrible, they really missed an opportunity.
They muffed it.
I mean, they're calling, they want diversity, inclusion and equal opportunity.
For heaven's sake, this was a great chance.
A great chance.
And they blew it.
They denied a person of color their rightful celebration.
That's right.
That's right.
I like, you know, Pocahontas School of Law.
That sounds good to me.
I mean, she was from Indiana, right?
Oprah Winfrey.
Chicago.
Michael Jordan.
He's Chicago's favorite basketball player.
But you know, there is a six-foot bronze statue of John Marshall that sits outside the Supreme Court.
Did you know that?
In Washington, D.C.
I'm very well aware of that.
And there is a smaller marble one inside the building.
Isn't it called the Marshall Building?
You know, you may be right.
I'm pretty sure it's called the John Marshall Building.
Uh-oh.
Well, you know, I'm sure that our new appointee for the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division We'll probably change that.
Probably solve that little problem.
Her name is Kristen Clark.
I believe we've spoken of her before.
But just the day before yesterday, she became the first black woman to run DOJ's Civil Rights Division.
It was a 51 to 48 vote.
She actually got one Republican vote.
One Republican vote.
Susan Collins of Maine voted yes.
But in any case, Vice President Kamala Harris Yes.
fellow person of color, swore in Clark as assistant attorney general for civil rights
in what they called a ceremonial swearing in.
I bet it was a very ceremonious.
Yes. Yes.
Now, there are certain sketchy aspects of Ms. Clark's life.
Clark's past.
In 2020, just quite recently, in an op-ed in Newsweek, she wrote a story called, I Prosecuted Police Killings, Defund the Police!
But be strategic about it.
Of course.
And now she's also labeled President Donald Trump's judicial nominees as white male extremists.
White male extremists.
White male extremists.
And then, of course, there is the particularly heartwarming story of good old Kristen Clark as an undergraduate student at Harvard, president of the Black Students Association, when she wrote a letter.
And let me quote from it.
Please use the following theories and observations to assist you in your search for truth regarding the genetic differences between blacks and whites.
Black infants sit, crawl, and walk sooner than whites.
That's absolutely true.
And she says, melanin gives blacks their superior physical and mental abilities.
Of course!
She goes on to add, some scientists have revealed that most whites are unable to produce melanin because their pineal glands are often calcified or non-functioning.
This is the chemical basis for the cultural differences between blacks and whites.
And she closed by saying, Melanin endows blacks with greater mental, physical, and spiritual abilities, something which cannot be measured based on Eurocentric standards.
So she was quite the advanced thinker at an early age.
This was as an undergraduate.
Now, She was actually asked in a very hands-off, kid-gloves way about this.
During her Senate confirmation hearings, she says, oh, oh, that was satire.
Satire?
Satire, satire.
There is nothing to suggest that it was satire.
Absolutely nothing.
In fact, this resulted in exchange of a number of letters in the Harvard Crimson, which she wrote it, and there were people who defended her and said, yes, yes, yes, this all should be considered.
Now it's satire.
In retrospect, it's satire.
And interestingly enough, on Tuesday, the Wikipedia editors locked down Clark's page to prevent anyone from mentioning this letter.
They locked it down.
This just cannot come into Sully, this wonderful woman who's about to become in charge, to be put in charge of civil rights.
Today, however, I checked and the page is now open and somebody does mention the letter.
Good, good.
It's a heartfelt letter.
Oh, it's science and she's following the science.
Come on!
Clark also said, in March 2019, she was one of a group of people who put pressure on Facebook to ban all white nationalism.
At that time, she was president of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
Civil Rights Under Law.
Well, I wish we had more Civil Rights Under Law.
I agree.
Trust me.
But, she got them, she got Facebook to ban all references to white nationalism, and she said this, Online hate must be confronted if we're going to make meaningful progress in the fight against hate.
Online hate, Mr. Kersey.
Watch out.
Watch out.
And so I'm sure that once she is in her position of making sure that all Americans get civil rights, she won't care very much about ours.
I don't think that she would treat you and me with much loving kindness because she thinks that the internet, which is how almost everyone is going to be listening to this podcast, has got to be purged of hate.
Now, while we're purging the internet of hate, I understand Lockheed Martin has been purging its employees of hate.
Oh my goodness.
Well, this comes from the intrepid Investigator Chris Rufio, whoever is supplying him with this stuff.
Rufo.
Rufo.
Terrible character.
Okay, so there's a story that published City Journal where Lockheed Martin, the nation's largest defense contractor, has put top executives through a three-day training to deconstruct the white male culture and unlearn their white male privilege.
13 employees, including a former three-star general and vice president of production for the 1.7 Trillion dollar F-35 fighter jet program.
Attended this program on Zoom last year, led by the consulting firm White Men as Full Diversity Partners.
What?
That's the name of the firm?
That's the name of the firm.
Oh my goodness.
I don't know why you haven't started an LLC yet where you actually run around and you decide that you're going to be, you know, black men as full diversity partners.
And you teach BIPOCs the importance of working with white men.
White men as full diversity partners.
I mean, do they hand out poison pills as you walk in the door?
Isn't that the only way white men can be full diversity partners?
I don't know if that's the case.
I don't want to find out.
The firm works to help white men, quote, awaken together, end quote.
This is real life.
This is where we are in 2021.
The diversity training began with free association exercise, which asked the Lockheed executives to list words associated with white men.
Why don't you throw out just a couple?
Tell me what you think they might've said.
Just take a guess.
Oh, what they might've said?
What they might've said.
They were freely associated?
They were freely associated?
They hadn't yet been brainwashed?
I mean, they probably said things like, I don't know, courage, sports, football, honor, integrity.
We don't know what they said, but we know what the trainers listed.
Old, racist, privileged, anti-women.
Angry.
Aryan Nation.
KKK.
Founding Fathers.
Guns.
Guilty.
Can't jump.
The diversity trainers posed the question, what's in it for white men?
A list of responses included, I won't get replaced by someone who is...
I wish I would have read this.
This is just insane how crazy this training is.
A list of responses included, quote, I won't get replaced by someone who is a better full diversity partner, or quote, I will improve the brand image reputation of white men, and quote, I will have less nagging sense of guilt that I am the problem, end quote.
Well, wait, wait, wait, wait.
This is how they're going to feel after they have had their brains washed?
The diversity trainers posed the question, what's in it for white men as part of the white men as full diversity partners?
Okay, so I will no longer have nagging guilt?
I thought the whole idea was to fill me with nagging guilt.
So, pretty much, the consulting firm claims that the roots of white male culture include such traits as rugged individualism, a can-do attitude, hard work, operating from principles, and striving towards success Which apparently are, according to White Men as Full Diversity Partners, LLC, are devastating to women and minorities.
Good grief.
Well, oh boy.
We're not done yet.
We have to do two more paragraphs.
The employees were also asked to recite and internalize 50 white privilege statements, including, quote, 50?
50 5050 okay just just 50 just 50 right now Quote, my culture teaches me to minimize the perspective and powers of people of other races.
50.
End quote.
I can commit acts of terrorism, violence, or crime and not have it attributed to my race.
End quote.
After the participants finished their white privilege statements, they were asked to recite and internalize 59 male privilege statements, including, quote, my earning potential is 15% to 33% higher than a woman's.
My reproductive organs are not seen as the property of other men, the government, and or even strangers because of my gender.
That's true.
And then finally there were 59 There were 59 steps that the white employees recited and internalized for a heterosexual privilege statement, including, quote, I am not asked to think about why I'm straight.
Quote, I can have friendships with or work around children without being accused of recruiting or molesting them.
End quote.
The training concluded with, I'm tired statements attributed to fictitious people of color and women such as, I'm tired of being black.
I'm tired of black boys, girls being murdered.
I'm tired of the concept that we should be colorblind.
That, Mr. Taylor, that, dear listener, is the state of corporate America in 2021.
And these are the people who are building our first line of fighting equipment, our systems that are going to defend the free world, going to defend, oh boy, Lockheed Martin.
Somewhere there are Chinese generals, somewhere there are Russian generals, I'm sure somewhere there are generals of the Congo, of the nation of Chad, that are laughing as they read this, as they realize, wow, this America empire, I don't think it's got too long to go here, folks.
Who was it that coined the term paper tiger?
I think that was Malatitung, yes, the paper tiger.
Well, you'll be interested to know that Surgeons, the American College of Surgeons, is putting on an important webinar, somewhat along the same lines, but a slightly different angle.
Because these American surgeons have now tumbled to why blacks aren't as good surgeons as other races and are taking bold steps to solve the problem.
You know what the problem is?
I don't.
Microaggressions.
Microaggressions.
Yes, now listen to this.
Microaggressions are behaviors, speech, or actions that subtly and usually unconsciously or unintentionally, but probably sometimes consciously, intentionally, Express a prejudiced attitude towards an individual of a minority group.
Research shows continued exposure to microaggressions in the workplace causes decreased performance, heightened stress, loss of confidence and well-being, and poor overall health.
Microaggressions can impact the eight dimensions of well-being.
So learning to identify, manage, and cope with microaggressions is important for all surgeons throughout their entire careers.
Got that?
It affects all eight dimensions of well-being.
Makes sense to me.
Okay, now the panel, I looked in the registration material, the panel is all delightfully diverse and I'm sure every one of them has been beaten down by microaggressions all their lives, but they have found the will to carry on and they will share their tricks and tips with all their fellow victims.
Now, What strikes me as interesting about this is it's directed at the poor downtrodden victims.
It's how to handle, basically it's how to deal with wicked white people.
Surprisingly, I suppose, well you know when you think about it, I suppose this is the natural complement to what the Lockheed guys have been going through.
They've been taught how not to be microaggressive and so their potential victims are being told how to deal with the microaggressions that will nevertheless slip through the training and will, as it says here, it's important throughout their entire career to deal with these microaggressions.
So, there you go.
There'll be better surgeons once they've figured out how to deal with all these horrible things that white people do to them, even unconsciously.
O tempora o mores, as someone once wrote.
I'll say.
Now, this is an interesting thing.
The Navajo Nation, you know it already has its own police academy?
I didn't.
I didn't know that either.
It has its own universities, a bar association and court system, and it has a brand spanking new office on Washington Street near the embassies of other sovereign nations.
After all, it's a sovereign nation.
Now, the rush to secure federal hardship benefits increased the Navajo Nation's official enrollment up from 306,000 last year to nearly 400,000 this year.
Good.
Well, and the fact is, you see, the reservation, which is larger than West Virginia, it spreads over Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah.
And the idea was the Navajos got all of this extra COVID relief money.
And that's why they got nearly 100,000 extra Navajos.
Because all of this lotting was looking for pockets to be put into.
They got a 30% spike in Navajo Nation enrollment.
The Cherokee Nation, which normally sees about 1,200 applications a month, they got 1,400 a month since the middle of last year because they too have got government lolly to hand out to the Braves and the Squaws.
Now, did you know, do you know how many federally recognized tribes there are in the United States?
I'm going to guess there are 147.
574.
Way off.
147. 574. Way off. Just a bit outside. 574. Okay. Yes. But the Navajo, they are number one.
Due to this boost, because they were getting payments of up to $1,350 per enrolled adult, it made sense to enroll.
It's good to be Navajo.
And now the Navajo Nation requires members to be at least one quarter Diné, as they call it.
That's the fashionable Me Too kind of word for being Navajo, is Diné.
What was the word that you discovered and then at New York Times, the New York Journal book?
Pretendian.
Pretendian.
A lot of pretendians here in the Navajo.
Now, I don't know.
I don't know.
You and I, being wicked white men, are in no position to judge.
Now, but you got to get your paperwork and it's like joining the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
You know, there's no DNA test for that.
You got to prove it through birth certificates and wills.
But now, I was intrigued by this figure of 574.
There's a whole, there's a list.
You can go look them up.
And let me read to you some that I discovered.
There is the Los Coyotes Band of Cahuilla and Cupeno Indians.
That's a recognized tribe.
There's the Manchester Band of Pomo Indians of the Manchester Rancheria in California.
There is the Mach Ebinashiwish Band of Potawatomi Indians in Michigan.
There is the Passamaquoddy Tribe Pleasant Point, the Palma Band of Louisiana Mission Indians of the Palma and Uema Reservation.
There is the Pechanga Band of Louisiana Mission Indians of the Pechanga Reservation.
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