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June 16, 2021 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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‘The Racist Legacy Many Birds Carry’
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the latest episode of Radio Renaissance.
I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance, and with me is my indispensable, irreplaceable co-host.
It is June 15th, only four days away from Juneteenth, June 19th, which I'm sure all of you will be celebrating in the highest possible spirits.
As always, it's a great pleasure and honor to be with you on this occasion, and we look forward to being with you next week.
And As usual, we begin with a correction, or as is becoming increasingly usual, we have set out the word that if either of us make some sort of blundering error, that our listeners, who are sometimes better aware of what's going on than we are, should let us know.
And I got it full whammy!
On the last podcast, I referred to Justice Kagan, Supreme Court Justice Kagan, as the wise Latina.
Of course, the wise Latina is Justice Sotomayor.
It was an inexcusable error, and a listener has pointed this out.
Now, of course, I guess I think of these sort of dumpy liberals.
They get confused in my mind.
But I'm dismayed that my co-host did not point out my error on the spot.
Now, he says that he recognized that I'd made an error, but he was withholding commentary out of deference to my wisdom and my gray beard.
But the next time this should happen, Mr. Kersey, you tell me on the spot.
No, no, no, no, you nit!
It was Justice Kagan is not the wise Latino.
I couldn't remember Sotomayor's name.
That's the reason.
That's no excuse.
That's no excuse.
I frequently point out the errors of your ways, and you must point out the errors of my ways.
And for those of you out there in our listening audience who are champing at the point of the errors of our ways, the way to reach us is at www.amran.com, the contact us page.
You can dilate on whatever errors you've discovered or tell us things that we should cover that we have not covered.
Or the other way to reach Mr. Kersey directly is... Because we live here at ProtonMail.com.
Once again, all one word.
Because we live here at ProtonMail.com.
We love getting your suggestions for stories.
I got a couple this week.
Thank you so much.
And also to sign up for the Amarin Newsletter.
More importantly, I want to point out that I am Conversing with a modern-day Diogenes?
Is that the guy who would carry a lantern for honest men?
So we appreciate those listeners, be that a man or a woman, who sends us those corrections.
That's right.
We do not wish to be dispensing fake news.
Now, begin with good news.
We're trying to make a policy of doing that because we've been criticized repeatedly for filling our podcasts with bad news.
And the good news is, of course, the USDA program that set aside money for black farmers has been declared illegal.
We talked about these COVID relief programs.
The Washington Post went and explained the U.S.
Department of Agriculture program.
They said the assistance program, which is passed by the Senate in March as part of Biden administration's $1.9 trillion Relief package sought to correct long-standing disadvantages faced by black, Latino, and other minority farmers in getting loans from banks and the government.
Oddly enough, this was a debt forgiveness program.
They got loans for heaven's sake.
And if I just don't understand, they got the loans because they have such a terrible time getting the loans, we're going to forgive the loans.
Great.
In any case, a federal judge on Thursday halted the loan forgiveness program exclusive to farmers of color.
Judge William Griesbach of Wisconsin's Eastern District issued an order placing the program on a temporary hold wherein he wrote that white farmers are likely to succeed on the merits of their claim and that the U.S.
Department of Agriculture's use of race-based criteria violates their right to equal protection under the law.
The judge's move stops the USDA from issuing debt relief payments to thousands of minority farmers.
Despite the USDA's vowing to begin their payouts this month.
Stop them in their tracks.
And it was the President and General Counsel of the Wisconsin Institute of Law and Liberty, WILL.
I think we'll be hearing more and more about that.
So I'm going to try to retain this name and these initials in my increasingly porous memory, the Wisconsin Institute of Law and Liberty, WILL, President Rick Eisenberg.
He represented the white farmers.
He said the court recognized that the federal government's plan to condition and allocate benefits on the basis of race Raises grave constitutional concerns and threatens our clients with irreparable harm.
Now, USDA spokesman Matt Herrick, he said, we respectfully disagree.
We will continue forcefully to defend our ability to carry out the act of Congress and deliver debt relief to socially disadvantaged borrowers.
Again, the idea is they couldn't get access to credit and now what's this?
What the heck?
They got access to credit for heaven's sake and now they don't have to repay their debts because they had a harder time getting credit allegedly.
Anyway, when the temporary order is lifted, continued Matt Herrick, USDA will be prepared to provide the debt relief authorized by Congress.
Now, the idea that Congress should be writing laws that says, OK, honky, back of the bus, it's just extraordinary.
Not only honky, back of the bus, but there's this important aspect about that that needs to be brought up again, is that it was going to be, I think, 120% debt forgiveness, plus they were going to get money on top, if you remember correctly.
It was a mind-blowing moment when this came out.
It was like, wait a second, they're getting money on top of the forgiveness for the loan?
It was more than the amount of the loan because it was going to take care of any kind of tax implications that this release had.
Really, just double scoops of ice cream with a cherry on top and whipped cream.
And manure for those white farmers who were hoping for some sort of That's right.
Too bad for them.
And continued good news.
There was the restaurant relief program that was exactly the same way.
Now, the New York Times has a long article about this, regretting the fact that this racial and sexual discrimination was struck down by brutal white male judges.
Well, they didn't put it in those terms, but as they explained in the New York Times, there's a 21-day exclusivity period during which only women And preferred minority pets, and actually, as it turns out, veterans, U.S.
veterans, were able to apply before ordinary white men, who were once again at the back of the bus, were allowed to do so.
And, now this is quite interesting, as the New York Times points out, more than 362,000 businesses applied.
I guess I didn't explain.
This was for restaurants that had lost money during COVID.
I suspect just about every restaurant in the country had lost money during So, there was pent-up demand.
More than 362,000 businesses applied seeking $75 billion, nearly three times the amount Congress had allocated.
Now, these were all the various pets, so they couldn't even accept an application from an ordinary white guy.
Tens of thousands of applicants who expected an easier path through this $28.6 billion aid program are now stuck in limbo, sniff-sniff, says the New York Times.
And nearly 3,000 restaurant owners whose grants were approved have been told they won't now be paid.
Now, the money is, of course, running out fast.
As I said, it's already distributed $27.5 billion out of $28.6 billion.
It's almost all gone to about 100,000 applicants.
I doubt they will be told to give the money back.
But the New York Times profiles Gregory Leon.
He is the owner of Amalinda in Milwaukee, and he is one of our pets because he is a Hispanic.
He was told last month he'd be getting a grant, but over the weekend, he and 2,964 other applicants, I wonder who kept such a close count.
In any case, 2,964 other applicants were notified that the federal court rulings in Texas and Tennessee had halted their payments.
I started crying, said Mr. Leon, who read the email giving him the bad news.
Literally, I started crying.
So this is literally a sob story.
You don't often hear sob stories in which we get absolute, genuine, literal tears, but here we go.
Poor Mr. Leon is not going to get his money immediately.
Now, how about the white people who were told you can't even apply and all the money's running out?
Did any of them shed tears?
No, the New York Times certainly not interested in that.
But a three-panel judge of the U.S.
Court of Appeals to the Sixth Circuit in Tennessee made the ruling.
And there was a similar case in Texas.
Judge Reed O'Connor.
We've spoken about him before.
We talked about him last week.
Yes, we did.
Reed O'Connor.
He ruled against the Small Business Administration, which is administering it.
And the Tennessee case was filed by, once again, the Wisconsin Institute of Law and Liberty.
W-I-L-L.
Once again, Mr. Eisenbach is at the helm and he's gone to bat.
Rick Eisenbach gone to bat for the white man.
So they halted this $4 billion debt relief for minority farmers.
And as Rick Eisenbach pointed out, the impact of COVID-19 did not discriminate by race and neither should COVID relief.
So there you go.
It's good news!
You know, here's one quick, very fast anecdote.
During this whole COVID lockdown, we saw so many businesses shut down.
I can't remember the exact number, but there was a gentleman by the name of Dave Portnoy.
He's the founder of Barstool Sports.
He became a multi-millionaire when it was sold.
He was really upset about these lockdowns.
He saw all these businesses, these small businesses, shuttering down at the same time that the big box stores like Amazon and Walmart... Were allowed to stay open.
Exactly.
And they were able to thrive and capture that marketplace.
Well, he created the Barstool Fund for Small Businesses and was able to raise, he put up $500,000 of his own money, was able to raise well over $40-45 million.
Business owners would send in videos to him and saying, this is why we need to be helped out, Mr. Taylor and dear listener, as to why we need this Barstool Fund.
And he would then call them and they would cry tears of joy because he would say,
I'm going to fund your payroll. We're going to keep your doors open through this crisis.
We should never have been shut down. We're here to help you out because that's what people do.
And some of these videos, ladies and gentlemen, they're very touching because these businesses
have been around for multiple generations. Four or five generations of families have owned these
small restaurants and that's the backbone of a small community. That is what we were losing during
this crisis. And so when you juxtapose those two stories, here's a guy who's kind of known for
being an off the wall goofball, but he takes it upon himself to save small businesses of all
colors. It doesn't matter. So many people were, you know, there was like a Cuban restaurant
somewhere they called in and they could barely speak English, but he was like, I'm here to help
you out. And so. Well, Well, the federal government does not take that attitude at all.
No, no.
Honky, you've been privileged all your life.
Too bad.
Now, you have a very important story as well.
The way the Austin Statesman American handled the shooting.
I believe it was over the weekend, Saturday or maybe Friday, Saturday night.
I remember, as a matter of fact, learning about this shooting.
It was in downtown in the Entertainment District.
They'd just gotten things going again.
They'd gotten frolic with their masks off and bam, bam, bam.
So do tell us about it.
No, it wasn't just bam, bam, bam.
It was bam, bam, bam times 100.
It was 300 casings were found near 6th Street.
The Austin American Statesman, this comes courtesy of Andy Neo.
They published an article in the mass shooting that happened early Saturday morning, but refused to print the police's description of the at-large black male suspect.
Now, there are 14 victims were left injured.
Of course, point out, 14 divided by 300.
Shell casings, not exactly a great ratio there.
Bad shooting?
Yeah.
One suspect was described by local law enforcement as a slim black male with dreadlocks.
He escaped the scene.
The Austin American Statesman is not including the police's description, as it is too vague at this time, to be useful in identifying the shooter, and such publication could be harmful in perpetuating stereotypes.
That was the editor's note at the bottom of the article.
I would imagine.
That if it had been a white man, they wouldn't have had any such scruples at all.
Now, the fact that it is... I'm sure the problem here is that it's a black man.
It perpetuates harmful stereotypes against men.
Well, that could be it.
I'm not sure.
No, you don't think so?
I will say this, going back a few years, I remember the most over-the-top egregious example of a newspaper apologizing for a headline.
Remember when we saw the Black Lives Matter terror attack in Dallas?
The Memphis Commercial Appeal published an article with the headline, Black Lives Matter terror shoots white cops.
That was the headline.
Guy apologized.
The white editor of the Memphis Commercial Appeal, he literally apologized for it the next day saying, we don't want to perpetuate these stereotypes.
This is a peaceful movement.
Then of course, a month later, if you remember, ladies and gentlemen, There was the shooting in Baton Rouge by a Black Lives Matter supporter of cops.
Well, you know, I happened to be reading the news about the time this shooting was happening, and it talked about the 14 people hit.
And I, of course, the main thing I wanted to know right away was who was the shooter.
Is this a Muslim?
Is this a white guy?
Is this a black guy?
Is this, as a matter of fact, a lesbian white woman?
You know, you never know.
And I kept looking at photographs of the people who were being carted off in ambulances.
Many of them seemed to be white.
There seemed to be a light-skinned Hispanic woman.
And oh gosh, you know, in this white area, usually when blacks really open fire in this wild sort of way, they're killing other black people.
But, so I withheld judgment on this, and then later on, the next day, I saw a headline from the Austin American, American Statesman, or is it Statesman American?
The Austin American Statesman.
American Statesman.
It said, the title of the article was, What We Know About The Shooter.
I thought, okay, what do we know?
And they said, we've arrested one guy, somebody else is still at large, and that was the extent of it.
So then I knew.
Then I knew.
Then without a doubt, I knew.
So, anyway.
Now, a big New York Times article in the last few days was called, The Racist Legacy Many Birds Carry.
Oh my goodness.
Birds are being weighed down by a racist legacy.
How can they even fly with this legacy of racism that many birds carry?
Do they have no sense of irony, these people?
They're burned with racism!
These poor birds!
They carry it to their nests and so it's passed on to their hatchlings.
That's how this burden is perpetuated.
I'm sure this is true.
Now the New York Times begins, as with the wider field of conservation, racism and colonialism are in ornithology's DNA.
I didn't know ornithology had DNA, but now it's got DNA.
Indelibly linked to its origin story, the challenge of how to move forward is roiling white ornithologists as they debate whether to change as many as 150 eponyms.
Now, for those of you who are not familiar with the term eponym, that is a name that reflects someone else's name.
An eponymous city would be Washington, D.C.
It's named for the name Washington, D.C.
In other words, names of birds that honor people, but 150 birds burdened with this racist legacy.
Washington.
George Washington.
Exactly.
Of course, as you said.
Yes.
I have to change 150 of these poor birds suffering from a legacy of racism because they're connected people with connections with slavery and supremacy.
The Bachman sparrow, poor thing.
Oh gosh, how can it fly?
And Wallace's fruit dove and other winged creatures bear the names of men who fought for the southern cause.
And one apparently stole the skulls from Indian graves for pseudo-scientific studies that were later debunked.
Oh, poor bird.
Poor, poor bird.
And some of these people bought and sold black people.
Now even, did you know this?
Even John James Audubon The famous Ottoman who we all associate with birds.
He apparently was an enslaver.
Did you know he owned slaves?
I didn't know.
Apparently he was an enslaver.
An enslaver.
That's right.
Who mocked abolitionists working to free black people.
Oh boy.
Now some of his behavior is so shameful, says the New York Times.
Without going into any details.
Some of his behavior was so shameful.
Gosh, I wonder if he masturbated on Zoom call or something.
Some of his It's so shameful that the 116-year-old National Audubon Society, the country's premier bird conservation group with 500 local captors, has not ruled out changing his name.
And a poor, burdened Oriole, a Warbler, and a Shearwater all have the ignominy of bearing his name.
And they quote a black woman who works for the society saying that she is horrified to wear a shirt with his name on it because he was an enslaver.
But I'd like to know if she's traumatized every time somebody gives her a dollar bill.
There's an enslaver's face right on that dollar bill.
Does that send her into conniptions, into deep terror?
Now, despite, I'm continuing with the New York Times, despite, despite professional and amateur birding groups declared commitment to diversity, only two names have been discarded.
Only two out of 150.
It's too too many.
The Townsend's Warbler.
Ah, John Kirk Townsend, whose journal details his exploits in traditional Native American burial grounds in the West, apparently dug up and collected skulls for studies.
Then there is Wallace, Alfred Russell Wallace.
He is really, he came up independently of Darwin, the whole theory of evolution, a very brainy guy.
But apparently in his writings, he frequently used the N-word.
So you better not burden a bird with his name.
But I suppose we're gonna have to get rid of black holes because that traumatizes any aspiring black astronomers.
And I bet, you know, I bet just about every bird whose name is associated with a human being is associated with a person that did not have a high regard for homosexuals.
I just suspect that.
And I bet a lot of them didn't think women should vote.
You know, so we're gonna have to, basically, anybody whose name has got a white man, a white man's name attached to it, that's just gonna have to be out the window.
I had to look this up because I was curious what percentage of bird watchers were non-white.
Oh, less than what?
1%?
8%?
Half a percent?
Well, I found an article from National Geographic, which was published on September 23rd, 2014.
Here's the headline.
Here's the subject.
Colorful world of birding has conspicuous lack of people of color.
More diversity among bird watchers is in everyone's interest.
It's a crisis.
It's a crisis.
According to the U.S.
Let's see if I can get in here.
They blocked my quote.
It says it's, well, one of these overlays popped up.
93% of American birders are white, 5% Hispanic.
Believe it or not, 4% are black and 2% Asian.
So more blacks than... 4%?
My goodness, it's just swimming with blacks.
Oh, boy.
Well, no, it's a crisis.
And the poor birds... Now, fortunately, I checked the comments, the New York Times.
Ordinarily, New York Times does not open comments on a story as absurd as this.
All these people just rolling their eyes at this.
Absolutely ludicrous.
Ludicrous, they're saying.
But moving on to Scientific American, which used to be something about science.
But not anymore.
And it starts with, it's an article about just how horrible it is for black people to hear about violence against other blacks, even if it's not directed to them.
It begins with Desmond Ellington.
For the 37-year-old black singer and actor, the news accounts and social media videos of racial violence and the killings of unarmed black people that too often go unpunished were not just demoralizing, they were traumatizing.
It gets to the point where you decide, I have to turn off the television because I have my sanity to take care of, says Ellington.
Now, Who is to be blamed for this?
Don't the media have some sort of responsibility?
But in any case, Scientific America carries on.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notes that centuries of racism have had a profound and negative impact on the mental and physical health of people of color.
Centuries of racism still working their evil.
Centuries later!
It's like the birds being weighed down.
Obviously, people of color are weighed down by this centuries of racism.
And Scientific America goes on to say the American Public Health Association calls racism a social detriment of health akin to housing, education, employment, and a barrier to health equity.
They're just hemmed about by systemic racism wherever they turn.
Now, according to Scientific America, now this is just extraordinary, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PNAS, that's one of the most highly regarded scientific publications in the entire country, adds a new layer to an understanding of the pervasive health effects of racism.
A new layer.
Can you imagine there's yet another layer?
And I bet there'll be more and more after that.
They'll just get newer and newer and worse and worse.
Lead author David Curtis of the University of Utah, you'd think Utah had better things on its mind, showed that widely publicized anti-black violence negatively affects the mental health of many black Americans, even if they do not directly experience it.
Just hearing about it makes them sick.
The study's authors conducted the first nationwide scientific assessment of these media reports using 49 high-profile incidents that occurred between 2013 and 2017.
Now, why were they high-profile?
The media had something to do with that, didn't it?
No, obviously.
The media made them high-profile.
They included media reports of 38 police killings of black individuals, as well as coverage of about nine legal decisions not to indict or convict officers involved in some of these killings.
Now, this is the punchline, Mr. Kersey and our readers, our listeners worldwide.
Illegal decisions not to prosecute or convict the officers were most clearly associated with poor mental health days.
In other words, what the media does, and we all know this but it bears repeating, the media hoops up something in which a white policeman, for some reason, usually entirely justifies, has to kill a black person.
Obviously not because he's racist and homicidal, but because that black person is about to stab somebody to death, as the case with Makia.
Or because he's about to shoot a policeman, but in any case, when that person is not indicted, despite the media's one-sided presentation of it as a wanton and horrific racist police killing, that does terrible damage to the health of our African-American fellow citizens.
You know, we're coming up on the 10th anniversary of something that actually had a profound impact on me, because I knew the person.
There was a shooting in Midtown Atlanta.
10 years ago in July, a black college student targeted three white girls, killing one of them.
It turned out in the court proceedings that he did this because he had learned about white privilege in college.
Brittany Watts was the lady who was shot.
That 10 year anniversary comes up.
Not a day goes by that I don't think about that and what happened.
And it's important to recall that even ten years ago, non-whites were being so hopped up in college classes, learning about white privilege and all of the terrible wrongs, we continued to do them, that this guy was motivated to kill these white women.
But in any case, back to Desmond Ellington.
The person that Scientific American opened the article with, he cannot shake the feeling that he is just one wrong move away from becoming another statistic.
What a fool.
It's so emotionally and physically draining, says he.
You don't even realize how much until you see another black man get shot.
I think it's in these moments you realize how much of a burden it is to be black in America.
One wrong move and a racist cop or a racist white man is going to shoot him?
I mean, this is, of course, total delusion that is fed, magnified, and accentuated by the media's obsession with race and all of this promotion of things that are ordinary aspects of routine police work.
Well, not just routine police work, but the fact that the New York Times spent so much editorial Time attacking the whiteness of the birds and the burden of racism.
I mean, just think about the absurdity.
You can look up any industry in the country and just type in, you know, you name the subject, too white.
And there will be an article denouncing the fact that this vocation or this avocation is too white.
This is the world that, you know, that a guy like this, he sees this and sees automatically.
Every time he turns on the TV, oh my Another black person was shot.
Doesn't make any difference that he had two guns in his hand.
He's blazing away at the police.
Another poor black man was shot.
And he is so traumatized, I have to turn off the television.
I have to take care of my sanity, says he.
Well, anyway, I have to take care of my sanity.
You and I have to take care of our sanity.
And we certainly don't go sniveling to Scientific American about it.
know what I do to keep my sanity and refrain from being traumatized? I turn
the TV off so I don't have to watch any commercials. I turn the TV off so I don't have to watch any
sitcoms or a movie where some character, some historical figure is somehow
now black. You know, you watch the BBC and apparently that's all they're doing now is rewriting.
But don't you realize that's expanding your mind?
That's making you a better person!
To claim that that's trauma?
Oh, white fragility!
Got a lot of white fragility.
Oh boy, oh boy.
Overburdened with white fragility.
Yes, yes.
Just dragged into the dirt by white fragility.
Now, I thought there's a great story from a North Korean defector, a woman by the name of Yeonmi Park.
was shocked by the oppressive culture at Columbia University.
It reminded of the country that she fled, North Korea, and she fears the United States future, quote, the United States future is, quote, as bleak as North Korea.
Good for you, Yeonmi Park.
She says, I expected that I was paying this fortune, all this time and energy to learn how to think, but they are forcing you to think the way they want you to think.
Spot on, Yeonmi.
I realized, wow, this is insane.
If that's the way she speaks, she has certainly picked up the vernacular.
I thought America was different, but I saw so many similarities to what I saw in North Korea that I started worrying.
This included anti-Western sentiment, collective guilt, and suffocating political correctness.
That's North Korea.
No power to her.
And that's Columbia University.
Well, she'd seen it before, so I guess she recognizes when she sees it.
Yeon-mi saw red flags immediately upon arriving at the school.
During orientation, she was scolded by a university staff member for admitting that she enjoyed classic literature such as Jane Austen.
I said, I love those books.
And I thought that was a good thing.
Then, this counselor said, did you know those writers had a colonial mindset?
They were racists and bigots and were subconsciously brainwashing you.
That's the first thing she heard during orientation.
She said it only got worse as Yeon-mi realized that every one of her classes at the Ivy League school was infected with what she saw as anti-American propaganda, reminiscent of the sort that she'd grown up with.
She goes on to say, every class asks students to announce their preferred pronouns.
I'm Jared Taylor, and I prefer those and them, or maybe I'll invent something, whim and wham.
Yes.
But she says, even North Korea is not this nuts.
North Korea was pretty crazy, but not this crazy.
Spot on, Yeonmi.
Hats off to you.
And after getting into a number of arguments with professors and students, eventually Yeonmi, quote, learned how to just shut up in order to maintain a GPA and graduate.
She goes on to say, North Koreans, we don't have internet.
We don't have access to any of these great thinkers.
We don't know anything.
But here, while having everything, people choose to be brainwashed.
And they deny.
This is great.
Now, this is really quite remarkable.
She says, in the United States, there is no rule of law, no morality, nothing is good or bad.
It is complete chaos.
I guess that's what they want, to destroy everything and rebuild a communist paradise.
That's what she says about the United States.
And I, of course, this is the sort of thing that any white person could have said.
You or I could have gone on television.
I believe she's, if she's not already, she's going to be invited on Tucker Carlson to talk about this sort of thing.
Unfortunately, neither you nor I am likely to get invitations of this kind, but thank goodness, even if it takes a cute young North Korean defector to say so, bravo for her.
Now, I suspect she never went on Black Spring Break.
Boy, she was a college student at Columbia.
But if she had, her eyes would have been opened even wider.
You know, the only reason I want to bring this story up is because it's interesting.
We were talking about something earlier about all these small businesses, these restaurants that were desperate, that were desperate for this cash, and especially those owned by minorities.
They thought, oh, we'll get to the head of the line first.
Of course, that was ruled unconstitutional.
You can't do that.
But the point is, think about that.
You have all these businesses, especially those in destination spots, desperate for customers.
They need to get money.
They've got payroll to make.
They've got to pay rent.
So, what caught my eye about this is a story out of Jacksonville, Florida.
Now, quick background.
Black Spring Break.
It's called Orange Crush.
It's a lot of the historically black colleges.
Used to go to Tybee Island.
It's in Georgia.
They weren't told that they couldn't come there anymore, but the city and the city business leaders made it very hard for them to get there.
There were a lot of shootings.
They had a massive police presence that blacks called militaristic.
So they decided to, hey, you know what?
Let's just go to Jacksonville.
We'll try that.
So this story said this.
About why they went there.
And they feature one of the restaurants that Margaritaville Hotel is going to be closed the same weekend as the controversial festival scheduled.
Now remember, this is the first year they're going to be in Jacksonville.
No, this has not yet happened.
It's about to happen.
This happened last week.
There were no shootings.
They did fine.
No shootings?
No shootings I could find.
I looked.
Congratulations.
So, actually, let me rephrase that.
They did go to Tybee Island this past weekend.
They did try and have some remnant of Orange Crush there.
Let me, I'm corrected.
Thank you for asking that.
This is going to take place this coming weekend, so Father's Day weekend, June 18th through the 20th is when this Orange Crush will have its inaugural And probably end up being the only time they're in Jacksonville.
But it talks about how this hotel is closing some of its amenity out of safety concerns.
They said also there's limited room availability for the weekend of Friday, June 18th through Saturday, June 19th.
Those dates are labeled as restricted.
Now management would not comment any further about the festival.
Orange Crush used to be hosted on Tybee Island near Savannah for years, but organizers said they relocated to Jacksonville due to, quote, civil rights violations and political injustices."
End quote.
I can tell you that the good business owners and citizens of Tybee Island
got a little tired of having to clean up all the trash.
That was one of the reasons in the shootings and the massive police presence because the beach goers, the party goers wouldn't show up.
Wouldn't pick up after themselves.
They would not pick up after themselves.
And so this article goes on to talk about a number of the businesses that are going to stay open, obviously trying to say, oh, we don't care.
We're happy.
The point about this is I just want to point out that The people who did go to Orange Crush this past year, there were a number of arrests, a lot for illegal firearm possession.
Of course, the mayor of Tybee Island said that gun violence was his greatest fear about Orange Crush.
There was only one person who was arrested for just charging a gun while under the influence.
I can confess.
I'm sure you could say the same thing.
I've never been to a party in my life where someone fired a gun.
Whether they fired it just for the heck of it or if they were under the influence.
Only a shooting party at a ranch.
So the police confiscated four guns, two of which were stolen.
And again, this was the second year of the controversial ban introduced by Tybee Island City Council that prevented the consumption of alcohol and the playing of amplified music in public spaces.
So it's... Oh, that's sure racism and racism red and tooth and claw.
It's just fascinating to think that here we are in, you know, It's been, what, 16 months since the COVID lockdown?
13 months?
I can't remember the exact date.
It was March of 2020.
You would think every business would be over eager, just so excited to welcome in patrons.
There are limits.
There are limits.
And those of you who have internet access, those of our listeners who are not in North Korea, I suggest that you go on YouTube and look up Black Spring Break, and you will see the sort of antics that the City Fathers don't care to be hosting.
Now, on the subject of university antics, let's move on to Amherst.
Amherst, did you realize it's celebrating its 200th anniversary?
Congratulations!
200 years!
Yes, Amherst used to be a fine institution.
Very fine school.
It was founded as a boys' school 200 years ago.
Began admitting women in 1975.
And listen to this, ladies and gentlemen.
The class just admitted to what was, in the past, an extremely exclusive, difficult-to-get-into university.
The entering class is going to be 50.2% domestic non-white, meaning another 12% of the students are international.
That means Amherst is going to be 38% white for freshman entering class.
Only 38% white.
18% of the new American students are Asian-American.
I mean, that's perhaps plausible given their abilities and their scores, but 17% are black.
They're only 13% of the population.
17% are Latinx, and 3% are Native American.
The Native American population in the United States, I looked it up, is 1.7%.
So, they are almost Doubly overrepresented in this exclusive or formerly exclusive school.
Now, furthermore, 4% of Amherst's new students, that's about 1 in 25, do not identify as binary gender.
So we do have to say we, wim, or they, them, or yin, yang.
Or wim, wim.
Yes, wim, wim.
I think that's the new way, that's the new pronoun.
Yes, yes.
My pronouns are slam, bam, and thank you, ma'am.
But Biddy Martin, who became president in 2011, so he's into his second decade now, he said that in the last seven years, half of faculty hired by the college have been members of minority groups.
Half!
Now, can you imagine that could be done without a certain amount of discrimination?
I can't.
Well, you can't.
Well, you just lack imagination.
You lack a more white fragility coming to the fore here, Mr. Kersey.
I'm ashamed to be sharing a microphone with you.
And students now see mentors who look like themselves.
And the college published an anti-racism plan last year, which has been regularly updated, and it included an apology.
Amherst has reflected a much larger world of systemic racism as all institutions have.
Speaking for all institutions, okay Amherst?
Too often white people deny responsibility for what they see as the sins of the past without recognizing how those sins live in the present.
How systemic they are, and how much we who are white benefit from them.
And once again, like you, I suspect Mr. Kersey, you do not recognize those things.
You know, the thing about it is, as I say, Amherst was really a top-notch school at one point.
But this crazy anti-white stuff, if you consistently hire half of your incoming faculty as non-whites, and I'm sure all the rest, Have to check all the other boxes of weirdness, weirdness and anti-whiteness.
This anti-white crazy stuff is going to be so entrenched, it's going to be impossible to get rid of it.
Just impossible.
How's it ever going to happen?
Where all of these great institutions built by white people, and this one's 200 years old, have fallen into the hand of insane people.
Now, at the same time, I suppose this is part of the good news, this cavalcade, this unstoppable juggernaut of good news.
But it's good news with a caveat, as I will point out.
Florida has become the only other most recent state to ban critical race theory.
The Florida Board of Education unanimously did so.
These are the people who make the decision.
Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, he hopes to prevent students learning, quote, a false history that would denigrate the founding fathers.
Is that what he's worried about?
He's worried about talking about the founding fathers?
What about people today?
Good grief!
Come on, Ron, you can do better than that.
And then he says, and this is typical of so-called conservatives in the United States, he said just last Thursday, I think, he's talking about critical race theory, I think it will cause people to think of themselves more as a member of a particular race based on skin color rather than based on the content of their character.
Oh boy, oh boy.
If you can quote Martin Luther King, you are a good guy, you are on the side of the angels, and you go to the head of the class.
Come on.
That arc of justice is following you on your path of righteousness.
That's right.
It's almost like a visible rainbow that follows you wherever you go if you quote the great Martin Luther King.
Florida's new rule, now listen to this, and this is an impossible thing to determine in any objective way, Florida's new rule, despite the fact of having banned critical race theory, it would also ban any suppression or distortion of historical events such as the Holocaust, slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction, the Civil Rights Movement, and the contributions of women, African Americans, and Hispanic people to this country.
How are you going to ban any suppression or distortion of that?
Who's to judge?
This is a remarkable thing.
They have established this as the law of the state.
You cannot distort or suppress.
Well, they better be careful because NASA's been trying to claim that Katherine Johnson got us to the moon and, you know, I think NASA's got a pretty big presence in Florida.
That's all been suppressed!
Come on!
I'm joking.
Oh boy.
So, anyway, now another piece of important news that I've handed off to you, Mr. Kersey, because you follow these things with your gimlet eye.
Nothing escapes, nothing escapes your all-encompassing fine-weave net, the Columbia shooting.
Yeah, there was a shooting.
It had this innocuous title from the Associated Press.
Columbus police say shooting spree was racially motivated.
Oh my gosh.
Oh, you Klansmen.
Automatically think, well, there's a white guy probably shoot a bunch of refugees since we know Columbus is a city that's been targeted because it's too white.
Columbus is a beautiful city.
If you've ever been there, Mr. Taylor, I actually would recommend our listeners, if you're in the States, go see Columbus.
It's what America big cities could be.
He was a genocidal maniac.
I refuse to go.
Oh, well.
Okay.
I'm sure his pronouns were whim-wham, too.
A 39-year-old man accused of shooting and wounding five people in Alabama and Georgia told police his assaults were racially motivated, and he was targeting white men, a detective testified Monday.
The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer reported that a police detective testified in a preliminary hearing that Justin Tryon Roberts, who is black, told police that white men had picked that white men had picked on him and wronged him for all
his life.
Quote, basically he explained throughout his life specifically
white males had taken from him and also what he described as
military looking white males had taken from him. I wonder what they took?
Police have accused Roberts of shooting five people in three separate assaults.
All victims are expected to recover.
Roberts claimed that such men were, quote, shooting at him in a wooden area with a slingshot, end quote, and the wounds had infected his skin.
But he said police saw no injuries to substantiate that.
But you know, it is black people who read about other black people who have been waving a gun or a knife at a police officer and shot to death and the white racist kukluxer who shot him doesn't get indicted and they are in such a state of trauma they can hardly live.
But this stuff about black people going out and deliberately shooting white people?
No problem.
White men just shrug that off.
I need to correct myself.
I misread the city.
I do not recommend you visit this city.
Actually, it was arrested in Columbus, Georgia.
Do not, I repeat, do not, ladies and gentlemen, visit Columbus, Georgia.
There's a big military base there.
If you remember last year, Mr. Taylor, we talked about the white guy who was killed in the prison cell.
There was the black guy who, was it at a Hardware store.
He killed a white guy and he was put into a prison cell.
Yeah, so that was racially motivated.
He was put in a prison cell and he killed his white, the white person who was in the prison cell.
That's right.
That's right.
These things are, but not, they will not traumatize you and me.
Because we are oppressors right from the get-go and we can't be traumatized by things of this kind.
Now, the Boston Schools Committee.
This is the outfit that sets educational policy for Boston.
The chair of the Boston Schools Committee resigned on Monday amid criticism of racially charged texts that she shared with another member of the committee disparaging families of students.
City officials announced just one week ago.
The texts were sent during a committee meeting last October as the board was considering a proposal, temporarily, to drop the entrance test requirement for the city's exam schools.
Now, you can imagine what sort of person that would bring out to talk about it.
Here they're talking about, no, you have these selective schools.
No, no, no, we're going to drop the tests.
Of course, because the tests are racist.
And so these were two Hispanics tweeting back and forth to each other or exchanging text messages.
And one of them, this is while the school board hearing is going on.
Wait until the white racists start yelling at us, Rivera tweeted.
And the other tweeted back, Olivia Davila tweeted back, whatever, they're delusional.
I hate WR, she texted, indicating the city's West Roxbury neighborhood.
I really feel like saying that.
I imagine she felt like saying that from behind her desk during this meeting.
Well, it turns out that these texts have come to light and they're being forced to resign.
Uh, which is to me a miraculous event, but Olivia Davila, Olivia Davila, she apologized, but she added, I am not ashamed of the feelings from history that made me write those words.
In other words, it was insensitive, but she was right.
She had every reason to be opposed to these whites.
And in her resignation letter, Ms.
Rivera did not mention the text, but she wrote about receiving racist, threatening email and social media personal attacks from those opposed to changes in the admission policy of the exams on these high schools.
In other words, well, who knows what she actually got.
But invariably, when they decide to eliminate the entrance requirements for these restrictive high schools, a certain number of whites and probably a lot of Asians are going to complain.
And here we have these Hispanics, two Hispanics at the highest levels of educational decision making in Boston, saying, I'm sick of these white people.
There you go.
That's the world that we are building.
Now, of course, the Pentagon is building a particular world, too.
And the Pentagon is making sure that America is going to be defended by the right kind of people.
We talk about the military so much, whether it's the paucity of black pilots, fighter pilots, whether it's the special forces being too white.
All the same thing.
Yeah.
You know, whether it's military bases being named after treasonous Confederate officers that need to be renamed.
Well, the Pentagon has now defended the military's diversity and inclusion training programs amid a torrent of criticism saying they are essential for recruiting the right people in its duty to defend the nation.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby was asked during a briefing a couple weeks ago about the GOP lawmakers creating sites urging whistleblowers in the armed services to expose progressive diversity training programs, some of which have reportedly deemed white people, quote, inherently evil, end quote.
Kirby would say this, quote, We certainly respect the oversight that Congress provides.
I'm not going to comment on any specific one initiative that members of Congress might be doing.
What I can speak to is what we're really focused on here at the Department, and that's defending the nation.
And that means putting in place the right resources, the right strategies, the right operational concepts to do that around the world.
He said the military needs, quote, good people to keep warships, aircraft, and other military systems operating.
And if they're racist or if they have a swastika tattoo, they'll just be utterly incompetent and incapable, I guess.
You know, quote, and the Secretary has been very clear and fairly unapologetic about the fact that we want to get all the best talent that we can provide that can be available from the American people.
If you meet the standards, you're qualified to be in the military, and you're willing to raise your hand and serve the country, we want you to be able to do so, and we want you to be able to do so free of hate and fear and discrimination.
But not if you're white!
You can be hated and you can be discriminated against, but that's just fine.
So yeah, apparently Dan Crenshaw, if you recall, one of the first initiatives of this new Secretary of Defense, I think they did a stand-down order where they actually had people, did they tattle on each other for people who had different, you know, who knows what happened, but we do know that there is a lot of the Quote-unquote critical race theory or just anti-white teachings going on within the military after President Trump's ban was overturned by President Biden.
Former Navy SEAL Congressman Dan Crenshaw tweeted out enough is enough.
We won't let our military fall to woke ideology.
We have just launched a whistleblower webpage where you can submit your story.
Your complaint will be legally Your complaint will be legally protected and go to my office, as well as Senator Tom Cotton.
They've joined forces after... Hold on, hold on.
They are inviting white people to explain what's going on?
They want any whistleblower within the military.
Because remember, this all got started after This was prompted after Cotton had a meeting with Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Lohmeyer, the former Space Force commander, who was relieved of his duties when he said Marxism is being instilled in the military through diversity and equity training, which has been ordered by Pentagon brass, by the generals.
And as we know, Lockheed Martin is basically, which is one of the, you know, where a lot of the generals go and they do consulting work for big six-figure fat contracts.
They were all done, they were all forced to go through re-education.
Training.
Humiliated.
But one thing that I will say about Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Lohmeyer, see when I talk with Carlson, he said what it was.
It's anti-white.
And that's the most important thing.
Exactly.
People have to start using critical race theory, CRT.
This idea that it's anti-American or it's going to foster disrespect for Washington and Jefferson and Madison.
No, it's anti-white.
Let's call a spade a spade, if we're permitted to use that expression in these woke times.
Well, let us move on.
We've got a lot of stories.
Sometimes we don't get to our overseas stories.
And I think this is important.
Did you know that the Euro 2020 Soccer Championship is going on right now?
Football.
I beg your pardon, football.
Europeans won't like that.
Yes, football.
Well, Americans don't understand what football is because it's really actually soccer.
But fans at London's Webley Stadium booed on Sunday when players for the England team took a knee ahead of its Euro 2020 opener against Croatia.
The English team had made it clear before the tournament that they would continue to make the gesture as a show of respect for racial justice.
This is so absurd.
All of these European teams going down on one knee.
I don't know if they do this, at what point they do this, if there's a national... I don't suppose a national anthem is being played.
In any case, the Croatian team!
Hooray for Croatia!
They did not take a knee.
Players in the English Premier League have been taking a knee since last summer when play resumed.
And there has been booing of this gesture.
Boo, boo, go ahead and boo.
But a team spokesman said, we feel more than ever determined to take the knee through this tournament.
We accept that there might be an adverse reaction and we are just going to ignore that and move forward.
Let the boos be louder.
Here's a fan.
I was surprised to see this is a BBC article.
They actually interviewed a fan who booed.
Can you believe that?
I can't.
And he said he booed what he saw as, quote, an identity politics agenda that focuses on black people and skin color, when as far as I'm concerned, we're all England fans regardless of color.
So he's taking a very liberal, traditionally liberal position.
We're all one.
We're all the same.
We're all England.
So what's the stuff about Idandy Pollak's focusing on black people?
Well, through the seven matches so far in the tournament, Other teams have taken the knee, including Belgium, Switzerland, and Wales.
Belgium, Wales, they're taking the knee for racial judgment and justice.
Belgian players heard booing as they knelt before a match in St.
Petersburg against Russia, which did not take a knee.
Long live Russia.
Earlier this year, Scotland, now this is really, really quite pathetic.
Scotland decided not to take a knee in its international matches out of a conviction that, as manager Steve Clarke explained, the purpose of the gesture has been diluted and undermined by the continuation of abuse towards players, whatever that means.
It's not because they disagree with this adoration of the Negro, it's because the gesture has been diluted and undermined.
However, as a show of solidarity, Scotland will take a knee when it plays England on Friday in Wembley.
So, both teams will be on their knees, on their knees.
I hope all the blacks in the stadium realize just what this means about the white man.
Oh, I'm sure they do.
I'm sure they do.
But no, I'm sure they think they're being persecuted one way or another by this.
Now, on to Oxfam.
You're familiar with Oxfam.
It was Oxford Famine Relief is how it got started.
It's the biggest private charity in Britain.
Well, it put its employees through a four-week learning journey.
I'm sure it was a woman who came up with that phrase.
It's a long journey to learn.
Well, but it's a lifelong journey.
It's a lifelong journey, you know, shucking off all this white privilege and it never, never, never, never ends.
And it said, part of its Learning Journey said mainstream feminism centers privileged white women and demands that bad men be fired or imprisoned.
Well, that's okay if they're bad men.
Now, but next the cartoon of a sobbing white woman is a caption saying that this attitude, this privileged white feminist attitude, legitimizes criminal punishment harming black and other marginalized people.
What they're talking about is rape.
Yes, white feminist tears deploy white woundedness and the sympathy it generates to hide the harms we perpetuate through white supremacy.
So the message is essentially a white woman who reports a rape or a sexual assault to the police or presses charges is a contemptible white feminist.
Because this will fall more heavily on persons of color.
This is in effect an invitation to rape.
Yes, rape.
And an order to white women.
Doesn't matter.
Doesn't matter.
If you report this, you are perpetuating white supremacy.
Do you remember there was some lefty lefty woman who had, this is some European, I think it was in Holland, Who had taken in some kind of Muslim refugee, got raped, and then she deeply regretted ever having reported to the police because you got arrested!
Oh, by the poor dear!
There was also someone who went down to Haiti, was a journalist or something, a woman.
Got herself raped and then she just denied it or she just never covered it.
Yeah, because she didn't want to bring it up because it would perpetuate stereotypes.
It would perpetuate stereotypes.
Somebody sent that story to me and I didn't believe it was true.
And now having heard that, it literally makes me shiver.
Because, you know, the United Nations says that rape is a tool of war and that this shouldn't be used, but you think about what they're actually saying.
It's just sickening.
In other words, the truth will perpetuate stereotypes, just like the statesman, the American statesman.
In Austin, they can't publish the truth because it would perpetuate stereotypes.
So we will suppress the truth in the name of suppressing any kind of misinterpretation of the facts that might lead to an actual clear understanding of race.
Now, we've got enough time for your story about Victor Orban if you speak concisely and rapidly.
I will speak rapidly.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has warned that migrant armies are banging on Europe's doors as the coronavirus pandemic recedes.
Speaking on a radio station there in Hungary, the leader said the world is now going through the age of epidemics and migration, and that the latter issue is rising in importance after being largely overshadowed by the Wuhan virus through 2020 and much of 2021.
Did he call it the Wuhan virus?
That's what the article says.
Prime Minister Orban warned that, quote, migrant armies are banging on Europe's doors on the doors that seal off migration routes on land and at sea, in reference to the fact that illegal immigration pressures are not only increasing along the EU's land borders but also at sea with migrant taxi ships operated by the NGOs and the non-government organizations which have been stepping up their activities on the so-called central Mediterranean route to Italy.
Spain's Canary Islands off the coast of West Africa have also been inundated
with thousands of illegal migrants arriving by sea despite the pandemic.
Can you imagine living under a government that takes this view?
A government that really thinks that your country is for you?
And not for any impoverished or undereducated or non-christian or whatever alien as possible person manages to stagger in?
Imagine such a thing.
Imagine living under a government that cares about Americans or the people who built the country.
Imagine that.
Hard to imagine.
Well, people hate us for saying this, but it sounds like the only places I can think of are Russia, China and Israel.
Yes, and a few other countries on the other side.
Australia and New Zealand for their part, yes.
What we used to call the Iron Curtain.
Now, I think just one little factoid here and I will leave you.
Blacks, although they are 13% of the population, they account for 20% of car crash fatalities in the United States.
That means they are 13% but they account for 20%.
This means if you do the simple calculation, which one day I will explain to our interested readers, that means they're 63% more likely to die in a car crash than non-blacks.
Now, my question to the New York Times is, how does racism explain this?
And I will leave that with our listeners, and we will look forward to meeting you again.
Again, it is always a pleasure and honor to speak with you.
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