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July 15, 2021 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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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, of course, is my indispensable co-host, Paul Kersey.
And as usual, we have reader comments and reader admonitions.
And a comment comes straight from England.
And the commenter says this.
In last week's AmRen podcast, you're talking about architecture.
Have you, by chance, seen the cloisters of Gloucester Cathedral in England?
Now last week we were talking about beautiful, beautiful architectural masterpieces, not just in the United States, but around the world.
And no, I have never been to the Cloisters of Gloucester Cathedral, but certainly according to the photographs that are available on the internet, it looks like an absolutely gorgeous place.
The fact is, All across England, all across Europe really, there are beautiful gems that are not necessarily well known.
I recently became acquainted with a place called Royal Holloway College because someone I know is a student there.
There's a place called Founders Hall.
It's a gorgeous double quadrangle.
It has a beautiful chapel, a very nice library, a very beautiful little picture gallery, I mean, that chapel, gosh, it makes you want to get married at least once a month, I would think.
As I say, there are beautiful, beautiful places like that all over Europe.
And so, no, alas, I have never visited the cloisters of Gloucester Cathedral, nor had I even heard of them.
And so, I stand better informed, thanks to our listener.
Now, I believe there was a listener comment directed towards you, Mr. Kersey.
There was, Mr. Taylor, and it was a fantastic one.
Somebody wrote this.
I'm shocked you didn't mention these two of my favorite statues of Confederates at Gettysburg, mercifully protected by law, though that is hardly real protection given the spinelessness of Republicans.
And then he sent a couple pictures, and yes, they are fantastic statues.
So, I've never actually been to Gettysburg.
Have you?
Yes, yes I have.
It's a heartbreaking place.
I think the most heartbreaking part of it is that hill that Pickett's men were sent to charge up.
You can see it, you can actually walk it, and you can see how far they had to go, and it's up an incline, and you can see how their men were just cut down, and you see the spot where Robert Lee was watching it all, and then he came out and he said, It was all my fault.
I think it takes a great man to admit right on the spot.
All these dead men, it was all my fault.
No, it's a heartbreaking place.
All those fine young white men slaughtering each other.
I don't want to go back, frankly.
It was bad enough going there the first time.
But yes, so we talked about statues, and you had mentioned some wonderful, beautiful Confederate monuments, and our listener is quite right to add to our collection of wonderful Western European white man monuments.
But let's see, I have a bit of Ameren news.
We don't usually do this, but an unusual thing happened on the page July 11th.
That's in fact today.
We published two poems.
We published a sonnet.
I think most people are familiar with a sonnet form.
It is composed of 14 lines.
Shakespeare is one of the very best-known sonneteers in the English language.
In fact, my father wrote a beautiful love sonnet to my mother, which I have lovingly preserved.
And the other poem is a villanelle.
This is a much less well-known form of poetry.
It's composed of five tercets, that's five groups of three lines, one quatrain for a total of 19 lines.
Now, both of these poems are submitted by an identitarian poet, and they very carefully and faithfully follow the forms of these structured poems.
And I think they are very, very well done.
So, as I say, this is something of a departure from our usual fair at American Renaissance, and I would like to ask all of our listeners to go have a look and see what can spring from the mind of a very gifted identitarian.
So, moving on to the first item.
It's an article really from the Epoch Times.
It had the best summary of this.
The Epoch Times, I sometimes squint when I read those articles.
I'm not always sure, but I thought this was pretty good coverage here.
And it talked about Ashley Babbitt.
As most of us know, on January 6th, when the Trump supporters took over the Capitol, one person was killed, and that person was the unarmed white woman, Ashley Babbitt, Air Force veteran, killed by one round fired from a Capitol policeman.
Now this article goes into considerable detail about how the Capitol Police have absolutely stonewalled government watchdogs, journalists, and even Ashley Babbitt's lawyers in their quest for what actually happened on that day.
In February, the month after the riot, the Capitol Police issued a press release promising to share additional information once the investigation is complete, and of course they did not.
They kept it all wrapped in complete darkness.
And just last month, the D.C.
Police, which shares jurisdiction with the Capitol Police and has had its own investigation into the Babbitt shooting, it finished up its own internal review, just last month as I said, and it too is shrouded in secrecy.
Interestingly, D.C.
law, like many jurisdictions these days, requires that an officer involved in a shooting, that person be identified within five business days, and they must publicly release also the body cam recordings of all officers involved in death or use of force.
This law, however, does not cover the Capitol Police, which answers only to Congress.
Now, as you're probably aware, there was a mistaken identification of at least one officer that circulated on the internet, but now we're pretty sure we know who that person was.
He was Lieutenant Michael L. Byrd.
Now, Byrd was cited by name when the acting House Sergeant-at-Arms gave a brief discussion of what happened at a February 25th House hearing, and both C-SPAN and CNN removed his name from transcripts.
They're carefully doing the bidding of our overlords, but the name was clearly audible, and he is an African American.
It turns out he is a veteran Capitol Police officer who holds the rank of lieutenant and is commander of the House Chamber Section of the Capitol Police.
It was the doors into the House Chamber that Ashley Babb was climbing through when Byrd opened fire.
But, immediately after the shooting, his internet footprint was scrubbed, including his social media, his personal photos.
He has gone dark.
Now, his lawyer would neither confirm nor deny that the 53-year-old officer is the shooter.
Now, my question is, why does he even have a lawyer?
That sounds pretty suspicious to me.
What do you think?
If you have a lawyer, that basically means you are going to be engaged in some form of litigation.
So yes, I agree.
That sounds like Mr. Byrd is our boy.
But, and this is great, the lawyer warned that disclosing his name poses a safety risk.
What do you think of that?
Boy, all I have to do is shoot a black person, and oh boy, your name's out in front all the time.
I guess that's no safety risk at all, but if a black officer shoots a white lady, can't have that.
Now, Congress, I thought this was very interesting, and I learned this thanks to the Epoch Times, Congress has exempted the Capitol Police from the Freedom of Information Act requests.
Even the Secret Service complies with FOIA requests, but not Capitol Police.
Now, the Babbitt family is suing, and they've hired a Maryland lawyer who specializes in police abuse cases named Terry Roberts.
They want at least $10 million in damages, but he can pry no information out of the U.S.
Capitol Police.
But there's a hearing before a judge scheduled for September 3rd, and also, I learned this just the first time, Washington-based Judicial watch.
They are also suing for all records on this shooting.
So, my guess is eventually this stuff will come to light.
Now, what do we know about Lieutenant Byrd?
Well, in February of 2019, he left his department-issued Glock 22 in a restroom on the house side of the Capitol.
Just set it down and walked out.
That's, yes, that doesn't sound like very good weapons control to me.
That's a .40 cal, and interestingly enough, a Glock 22 .40 cal was used in the Babbitt shooting.
But, fortunately, this weapon was discovered by a different officer doing a routine security sweep.
Now, we know something else about Lieutenant Byrd.
The next morning, when his blunder came to light, he reportedly told fellow officers that he would be, quote, treated differently because he is a lieutenant.
Now, unlike other police forces, the Capitol Police does not have to disclose records on police misconduct, although we do know the total.
There was a total of 700 complaints lodged against Capitol Police officers between 2017 and 2019, but the force will not say what the allegations were, how the department resolved them, or who their targets were.
They don't tell you anything at all about individual complaints against individual officers.
Now, of course, all of this whooping about the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, everything's got to be transparent, the police have to be open to scrutiny, that's, of course, if they're not the police protecting the royal and sacred personages of our rulers in the Capitol building.
And of course, as you recall, Brian Sicknick, who died from natural causes, we now know, during the riot, he lay in state in the Capitol Rotunda, because if a man is actually trying to protect our sacred legislators from a possible mob, oh boy, oh boy, they are, they cannot, they cannot do anything wrong.
So there you go.
So that was one dead white lady that we're just not going to worry about.
But, Mr. Kersey, unless you have further observations on the Ashley Babbitt business, I would love to hear from you your views on Brittany Watts ten years later.
Gosh.
You know, the whole Ashley Babbitt, there was a great article written at amrin.com by Gregory Hood about Ashley Babbitt, and I believe Gregory Hood said that this is a martyr.
This is someone we should rally around.
I would politely say no.
The person we should rally around and to remember is truly Brittany Watts.
Now, it's on July 15th, 2021.
It'll have been 10 years since the murder of Brittany Watts and the shooting of two other White Girls in Midtown Atlanta by Nkosi Tondwe.
I believe that's how you pronounce his name.
I'm looking at an article on Yahoo News right now, and I'd like to just read from it to remind people of what happened.
Now, Mr. Taylor, here is the headline.
Georgia murderer fails in bid to blame actions on leftist claptrap he learned in college.
The man who murdered one white woman and paralyzed another white girl during a 2011 Atlanta shooting spree testified at his trial last week that he was motivated by beliefs he had acquired about white people when he was an anthropology major at the University of West Georgia.
Anthropology?
Anthropology.
Nkosi Tonde, 23, remember this is back in 2013, that this trial is going on.
So it took two years after the shooting in Midtown in July of 2011.
He argued that the bizarre political views he encountered and accepted in college led to a mental state that
should have been grounds for a defense of temporary insanity.
Quote, this is him saying this in court.
This is what he testifies, quote, I was trying to prove a point that Europeans had colonized the world, and as a result of that, we see a lot of evil today.
In terms of slavery, it was something that needed to be answered for.
I was trying to spread the message of making white people mend, end quote.
He explained in court that he had attended an event designed to address concerns about racial inequality the night before the shooting spree.
He became furious when he saw two white people there.
Quote, I was upset.
I was still upset Friday.
I took the gun to work because I was still upset from Thursday night.
Now the Fulton County Superior Court Judge Kelly Lee agreed to allow Tonde's public defender to file an insanity plea late in the trial.
He was then ordered to receive an immediate mental evaluation, Mr. Taylor.
The next day the judge added, quote, not guilty by reason of insanity, end quote, as a verdict option for the jury to consider.
Thankfully they didn't.
Go ahead.
Well, yes, this is certainly the sort of thing they're going to be claiming.
And yet, what he did, as you have pointed out, I think very, very clearly, is an utterly logical outcome of what they're being told.
They're being told over and over and over.
And this was 10 years ago.
It was already at a high pitch then.
Everything that's ever gone wrong for any non-white person is our fault.
Why shouldn't he take things into his own hands?
Yeah, Tandui's novel defense gambit, it didn't succeed.
He was found guilty of killing 26-year-old Brittany Watts.
You know, she'd be 36 today.
Paralyzed Lauren Garcia, who was 24.
He also injured in the shooting spree Tiffany Firenze.
The judge sentenced Tanduwi to life without parole plus 65 years in prison.
This is a quote from the Fulton County District Attorney Linda Donkoski.
She told the jury this.
Quote, he told you he shot Britney Watts, Lauren Garcia, and Tiffany Ferenzi because he had adopted all these racist ideals.
If race disorder was a mental illness, then the Ku Klux Klan could murder and kill with impunity.
End quote.
That was what the assistant DA told the jury.
Now that's an interesting argument.
You know, what's interesting is that the individual's mother is a pretty prominent consumer rights law and elder protection attorney there in Atlanta.
She has a law degree from the University of California, Berkeley, as well as a bachelor's degree, Mr. Taylor, and dear listeners from Stanford.
Now listen, I knew Brittany.
This story has been one of the main reasons why I've continued to engage in the personage of the personages of Paul Kersey and and doing all this Mr. Taylor because this was something that hit really hard when it first happened I was in Atlanta I was in Buckhead at a restaurant and I was with someone from Roswell High School where she had gone to high school that night and she got a text about Brittany being shot and killed
And it wasn't until a couple years, about a year and a half after during the trial that it turned out that it was a anti-white shooting spree.
And as you so succinctly noted, this was critical race theory that was taught to Tawande.
Do we happen to know where that name comes from?
What sort of extraction is Tawande?
The surname is spelled this way, so if any of our listeners out there want to help us out, it's T-H-A-N-D-I-W-E.
I don't remember, I can look it up, but I don't want to, since we're doing this remotely, I don't want to mess up my computer as I try and search something.
But if anybody out there listening wants to help us out, do some internet sleuthing, shoot whatever type of Reconnaissance, you can find any dossier you can to BecauseWeLiveHere at ProtonMail.com.
Once again, all one word, BecauseWeLiveHere at ProtonMail.com, or shoot it over to go to Amarin.com and go to the Contact Us page.
But this, you know, Mr. Taylor, you said you did a video on this shooting, probably a few years after, probably in 2013, on this.
Yes, it was one of my angriest videos.
The title was, You Swine, Happy Now?
And what I was addressing myself to was the idea, these people who are constantly telling non-whites that white people are their enemy, they're oppressors, they're wicked, they're born bad.
And I said, are you happy?
You got the results?
You got the results that are inevitable.
Are you happy?
And I never got a reply, of course.
But I suspect some of them secretly are happy.
They are so filled with animus against whites that although they themselves, these college profs, these people teaching anthropology, was it?
They themselves might not go out and off a few honkies.
But if something like that happens, are they going to shed any tears?
I suspect a lot of them will shed no tears whatsoever.
But in any case, I'm very pleased that you have reminded us that Ashley Babbitt is certainly not the first, not the last.
As a matter of fact, there is a whole series of descriptions of crimes of this kind in my book, which is now also 10 years old, White Identity, in which I talk about people who, on the witness stand, blacks will say, well, she was probably descended from slaveholders, so she deserved it.
Or there was a crime just not too long ago in which a guy in Brooklyn, he beat a white girl completely bloody and unconscious and dragged some friend up to say, of course, she deserved it.
She was a racist.
This sort of thing happens more frequently than we'd like to believe.
And of course, it is rigorously downplayed in any kind of medium.
But moving on to a tragedy of a different sort, and that is Joe Biden's administrative ruling on Friday.
That immigration agents will no longer detain pregnant or postpartum illegal immigrants.
The ICE is ordered not to detain, arrest, or take into custody for an administrative violation of the immigration laws, individuals willing to be pregnant, postpartum, or nursing.
So if you show up at the border with a big belly, they can't lay hands on you.
They've got to let you on through.
They're just going to wave you through.
Now, I was surprised to learn that there were only 13 illegal aliens currently in custody out of the many thousands that are cooling their heels at year-on-my-expense, but out they're going to go in stanter.
The American Civil Liberties Union, of course, was cock-a-hoop, absolutely delighted at this development, and Representatives Sylvia Garcia, Democrat of Texas, and Senator Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington, Also, we're over the moon at this and they said that this should be made permanent by their bill.
They have proposed a bill called Stop Shackling and Detaining Pregnant Women Act.
Now isn't that a great name for a piece of American legislation?
Stop Shackling...
Stop shackling and detaining pregnant women.
So, there you go.
If you show up and you're pregnant or you've got a baby in arms and you're a nursing mother, then it is bienvenido, amiga.
And there's nothing to stop them, so far as I can tell.
And, as you know, about 300,000 children are born to illegal immigrants every year.
They automatically become U.S.
citizens.
And mama's got a fast track to a U.S.
citizenship, as well as all the brothers and the cousins and the uncles and the aunts and everything else, called chain migration.
And, of course, now there will be more and more of these people showing up at our borders.
I'm still thinking about you using the word cock-a-hoop again.
I forgot the etymology of that phrase.
You know, we looked it up and I was wrong.
I've forgotten now.
Yes, it's a British expression.
It means over the moon.
It means happy as can be.
The cockles of their little hearts were warmed by this act.
But yes, we should look that up and then inform our readers, our listeners, if they have any curiosity at all as to where cock-a-hoop comes from.
But our next story is about New York City Public Schools and Paula Lev.
Paula Lev is principal of the High School for Law and Public Service in Washington Heights.
That's at the very tippy-top end of Manhattan.
Now, why they have a High School for Law and Public Service, I do not know, but they've got one.
Well, Principal Lev is under investigation by the City Department of Education for telling a faculty member that she was, quote, going to get rid of all those white teachers who aren't doing anything for the kids of our community.
Now, of course, our community means, well, we know what our community means.
She is Dominican, as it turns out.
Did you know we have Dominicans who are principals of high schools in Manhattan?
Well, we do.
And she also asked a faculty member to conspire with her to try to oust a white colleague.
Now, there has been an official complaint served against her, and one of the people who included information about the complaint writes, she definitely has something against white people.
And, yes, the complaint came, and I'm reading from the New York Post, the complaint came amid unrest at the school which staffers blamed on what they said was Lev twisting the current concepts of equity and anti-racism.
Well, it doesn't sound to me like she's twisting them at all.
Is the whole idea of equity and anti-racism to get whites out?
So, no.
She is just being completely consistent and loyal to the principles of equity and anti-racism.
Well, apparently dissatisfaction with Principal Lev, age 39 by the way, boiled up in February when a white teacher by the name of Nick Bacon, who was a Union Chapter leader, filed a routine grievance against a scheduling issue that would have affected almost everyone on the faculty.
And in front of a half a dozen other staffers, Lev said to Bacon, Is your problem with me that it's maybe because I'm a woman of color and you're a white man?
In other words, how dare you object to something I'm saying?
It must be because I'm a woman of color and you're a white man.
And the staffers were outraged.
Well, gosh, I'm astonished that they were outraged.
I mean, it's very surprising.
Isn't it the case that every time a white man disagrees with a woman of color, isn't it always because he is a racist and sexist swine, Mr. Kersey?
Isn't that the case?
Why were they outraged?
Anyway, afterwards, Principal Lev apologized to this racist, sexist white swine for making the remark openly, but said it reflected her true feelings.
And she should have expressed it to him in private and alone.
Well, in any case, these things got boiling and boiling, and she started asking another white faculty member to conspire with her to kick out this other white.
And so, no fewer than 83.3% Of the tenured and untenured teachers, paraprofessionals.
I didn't know they had paraprofessionals.
Do they jump out of the windows in parachutes?
Paraprofessionals and related service professionals, 83.3% voted to say that they have no confidence in this principle.
Now, a vote of no confidence is very unusual in the New York City School District, and the Department of Education cannot ignore them.
And it's interesting to me because the staff is apparently about as multi-culti as can be, so this is a pretty intriguing development.
They're all saying that this woman has really gotten out of line, and she's too anti-white, so there you go.
And just as a footnote, her salary is $165,542 a year, and she's married to another New York City principal, Benjamin Lev.
So if they're both making $165,542, that's pretty good household income, even for New York City.
Yeah, I'd say so.
You know, it's funny, you were saying, A lot of people who contact us say, we need good news stories.
And I was thinking about something as you were talking about, gosh, a Dominican Republic principal of a school.
And I was thinking about Monument Avenue in Richmond.
And, you know, we've seen so many horrible things happen over the past five years.
So many beautiful statues from the Robert E. Lee statue in New Orleans to what happened yesterday in Charlottesville.
The Jackson and Lee statues are gone.
But to me, Monument Avenue in Richmond, obviously we've seen the Stonewall Jackson statue taken down.
They're getting ready to take the Lee statue down probably in the next couple months.
There's a guy who needs a statue on Monument Avenue who's from Richmond, Mr. Taylor.
Can you tell me who that is?
Think about this for a second.
I think I could think about it for a lot more than a second and not come up with the right answer.
So, I do believe that eventually things are going to go back, the pendulum's going to swing, and a gentleman who wrote a book called Bonfire the Vanities About the insanity of diversity in New York.
Tom Wolfe, he's from Richmond, went to UVA.
He needs a statue on Monument Avenue.
I'd like to see that actually replaced the Arthur Ass statue.
Well, if the pendulum swings back, with all due respect to Wolf, who I think is a very talented writer, and he understood a lot of things that a whole lot of people didn't, he would not be the guy that I would be memorializing.
I think there are some more explicitly racially oriented white advocates who I think deserve our respect more than he, many of them from the past.
But yes, good for him.
Now, I thought you were going to give us a good news story, but it sort of veered off into a, well, in the future there might be a good news story.
Actually, if I could stop you real quick, who would be worth?
Memorializing.
You just said something amazing.
Well, let's put, let's put, let's put, first of all, let's put the Confederates right back up.
They've got nice places right for them.
And no, it's a different, it's a different story.
I mean, if we should think about that, we should imagine that a listener asked us, well, uh, 50 years from now, who should be the people whose statues are erected as those who brought back sanity and who saved America as an outpost of Western civilization?
We'll have to think about that.
But in the meantime, let us go back to the bad news, of which there is so much, but I think that some of this bad news will end up bringing good news ultimately in the end.
And this is Alvin Bragg.
He appears to have won the Democratic primary election for Manhattan District Attorney, making him the presumptive new leader, because the Republicans never get anywhere in New York, of the most powerful prosecutor's office in the country.
He is, of course, heavily melanin-enhanced.
He's been a federal and state prosecutor.
However, Bragg has never served as a DA.
Federal and state prosecutors get to pick their cases, and they reject the weak ones, and they hold a relatively limited jurisdiction because most crimes are, certainly in New York City, judged by the DA's office in New York.
He doesn't have the luxury of cherry-picking the crimes he wants to prosecute.
He's going to handle whatever comes through the door.
And he has never worked in an office that had handled every homicide, shooting, robbery, rape, or burglary, or child abuse case, and there are very disturbing signs about this Alvin Bragg.
He will immediately stop prosecuting certain offenses.
These include, shockingly enough, resisting arrest.
Resisting arrest?
You can punch a police officer in the nose and that's okay?
Resisting arrest?
Trespassing, fare evasion, marijuana possession, driving with a suspended license, any traffic violation.
I guess you can be drunk as a skunk.
You're not going to be arrested.
And the plan is to allow just about every offender to walk free the same day.
In his campaign, he says non-incarceration will be the outcome for every case except those with charges with homicide or the death of a victim, a class B violent felony in which a deadly weapon causes serious physical injury, or felony sex offense.
Now let's think about that.
That means you can open fire at a hundred people and fire off a thousand rounds, but if you don't hit anybody, you can walk.
An armed robber can wave a gun around or a knife, and so long as he doesn't actually connect, he can walk.
You can beat people to a pulp with your bare hands and walk.
And none of these people are going to be paying any bail either.
Now, as our head spins, he recites the usual progressive nonsense mantra of ending incarceration, racial disparities, police misconduct, and he also promises, and I'm quoting from his campaign literature, New policies relating to declination and diversion, alternatives to incarceration, re-entry, and restorative justice.
Well, Mr. Kersey, whenever I hear words I don't entirely understand, I think to myself, well, hold on.
Declination?
I think that means when you decline to prosecute.
Correct.
And re-entry, I think that means back into society without even a slap on the wrist.
And of course, alternative to incarceration, that means back on the street.
Now, restorative justice, that sounds good.
I mean, if that meant you can restore to the victim what the criminal took from him, that'd be great.
Real restorative justice, putting him on a chain gang and all the wages go to the victim, but no.
You restore their criminals' dignity and self-esteem and voting rights and public housing and methadone and whatever it is he needs.
That's what restorative justice inevitably means.
I want retributive justice.
If he can't make me whole, let the swine suffer.
But, you know, the real question, Mr. Kersey, is how on earth these people win elections?
I mean, there's Chessa Boudin in San Francisco and Larry Krasner in Philadelphia.
This is just the most mysterious thing.
New York City is in a terrible state, along with San Francisco and all these big cities, who've got these crusading, crusading DAs who refuse to prosecute and they elect yet another one?
I think we may just have to put our crack reporter Gregory Hood on the story and just get to the bottom of this.
How does this even happen?
Well, I'll throw something out there for you.
In a lot of these races, there's such little voter participation that's actually going on.
These D.E.A.
races are so easy to win because so few people show up to To actually vote.
Where you live, in Northern Virginia, we saw this in places like Alexandria and Arlington.
And in Loudoun County, where CRT is.
There's such little voter participation that you're able to win these.
That's true.
That's true.
If someone like George Soros, listen, it's not an anti-Semitic trope.
Sorry, guys.
He is funding these races, because guess what?
They're easy to win!
He's a very clever guy, and that's what I understand.
That if you drop just, you know, $100,000, which is pocket change for George Soros, you drop $100,000, $200,000 on one of these races, you just blanket the airwaves, the other guy's completely shut out, and then you sail into office.
But I don't know.
I've not heard that Soros was behind this guy.
It's just nuts.
And was it HL Mencken said democracy is a system in which the people get what they deserve and that boy, they get it really hard.
No, it was something better than that.
I should look it up and give you the proper... And boy, do they get it... I don't know.
They get it really... So, anyway.
But, you know, I'm guessing that what's going to happen is that New York City is going to have to beef up security at the funeral homes if this guy swings into action.
What do you think?
Well, I'm going to jump on that in one second, but real quick on Larry Krasner.
You're talking about Philadelphia, and they're going through an unprecedented resurgence in violent crime.
They tried to claim he was the epitome of the progressive DA, at the same time that they're seeing these massive increases in homicide, non-fatal shooting.
He just sailed to re-election, Mr. Taylor.
I don't get it.
no opposition. I don't get it. I agree. Even though Philadelphia, it's like, listen, we
know who's committing the violent crime in Philadelphia. It's not a bunch of white people
out there targeting blacks. It's black on black. It's brown on brown.
And the other thing is you've seen these viral videos of black guys walking into stores and
just sweeping stuff off the shelves. And you've got uniformed security folks there just taking
little video pictures. They don't dare stop them and out they go. And if it's less than
$900, the police aren't even going to bother to prosecute.
And all of these stories, all these stories are closing one after another.
Don't people realize this?
And I, you know, I would vote for a trained monkey over Chesa Booten in San Francisco, for heaven's sake, or Larry Krasner.
This stuff is nuts.
I just don't get it.
I totally agree.
And another story that really, again, we live in, uh, gosh, George Floyd was May of 2020, so we're talking about 14 months into the George Floyd era.
You know, you used to have B.C.A.D.
I guess we now have G.F.
I'm not sure what you describe this epoch, but this is a story that kind of blew me away in more ways than one.
Here's the headline.
Funeral homes may increase safety measures after shootings.
This is from Champaign, Illinois.
I believe that's where the University of Illinois is located.
Correct.
Now, Mr. Taylor, I've been to a few funerals in my life.
Luckily, not that many so far.
Obviously, as Father Time catches up, I'll go to more and more, but I've never been to a funeral where there was a shooting.
Have you?
No.
I never have.
I never have and I never hope to.
Well, here's the opening paragraph.
Quote, I've always gotten in touch with law enforcement that we can at least let them know the timeline to let them know we are doing service.
Quote, end quote from Sion Williams from the Williams Memorial Service said.
That's what one funeral home does and others are considering doing after shootings across central Illinois at funeral homes.
There was a deadly shooting at a funeral luncheon in Champaign last week.
It happened outside of an American Legion.
Excuse me while I get the story back up.
My apologies.
Again, this is something that I It's hard to even fathom this taking place.
Two funeral homes in Champaign, one place says they have not needed to have any extra security, and one who says he's feeling the impact of gun violence firsthand.
Again, like I said, I've been to a couple funerals.
They were very solemn and very despondent experiences.
Well, they'd be even more solemn and despondent if half a dozen people got shot, wouldn't they?
Here's what the guy said.
Quote, my first duty is to protect our staff right and then the second priority is to protect the families.
Again, he has to work with police to provide safety for funeral services.
He said, We've needed a lot more law enforcement, unfortunately.
We're stressing about that a little bit, but the main thing is protecting citizens.
And again, it takes a while to get down to the article to learn that it, again, this is a black African-American phenomenon.
He said this.
He hopes the community can come together to end the violence.
Quote, I wish the blue side, along with the African American side, along with the rest of the citizens of Champaign can come together and really do a walk as one.
And walk and show the rest of the world that this is how you combat gun violence.
Is by coming together.
End quote.
Well, they come together at every opportunity they have in order to track down their enemies and shoot them.
And a funeral is a pretty good place.
I mean, if one gang guy rubs out another gang guy, then the chances are that the friends of the rubbed out gang guy are going to be there.
And if you want revenge, that's the time.
The other thing that really all these stories that really Curl my hair are about folks who will follow the ambulances of a guy that they did not manage to rub out and burst into the hospital and gun him down in the hospital.
That's another neat trick.
So you have to all of these big city hospitals where the gun shootings end up, they have to have beeped up security as well.
So there you go.
If you're determined to kill somebody, there are ways to do it and you just can't gather in public.
But speaking of the people standing together, the people of Palo Alto, that's one of the richest, toniest towns in California where Stanford is located.
They certainly did not stand together to defend the police and defend law and order.
They had one of these huge street BLM, what are called murals.
I mean, they're street paintings, really.
They're on the asphalt.
Murals are painted on walls.
I don't know how this word got into circulation.
Obvious ignoramus is right to use.
But this so-called mural includes an image of Joanne Chesimard.
Now, Joanne Chesimard is a convicted and escaped cop killer known also as Assata Shakur.
Yes.
Remember her?
I do.
She was convicted in 1973 for killing a New Jersey State trooper.
He was already wounded by some other black liberationist and she walked up to him and calmly shot him in the head.
A really sweet girl, this Joanne.
Well, she escaped from prison and fled to Cuba.
I really, when I read about that, I was reminded, I really need to look up as to how that happened.
I think there was some sort of plot with her lawyers and other Confederates, but they sprung her from jail and she went to Cuba and she got political asylum.
Fidel Castro said, hey, she's our kind of girl.
And when President Donald Trump, he was in office, he was very outspoken about having her extradited.
But the Cubans said, too bad, we love her.
And when President Obama resumed relations, he said nothing about Joanne Chesimard at all.
But there was a vote in Congress.
Did you know that?
To have her extradited.
And Representative Maxine Waters mistakenly voted yes.
And then when she realized what a lovely girl, what a lovely girl Joanne Chesimard was, she sent a personal letter to Fidel Castro apologizing for voting yes.
And she called this cop killer a political activist who was fleeing political persecution, and she said that Fidel was absolutely right to grant her political asylum.
So there you have Rep Maxine Waters.
In any case, here was Joanne Chesimard, who is living free and easy, living the high life down there on Varadero Beach, just outside of Havana.
She's painted there right on the street in front of City Hall and police officers had to walk right by Joanne every time they went to work.
So the police filed a lawsuit and the complaint states the following.
Law enforcement officers including the plaintiffs are forced physically to pass and confront the mural and its offensive, discriminatory, and harassing iconography every time they entered the Palo Alto Police Department.
They said that it created a hostile work environment.
And I could think, I can, I think, I can see that argument.
The fact is, it was there for only four months and it's gone.
So, I don't know what's going to happen to this lawsuit.
If I were the judge, I would say, well, it's gone now, so your suit is moot.
But the issue here is who are the idiots that permitted this thing to be printed, to be painted right out in front of City Hall so the police have to look at it every day?
That's the real problem.
Again, voters have choices.
And voters will vote in these utter boobs and nincompoops and anti-whites who are going to paint pictures of Joanne Chesimard right where the police can see them every day when they come to work.
They're the same idiots that vote for Larry Krasner and Chesa Boudin And this a new black guy whose name I have forgotten already.
He is Alvin Bragg.
Alvin Bragg.
I just don't get it.
Democracy is a great thing, isn't it?
Well, it's funny.
I keep thinking about the, gosh, the district attorney in Chicago who was part of the, oh my goodness.
Yes, the black lady.
The black lady.
Well, obviously a black lady.
I mean, you think about all the preposterous Racial scams we've had to endure over the past five years.
Make it 50.
But you know, it's really been exaggerated and it feels like it's accelerated during the Donald Trump era because they wanted to try and juxtapose that Trump was this He was elected the White Blash, if you remember the term from Vernon Jones.
And then you had the homosexual black actor who claimed he was attacked.
Smollett.
Jussie Smollett, yes.
I never could figure out, is he Smollett or is he Smollett?
I'm not sure, but then you had the whole, uh, the NASCAR situation with the, uh, half black Bubba, I don't remember the guy's name, the FBI investigated.
And I just, I think about all of this and I think about how this goes to what you were, you and I were talking about Ashley Babbitt.
All she did was go into the Capitol and, and, and, you know, Mr. Taylor, I know you and I have different opinions about what happened on January 6th.
Um, They weren't trying to overthrow the government.
Well, no, we agree on that.
The idea that this is an insurrection is complete nuttiness.
But they shouldn't have done it.
It was stupid.
It was violent.
And it was a crime.
Now, of course, they're being prosecuted within an inch of their lives, whereas other people who have been roaring around the country, vandalizing and burning and attacking police officers in the name of BLM, they get off with a slap on the wrist, if anything at all.
But be that as it may.
I have good news for you.
We were shocked and amazed at all of the vandalizing of the statues that took place ever since the death of St.
George.
But you'll be glad to know that a city is outraged and outraged by vandalization of a statue.
And I am going to have a little guessing game with our listeners because I'm not going to tell you of whom the statue was.
But in Long Beach, California, there was vandalism by spray paint.
A city cleaning crew removed the spray paint that very day, but the offense lives on.
It was spray paint that will live in infamy.
It elicited outrage and condemnation as community leaders and elected officials denounced the act and police launched a hate crime investigation.
Not just an investigation, a hate crime investigation.
And Mayor Robert Garcia said the desecration that happened is hateful, it's unacceptable, it's disgusting, and it should bother every single person in our community and in our city.
And Long Beach Council Member Sueli Soro, that sounds like a Filipina to me, said law enforcement would beef up a community policing effort in the area, including adding a camera trailer and installing new camera systems in the park to catch any rat that might try it again.
So, here is my quiz for our listeners.
Whose vandalism caused this level of furious indignation?
Was it a statue of George Washington?
Could it be Columbus?
Could it be Balboa?
Could it be a statue of the Virgin Mary?
No.
Guess who?
I have the faintest FDR.
You said infamy, so I was thinking about December 7th, 1941.
It was Martin Luther King!
Martin Luther King!
You fail!
You go to the foot of the class!
Heavens, yes, it was a Martin Luther King statue!
Now, we have no indication yet of the perp, and he'll probably be never known, but if with all of these sophisticated cameras they catch the guy out, apparently a white swastika was painted across the chest Of Saint Martin.
And oh boy, oh boy, we are going all out to catch this.
There's gonna hate crime.
But if they catch him, what are the chances it's gonna be a BIPOC?
We don't know.
Now, in the same article, the Long Beach newspaper cited a California hate crime report.
It was a very hand-wringing paragraph in which it pointed out that in 2020, Hate crimes against black people increased 88%.
Against Latinos, they increased by 38%.
And attacks against Asians were up by 107%.
Not one word about anti-white crime.
Not one word.
So it sounds like there was none at all.
Well, inquiring minds want to know.
And just out of idle curiosity, I took a look at the report.
And guess how much anti-white hate crime was up in 2020?
It was up 110% more than against any other racial group.
But that little fact, which was right there in the report, right alongside the other increases, anti-Latino crimes up 38, anti-black 88, anti-Asian 107, anti-white 110, but the Long Beach paper saw fit not to include that.
Now, I thought this was quite an interesting little report.
It's, you know, a great detail.
Great detail.
If you want to know, and this is for the whole state of California, if you want to know how much anti-Arab Bigotry there was.
Or anti-tranny, or anti-homo, or anti-hetero, or anti-sync, or anti-eskimo, or anti-bisexual, or anti-physical disability, anti-mental disability, or whether it happened in a playground, or on tribal lands, or in a shopping mall, or at school, or how many prosecutions there were, and how many convictions.
Boy, these guys are thorough!
But you know what piece of data was missing?
There's no info on perps.
No info at all.
We don't know how many of these people were non-white, and my suspicion is an embarrassingly large number of these perps are white.
I mean, how many white people are going around committing anti-Sikh hate crimes or anti-Tranny hate crimes?
My guess is there is a lot of melanin involved in that stuff, but we're not interested.
So, moving on to a different story about crime.
Mr. Kersey, our time is approaching its end, so if you can be quick and concise in your usual manner, tell us about red desks.
Not the red death, but the red desks.
Oh, you know, give me two seconds here.
Sorry, I didn't know this was where we were going to go, because this is a sad one.
You know, one of the things that I'd like to stress to our detractors is that... We have no detractors?
Come on, we have nothing but fans!
Obviously, there are people out there who want to opine and believe that...
All lives matter, Mr. Taylor, and I do really mean that.
I think that one of the sad things that we've seen over the past few years in the rise of crime, especially after the death of George Floyd and the de-policing we've seen, is that black criminals have felt That there's no threat.
Police aren't going to pull them over if they're carrying an illegal weapon.
Well, and apparently in New York City, they can resist arrest all they want.
That's not a crime.
In a lot of cities, we're seeing that.
A city that I love is Baltimore.
I love thinking about what that city could be.
And I just came across this story and, like I said, all lives matter.
And this story kind of shocked even me.
Um...
Red Desk Project call to action to stop youth violence killings in Baltimore.
And, you know, last week we joked about that op-ed in the Baltimore Sun where some Carter administration appointee with the DOG said, oh hey, you know, Baltimore's You know, homicides are down 4% during this unprecedented level of increased violence across the country.
These cities should be taking a page out of our ability to try and stop crime.
Well, here's the reality of what's happening in close to 75% black Baltimore.
Baltimore's Advocate Control Violence is robbing young people of their innocence, scarring those marked by it who survive, and taking the lives of far too many.
It turns out that they've decided to start this project called Red Desks for those young people who were killed in the gun violence.
And obviously we're talking about blacks who were murdered by other blacks.
They have 112 red desks.
Lisa Jones, who is part of Lifebridge's Health Center for Hope, said this.
It's a call to action.
We're hoping this visible sight of a person's desk where someone sat is a call to get busy and to do something.
Oh, so these are desks in schoolrooms?
Exactly.
A hundred... Oh, gosh.
I mean, think about this.
I know you have two children.
I, too, am in the same boat as you.
You know, young children.
And 112 children...
Ladies and gentlemen, think about what I'm about to say right here, and let this marinate for a second, and I'll be quiet.
112 children have been killed in Baltimore over the last... Now, For those of you who don't remember, six years ago we saw the Freddie Gray riots in Baltimore.
Really shocking stuff over a guy who was selling heroin to the black community of Baltimore.
Think about that.
112 children have been killed since 2015.
It's a staggering number.
it's a 33% increase from the prior six years and the red desk project it's a
physical reminder of the trauma too many families have had to encounter. Well you
know I wonder if anybody is going to sit at those desks.
I would suspect that if you walk into a classroom, you know about this, and you see a desk that's painted red, you know what that means.
You're not going to want to sit there.
I imagine they just stand there as mute memorials to these poor dead students.
I agree.
This is a tragic thing.
And you know, of all of the things that we have described, some of which strike me as almost comical, this may make some people think.
I don't know.
But as you say, it really is a very sad and thought-provoking article.
You wish it would, but here's the horrible nature of this article.
It points out that on Thursday night, this article was published last week, so right after July 4th, it says that on Thursday night, two boys, ages 14 and 15 years old, were shot in what was described as a war zone near the Uptown neighborhood.
And then last Saturday, Baltimore police found a 12-year-old boy Shot in the chest!
And the weekend before that, a 16-year-old boy was shot.
He was one of three teenagers shot that weekend.
So this whole Red Deaths phenomenon, you would hope that it would, but unfortunately the casualties continue to pile up.
And guys, ladies, everyone out there listening, whether you're in America or you're listening to us from another country across the world, This is the second most dangerous city in America in 2020 after St.
Louis.
I believe that your chart, Baltimore, is in the top 20 most dangerous cities in the world.
It's not because of white supremacists.
They've taken down the Confederate statues in Baltimore.
Didn't seem to stop the gunfire, did it?
It didn't.
No, no, sir, Mr. Taylor.
And again, Two so-called bad guys are talking about black lives actually mattering, and yet... Well, this reminds me of another sad story.
This one's out of Oakland, California.
Just on Sunday, Oakland Police Chief Laron Armstrong, he called on the community to join him in a stand against violence as he led a procession from the Lake Merritt Amphitheater to the block where eight people were shot on Juneteenth.
Eight people.
That is becoming probably a traditional way to celebrate our newest federal holiday.
Chief LaRon Armstrong, of course, is black.
He says, we continue to see shootings every night in the city.
These are young African-American men and Latino men who are at risk.
We have to come together.
This is not politics.
It's about saving lives.
We only managed to get 60 people to attend the event.
Meanwhile, there was a competing car caravan led by something called the Anti-Police Terror Project.
Well, you can imagine what side they're on.
They've been strongly critical of the police.
It drove from West Oakland to the same lake and ended with a barbecue.
Now, barbecue sounds like more fun than the police rally.
And they celebrated the Oakland City Council's decision to take $18 million from the police budget to spend on violence prevention.
I guess that's worth a dish of pork ribs to them.
But I could get no estimate on the number of people at this anti-police rally, but the police got only 60.
And a group of dissenters stood at the back of the police-led event carrying anti-law enforcement signs and shouting out by megaphone the name of every person in recent years who's been killed by an Oakland police officer.
Now this is a remarkable thing.
These are competing black groups, one in favor of police, one against police.
I think this is a fascinating example of the sorts of things that we're getting into.
competing black groups.
Some of them are sensible, some of them understand that police are essential, and others have this crazy idea that the police are the problem.
But, alas and lack, we have come to the end of our time, Mr. Kersey.
This happens all too rapidly, and for all of our listeners out there, we thank you for your patience and your indulgence.
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