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Aug. 12, 2021 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Already a Record Year for Police Ambushes
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
It is August 12th, Year of Our Lord 2021.
I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance and with me is my indispensable co-host.
We'd like to begin with a listener comment.
It was a comment about a story we discussed last week from Tulsa.
Tulsa, Oklahoma.
An illegal immigrant marched into the hospital with a pregnant girlfriend jubilant at the prospect of becoming a father.
He was surprised when the police showed up, because it turned out the mother-to-be was 12 years old.
And so, what was to be this wonderful experience turned out to be a surprise.
Well, he was an illegal immigrant from Mexico, and so I said, well, it was just a matter of culture shock, because the age of consent is 12 in certain of the states of Mexico.
It's higher in other states.
Well, I got a comment from Fred Reed.
Fred Reed, who lives in Mexico.
Fred Reed knows a lot about the country.
A whole lot more than I do.
And he says, what's this?
And I sent him a reference from Wikipedia explaining the ages of consent in the various states.
So, I will quote Mr. Reed at some length here, and mostly, mostly verbatim.
And I would add that Fred Reed is, I think, one of the most brilliant, dissonant writers in action today.
I have tremendous respect for Fred, and I would never brush aside something that he explains.
He goes on to say, the Wikipedia page you sent is double talk.
The minimum age of consent is 12, but the age at which no restrictions apply, i.e., the age of consent, is 18.
It is not illegal per se to copulate with a child of 12, but can sometimes be prosecuted, which, if it were the age of consent, would not be possible.
So things sound a little vague.
He goes on to say, until not all that long ago, Mexican law was made by a very conservative and Catholic upper class that placed a high value on female virginity.
An Hidalgo would be unlikely to favor a law allowing the gardener to screw his daughter of 12.
Age of consent, like age of majority, is a legal concept created by law.
A law putting the age of consent at 12 would require legislation and legislators to vote.
This would leave a paper trail, which I would like to see.
Now, as it turns out in Hispanic countries, there's something called the law of estupro.
That means, and this is one definition, sexual relations by deception or abuse of authority with an underaged person who consents to the relationship.
In any case, Fred Reed continues, if you look at the law of estupro, you will see that it works on a sliding scale, the penalty being greater the younger the girl.
Or, these days, the boy.
Instead of having one cut-off age as in the U.S., in at least some states, and he says I looked at only half a dozen, the perpetrator can be prosecuted only if the victim or his parents file charges.
So in other words, it gets worse and worse and worse the younger the child.
So, then he goes on to say, By chance, in the Mexico News Daily of August 11, there is a piece about a Mexican pervert caught preying on children.
He got 198 years, which is more time than I would like in a Mexican jail.
And this would seem to indicate that the Mexican legal system does not take a light view of child molestation.
I note that the police had to keep the locals from lynching him.
In which the cops unfortunately succeeded.
This suggests to me that the Mexican public has a somewhat negative attitude towards sex with children.
Now, Fred also points out that he has been in touch with a number of legal authorities.
This is a matter that he's had certain curiosity for.
And he says nobody seems to think that the age of consent would be anything like 12 years old anywhere in Mexico.
My conclusion is there's a certain murkiness about this, but to say in a point-blank sort of way that in ten states in Mexico, as I said on the air last time, is cavalier and not correct.
Ann Coulter might disagree with you, but we'll leave it at that.
Well, he mentions, Fred Reed mentions Ann Coulter, but I suspect Ann Coulter's not as well informed as Fred Reed.
Correct.
But, once again, I solicit any form of correction.
Really, whenever we jump the tracks and make mistakes, and all too often we do, we'd love to hear from you.
And, when we do it right.
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I'd like to say thank you to an individual who sent over a very good article, Chilling Predictions for the United States in 2040 from a website called Return of the Kings.
A good website, Mr. Taylor.
Thank you for that.
I really appreciate that.
And also the kind words.
She said this, I appreciate all the work that you two gentlemen do.
So we appreciate you, dear listener.
Or you can get in touch with Amren at amren.com at the contact us tab.
And now we have, as usual, a virtual cornucopia of stories to get to, so we shall get to them as quickly and as efficiently as we can.
The first story has to do with police ambushes.
This is the trend of criminals, almost always black, calling the police in order to shoot them when they show up.
In the U.S.
so far, there have been 52 such ambushes this year.
That's a rise of 126%, more than doubled over 2020, and 2020 was the deadliest year for law enforcement in American history.
So, the trends are getting worse.
So, in these deliberate ambushes, all 52 of them, 67 policemen have been shot, 17 fatally.
This is gruesome business.
And so far in just eight months in 2020 as compared to the entire year of 20 of I'm sorry the eighth month of 2021 this year compared to all of 2020.
Three cops have been stabbed to death this year compared to zero in 2020.
15 officers have been have died from vehicular homicides.
I mean somebody runs them over compared to 13 in all of last year.
15 and we're just in August.
A national study published in June found that retirements from police forces are up 45% and resignations up 20%.
Who is surprised?
Now, the spell of silence may be breaking with the recent death of Ella French.
She was the mother of a newborn baby and a, not a rookie police officer, but had a couple of years, shot during a traffic stop in Chicago earlier this week.
A male passenger in the vehicle first opened fire, prompting the police to shoot back, but she was killed and her partner, a man, was wounded and remains near death.
Now this is an interesting aspect of the story.
None of the suspects appears to have an extensive criminal background.
No.
The alleged shooter had been arrested for robbery in 2019.
Ah, what's to worry?
But that had been adjudicated and it resulted in some form of probation.
What's a little robbery among friends?
They were pulled over for what?
An expired tag?
Something like that.
Yeah, something innocuous.
Something that happens in suburbia.
Guess what?
All the time.
But does the individual who's pulled over pull out a Glock and start firing away?
Not in suburbia.
Not in suburbia.
And the irony is this.
Both officers, male and female, were part of the Chicago Police Department's Community Safety Team.
It was set up just last year, and its goal is to help forge stronger community ties in the south and west sides of the city.
Which are almost nine-nine-tenths black.
I was just going to ask you, what might be distinctive about the South and West sides that they need stronger community ties?
Well, I guess they believe in reach out and touch someone.
You know, reach out with your gun and touch that cop.
Well, as I say, the male partner continues to fight for his life at University of Chicago Medical Center and Mayor Lori Lightfoot tried to talk to the officer's father.
Who himself is a retired Chicago police officer.
That's often the way it is.
Father to son?
Well, this guy was having none of Lori Lightfoot.
He blasted her and blamed her for what had happened.
Then some of Lori Lightfoot's aides suggested that she say a few words to nearby grieving officers.
As she approached, they did an about-face.
It looked like it had been choreographed, said one of the sources, calling it astounding.
Yes, I saw a photograph.
It must be 30 officers, all with their backs deliberately turned on the mayor.
This is great stuff.
And the Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzaro, he says, turning their backs on the mayor was an excellent example of how the hundreds of police officers felt waiting outside the hospital.
So there were hundreds outside.
When a brother officer goes down and nearly dies, police really care about it.
I mean, this is something that's life and death.
They're always conscious of this.
They hate it when this happens.
No demographic data has leaked out about the officer who was shot, I believe, three times once in the eye.
It's gruesome stuff.
The partner and the 29-year-old, again, like you said, she just had a baby.
Obviously, I have my views on women in the police force, but the fact was she came from a tradition of policing her family and our thoughts and prayers go out to the family.
I mean, this is happening nationwide.
You know, police officers, you know, Portland, they can't even find police officers to fill the gun task force that was disbanded last year.
Now, of course, black gun violence is so bad, they're trying to claim it's white racism, blah, blah, blah, but they can't find any cops who will go do it because they know what's going to happen.
They know what's going to happen.
Yes, you do your job and you'll take criticism.
It'll be racism because the people you collar turn out to be BIPOCs and BIPOCs are precious and must not be arrested.
In any case, yes, that's what happened to Lori Lightfoot.
More just exactly what she deserves.
Now, likewise in Chicago, just last weekend, they had a lively time.
75 people were shot over the weekend.
75!
That's a pretty good-sized number.
There were three mass shootings that wounded 16 people, and I'll read about some of these because they just paint a picture of what's life like and what life is like in the big city.
The first mass shooting was at a lounge on the South Side.
About 2 a.m., a 24-year-old man started shooting after getting into an argument with a 37-year-old man.
An argument.
The older man was shot twice in the neck and three times in the back and died.
I guess after being shot in the neck, he decided, I've had enough of this.
But boogieing off did not do the job.
So he got shot three times in the back.
The 24-year-old was shot eight times.
So maybe he was returning fire.
Who knows?
Taken to Christ Medical Center in Oakland in critical condition and at least five others at the lounge were shot.
So, yes, this was a poppin' time they had.
Now, about an hour earlier, about two miles away, a gunman opened fire after two security guards wouldn't let him into a club.
These lounges and clubs sound like dangerous places, boy and girl.
They sound like a lot of BIPOCs go there.
I suspect that they are.
Heavily pigmented little areas of entertainment.
One of the guards, one of the guards was shot multiple times and taken to Christ Medical Center where he died.
The other guard, 42, was shot in the back twice and in the thigh.
And at least three other people standing nearby were shot.
So, bullets are flying in these places.
Now, no word on the shooter, whether or not he blazed away and got away, or whether or not he was collared.
Then, here's another good one.
Around 7 p.m.
Saturday.
7 p.m.?
You know, that's not the dead of night.
That's not the witching hour.
Four men were wounded in a shooting on the near west side.
The group was standing near a park when someone fired from a car.
Three men, ages 23, 27, and 28, were struck multiple times and taken to the hospital in critical condition.
A 20-year-old man was struck in the ankle and apparently hobbled off and didn't have to go to the hospital.
But again, we're talking about 75 people shot over the weekend in Chicago.
Well, the weekend before that, It was only 51 people, so it's going to be a hot summer.
Now, because there is a certain pattern to these crimes, a certain pattern that I think anyone with an IQ of a fried egg would discover, the Gannett News Service has decided to try to camouflage some of this information, make it as inaccessible as possible.
So do tell us.
Yeah, you know, the headline is this.
Simply Gannett launches a network-wide push to rework its crime coverage.
As we know, Gannett has been gobbling up newspaper syndicates nationwide.
Pretty much they own all the mid-major cities.
It's just part of that USA Today network.
I haven't looked at USA Today since, my gosh, I think I came here back in 20...
I think I stopped by in 2018 and you and I were looking at the USA Today cover story.
I can't remember what it was, but it had something to do with attacking white people for racism,
But the point is this.
Fewer mugshots, additional context, and moving beyond police narratives are just some of the basic changes the newsroom is going to make.
As the Atlantic Regional Editor for Gannett, Hollis Towns is responsible for setting the strategy and the tone of the papers within his region.
Two years ago, he was looking at his story budgets across his papers, and he noticed something.
It's concerning.
Quote, I saw more and more reactive crime stories that didn't connect the dots.
Didn't connect the dots?
I saw more people, black and brown folks who look like me, splattered across all of our front pages and on our websites, and no context offered for what happened, and no follow-up offered after the story had initially run.
Now this guy is the vice president for local news.
No context.
No context.
It doesn't explain that it was all because of white supremacy.
It does not.
At that point, you know, we had not had white fragility, you know, all that stuff had not come into play as a rationale.
So editors of the paper knew they had a problem.
In New York, Democrat and Chronicle executive editor Michael Killian realized there was a disconnect between the paper's coverage of Rochester And what he was personally seeing.
I guess he probably lives in an all-white area.
Doesn't see much crime.
So, an analysis of one month of coverage in 2019 revealed 20% of the paper's stories were crime-related.
But criminal activity didn't make up 20% of everyday life in Rochester.
What kind of stupidity is that?
Probably 33% of daily life in Rochester consists of sleeping.
Should 33% of the paper be about sleeping?
Exactly.
So something needed to change.
On the East Coast, Killian reshaped the Democrat and Chronicle's public safety coverage and helped put together a comprehensive plan to better cover crime in the Atlantic region.
Now why might they be doing this, you say?
Again, journalists across the newspaper chain, the largest in the country, have been attending trainings this summer to learn how to be more enterprise in their crime coverage rather than reactive.
Passive, I guess.
Passive voice has to be thrown instead of just reactive.
The goal is to move beyond coverage that lacks context and relies on police narratives to the detriment of marginalized communities.
You mean the facts are detrimental to marginalized communities?
Yes, because that might explain why if there's so much crime in these marginalized communities, why these communities are marginalized nationwide where BIPOCs are found.
Quote, we had these pieces already in place, bits and pieces across the company.
And then there was more concerted effort that had been well underway and being piloted in the Atlantic Group.
And it felt right to move more quickly to scale the learnings and scale the best practices across the whole network.
This was a quote from Maribel Perez Wadsworth, the president of Gannett News.
So We already know that they started removing mugshot galleries from their sites back in 2018, all because, well, they noticed that there were not enough white faces.
Not enough white faces.
Those had to go.
So other crime stories, including sun-setting police blotters and encouraging reporters to focus on trends rather than individual crimes.
I bet one of the patterns they're never supposed to focus on, though, however, is the one that we keep bringing up.
Trends.
Patterns.
Ha!
But anyway, I wonder what they mean by trends.
Up?
Down?
I mean, what are they going to talk about?
Well, for example, the Republic, which is based in Phoenix, the Arizona Republic, used to report on individual pedestrian fatalities without explaining to readers why they were noteworthy.
So now the papers decided to track these incidents, leading to a piece that explores why Arizona has one of the highest rates of pedestrian deaths in the country.
Well, one of the reasons is there's so many Hispanics.
I was going to go there.
I'll let you go there.
No, go ahead, please.
I didn't want to steal your thing.
A lot of these people show up from places where cars are a rarity.
And a four-lane highway, they've never seen before.
And when they cross the street, they get hit.
That's one of the sad facts about immigration.
But be that as it may, I'll continue.
I beg your pardon.
So yeah, the Times recently Not sure which paper, just part of the Gannett.
One of the Gannett papers covered a man who was arrested after being caught on tape shouting racial slurs in keeping with their new approach to time coverage.
The primary editor instructed the paper's diversity inclusion reporter to talk to people at the scene to understand how they were feeling.
No.
I wonder.
If it was a white person, I bet they published the mugshot.
Just a guess.
Just a guess.
I'm sure not only did they publish the mugshot, but it was probably the above the fold front page story above anything and everything else.
So here's the killer quote.
Instead of trying to answer what all the time, we're looking at who, how, and why.
I wish they were.
We're storytellers, and we have to tell stories and tell them thoroughly.
When there is a human dimension, they're always better when the whole community responds, end quote, from Killian, the gentleman we talked about earlier, who is one of the primary editors, the executive editor of the Democrat and Chronicle.
Well, you know, this is really something else.
You put these BIPOCs in charge, and they're going to make sure that the information is slanted in their favor.
That's what it boils down to.
This guy who's making the decision you're quoting, he's this black and brown face that looked like me?
I see, he sounds like he is a B out of the BIPOC.
But in any case, we can't have that, so we have got to smother the news so Whitey won't get the wrong idea.
It's not just Gannett, we know that the Associated Press announced last month it's going to stop naming suspects in minor crime stories, and the Boston Globe launched a program earlier this year to allow people mentioned in older articles detailing their crimes to submit takedown requests.
Hmm, I see.
Even though they were convicted or whatever it was, doesn't matter.
They're going to give, well, you know, racists don't get that, do they?
You know, you can't say if you, if SPLC writes something nasty about you, then you can't ask them for takedown, can you?
Do you remember last year we actually talked about, I think in France, it might have been 2019, where France was actually going to allow people to be de-googled.
It was the right to be forgotten.
That's right.
Yes.
I wonder how it worked out.
If any listener out there would like to help us out and let us know about what happened with the right to be forgotten in France, if that actually became legislation, let us know.
I think it'd be very hard to arrange, but be that as it may.
Well, we had also an interesting news story out of Oregon.
And the state will no longer require its students to demonstrate proficiency in math, reading, and writing to get a high school diploma.
So I guess you can be completely illiterate and still get a diploma.
But this was done, guess why?
As a bid to help minority students.
Governor Kate Brown signed the bill, and Charles Boyle, a spokesman for the governor, said that this will benefit Oregon's Black, Latino, Latina, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Island, Tribal, and Students of Color.
I wonder who the other students of color are on top of all this.
I love this.
Latino, Latina, Latinx.
Boy, we better get them all in color.
Maybe a white person with a tan.
Yeah, students of color.
It will benefit them because they're more likely to fail such a test.
Well, now, I'm surprised that Asians are included in here because they usually do better than white people, but I guess this guy was really covering all the bases.
Would not want to be leaving any of the BIPOCs out.
But the fact is, gruesome as this news is, it's been a joke all along because passing the test has not really been a requirement to graduate Since 2009, when this Essential Skills Standards Test was drawn up, because students, believe it or not, could complete a classroom project judged by their teacher as proving proficiency.
So this never really was a requirement.
But now the state's Department of Education has been directed to develop new graduation standards with input from representatives from historically underserved students.
Historically underserved.
You know, probably more attention, more money, more teacher time is lavished on these people than on ordinary white people.
But they're historically underserved and these representatives are going to put together the graduation requirements.
Why, Mr. Kersey, do these representatives of underserved communities, which is another way for saying BIPOC, why do they know more about it than anybody else?
Beats me, but there you go.
You're not going to be able to read, write, and do math, so the three R's are taken out of Oregon.
Now, we have another equally, well, nothing surprising here.
It's just a kind of a, well, an astonishing level of candor or just pure flimflam from the Navy.
As it turns out, in July of last year, former Defense Secretary Mark Esper ordered all of the military services to eliminate photos from promotion and selection boards.
In other words, they get a bunch of documents on a guy who's up for promotion.
And they fiddle through this stuff and they decide, nah, he looks good, he doesn't look good.
And they decided to take the photos out, which used to be part of it.
The theory was, believe it or not, Mr. Kersey and ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, the theory was that the people handing out promotions might see a black face and say, well, not that porch monkey, he's not going to be promoted.
So the idea was that removing the photographs was going to help the non-whites get ahead.
Well, of course, the opposite happened.
The opposite happened.
They took the photographs out, they started promoting based on actual competence or the quality of one's record, and all of a sudden the BIPOCs were less likely to be promoted.
Oh my gosh, so it's a crisis.
Diversity in leadership dropped after photos were removed.
So now, The word is out.
Put the photos back in.
Get back up immediately!
Get the photos back into these commercials!
Get the photos out of the newspapers because we can't have people engaging in pattern recognition, but you know what?
Get them back up so we can actually find some people to promote based solely not on their achievements, their accolades, but on their bipocketness.
Boy, oh boy.
Now, did anybody really believe that taking the photographs out was genuinely going to help the BIPOCs get promoted?
I mean, this sort of thing has been built into the system for so long.
Who actually believed that?
I bet nobody did, but they all went along with it because they say, yes, sir, and they salute and off they go.
But now, a Navy spokesman explained this decision.
He said, it's a meritocracy.
We're only going to pick the best of the best.
But we're very clear, diversity is something we want across all areas.
Therefore, I said, make up your mind, man.
It's one or the other.
He says, therefore, I think having a clear picture just makes it easier.
I bet it does.
Makes it quite easy.
And the Marine Corps also is going to go this way.
Spokesman says, I think that we may find that we disadvantaged individuals by removing those photos.
They disadvantaged them.
In other words, their BIPOC privilege was removed when the photo wasn't there.
And they thought they were fighting white privilege by taking the pictures away.
You know, it's just astonishing.
Either their utter naivete in thinking that removing the photographs was going to result in more BIPOC promotion, and then coming out and saying, oh, well, we need to get back to pure the best of the best, and a few photographs will help us do that.
Well, that's the Navy.
That's the Navy.
You know the Navy's motto in its recruitment campaign?
You know what it used to be?
It was called The Navy, a global force for good.
I knew that.
I was figuring if there was a new one that actually was more inclusive.
Well, no, they ditched that one for some reason.
I can't remember what it is now.
Maybe it's swim for your life.
I don't know.
But in any case, it's no longer a global force for good.
I used to laugh at the idea of Admiral Spruance thinking, or Forrestal, a global force for good.
For heaven's sake, we've got to kill people.
Who needs a lifeboat when we have diversity?
Wow.
But now, I believe you have some information on Biden border COVID news.
This is important because in the New York Post, this is an editorial they put out and I thought it was quite good.
This is the issue.
I think that is going to be what They don't deserve it, but could potentially have the
Republicans take back the House and Senate in 2022.
If they just talked about the connection of the math, the borders being open.
Did you see the border numbers today?
221 apprehensions in July.
What, 221,000?
221,000 apprehensions.
Yes.
221,000 apprehensions.
I wish it was 221 apprehensions, then they were all sent home.
Well, that's like the Olympics.
You know, everybody wants to see records broken.
You know, they're breaking pretty quickly at the border.
So here's what the New York Post wrote.
Biden's border disaster is key to Texas' COVID crisis.
Most media are giving ample coverage to Texas, as well as Florida, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama.
You can't go a day now without seeing stories about hospital beds, occupancy being up.
Of course, they never tell you that deaths are not really happening, but that doesn't matter.
Here's what they say.
Ample coverage given to Texas' COVID woes as the Delta variant has hospitals running out of ICU beds, but few reports note how President Joe Biden's border disaster is helping drive the crisis.
Border agents encountered nearly 189,000 illegal immigrants in June of 2021, the latest in a string of record-setting months, and the Biden administration is releasing many of these illegal entrants into the interior.
Plus, the surge surely means a similar high rise in migrants who never get caught, especially since Biden won't let Texas authorities do any immigration enforcement of their own.
More than 80% of migrants are unvaccinated, per ICE data.
The vaccination rates in Honduras and Guatemala, the countries of origin for most border crossers, less than 1%.
Less than 1%.
They'll make wonderful future Americans.
Biden took office vowing to beat the virus, but he's clearly more concerned with sticking to his refusal to secure the border.
So you're talking about what?
32,000 more illegal immigrants were Encountered at the border from July to June.
I mean guys, ladies and gentlemen, there was an amazing piece at revolver.news.com, I believe Darren Beattie wrote it, where he talked about what's happening at the border right now as a Camp at the Saints moment.
And it really is in our eyes.
It really is.
Yes, yes.
Now, as you say, this should be the issue that could put the Republicans over the top if Republicans, or even a few Democrats, actually find out about it.
Who's reporting this?
Big news is certainly not reporting this.
You've got to come to podcasts like ours to get details like that.
But no, this is quite astonishing.
And now of course, we're pilloring any locals, any people in America, any Americans who don't do the old COVID vaccine.
They're bad, bad, bad, bad.
But come one, come all, if you're coming from Guatemala or Honduras.
As Arnold Schwarzenegger said, screw your freedom.
Screw your freedom!
You know, I'll tell you what, I'd like to have my freedom and liberty back and knowing that our government is doing their primary job, and that's protecting the citizens of this country.
Well, this is a related story, if I can wrap my tongue around this little problem, and it's from a website called Outkick, of which I was not familiar, and I will quote from it.
It says the sports media crucified Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins for much of the week because Cousins has refused the COVID vaccine.
He's white, by the way.
Meanwhile, the same press welcomed Ravens QB Lamar Jackson back to practice on Saturday with applause after testing positive for COVID for the second time.
He, too, has refused the vaccine.
So, why did Kirk Cousins, who didn't even test positive, get destroyed repeatedly over COVID, and Lamar Jackson gets ignored?
And, so this is what OutKick says, because Kirk Cousins is white and Lamar Jackson is black.
That's the end of the story.
If ESPN, the New York Times, or USA Today criticize Jackson's decision to avoid the vaccine, they risk someone claiming that they're trying to dictate a black man's health decisions.
I think that's right on.
Trying to dictate a black man's health decisions.
Whereas bashing a white man has no downside.
Furthermore, the news media will not report vaccine hesitancy among blacks for the same reason that sports media won't cover Jackson's refusal to get the vaccine.
The most you'll get is a headline that says white people aren't doing enough.
Help ease Black Americans' concerns over the vaccine.
All very good points.
All very good points.
Had you heard of a website called OutKick?
Oh, we've talked about OutKick a number of times on this site.
A number of times on this podcast.
That's actually Clay Travis, who took over the role of Rush Limbaugh.
Yes, I see.
They do phenomenal work.
He wrote a book called Republicans Buy Sneakers Too, where he noted it's sort of one of those He was one of the people who noticed where this woke capital stuff was really headed, where disenfranchising and companies ignoring conservatives, their white base.
As we see at the NFL this season, they're going to play the black national anthem for every game.
I think we're going to see 15-20% ratings drop because of how crazy this is.
Well, I would say three cheers for OutKick.
That was an excellent article.
And yes, the fact that blacks are the least likely to get the COVID vaccine, that's something that people across the aisle, as they like to say, don't want us to notice.
We'd be remiss if I didn't point out that Kirk Cousins, he When COVID hit, he said, listen, I'm not worried about it.
If I get it, I get it.
If I die, I die.
I believe in survival of the fittest.
So he's making sure that his family, no one gets COVID.
COVID vaccinations.
I see.
Well, a true Darwinian.
Well, okay.
And now moving on to some modern, modern lingo, the lingo latinx.
It turns out that Gallup Poll has found that only 4% of Hispanics prefer the term Latinx.
Only 4%.
Now, of course, this was invented to blur the distinction between male and female, because there's Latino, and then there is Latina.
And apparently, Latinx also covers those for whom there is no way of specifying one way or the other.
So you've got to cover all you've got.
X. Just fill in X as the unknown value.
So they are Latinx.
A little algebra for you.
Ah, yes.
There's a little algebra here.
But most respondents lean towards Hispanic.
What do you know?
So, I'm sure that this is non-white, hopped up, I'm sorry, non-Hispanic, white people, all hopped up and crazy who invented this latinx business.
You know what term I like?
What do you like?
Chicano.
Chicano.
I think that can mean only Mexicans.
Chicanos are Mexicans living in the United States.
But, you know, and you can't very well say chicaninx.
You can say chicano, chicana, chicaninx.
But anyway, a survey by the Pew Research Center from 2020 found that only 25% of Hispanic or Latino adults had even heard the term, Latinx.
What was that number again?
25%.
25%, okay.
But that was back in 2020.
We weren't as woke as we are today.
No, no, no, no.
I mean, wokeness is just going through the country like a devouring flame.
And at that time, only 3% would use it to describe themselves.
I mean, this is just like asking the Indians if they like Indian sports teams names, you know?
They like it fine.
They realize that it is a recognition of their ferocity, of their strength, of their fearsomeness, of their ability to do battle.
And so when white people come around and say, ain't it awful that they're the Cleveland Indians?
And you say, no, no, it's great.
It recognizes how brave we were.
Well, now they're the Cleveland Guardians.
You know, another team just actually was fortunate to change their name.
Valparaiso, school in Indiana.
They used to be the Crusaders.
They had a really cool mascot of apparently Apparently, it became synonymous with hate groups, so they changed their name to... No, no, let me guess.
Now, instead of crusaders, they're the jihadis.
No, they're not.
I actually forgot what they changed it to, but the mascot was really cool.
It's kind of like back in the days.
University of Alabama, Birmingham used to be something related to blonde Viking or some sort of romanticized Crusader Knight and they got rid of that and they became the Blazers.
So, because of its connections to masculinity and whiteness.
That can't be.
Well, you know, killing Muslims, that just can't be good enough.
That's just a disqualifying feature.
Moving on to what I call do-it-yourself reparations at the municipal level.
And some people are setting up sort of their own private do-it-yourself reparations websites to say, hey, I'm black, you know, if you're white, give me money.
And that's happening more and more.
It is.
Yes, yes.
I say, God bless them.
If they can shake down Whitey, you know, do it that way.
It's all voluntary.
Whatever you can get away with, as long as it's voluntary.
But the City Council of Greenbelt, Maryland, not far from where I sit at this very moment, They voted to include Mayor Colin Byrd's resolution to start a Greenbelt Reparations Commission to put this decision on the ballot for the city, making the Greenbelt the first U.S.
city to put the issue before the voters.
And if the residents vote yes on the resolution, the commission would be a group of 21 members appointed by the City Council who would recommend reparations for African American and Native American residents.
I don't see why they even need a commission.
Why do they need 21 people?
It's a done deal.
We know what they're going to recommend.
We know exactly what they're going to recommend, just as we saw in Evanston, Illinois.
Yes, we'll talk about that.
Yes, we know what they'll recommend.
Why 21 people?
They can meet in 15 minutes.
They've got the deal done.
In any case, Mayor Colin Byrd.
He is African-American, heavily, heavily melanated.
He's a member of the Urban League and the youngest ever Regional Director for the National Black Congress of Local Elected Officials.
So, this gave me a certain curiosity to know what the ethnic mix was of my neighbors over there in Greenbelt.
Turns out, blacks are the largest number, 47%, Whites 25%, Hispanics 17%, and American Indians, they'd get handouts too you see, are only 0.5%.
So that seems like a rather small number, but they can get in line with their palms outstretched along with the blacks.
Now, I'm curious to know, what is to stop a vote for handouts or a white tax?
I mean, if they can do this, they can just say, okay, we're going to take 10% of the city budget and splash it out only to blacks and American Indians.
And as you pointed out in Evansville, Indiana in March, they decided that they were going to give $25,000 to every black person who had either lived in Correct.
I suspect all you have to do is prove that you lived there between 1919 and 1969.
1919-1969 who suffered discrimination in housing. Correct.
Now that may be a trick to prove that. I don't know how you would prove that you
suffered discrimination.
I suspect all you have to do is prove that you lived there between 1919 and
1969. I guess in 1970 discrimination suddenly withered away.
In any case if you lived at that time then you were eligible for $25,000.
And if you can do that, I really don't see why Greenbelt, it's got its own city budget, it can just hand out money to black people.
I don't see why not.
But anyway, it's going to be on the ballot, and my guess is it will pass, but we'll be following this story.
Pass with flying colors.
Colors, flying colors, yes.
Now, Mr. Kersey, you have a story on American Express and what fun they're having at that company.
You know, we've talked about Coca-Cola.
We've talked about Raytheon.
We will talk about Raytheon, I believe.
We've talked about so many Fortune 100 companies.
I'm trying to remember, what was the military?
Oh, I think, was it Lockheed Martin?
Lockheed Martin, yeah.
They had struggle sessions.
They had generals in the audience, you know, hopping up and admitting their white privilege.
Exactly.
Well, now American Express is the latest to have critical race theory anti-white training urge staff to adopt a hierarchy putting marginalized above privilege.
told white employees to avoid microaggressions like we're all human beings. You can't say we're
all human beings. I mean, again, that's not dignifying BIPOCs enough. I wonder if you can
say we're all dogs. I don't know. We're all rugs. We're all inanimate objects. Take your pick.
American Express subjected its employees to a series of critical race theory training sessions
that encouraged staff to rank themselves in hierarchy of privilege, apply that hierarchy
in the workplace with more privileged employees, deferring to staff from marginalized groups. Of
course, Christopher Ruffo, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, he first reported these
documents in the New York Post. Amex executives created an internal anti-racism initiative after
the death of George Floyd. Subject, you know.
Just one quick brick.
I mean, was America this fragile that the death of a guy who put a gun into the pregnant belly of a woman in Houston went to jail for a number of years?
That would be what could topple this empire.
Does no one sit back and think of the absurdity of this?
I've thought of it many times.
I've thought of it, and of course, my argument is, if anything deserves praise, if anybody really made it happen, it was Derek Chauvin!
He's the guy who made it happen.
He's the guy all these idiots should be bowing down to.
Without him, it would never have happened.
He's the one who deserves a statue in New York.
He's the one who deserves a statue in the Bronx.
He opened our eyes.
He showed us systemic racism.
George Floyd just laid down and died of a drug overdose.
Are you suggesting that somebody created a statue with him kneeling on Lloyd, would that be the iconic moment?
He's the guy.
He's the guy who made it happen.
George Floyd didn't.
It could have been anybody.
So that needs to be on Monument Avenue in Richmond.
Yes.
That needs to be on the one-cent coin.
Wow.
I mean, look at what that moment did for AMAX executives.
Exactly.
It changed the world.
It changed America.
It's all thanks to Derek, not George.
So they decided to subject employees to a training program based on the CRT tenets, the anti-white tenets, I'll just call it what it is, including intersectionality.
Which categorizes people as oppressors or oppressed based on racial, gender, sexual, and other identities.
This is just so... My mind gets numb thinking about all these buzzwords that we've talked about and thinking that this is where we are.
You've got real countries like China and Russia that are actually trying to do things that are going to promote the interests of their people and their posterity.
Well, here we are being told that our ancestors, everything that they did which was for their posterity, was the epitome of evil, if not outright Nazism.
And we have companies like Toyota and Tencent and Huawei who are not wasting a second on this nonsense.
They're just trying to get the job done.
Yeah.
And we've got our corporations running around in circles According to Rufo, the session included a blue-flow chart with specific rules for interacting with black female and LGBT employees.
If members of a subordinate group or present workers should practice intersectional allyship and defer to them before speaking.
Intersectional allyship.
BIPOC allyship.
Are you a BIPOC ally?
Did you do your part today?
Rufo cited another handout which instructed white employees to, quote, identify the privileges or advantage you have, not to speak over members of the black and African American community, and to analyze their speech and actions based on their impact on others, not their intent.
It's not about your intent, it's about the impact you have on your colleagues.
So the training sessions also warn white employees to avoid certain phrases as microaggressions.
Forbidden phrases include, I don't see color.
And, we're all human beings.
As well as, everyone can succeed in this society if they work hard enough.
Or, as we learned in Oregon, If you're a high school student, you don't have to even try and succeed at all.
You're gonna get a high school diploma.
Yeah, I'm thinking about this.
We're all human beings.
I guess you could say we're all mammals.
I don't know.
You can't.
Well, American Express is built on usury and capitalism and the capitalistic impulses of their card members trying to buy stuff they can't afford and then charging interest on them for it.
So this is interesting here.
Quote, American Express has to do its own digging about how it sits in relationship to this history of racial capitalism, Khalil Muhammad said.
You are complicit in giving privileges in one community against the other under the pretext that we live in a meritocratic system where the market judges everyone the same.
Mohammed argued that the credit card company should reduce the standards for black customers and sacrifice profits in the interest of race-based reparations.
There you go!
If American Express cares about racial justice in the world, it can't simply say the market's going to define how we price certain customers.
Who happen to come from low-income communities.
If you want to do good, then you're going to have to set up products and product lines that don't maximize profit.
Ladies and gentlemen, if you're a shareholder in America Express, I urge you to sell.
I urge you to get out of that stock.
There are other equities you can get into.
Do you know what Khalil Muhammad does for a living?
I do not.
He's a professor at Harvard.
He's a professor at Harvard.
So he's a terribly oppressed and downtrodden and deprived man.
Isn't he the grandson of someone kind of famous?
Elijah Muhammad?
No, no, no.
Khalil Gibran.
Okay.
No, I think, well, no, no, no, no.
I think you're right.
It's Elijah Muhammad.
Yeah, one of the founders of the Nation of Islam.
He's the grandson.
He's done good.
He's at Harvard now.
Yep, so here we go.
We also learned that Amex's anti-racism initiative training module recommends a series of resources for employees to learn about covert white supremacy, quoting Ibram Kendi, and dedicate themselves to, quote, to the lifelong task of overcoming our country's racist heritage.
October 2020, Amex announced an action plan to increase diversity, invest in more minority-owned businesses, and donate to non-profits to promote social justice.
What do you think that number was in terms of what Amex decided to fund this action plan?
Post-George Floyd, the sky's the limit.
How much?
AmEx and money printers go brrr.
$1,000,000,000, come on down.
$1,000,000,000,000.
AmEx is gonna spend a billion dollars?
To promote, to increase diversity.
Yeah, here's what you can do.
Just go ahead and give every black person a black AmEx card with $5,000 credit limit.
And you can say for one year, this is what you have.
No interest, year two, we're gonna charge a little bit interest,
but you can quietly put that in there.
But just give them that $5,000 reparation black card.
And well, basically say, you don't have to make any payments.
You don't have to make a payment for a year.
We'll pick it up today.
You can say they're free a year.
Two years, not a year. You can quietly say that.
Yeah.
But no, this is the absurdity.
One of the things about Rufo that I like a lot is he claims he's about to expose 10 other companies,
which is fantastic, because you know what?
Guys, ladies and gentlemen out there, you can have so many charts on IQ.
You can have Charles Murray's book.
Charles Murray said, geez, on Twitter, I think the country's done.
No one wants to talk anymore.
But you know what?
It's stories like what Chris Ruffo's doing, what we're seeing in places like Lowndon County with these parents fighting back.
This is the stuff where people realize how far gone things are.
And this is important.
Well, and the fact is, I think it's actually company after company after company.
Because I'm going to talk about Raytheon, and it sounds like exactly the same story.
Ladies and gentlemen, don't be bored.
But Raytheon has something called Stronger Together.
Isn't that happy-making?
It encourages employees to become an anti-racist today.
Don't wait.
Do it today.
Raytheon CEO Greg Hayes supported the campaign by signing an Action for Diversity and Inclusion statement promising to cultivate meaningful change for our society, not just the company, the whole society.
And he wants Raytheon employees to check their biases.
And it's just like what you said, all of these intersectionality and interlocking systems of oppression, you know, you get, it seems to me you get some odd cases in deciding who's really the most impressed.
Now tell me, you're a keen student of these things, Mr. Kersey.
Does a one-legged white tranny outrank an able-bodied black man?
Wow!
In the diversity sweepstakes.
This is tough because some days there's more equal than others.
That's right.
I don't know the answer to that one.
No, that's a tough one.
That's a tough one.
I'd like to pose that to some of the experts.
And I've always wanted to know where stupidity falls on the intersectionality scale.
Do you get more points for being stupid or fewer points for being stupid?
Anyway, intersectionality reminds me of the old cartoon.
I believe this is in the New Yorker, maybe 50 years ago.
It was a picture of a guy standing on a street corner, clearly black, in his dark glasses, holding out a tin cup, and he's wearing a sign, and it says, help me, I am blind, and I think I am black.
Early intersectionality.
But be that as it may, Now, the company says that white, straight, Christian, able-bodied, English-speaking men... Sounds like you, Mr. Kersey.
Sounds like you.
It might just be.
We are at the top and we must work to recognize our privilege and step aside in favor of all others.
White employees must listen to the experiences of marginalized identities and give them the floor.
Even if it means silencing yourself.
Giving the equity in your home while you're at it.
That's right.
Just slit your wrists while you're at it.
Now, even silencing yourself is a win-win because you learn more when you listen than when you speak.
I guess BIPOCs don't learn when they listen.
So they just talk.
But white people, ooh, you learn more when you listen.
So shut up, whitey!
And whites should acknowledge that their own discomfort with all of this is only a fraction of the emotional distress of black employees who are, now listen to this, the black employees are exhausted, mentally drained, frustrated, stressed, barely sleeping, scared, and overwhelmed.
That's what being a black employee is like at Raytheon, apparently.
I mean, can they even do their jobs at all?
I don't know.
I mean, apparently there's talking somewhere, so... That must be it.
Exhausted, mentally drained, frustrated, stressed, barely sleeping, scared, and overwhelmed.
God, if I felt like that, well, I sure wouldn't go to work.
Raytheon encourages white employees to financially and verbally support ProPAC.
Movements and POC-owned businesses.
And it lists 75 things white people can do for racial justice.
75, that's it?
75.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's your bucket list, boy.
Such as defund the police.
Participate in reparations.
I guess, yeah, write a check today.
Decolonize your bookshelf.
Get those white men off your bookshelf and join a local white space.
Now, I have a feeling they don't mean go out and listen to a string quartet or go birdwatching.
I literally have no idea what that means, actually.
I think a white space is where white people get together and feel so good about feeling so bad about being white.
Feeling so good about feeling so bad about being white.
That's a heck of a song that someone out there needs to satirize.
That's right.
Because that pretty much sums up where we are in the bipocalypse.
I tell you.
Now, of course, employees are supposed to learn about the weaponization of whiteness.
It's been weaponized.
Did you know that?
It's a pathogen.
Okay.
What if it's a weaponized pathogen?
I guess.
And Raytheon tells people explicitly that equality is no good.
That is treating each person the same, and that's just no good.
And we strive these days, of course, for equity, which focuses on the equality of outcome.
And they're quite straightforward.
Anti-racist policies must sometimes utilize unequal treatment to achieve equal outcomes.
So, there you go.
Raytheon.
That's actually more terrifying than Cokes.
That's more terrifying than Lockheed Martin.
That's more terrifying than what, well... The American Express was kind of funny, because basically you've got people saying, hey, you know what?
Just give us all black cards, please, and we don't have to ever pay them back.
No credit limit, let's just... But all this blather, I mean, what do people really think?
I'd love to talk to Raytheon employees, find out how white people react to this stuff.
Does anybody ever speak up?
No.
I'm guessing not.
But now, NASDAQ has gotten into the act.
And I think you know what I'm going to talk about.
They are going to require that any U.S.
company that wants to list, you want to go public, list your stock on Nasdaq, You have to have at least one woman director.
Okay.
As well as a director who identifies as a racial minority.
Okay.
Or, and apparently this is just as good as being a BIPOC, if you are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer.
Well, that answers your question about BIPOC versus one-legged tranny.
I guess.
For the NASDAQ at least.
But no, no, they don't say extra points for people in wheelchairs.
Oh, no handicap points.
No, no.
No bonus.
No, no, apparently not.
I mean, yes, that sounds awful discriminatory to me.
Now, the Democrats on Capitol Hill and corporations such as Goldman Sachs and Microsoft are hooping for joy.
Of course, Goldman Sachs and Microsoft are already listed.
What do they care?
And this is the worst part.
The SEC regulators have already approved And the SEC spokesman says this, and this is one of these hilarious things that just keep cropping up in the news all the time.
He says, these rules will allow investors to gain a better understanding of Nasdaq listed companies' approach to board diversity while ensuring that these companies have the flexibility to make decisions that best serve their shareholders.
Of course, actually.
Tying their hands.
They're handcuffing them.
What's the idea that this is going to be giving them flexibility?
What a joke.
I think you were talking about there were loonies well before Trump.
Yeah, I'll be quick.
This was a great story.
Because once again, guys, ladies and gentlemen, our time is coming to a quick and brisk end.
So this was a story that discusses the proliferation of prejudiced words in the media began years earlier, well before President Donald Trump took office in 2017.
2010's were a decade of the social media-led revolution.
In the Arab world, we saw Facebook help spread uprisings, which overturned the old order, leading to the failure in Egypt and tragedy in Syria.
In the U.S., social media has almost had as big an impact, with American progressive opinion undergoing a rapid shift from about 2013.
whereas the average conservative has changed very little.
It means that Americans on the left now have self-declared views on race that are more pro-black
and pro-immigrant than actual black Americans or immigrants. Despite having generally quite ill-informed
ideas about race. That's right.
They're completely ignoramuses about race, but none of these white crazies, they have wilder views about blacks than blacks do.
Precisely.
We saw that, let me try and pull up the article real quick here, we saw that this article illustrated by a recent paper was looking at media coverage of prejudice-related terms.
The study found words such as racist or sexist increasing in usage between 2010 and 2019 By 638% and 403% in the New York Times.
Whoa, read that again?
Racist or sexist increasing in usage in 2010 and 2019 by 638% and 403%.
That was in the New York Times.
In a 10-year period.
Boy, they got woke.
in usage in 2010 and 2019 by 638% and 403%.
That was in New York Times.
In a 10 year period.
Mm-hmm.
Boy, they got woke.
Yeah, and 514% and 141% respectively in the Washington Post, this percentage
of all the words in those publications.
The paper also found that the process long predated Trump and that in 2014, the uses of words denoting racism,
homophobia, transphobia, or sexism were at or near up to that year all time highs.
These results suggest that the trend of increasing prevalence
of prejudice related words in media discourse.
precedes the political emergence of Donald Trump, although Trump's presidency and subsequent reactions to it may have exacerbated those trends.
Well, I wonder what they'll find since May of 2020.
Yeah, this article is from UnHerd, and you can actually see the words racism, racist, racism, xenophobia, white supremacy, sexism, sexist, misogyny, patriarchy, gender discrimination.
These words were I'm not going to say barely mentioned, but this stuff really, I mean, in the past... Oh, it's just leapt, leapt in frequency.
Exactly.
Now, there's one last story I do not want to neglect, and this is about the Chamberlain Rock.
University of Wisconsin-Madison had something called the Chamberlain Brock.
It was an enormous boulder.
12 feet by 10 feet by 8 feet and weighed 70 tons.
Say that one last time.
How many tons?
70.
70.
A big rock.
And it's a rare example of a large pre-Cambrian era glacial erratic, probably more than 2 billion years old.
And it was a monument on the campus in honor of Thomas Chamberlain, a noted geologist who also served as president of the University of Wisconsin from 1887 to 1892.
He's been there since 1925.
But That same year, a newspaper article, at the time of its dedication of this rock, used a deeply offensive nickname for the knock, for the rock.
It called it a N-word head.
And that apparently was a common expression to refer to any large, dark rock.
Now, university researchers have not uncovered any other instance in print when the rock was referred to in that way.
But that was enough.
That was almost a hundred years ago.
One newspaper article referred to it as that.
Well, the Wisconsin Black Student Union.
In participation with the Native American student organization WUNK-SHEEK, that's spelled W-U-N-K-S-H-E-E-K for those who are curious.
So WUNK-SHEEK and BSU led an effort to remove the rock from campus because almost a hundred years ago somebody called it a bad name.
And last week, sure enough, it was carted off at a cost of $50,000.
But that's a tiny price to pay for BIPOC happiness.
And Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Lori Ressler said it took courage and commitment for the Wisconsin Black Student Union to bring this issue forward.
To courage.
Good.
It would have taken courage to tell him to sit down and shut up.
That was what would have taken courage.
and Nala McWhorter, who served as president of the Black Student Union, said,
we got this project going and now the next round of students can continue to work on the other
demands and come up with other ideas. We hope this movement and momentum carries on.
Wow, sounds to me like they're scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Other ideas?
Boy, they've got imagination.
What are they going to come up with next?
A hundred years ago, somebody... Maybe there's a pebble remaining from where the rock once stood, and the pebble has to... the pebble could somehow, you know, grow and augment to replace the inhead rock.
I don't know.
What else might have happened on campus a hundred years ago that just got to be demolished?
Good grief.
Well, anyway, we have come to the end of our time, as we always so rapidly do, and we've got so much more to tell you, but we'll have even more next week.
And so it's always a privilege and honor to speak with you, wherever you are, all around the world.
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