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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the latest episode of Radio Renaissance.
Today is July 8th, 2021.
I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance, and with me is my indispensable co-host, Paul Kersey.
Now we had quite an unusual number of listener comments and suggestions, and one begins as follows.
On your last podcast with Paul Kersey, you talked about some of the architectural masterpieces in our nation's capital, and I have two questions.
What is your favorite style of architecture?
Are there architectural monuments, war memorials, or buildings that are your favorites in Washington D.C.?
Or they don't have to be in the U.S.
And my second question pertains to sculpture.
Any favorite sculptures?
Once again, not just in the U.S.
So, I will reply in DC.
I am very fond of the neoclassical style buildings and my favorite of all of them is the Jefferson Memorial.
I think it's graceful without being pretentious.
It doesn't have to be large.
I think it's just the right size and a beautiful setting right there on the water.
Very much my favorite and of course pretty soon they'll take Jeff down and put Sally Hemings in there instead but for the time being it's a great place.
And I love the inside of the Capitol.
The Capitol Rotunda is just a gorgeous monument to Western civilization.
Also the main reading room in the old Library of Congress, if you've never been there.
A wonderful and beautiful place.
And further, along the whole style of neoclassical architecture, I make a point whenever I can of visiting state capitol buildings.
It's very rewarding.
Just a couple of weeks ago, I was at the Pennsylvania State Capitol in Harrisburg.
It's a beautiful building, a breathtaking building.
They've just polished it all up.
Everything is gleaming, gorgeous.
Thoroughly enjoyed it.
I've been to state capitals in Frankfort, Kentucky.
Sacramento, California.
Sacramento, California has a beautiful building also.
St.
Paul in Minneapolis.
Montgomery, Alabama.
They're always, always interesting.
Another very interesting thing to do is just see who is memorialized.
What is it that they think is worth putting up a monument for?
Very interesting and educational.
As far as styles of other styles of architecture, gothic cathedrals.
I think Notre Dame, Built over a period of centuries, a thousand years ago, I think just a stunning achievement of the human mind.
They didn't have any computers, didn't have power tools, all by just pure human labor, a little bit of animal power, absolutely extraordinary.
But I'm not limited to Western architecture.
I think some of the great architecture of the Arabs, for example, is remarkable.
The Alhambra in Granada, An absolutely magical place.
You can imagine you're part of the Arabian Nights tale.
And when I was nine years old, I was blown away by the Amir Jamal al-Din al-Ustadar Mosque in Cairo, built in 1407.
Really a wonderful, wonderful spellbinding place.
I even like Mesoamerican ruins.
Aztec, these great ziggurat pyramids.
I don't think of them as beautiful, but there is an impressive quality about them.
And finally, I'm jabbering on too long about this stuff.
When it comes to sculptures, I really love Michelangelo's Pieta.
That's Jesus lying in Mary's lap, having come down from the cross.
It's just a beautiful, touching piece of sculpture.
And then sort of balance that off with something a little bit more heroic.
I love Bernini's sculpture of Aeneas leading his family out of Troy as it burns.
He's got his son by the arm, his old father who can't walk is on his back, and his father is carrying the ashes of their ancestors.
It's this sense of continuity while they're leaving Troy in its burning ruins to go start Rome.
I think it's a wonderful heroic sculpture.
But, Mr. Kersey, What are your views?
How would you answer this question?
This is really a rather provocative question.
Yeah, I think some of the best sculptures that are in the country, unfortunately, they've been taken down over the past few years.
One that always stuck out to me, it wasn't really a structure, it was an obelisk.
It was in Birmingham.
A lot of family from that area.
And it was a monument to the dead.
It was a monument to the Confederacy that was pulled down during the summer of George Floyd.
I've always been struck by Stone Mountain in Georgia.
Obviously it's not a sculpture per se, but you know, if you look at the original architecture and what the original plans, the blueprints, what they had planned to do, I think there were six or seven other Confederates they wanted on there.
It's incredible.
Of course, the guy who designed that also designed Mount Rushmore.
I'm not going to get this correct.
I remember reading, what was that really great Tom Wolfe book about architecture?
Oh, the painted word.
The painted, okay.
So he attacked, obviously, the Art Deco movement.
I hate that.
To me, one of the most beautiful... Art Deco?
No, Art Deco, some of that's pretty nice.
It was what came after that, the big tall glass monstrosities.
Yes, yes, the Bauhaus.
Bauhaus!
Yes.
No, no, no, that's the title of the book.
It's from Bauhaus to Bauhaus.
That's right.
Yes, you're right, yes.
So if you ever, if you want to see a tower that to me is It's just beautiful.
It's the Terminal Tower in Cleveland.
It was a 52-story tower that from 1930 to 1964, it was the largest building outside of New York City.
It's 52 stories.
It is magnificent to look at.
Terminal Tower in Cleveland.
Terminal Tower.
I'm probably going to get this enunciation wrong, so just tell me if I do immediately.
Boarts?
Is that?
Bozarts.
Bozarts.
Okay, there we are.
It's not a term you hear that often outside of architecture class.
So, Bozarts.
So, you know, buildings like that.
It's sort of that gothic look, you know, if you've ever seen I know you don't like movies but Iconic 1989 Batman the Gotham City.
It's this beautiful gothic design and Love that kind of stuff Well, there are many, many beautiful buildings throughout the world, of course, and we have, I think, certainly our share here in the United States.
But we should move on.
And yet another question here.
This is a personal question.
In fact, this is about one of the most personal and private, in some sense intrusive questions.
It's about my genes.
Genes like J-E-A-N?
No, no, no.
I don't own any of those.
I'm too old for that stuff.
Why DNA haplogroup does Jared Taylor carry?
Now, I think a lot of people don't know the answer to that question.
I happen to know.
This guy says, something tells me it could be I1.
Well, I1 is mostly in Scandinavian Finland, typically represents over 35% of the Y chromosomes in those areas associated with Norse ethnicity and in those places where the Norse invaded.
Germanic tribes?
Vikings?
Well, as it turns out, my ancestors must have fought off the Norsemen because I don't have that haplogroup.
Mine is M, sorry, R-M269.
It is the most common of the European haplogroups, so I'm a dime a dozen.
It increases in frequency on an east-to-west gradient.
Its prevalence in Poland, for example, is estimated at 23%.
In Wales, 92%.
So, I am of that haplogroup and it is carried by approximately 110 million European men.
So, I'm one of 110 million European men.
As I say, my answer is they must have fought off the Norse when they were invading the British Isles.
Now, we have further commentary here.
A well-informed person mentioned the fact that we had talked about Michelle Bachelet.
She was the person, she's the UN, she is the, I think she is the racism czarina or something.
She's telling us all that no country in the world has adequately treated blacks.
Correct.
And so she was giving us a tongue lashing.
She says, It's worth noting that her second presidency, and she served two non-consecutive terms, from 2014-2018, was the one that threw open Chile's borders, letting in hundreds and thousands of mestizos from other parts of Latin America, as well as Haitians.
Now, this is documented in two essays at American Renaissance.
She left office with a pitiful 39% approval rating, which led immediately to the right's victory in 2017 in the presidential elections.
And in that election, the right won by 9%, a record for a conservative party in Chile.
And this person points out that although I had called her Michelle Bachelet, In the podcast last week, it is the French pronunciation.
She's part of Chile's French elite, so it's Bachelet.
And our reader, our listener, I should say, reminds us it's pronounced like Pinochet.
You don't pronounce T at the end.
However, her nickname in Chile is La Gordi, or The Fatty.
And I did check her out, her images on Google, and sure enough, it does not look like she misses a meal.
Now, you had pointed out, Mr. Kersey, that somebody else called our attention to a story, and that is in Utah.
The Utah chapter of Black Lives Matter.
They did!
Thank you to the listener who sent in this great story.
I'd also like to say we really appreciate all this feedback.
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And as I say, whenever we make a mistake, as this person pointed out, even if it's something as minor as mispronouncing Michel Bachelet's name, we want to hear about it.
So please keep us on the straight and narrow.
But... Well, I'll tell you it's not keeping us on the straight and narrow, and that's a Black Lives Matter chapter in Utah has declared the U.S.
flag to be a symbol of hatred and says that anyone flying, guess what, you're a racist.
So if you've got an American flag outside your home right now, you know, for lack of
a better term to spoof Jeff Oxford, that you're probably a racist.
Not just a redneck, but you're a racist.
So in a Facebook post, the group wrote, quote, when we black Americans see this flag, we know the person flying it is not safe to be around.
When we see this flag, we know the person flying it.
It's a racist.
When we see this flag, we know that the person flying it lives in a different America than we do.
When we see this flag, we question your intelligence.
We know to avoid you.
It is a symbol of hatred."
We know to avoid you?
That's useful.
That's almost as good as playing classical music.
It's like garlic to a vampire.
Good to know.
As long as you don't invite them into your house.
You know, they don't retain their vampire powers, but yeah, you're right.
So responding to those who disagreed with the comments on the U.S.
flag, the group wrote, quote, welcome racists.
We know you're a big mad about the racist flag post.
You'll not be heard here.
You'll not be blocked.
You will be blocked and your comments will be deleted.
So there we go.
You know, this comes on the heels of the New York Times putting out an editorial right before July 4th.
I don't remember if we talked about this or not, where they said that the flag was divisive and, you know, was there really any unity?
I'm not sure.
There was a really great piece on amaran.com, which I believe you said was one of the best pieces that's ever been published by Peter Bradley, I believe.
Well, certainly one of the best pieces that Peter Bradley ever wrote.
He's done, yes.
And he's written for us many times already.
Yes, he has.
A great piece by Peter Bradley, yes.
And what was that, is it still our country, or what was the title of that piece?
Let's see, what was the title of that piece?
I think I can... Is America Still Our Country?
Yes.
Yes.
And I think we can imagine what the answer would have been.
But, you know, I like to see this kind of stuff from BLM people.
They're saying, we live in a different country than you.
They're right.
It isn't their flag in the same way that it's our flag.
And if they think it's a symbol of hatred, I want more and more white people to hear from black people that we're not living in the same country.
A couple years ago, we put out a piece co-authored Arguing that Independence Day, while it's a great holiday, the real date we should celebrate is in March.
And that would be when we commemorate when the Naturalization Act of 1790 was signed into law by President George Washington.
That's right.
That's all you have to know, guys!
And few people do.
Very few people do.
Yes, and I think that they went on to say, they went on to say, these Utah Black Lives Matter people, they say, we will proactively destroy the systems that continue to give you the power to marginalize people of color.
They are going to destroy the systems, they say, and realize that you are the problem.
Do you realize you're the problem, Mr. Kersey?
Well, I realize that if they're going to destroy those systems, they'll probably institute something like we saw in Haiti after the revolution.
We know that whites were not allowed to be citizens or own property.
So, as we see Haiti descend into massive chaos with their president assassinated, what, yesterday?
Yes.
We know what kind of systems will inevitably be created in our absence.
Yep, well, Mark Twain used to say, predictions are very difficult, especially when you're talking about the future.
But in certain areas, we can predict with great confidence.
Now, another listener points out what the National Museum of African American History and Culture is up to on its website.
Now part of the history and culture of African American is the shakedown.
And so the website now is a big section devoted to the shakedown.
And it's called Being Anti-Racist.
These are your tax dollars at work.
And it begins like this.
Race does not biologically exist, yet how we identify with race is so powerful it influences our experiences and shapes our lives.
There's something that's so amusing to me.
Race just doesn't even exist, but racism, boy, is that real.
Then he goes on to say, in a society that privileges white people and whiteness, racist ideas are considered normal throughout our media, culture, social systems, and institutions.
I can't think of a single racist idea that's considered normal.
But it's throughout media, culture, social systems, and institutions.
Then they go on to say, to create an equal society we must commit to making unbiased choices and being anti-racist in all aspects of our lives.
You eat, sleep, drink, walk, talk, and snore anti-racism.
Got that?
And they've got a list of the types of racism.
There's individual racism, And they say, yeah, U.S.
culture about racism typically focuses on individual racism and fails to recognize systemic racism.
You know, we used to think that racism was a problem of bad people.
Now we know it's much, much worse than that.
Everybody can be good and there can still be racism because then there's interpersonal racism, there's institutional racism, there's structural racism.
But they forgot.
They forgot all kinds of racism.
Can you believe this?
African American History and Culture Museum.
They forgot unconscious racism, implicit racism, scientific racism.
You and I are bad scientific racists.
I've never heard that term interpersonal racism.
That's another one to add to the glossary.
Well, let's see, as I said, they left out so many!
Then there's imputed racism, born-again racism, refried racism, colorectal racism, antidisestablishmentarianist racism.
They are just scratching the surface!
Gosh, they got no imagination!
Now, they move on to a nice video of Ibram Kendi.
And he's talking to us, he's hooping up his book on how to be an anti-racist.
And this is the immortal quote.
To be anti-racist is a radical choice in the face of history requiring a radical reorientation of our consciousness.
Now, Mr. Kersey, do you think it took a radical reorientation of Ibram Kendi's consciousness to say the things that he says?
Not sure what that means.
I mean, I think he had to make no effort at all.
I suspect it's like Burr Ab in the Briar Patch.
He was born and bred in the Briar Patch.
All he ever thought about was anti-racism or what he concedes to be anti-racism.
And then, this is great too, Then, right here on the website of, this is part of the Smithsonian Institute, is a wonderful TED Talk by someone named Verna Myers.
Needless to say, an African American-ess.
And it's called, How to Overcome Our Biases, Walk Boldly Toward Them.
No, Mr. Kersey, I bet you've been walking boldly towards your biases all your life.
I've been walking boldly from the people who create those biases all my life, as I'm sure most of our listeners are thinking about that BLM story.
It's like, hey, you know, like you said, we know to avoid these people.
Well, my biases teach me who to avoid.
Well, keep walking boldly.
Keep walking boldly, yes.
Now, and, you know, these are the same lovely people who put up that white culture display.
Do you remember that?
This was, no doubt, they had to alert blacks to this weird alien culture in which they've been forced to live.
Remember that?
Telling us what white culture was like and this oppressive way of life.
The alien concepts that were included in this list were objective thinking.
Hard work.
Work before play.
Plan for the future.
Action orientation.
A written tradition.
And be polite.
These were just the oppressive aspects of white culture that black people have to negotiate, nimbly thread their way through these horrible obstacles to success every day of their lives.
But, you know, they got so much pressure from that, they finally took that down.
But, they still have this big broadside on how to be anti-racist.
Now, I believe that while we are, what museums are up to, hasn't Canada decided to cancel its very first Prime Minister?
You know, there's a lot of stuff going on in Canada right now, and I would recommend if you want to read a thoroughly ingenious piece, head over to talkiemag.com.
Steve Saylor has an article about the church burnings we're seeing in Canada and what they represent.
This euphoric It's hard to watch a lot of what's happening right now in our country, but a country that had very few blacks and just had, you know, indigenous people, tribes and stuff in Canada, and now we're watching these... everything just be pulled down in the shadow of George Floyd in America.
It's as if this anti-white hatred that was bubbling beneath the surface now is just...
Manifesting itself, and like you said, Canada's National Archive has effectively cancelled the country's first Prime Minister.
Sir John Alexander Macdonald deleted his page about him because it was offensive and didn't represent Canada as diverse and multicultural.
Just took down his page.
He was born, that's right, he was born in Scotland.
He was Canada's first Prime Minister.
He is famous for his role in the establishment of Canada as a country on July 1st, 1867.
Some of his more notable achievements include building the Canadian Pacific Highway and forming a strong Conservative Party.
But it's his role in passing the Indian Act, which mandated that children from
indigenous tribes assimilate into Christian boarding schools,
strongly Arab far left activists. How dare you do that?
The government's establishment of the Chinese Immigration Act in 1885,
which limited the entrance of Chinese immigrants into China, I'm sorry,
into Canada by charging them a head tax of 50 bucks each.
Also apparently grounds for his cancellation.
After an unknown number of complaints, this article, probably three,
This article, this article that I'm reading from speculates, Canada's National Archive website apologized and vowed to remove all offending material about McDonald's and any other historical figure who upsets 21st century
Sensibilities.
They're just gonna make them disappear.
I suppose they're going to regroup and come up with a properly offensive and insulting biography of these people.
Here's what they wrote.
Yes.
Quote, our current website contains information that was written many years ago.
Unfortunately, it does not always reflect our diverse and multicultural country, often presenting one side of Canada's history.
Library Archives Canada acknowledges that some of its online presence is offensive and continues to correct these issues.
That is why content that is redundant or outdated will be removed or rewritten.
End quote.
I believe that's that restorative justice we talked about?
Restorative.
Restorative justice, yeah.
Yes, yes.
Oh boy.
Well, I can't wait.
I tell you, I can't wait.
Well, we just have gotten through another very, very interesting, frisky, lively Fourth of July weekend.
Independence Day celebrations were celebrated with a bang, bang, bang.
They were celebrated like Juneteenth is celebrated.
Yes.
Yeah.
But just like every weekend is celebrated, only more so.
And as the press said, the celebrations turned violent.
They turned violent.
An irresistible natural phenomenon like an earthquake, no human involvement at all.
The celebrations turned violent.
The Daily Mail's article.
You know, the Daily Mail is usually pretty good about writing about these U.S.
stories that the American press tends to feel a little bit sheepish about.
It starts like this.
U.S.
streets were bathed in blood over Independence Day weekend, with 142 killed in 379 separate shootings.
Chicago suffered the greatest bloodshed with at least 92 shootings over the long weekend.
That saw 16 killed and 76 injured.
Those who survived included children as young as five and six.
This is terrible.
Five years old and six-year-old stopping bullets.
With others shot in the 12 to 30 age bracket, two cops were among the city's shooting victims.
They were shot in the early hours of Monday while trying to disperse a crowd.
They were rushed to hospital and are expected to survive.
Now, Mayor Lori Lightfoot, our favorite mayor.
Last week, she claimed that 99% of her criticism is based on her gender or her race.
99%?
Maybe 1% is legitimate.
1% is probably based on her sexual orientation.
Well, I think she probably includes that.
Okay.
Yes.
I think by that, by gender, you know, that probably is what she means.
Now, she blamed joblessness, poverty, and out-of-state gun smuggling.
Of course.
Joblessness and poverty.
That's what drives them to shoot children as young as 5 or 6.
You think you can get a job if you shoot people?
This is just so silly.
Now, in Philadelphia, that's where the Declaration was signed after all, so it's appropriate to celebrate 1776.
21 were injured.
Seven killed during a six-hour orgy of violence.
Eleven people shot.
Four died.
Another stabbed during the July 4th celebrations.
Now, this was really pretty interesting.
A double murder where more than 100 shots rang out.
This is in Philadelphia.
It sounds like the Liberty Bell.
Let freedom ring!
Bang!
Bang!
They rang out.
Shortly after 10.30 on Sunday, more than 100 bullets ripped through a West Philadelphia barbecue, hitting 22-year-old Sinkar Johnson in the head 23-year-old man, multiple times in the torso, and the 15-year-old girl in the butt and leg.
Now, since when do journalists talk about being hit in the butt?
They used to talk about buttocks, but good grief, hit in the butt and leg.
Well, this poor lady who was punctured in buttocks and leg survived.
The two men died.
Now, in Philadelphia, this is another gruesome story.
An 18-year-old was shot 13 times.
13 times!
Now, I wonder who counts the holes?
Who counts?
I mean, I guess these are emergency med techs?
I suppose, you know, they have to stop the bleeding.
They look for every single bullet entry wound and exit wound to stop the bleeding, wherever they find it.
That's a gruesome number.
That is a terrible number.
One is a gruesome number.
What are we talking about?
One is a gruesome number.
Yes, but 13 bullet holes in this poor 18-year-old guy?
Wow!
As I say, they're probably trying to keep a guy alive with 13 bullet holes.
That's why they know there were 13.
They counted them.
This is really heroic stuff.
Now, in Dallas-Fort Worth, 29 people were shot, at least 26 people shot in New York City, and as the Daily Mail continues, spiraling crime has been blamed on COVID-19, saw billions of Americans lose their jobs, many turning to illegal means to support themselves.
What a good reason to spray a barbecue party with 100 bullets, you know, that'll get you a job.
You'll be glad to know, Mr. Curtis, there was hope and solace and healing for all those cities.
The very next day, July 6th, was National Fried Chicken Day.
Did you know that?
I didn't.
I didn't know.
You missed it.
I didn't have any.
Well, you could get a free fried chicken taco with a purchase made through the Taco John's app.
And at Popeyes, you could get a free chicken sandwich with an online order of at least $10 through the Popeyes app.
Best washed down with a can of Coke 45 malt beer.
But I wasn't aware that there was such a thing as National Fried Chicken Day, were you?
You think that it might be closer to Juneteenth?
Nope.
It's July 6th every year.
I looked it up.
I said, gosh, who established this anyway?
Was this President FDR?
Who's the chicken-in-every-pot president?
Who did it?
It says its origins are obscured.
National Fried Chicken Day.
But there is a National Fried Chicken Day every day of July 6th.
So, as I say, that's great solace for those who over-celebrated on July 4th weekend.
See, I always connect fried chicken with the state that you recited in once, Kentucky.
Kentucky Fried Chicken and the great Colonel Sanders.
Oh, fried chicken's been around for a lot longer than Colonel Smith.
I know it has been.
I want to go back to one thing real quick because I just thought about it.
Please.
Sculpture.
Best sculpture in the country.
Simple.
French Quarter.
Andrew Jackson.
Jackson Square.
I was just thinking about that as we're learning about the Canadian that was just cancelled.
I have never seen that statue.
However, I have seen the equestrian statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest in Memphis.
That is another magnificent, beautiful sculpture.
And that, of course, is gone.
I understand that the Rowdies damaged it when they were removing it.
It was not torn down.
The city took it down.
But they damaged it and it's languishing in some warehouse someplace.
But a great, a great, inspiring statue.
But anyway.
Now, Mr. Kersey, Oakland got into the 4th of July spirit too.
Just want to go over some of this stuff because this was incredible.
This reminds me of a story we did at George Floyd Square where we, I don't remember what publication it was, but they documented two days of horror in George Floyd Square and they would talk about Shooting, ringing out, ringing out, whatever plural you want to use, and no one would show up.
The cops were afraid to go in.
Pretty much what happened in Oakland on July 4th.
So talk about freedom.
Here we go.
The 4th of July reeled into 12 hours of nonstop chaos, with several victims wounded by celebratory
gunfire, a homicide, and a massive sideshow marred by gunfire.
The night culminated at the sideshow where more than 200 participants pelted police officers
with debris and flashed them with handheld lasers.
Now, a sideshow, as I understand it, is some sort of people get in their cars and roll around and cut doughnuts?
Correct.
I think that's what a sideshow is.
That was a new term for me, but so for those of, you know, the uninformed geezers in the audience who know no more than I do, apparently you get together in your cars and you roll around and you make your tires squeal.
So ever since the third precinct was burned before Moral Day 2020 in Minneapolis, we know who has a monopoly on violence.
And you read that paragraph, think about that.
The night culminates with 200 participants pelting police officers.
They have no fear of reprisal.
They have no fear of anything happening.
It's their city.
It's their country.
So it goes back, embattled Oakland police officer Laron Armstrong Might be one of our dusky brethren, I think.
He could be.
We're going to take a guess.
Told reporters that the level of violence and gunfire overwhelmed his officers.
Quote, if you look at the shoot period of time of six hours with six shootings, that requires a lot of resources.
That was difficult and the officers had to run from scene to scene.
This was 12 hours of nonstop chaos.
It's the most violent July 4th I can remember.
And then just a couple more.
They broke down all the stuff that happened.
I won't go into it, but they then said this.
This is what the police chief said.
We encountered a violent and dangerous sideshow with 300 vehicles and 200 spectators
with the use of firearms and lasers.
That was when the police were just overwhelmed and had debris thrown at them
because they knew they weren't gonna do anything to stop this illegal sideshow.
Uh...
Ends with this quote, and this is pretty scary if you think about how hot it's been this summer and where we're probably headed.
Quote, this is a warm summer.
We are at 67 homicides.
We have seen violence and shootings continue to occur.
It's a challenging time.
Warm weather brings people out.
We'll have to do something as violence continues.
We're losing people at an alarming rate, and we all need to recognize how much trauma and hurt and pain is in our community.
We have to stop.
Well, remember, I think it was just last week we talked about heat islands.
Well, Oakland is definitely a heat island, and it's one that they realize is getting more and more hotter.
But did the heat affect no other part of the Bay Area?
It must have been hot only in Oakland.
I'm sure there are a lot of areas where there aren't that many African Americans who would attend a sideshow and then pelt officers with the same fervor that colonists once pelted the British when they were trying to start their own country.
Weird parallel there, but no, you're right.
The Heat Island.
Mmm.
Oakland was a specially unique and overcooked heat island.
And unfortunately no urban farmers who were trying to get people to think of ways to put the guns down and to actually get interested in helping out.
You'll be glad to know that National Geographic has gotten to the bottom of the problem on 4th of July.
Okay.
And, as it turns out, Vulnerable people in communities of color are disproportionately exposed to air pollution from fireworks celebration.
That's been the problem all along.
That's what's killing all these black people.
It's fireworks pollution, not gunfire.
We just didn't realize.
And this is National Geographic again.
Many fireworks being set off over 4th of July can cause regional air pollution levels to spike and remain elevated for several days.
Potentially a serious health risk.
Spikes around the 4th of July were higher in urban census tracts, areas that tend to have higher asthma rates, more older individuals, small children, and more Black and Hispanic residents.
So, there you see what the problem is.
It's fireworks.
Doesn't that just mean that the people in those areas fire off more fireworks than people in... You know, you have stolen my thunder.
Listen to this.
Last 4th of July, when the cancellation of municipal fireworks displays due to coronavirus pandemic prompted many people to purchase online and shoot off illegal fireworks.
So you're right.
As a result, fireworks pollution was elevated across California in 2020 compared to 2019.
This year, too, there were higher levels of at-home illegal fireworks activity.
So, I mean, the obvious solution is they should take their illegal at-home fireworks into white neighborhoods, give white people a free fireworks show, and then skitter home and let the white people suffer from fireworks pollution.
But I'm delighted to know that National Geographic has got to the bottom of this.
Now, there is more news from Chicago.
Now, this is really a horrible story.
On July 1st, a University of Chicago student was shot while riding on a Green Line train near Washington Park.
This was just before 6.30 p.m.
The student was sitting on the train, stopped in a station, shot in the back of the neck by a stray bullet.
Just one of these disembodied bullets was just flying through the air.
Max Lewis, age 20.
His family drove 14 hours from Denver, Colorado to be at his side in the hospital.
The bullet paralyzed Max from the neck down.
The prognosis was that he would never walk or eat and he would need a ventilator for the rest of his life.
However, he was able to communicate with his family by blinking his eyes.
And he selected letters to spell out this message.
If I have to live like this, pull the plug, please.
Seriously.
So they took him off life support on Sunday.
He was a double major in economics and computer science, and he was on his way back from an internship in the loop when he was shot.
Now, all the reports say stray bullet.
Stray bullet.
Police say he was not the intended victim, but a Chicago listener has informed us that the Green Line train going through Washington Park at that time would have mostly had blacks on it.
Train was stopped, and who knows?
Was he a targeted shooting because he had insufficient melanin count?
We don't know.
There have been no arrests so far.
I suspect there will never be one.
But I think we can be pretty sure it was not a Scandinavian tourist who fired that gun.
All of these murders are sad, but I found this one particularly sad.
And of course, this comes only a few weeks after the girl was stabbed.
The PhD student.
And they did arrest, shocker, an African-American male who did stab her.
And as you recall, Mr. Taylor, that individual had written articles and published papers talking about how the It was inconceivable that there were so many black and brown people involved in the criminal justice system.
It was a reflection of injustice.
Exactly.
That's right.
Our racist police, our racist courts, our racist lawyers, the racist air that we all breathe was to account for it.
But she came to a very unfortunate end.
Now, I believe you have quite a lot to tell us about Baltimore.
So I'm going to try and keep this succinct because this is one of those stories that just blew my mind.
And I'm trying to think of how I should Do this.
We'll start with the commentary that was just published by Larry S. Gibson.
He's a professor of law.
He was in the administration of President Jimmy Carter.
He was Associate Deputy Attorney General and Director of the National Economic Crime Project.
Here's the commentary headline.
Baltimore's homicide rate remains steady as others soar.
Perhaps the rest of the country should follow our lead.
Now, a couple people sent this to me and they're like, did you see this?
You know a lot about Baltimore.
I'm like, I didn't.
Reading the headline kind of was shocking because You go back and in 2017, I found this, well, I should say this.
Yeah, from 2017, it was an article that, if you recall right before Black Lives Matter, crime was dropping all across the country in major cities, with stop and frisk in New York.
Yeah, you had Chicago, obviously, but for most major cities, crime was dropping.
Baltimore, not the same.
This is from December 31st, 2017.
For the third year in a row, Baltimore, Maryland has had more than 300 murders, reaching a new record of murders per number of residents in 2017.
Now, Mr. Taylor, a couple weeks ago, we talked about the most dangerous cities in America.
St.
Louis was number one.
Baltimore, I believe, was number two.
The most dangerous cities in the world, I should say that.
And in America, in the top ten, I believe St.
Louis was the only American city?
St.
Louis was number seven.
Then Baltimore was number 16 in the world!
In the world, in the world.
Number two in the United States.
Number two in the United States.
So think about this.
Baltimore in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and in 2020, they had more than 300 murders
all those years at a time where murder was dropping.
Such a point, Mr. Taylor.
And I forgot about this.
There were more murders in Baltimore in 2019, overall murders, than there were in New York City, a city that has 14 times the population.
All right.
So now let's go back to talk about Larry S. Gibson and just go over this.
So think about that.
There were more murders in Baltimore, a city that has 14 times less the population than New York, in 2019.
And ICE also, if I remember correctly, in 2018.
As homicides dramatically increase across the nation, a question has emerged as to why Baltimore City is an exception.
What's that show, The Wire?
Did you ever watch that?
OK.
Here's what he writes.
As homicides dramatically increase across the nation, a question has emerged as why Baltimore City is an
exception.
What are we doing right in Baltimore that other places are not doing?
Now, you said Baltimore was the 16th most dangerous city In the world.
In the world.
Yes.
Second most dangerous city in America.
Okay.
Crime statistics readily available on the internet show that last year's homicides increased nationwide by 25 percent, up from 16,000 in 2019 to more than 20,000 in 2020.
The rate of increase was even higher in major cities.
Philadelphia, 35 percent.
$20,000 in 2020. The rate of increase was even higher in major cities. Philadelphia,
35%. Chicago, 55%. Similar increases occurred in Baltimore, Pierce Cities, Atlanta, 38.
Louis 35.
Nashville 32, Phoenix 46, St. Louis 35.
But Baltimore was an exception.
In 2020, homicides in Baltimore went down 4% from 348 to 335.
Each of these occurrences was a tragedy to families and communities.
One homicide is too many.
Nevertheless, it is indisputable and significant that Baltimore's year-to-year trajectory was much better than the rest of the nation.
The comparative trend has continued.
Apparently, the nation is on track for another increase, Mr. Taylor, of 25% in homicide this year.
After the 35% last year.
Mind-blowing.
Mind-blowing.
Baltimore, as Mr. Gibson states, current stats show that Baltimore either matched last year's numbers or have an increase that is much lower than the national average.
I guess the point is, when you've gotten to a point where you're consistently the most dangerous city in the country fighting St.
Louis, A minor 4% increase when you're hemorrhaging population.
Remember, Baltimore is one of the cities that, in the census, they've now dropped under 600,000 people the first time since, I don't know, probably 1930.
Baltimore used to be one of America's great cities.
Talking about architecture, you know, there used to be beautiful statues of Jefferson, I'm sorry, Stonewall Jackson and Roger Taney, yeah.
So he's trying to figure out what's actually happening, and he wrote this.
Baltimore's progress is likely resulting from a combination of these factors, he said.
The efforts of faith leaders, community activists, violence interrupters, and organizations such as Safe Streets and the Baltimore Community Meditation Center.
Mediations.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm not wearing my contacts.
Mediation center or bearing fruit.
Now it's time to redouble all these efforts.
We should do more of whatever has been working.
At the same time, we must explore additional ways to keep Baltimore's trend line on homicides moving even further below the rest of the nation.
Baltimore has always been a city of creativity and invention.
Maybe it is again time for us to lead the nation.
Out of trouble.
Lead the nation.
So again, we're talking murders in the whole country, and they're going to lead the nation.
You're talking about, once again, think about this.
2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2022.
Seven straight years of 300 plus murders.
Well, they've hit a plateau.
Yes.
And I guess we'll find out.
2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2022.
Seven straight years of 300 plus murders.
Well, they've hit a plateau, yes.
And I guess- We'll find out.
But to have the audacity to write something.
Well, they are hoping for the best.
This anti-violence, this intervention stuff.
Well, you know, there was a sad story about this violence intervention and outreach.
It can be dangerous work.
Kenyell, K-E-N-Y-E-L-L, Wilson.
He was with the Catholic anti-violence group Safe Streets.
He had been an outreach worker for the program for nine years.
Now, what Safe Streets outreach workers do is mediate disputes in an effort to prevent violence.
And I guess it gets them into sticky situations.
But they also lead public education campaigns and work closely with faith-based organizations and community members, but not with the police.
They keep the police out of this in order to steer young people away from violence.
Well, last week, Kenyell Wilson walked into Harbor Hospital seeking treatment for gunshot wounds.
Aged 44, he drove himself to the hospital after being shot but died.
Wilson's friends told reporters that Wilson had been, quote, grabbing food when he was shot.
So apparently he wasn't even doing violence intermediation.
Homicide detectives are investigating Wilson's death but have so far been unable to determine even where he was shot.
This all sounds a little fishy to me.
So, it's a very sad situation when some of these guys whose job is to stop people from shooting each other gets himself shot, but apparently he wasn't even involved in some kind of mediation situation.
And it's especially tragic because he was a father of 11 children.
11 children?
11 children, yes, yes.
That's called biological and reproductive success.
But poor boy, 44, dead despite all of his efforts to stop the violence.
Now, on a separate matter, the Biden administration is introducing an unprecedented effort to encourage eligible immigrants to apply for U.S.
citizenship.
As the government spokesman put it, the idea is to find a whole-of-government way to reach out to people who are able to naturalize.
This is after the whole-of-government effort to root out systemic racism has succeeded, no doubt.
Or maybe they've got enough time to do both at the same time.
There are reportedly 9 million people in the U.S.
who are lawful permanent residents who may be eligible to apply for citizenship.
9 million.
Can't let them just sit out there and not apply, can we?
They've got to be rushed into citizenship as quickly as possible.
Now, as I will recall, and perhaps you will too, the Clinton administration had a big rush campaign to grant citizenship.
Which they gave to felons and weirdos and all sorts of people who didn't qualify, including people who'd lied on their applications.
This is all in time for the elections.
But I've never heard of anyone ever trying to strip these people of citizenship despite all of the lies that they apparently made.
So this is a typical Democrat procedure to stuff the voter rolls with people who vote for them.
On yet another matter, did you know that Donald Trump has sued social media?
I am aware.
He, on Wednesday, that was yesterday, filed three federal class action lawsuits, one against Facebook, one against YouTube, and one against Twitter, and their respective CEOs.
Now, according to Donald Trump, the lawsuits are intended to stop the platform from censoring speech, removing accounts, and the three suits claim that the tech giants violate the First Amendment's free speech protections.
Now, the argument is that they have become essentially government actors, which obligates them to provide free speech protections guaranteed by the First Amendment.
Now, Donald Trump is not the first person to try this.
I think I know a person who tried it.
Many people have tried this.
Even your servant has tried to sue.
Now, we did not make a First Amendment claim.
We filed under state law.
And the California Constitution can be interpreted, I think, legitimately in ways that would make it impossible for city for corporations that are chartered in California to
do the kinds of things these people are doing but we lost in court due to a
Certain amount of jiggery-poo that I think would be hard to justify in any case. Good luck Donald Trump. Good luck
I hope you make it and since it's a class-action suit if he succeeds then all of us will go in on his coattails
Well, what's fascinating is he spent four and a half years Monitoring the situation and now he can't tweet. He can't
do Instagram. He can't do Facebook Anybody who tries to put his speeches up on YouTube get a strike and they get the video taken down.
That, to me, shows you the extraordinary level of censorship and the lack of accountability for these tech giants.
And of course, as you point out, when he was in office, he did essentially nothing.
He said, you just have to be better.
You just have to be better.
Well, thanks, Prez.
Well, now that you're out in the cold, why can't you just be better?
Well, I suppose we shouldn't be mean.
He's trying something.
Maybe he will succeed where the rest of us have failed.
But go Donald Trump.
Sue, sue, sue.
Now, here is an interesting story.
It's another story about cultural appropriation.
The USA Today has an important warning for white people.
Don't use black slang.
Don't use black slang?
No, no.
Now, black slang and black language has a new description, a new term for it.
What we used to call Ebonics.
It's now African American Vernacular English.
I guess that sounds snazzier.
It's also known as AAVE.
Or, if you do use black slang, pay royalties.
Now, as Nikki Lane, who is an assistant professor at Spelman College, explains, using black English, when white people use black English, it's really just another way of liking what black people do, but not liking black people.
Yes.
Now take terms like reading.
Apparently that means artfully insulting someone.
Or to shade, or a shade, which is a subtle insult.
I mean, these are black terms.
Don't throw shade at me, Mr. Taylor.
Is that how it's used?
Don't throw shade.
Well, I never have.
I never would.
I would never even conceive of throwing shade.
I wouldn't even know what it is.
Or apparently, to slay is some sort of newfangled black slang that white people are appropriating without paying royalties.
Now, Now those are the only examples.
Oh, there's one more example coming up, but these are some of the examples of things that we are not allowed to say and E. Patrick Johnson, Dean of Northwestern School of Communication says, appropriate and codifying black culture from black hairstyles to queer language is nothing new and it's inevitable.
Yes.
Now, he says black people often have to change their way of speaking to fit into what's seen as a cultural norm.
But this other person, Nicky Lane, now this is one that leaves me baffled.
Nicky Lane scoffs at the idea of a room full of white people saying, let's spill the tea with no black people present.
Do you know what let's spill the tea means?
I've never heard that, ever.
I never have either.
But I think I can freely say that I have not appropriated this black lingo.
Now, what's even more problematic is, and I quote Nikki Lange again, white people coming up off our language.
And you know what she means by that?
She means TikTokers coming up off our language.
That means TikTokers rising to influencer status.
For videos that appropriate phrases and companies using black language to profit in their marketing.
Did you know that companies use black language?
I didn't know that.
No, but I was wondering if you've ever thought of getting a TikTok channel.
That would be hilarious.
Well, let me ask you a question.
I don't know how long it would last.
How does TikTok work?
I'm too old for TikTok.
And she complains that black creators don't profit off their labor.
So all these white people using these words.
Now, and let me quote her again.
No, no, I'm sorry.
This is a different lady.
This is April Baker Bell, who is the author of Linguistic Justice, Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy.
Now, does that sound like African-American vernacular English to you?
It doesn't sound anything like African-American English, but I do like that linguistic justice.
Linguistic.
I mean, justice has to creep into every aspect of our lives.
The vernacular.
It's the word to the tip of my tongue.
Linguistic justice.
Linguistic justice.
And they ain't getting it.
The arc of the moral universe bends toward linguistic justice.
She says, when and under what circumstances non-Black people can use Black language in a conversation is a conversation that's irrelevant for now.
When we see black people not being killed, black people not being discriminated against, black kids being able to thrive and learn with their own language, then we can have that conversation.
So until then, boy Mr. Kersey, don't use that black talk.
None of that AAVE for you.
Now, apparently black queer people have developed terms of phrase to communicate with each other in potentially dangerous homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic homophobic And so while you might hear black queer people use the word slay in some sort of queer meaning that I don't understand, Lane credits black women with having invented the term.
Well, you know, it's almost laughable.
Here's a warning to white people, and I read this verbatim.
This is USA Today telling you, Mr. Kersey, Study up where phrases come from and pause before repeating a new word or phrase.
And if you do choose to use these terms, make sure you're not contributing to the marginalization of black communities.
I'm not quite sure how you're supposed to do that, but if you come up with a new phrase before you use it, you've got to make sure that it does not have a black origin.
Well, You know, of course, every time, for heaven's sake, they play a violin or they speak English.
I mean, it seems to me this is appropriation of things they didn't create.
And they wear shoes!
That's cultural appropriation, for heaven's sake.
And what more?
What's more?
And this I must credit our collaborator, Mr. Roberts.
We came up with the N-word.
I think they should pay us every time they use it.
What do you think of that?
I think that's pretty good.
Try and trademark it.
There you go.
Both the GA and the ER version.
Yes, would the patent office accept that?
But you know, there is something to Ebonics, as it was called in those days.
Do you know the difference between he sick and he be sick?
No, I don't.
Please, enlighten me.
All right, all right.
He sick is a chronic disease.
This guy's constantly he sick, but he be sick is he is sick now.
Momentarily.
Well, he's ordinarily healthy, but he be sick.
But he sick means he's always sick.
I think that that's a subtle and intriguing distinction.
I think the main takeaway from all this is we should do everything we can to strive to rectify linguistic injustice wherever it's found.
Uh, you're right.
I mean, this is a lifelong journey, as we're constantly being told, and we learn new ways, new ways to fight racism.
Now, here is an Only in America story.
It's a sad sorry story.
The headline is, Mother Shot and Killed While Dropping Son Off at Naval Academy.
That pretty much says it all.
A Houston resident, Michelle Cummings, was sitting On the patio of the Graduate Hotel Annapolis with her husband and another family in which she was shot multiple times.
And police said the attack did not appear to be targeted.
She was hit by stray bullets.
They were dropping their son off with an incoming freshman.
What a, what a terrible thing to happen.
Now, as it turns out, this is, uh, uh, there's a little, it's a little bit fishy to me when you're hit by stray bullets.
I mean, I don't know how many bullets is multiple bullets, but hit by stray bullets multiple times.
That sounds less like an accident than it ordinarily was.
Especially when you hear about these stories where there's a shooting at a barbecue, a hundred casings are found and two people are hit.
Yes.
Or three people.
It's like.
Yeah.
So she was hit and this is a black woman.
Now, this is tragic business, but there may be more to the story than meets the eye.
But again, this is really a terrible and tragic thing.
Now, we are running out of time, but I think we should try to fit in the last story here.
A federal judge in New York City has dismissed an indictment against a Bronx shooting suspect, citing a lack of racial diversity in the grand jury pool.
Yes.
In a 36-page opinion, U.S.
Southern District Judge Annalisa Torre, she is, yes, one of our Hispanic Americans, stated that she was throwing out the indictment.
That's linguistic injustice right there.
that violated his right to representative jury under the Fifth and Sixth Amendments.
He goes by the name of Ill Will.
That's pretty good.
Well, that's linguistic injustice right there.
Ill Will.
That's probably entirely accurate.
He was indicted by White Plains Grand Jury last year on a charge of being a convicted felon,
possession of ammunition, in connection with a shooting.
He argued through his attorney that his constitutional rights had been violated because the Grand Jury did not represent a fair cross-section of the community.
In Manhattan, 21% of the jury-eligible population is Black and 28% Latino.
In White Plains, where he was charged, only 12.5% are black and 14% are Latino,
as opposed once again to 21 and 28. And so, Judge Torres wrote,
defendant has produced clear statistical evidence of underrepresentation of black and latinx
individuals in the pool from which his grand jury was drawn and a jury selection process that was susceptible to abuse.
So, now this I find very interesting.
If the jury, the grand jury, doesn't match your racial makeup, then it's no good.
The indictment can be thrown out.
What do you think of that?
That's a form of separation.
It's another reminder of where we're headed.
It's a reminder of where we're headed.
Well, thank you, Judge Torres.
You're pointing in the right direction.
Grand juries for them and grand juries for us.
I take that back.
It's a reminder of where we are.
It's where we are.
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