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Sept. 2, 2021 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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‘I Am Black History’
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
It is the first day of September 2021.
I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance and with me is my indispensable co-host who has a little announcement to make.
This is something that was brought to our attention by one of our both observant and persistent listeners.
So over the past few weeks we've discussed what happened in 2009 back in Houston when George Floyd was part of a home invasion with a firearm.
He went to jail for this.
This is a fact.
We know that.
However, there were some inconsistencies regarding what actually happened.
Did he point a gun into the belly of a woman?
Was she pregnant?
Texas Monthly, a magazine out of Texas, published that yes, she actually was pregnant.
Well, One of our listeners contacted that journalist and asked for clarity, just to make sure, because that is a huge asterisk by this whole story.
Again, engaging in a home invasion with a firearm, that's pretty bad, but you put a gun into the belly of a pregnant woman.
To make a long story short, Our listener was able to determine with the help from this journalist that no, she was not pregnant.
So we would like to clarify and forever move forward making sure that we do not state that George Floyd put a loaded weapon into the belly of a pregnant woman.
But he did engage in a home invasion for which he did go to jail.
Yes.
Well, the record is now, we hope, Settled and clear.
And so thank you.
Thank you listeners.
We always want to get the facts right.
So we appreciate those who take the trouble to check them and actually go to the source.
Now we have another listener comment, and this is a letter that I think is so valuable that I will start by reading probably, oh, this will be about two-thirds of it.
So please indulge me, dear readers, while we listen to a fellow who prefers to remain anonymous.
And he writes this, I'm glad AR is increasingly trying to reach out to people on the left.
I am a left-wing teacher who is coming slowly, painfully around to race realism.
In fact, this is a point I think many race realists might miss because you tend to come from the right.
But for people like me, accepting the reality of race is extremely painful and saddening.
I liken it to one of those pictures where there is a hidden image embedded.
Once you see the hidden image, you can never unsee it.
That's what's happened when reading the data on IQ and crime and the evolutionary explanation of selective pressures linked to colder versus African climates.
Once you see that racial ethnic groups really are on average different people, your picture of the world changes forever.
Now he goes on.
But I stress again how profoundly saddening this picture of the world is to many on the left.
I notice many comments on the AmRan webpage that are disturbing, and I think that leaders like you, this is addressed to Mr. Kersey and Mr. Taylor, should be more vocal in discouraging them.
I refer to repeated racial slurs and related vulgarities.
I understand that comments are open and free, and I'm not suggesting censoring them, but I get the sense that many people who gravitate to white advocacy feel the need to belittle other people and elevate themselves above them as a race.
Others seem to think that people on the left can't be sincere and are deep compassion for the vulnerable, especially racial minorities.
This is a major blind spot and a mistake.
Yes, there are many who content themselves with virtue signaling such as putting up Black Lives Matter signs on their lawns.
But virtue signaling and real compassion are not mutually exclusive.
I know from decades of social justice work that the compassion we feel is real and the disgust that racial slurs provoke does more harm in appealing to progressives than anything the media or academic elites may do to conceal crime or IQ data.
Very profound sentiments, extremely well said, and I thank this listener for making these points, and I agree 100%.
I, frankly, am often disappointed by the comments at amaran.com.
We don't wish to censor, but I certainly wish that people were less mean-spirited.
Now, this listener goes on to ask a question.
After having written about the natural tribalism that humans feel, and this too he understands, but he goes on to ask, yet, why is it right, this tribalism, just because it's natural?
It's natural for boys to watch pornography.
Does that mean we should be encouraging and cultivating it?
So I would say that white advocacy and other forms of racial consciousness building does, indeed, act on certain wellsprings of human nature.
But just because something taps underlying instincts doesn't make it right.
Perhaps in today's global society, the real moral struggle is to work on overcoming our tribal natures.
Maybe instead of joining blacks and Hispanics in organizing around racial consciousness, we should take the high road by rejecting identity politics and encouraging those other groups to reject it as well.
We should be completely open but not haughty about the IQ and crime data, just as Charles Murray is, but do so in the context of advocating the highest levels of universalism, compassion, and colorblindness.
Now, this is a point of view that many of our listeners will automatically reject, but it is not an outrageous point of view.
And it's one that I believe this listener has arrived at after having considered everything that is at stake and thinking deeply and seriously about how to move forward.
Now, there are many reasons that I would put forward why we cannot move in that direction of trying to get everyone to overcome the whole idea of race and we're all just happy humans living happily together.
First of all, non-whites will not do that.
That was the objective of the Civil Rights Movement back in the 1950s and 60s.
We were all supposed to dismantle our racial solidarities and be happy Americans together.
It didn't work, they didn't do it, and I don't believe they ever will.
Finally, if this ever were to come to pass, and I don't believe it would, it would ultimately mean the disappearance of whites, because presumably it would lead to increasing rates of intermarriage.
We would disappear, whereas there are large reservoirs of the people of every other race.
In Africa, large reservoirs of blacks.
In Asia, large reservoirs of Asians.
And we are the only people, we are what, 11% of the world's population?
Far less than that.
Oh, I don't know.
But certainly have fewer than less than 11% of the children being born.
We would simply disappear, and I believe our culture would disappear along with us.
In any case, yes, please ask.
Real quick, I think that that was a very good comment, a very good email from our listener.
We greatly appreciate that, and we'll do the call of action here in just a second to continue to get great stories.
In fact, a few of the stories we're going to talk about today are from listeners, so we thank you so much.
Again, it was about Fourteen months ago that this YouTube channel got nuked, including the Amaran main channel, which had over 150,000 subscribers in a world that was actually fair and balanced, Mr. Taylor would have over a million subscribers because he wouldn't be stifled.
Same thing with the podcast channel.
But the point is, here's the book that our listener needs to check out.
I think that Mr. Taylor reviewed it.
Christopher Caldwell's The age of entitlement, America since the 1960s, we tried to do that.
That's what we've done.
I was born into that world where we were 25 years into this experiment and it's failed.
It's failed miserably.
It continues to fail every day at every level of society, whether it's in public or private practice, it has failed immeasurably.
And the point is that we cannot continue to perpetuate these failed policies.
But, again, I thank our listener for this extremely thoughtful letter.
Agreed.
And I agree 100% on his points regarding the demeanor that white advocates often bring to their arguments, which is extremely off-putting to sincere leftists.
And I agree with our listener.
There are such things as absolutely sincere leftists and liberals.
So, in any case, thank you very much.
And those of you who have ideas, observations, comments, and, of course, Errors to correct.
Please contact amren.com at the contact us tab or because we live here at protonmail.com.
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Protonmail.com is a fantastic provider of electronic mail.
Now, we have a huge number of stories, as we always do, so we must leap right into them.
And let's start with New York City.
It turns out that prosecutors during 2020 dropped all of the charges in 17% of the 38,635 felony cases that the prosecutor's office closed in New York City that year.
They dropped, simply dropped charges in 17%.
The year before, the rate at which they were dropped was just 8.7%, and for 2016 through 2019, it was even lower at 8%.
What this means is that in 2020, 6,500 felony suspects, we're not talking about misdemeanors, felony suspects, were simply let off the hook.
One law enforcement source says that the problem was many veteran prosecutors retired or left their jobs, no doubt in great frustration, and quote, inexperienced prosecutors and cops make it harder to do trials.
That, as well as the political nature of a DA's job.
And we have so many of these Soros-funded and non-white DAs who seem to think that it's their job to be on the side of the perps, not of the victims.
Now, believe it or not, another 2,365 cases, or 28%, were dismissed by judges.
Some of them were pleading COVID.
Oh, we can't get the poor perp into the courtroom.
No, we can't have him exposed to this vicious virus.
And this was a push the rate of defendants that were actually convicted and sentenced in the Bronx, for example, to merely 27.4%.
That is down from 44% in 2019.
That is down from 44% in 2019.
In just one year, a drop of 44% to 27% of felony cases that actually led to a conviction.
And a fellow named Joseph Gialcone, a retired NYPD detective,
and now a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, he says, there are so many people
who will lose their lives because of this, because of all these perps who walked.
Eventually, it's all going to backfire.
Now, it turns out the borough with the highest number of felony cases that weren't prosecuted last year was the Bronx, where the DA is Darcelle Clark.
Darcelle Clark.
Now guess whether she's melanin enhanced or not.
She dumped 28.5% of her cases.
The police can go out and go to the bother of arresting someone in a felony case and 28.5% of the time she's going to let the guy walk.
What kind of reward is that?
And a Bronx DA spokesman said this.
We prosecute cases where there is legally sufficient evidence.
We decline to prosecute or defer prosecution in cases where police may need to gather more evidence.
Or secure the cooperation of witnesses.
In other words, when we have to do our jobs, when we have to get more evidence, or when we have to get witnesses to talk, hey, we ain't gonna bother.
So, yes, what?
We have to go out and gather more evidence?
Now, who is this Clark lady?
I took the trouble to look up Darcelle Clark in Wikipedia, no less.
Wikipedia, which normally bends over backwards to be excessively fair to BIPOCs.
And Wikipedia says, Clark's tenure as district attorney has been marred by reports of cronyism and misconduct.
In May 2016, that's a pretty flat statement for Wikipedia.
When you lost Wikipedia, what was that?
To paraphrase Cronkite, when you've lost, uh, when you've lost Cronkite, you've lost the war or something.
What was that, Nixon said of the Vietnam War?
Can't remember that exact line, but when you've lost Wikipedia, oh my gosh!
How can she stay in office?
In any case, in May 2016, Newspaper Cunch revealed Clark to have rehired a friend who had been forced to resign from the DA's office after Get this, as you would say, after falsely impersonating a police officer, breaking a man's nose, and fleeing the scene of a crime in a fit of road rage.
Hire him back.
Come on.
Great stuff.
We want people like that in the DA's office.
A federal civil rights lawsuit alleged Clark and high-ranking members of her newly formed Public Integrity Bureau tried to harass and intimidate a police officer for issuing a traffic ticket to a fellow Democratic Party member.
This is the Public Integrity Bureau.
You better not know traffic tickets for our friends.
Court filings in a conviction integrity investigation revealed that investigators acting on behalf of the Bronx DA, that is our darling Ms.
Clark, They sought to bribe and threaten a witness who exculpated the wrongly accused and imprisoned defendant, ultimately silencing the witness.
Every one of these things sounds like offenses that would absolutely disqualify for being a DA, but it goes on and on.
And Clark held Daryl Herring, an innocent man wrongfully accused of rape in jail for 18 months, even though security footage and medical records in the possession of the DA's office exculpated him.
And it goes on and on and on.
This lady, as far as I can tell, is just utterly crazy.
She got a law degree from Howard.
Now, I suppose we needn't draw any conclusions from that.
But this is the lady who is dropping more over a quarter of the felony cases that come before her.
But now, we must not draw invidious racial conclusions here.
Because I believe, Mr. Kersey, you have a story about Ingham County, Michigan.
I do, but in thinking about that story, it reminds me of the one that you brought up a few weeks ago, about a month ago actually.
The Chicago Sun-Times ran that incredible piece where they showed that, going back to 2016, the alleged shooters in 212 mass shootings in Chicago Just 21 or less than 10% of the cases have been charged.
Yes.
And I believe that just two men have been convicted in those attacks.
That's right.
So you think about all this violent crime that is going unprosecuted.
That's right.
In this case, I imagine in the case of the shooters, they can't even track them down.
No, no.
But here in the Bronx, once you track them down, then oh ho hum, you know, let them walk.
And as this retired detective says, how many people are going to die on account of this?
How many black lives?
Let's go to Ingram County, where a prosecutor is going to limit gun charges that disproportionately impact blacks.
This is from the Landing State Journal.
This was a story that's causing quite the stir there in Michigan.
Prosecutor Carol Seaman is looking at the felony firearms charges that can be added whenever someone has a gun while committing a felony, even if the gun is not used in a crime.
So this is a way to throw the book, basically, at a perpetrator.
Savian said she plans to limit the use of the charge, solely prosecuting people and their actual behavior, not the fact that they have a firearm.
This means her office will no longer issue felony firearm charges except when, quote, the other charges do not adequately reflect the person's overall behavior.
So why is this?
What's going on?
Well, the charge adds a mandatory two years of prison time to someone's sentence if they are convicted.
If they are convicted a second or third time, the mandatory sentence, hey, guess what?
Strike, you're out, is a five or ten year charge, or additional time added.
So why is all this happening?
She said this.
Why are these charges not being made?
Yeah, why are these charges going to be dropped?
And why are these subsequent offenses also going to be looked the other way?
Charging people with a felony firearm offense was supposed to dissuade people from carrying guns, but all it did was disproportionately impact black people, Simeon said.
While this law was enacted in 1976 to deter gun violence, it has never lived up to its promise of keeping the public safer.
In Michigan, 82% of the people serving a sentence for a felony firearm charge are black, despite black people making up just 14% of the state's population.
In Ingraham County, 80% of the 269 people serving a felony firearm sentence are melanin-enhanced.
Oh, boy.
Well, that just proves the law is racist.
Gotta go.
In 2020, 205 felony firearm charges were issued by her office.
Of those, 67 were against black people.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Well, there you go.
There we go.
Okay, well, um...
This brings up, let's move on to New York City.
Back to New York City where all sorts of exciting things happen.
I just heard that a video captured a man attacking a subway rider.
It's all caught on video.
A melanin-enhanced gentleman, I'll call him a gentleman just for the irony of the case, said, don't look at me!
At a 44-year-old stranger who was waiting on the platform at the Union Square station, 9 p.m.
Saturday, date night.
And as the victim walked away, the attacker went to a nearby bench, pulled out a hammer out of a bag, and as the victim tries to get away, he whangs away at him and knocked him onto the tracks.
With a hammer.
He was pulled to safety by good Samaritans but taken to Bellevue Hospital and his head wound was closed with seven stitches.
Now the only thing that I find of particular interest about this, in all too often these things happen and the races of the perps and the races of the victims are all too frequently the same.
He happened to be wearing a t-shirt that said, I am black history.
I just thought there was a certain piquancy about this little element to it.
Well, later it turns out he was in custody for snatching someone's chain in a Harlem subway station.
And so, as Jamar Newton, that's his name, age 41, was snatching the chain, cops caught him, recovered the chain, and while they were processing him for the arrest, they realized that he was the one who had Been the one in the hammer attack a day earlier.
So now he is a guest of the city of New York.
And we'll have to see whether or not he's released with all these other felony charges.
You can see him in the shirt.
What did that shirt say one more time?
The shirt says, I am black history.
And so he is.
He is?
So he is.
He is an integral part of black history.
But now, let us hopscotch across the country to Chicago, where you had a particularly heartwarming story about two white men.
Well, you know, you can look at the picture of the gentleman wearing I Am Black history.
Again, we use that term loosely, sardonically.
You can watch the video of what we're about to talk about.
The headline of this story Cut my attention, Mr. Taylor, when I saw it.
Two men are beaten and robbed in the middle of State Street as people walk by, drive past, and twerk up a storm.
The two men in question, the article doesn't mention that they're both white.
It does not mention that the crowd is all black.
It does not mention that the individuals twerking are black women.
If you recall about Three months ago, I believe it was in June, there was a video out of Chicago where black women get on top of a police cruiser in Chicago and twerk up a storm.
Yes, yes, yes.
And there's one also, I forget which city it was, but an ambulance shows up.
And one of the brothers has been perforated.
He's bleeding badly.
And the sisters are twerking up against the side of an ambulance.
It was St.
Louis, actually.
Was that St.
Louis?
Where a lot of Afghans are going to be, or a lot of Afghan refugees are headed.
So, from one war zone to the next.
How quickly will they learn how to twerk?
So, here's what this article wrote.
Here's what the author of this article wrote.
It's hard to decide which part of the video is most revolting.
Is it the sucker punch that sends a man slamming to the pavement?
Maybe it's the vultures who rob two men, even taking their shoes.
as they lie injured in the middle of State Street.
Perhaps it's a group of women who start twerking in the traffic lanes
while the men are being victimized steps away.
It happened at 1 31 AM Saturday on the 400 block of North State
Street.
And it's all on video.
This is the club district, as I understand.
Yep.
A police spokesman said the man in the green shirt, the one who was seen throughout the video,
suffered abrasions to his face.
He refused medical attention.
The man was sucker punched as a four-year-old and was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
Condition not known.
Both men, however, in the video were robbed.
No arrests.
No arrests have been made.
Now maybe this is the most revolting part of the video is the fact that something like this could happen in one of the city's busiest nightlife districts for over 5 minutes before a police officer was able to make their way to the scene.
CPD radio traffic shows officers who were monitoring the local police district's surveillance cameras told dispatchers about a battery in progress.
Officers requested an ambulance upon arrival six minutes later, but slow responses are now the new normal under the strategies deployed by Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown, whose master plan is to strip local police districts of officers.
This area has just 351 cops assigned to work the streets, Which is a drop of 15% from April of 2020.
Of course, what happened in May of 2020?
A little incident in Minneapolis that completely changed the way policing is done in the United States.
It changed the world.
It changed the world, Mr. Kersey.
So the downtown nightlife areas have been riddled with problems over the past year.
Reports of gunfire supported by discovery of shell casings are frequent on the weekend.
Shootings once where are not so uncommon anymore.
One of the bartenders told CWB Chicago, We need help.
Well, they're not getting it.
If you want to see the video again, just, uh, two men are beaten and robbed in the middle of State Street as people walk by, drive past, and twerk up a storm.
That's the headline.
Yes, well, you know, twerking seems to be kind of a Negroid victory dance.
That seems to be part of it.
Now, this is a story from Britain, from The Spectator, which is a respectable publication.
And let me quote from it verbatim.
The Spectator goes on to say, in the past 20 years, foreign-born residents of the UK have doubled to 9 million, going from 8% to 14%.
At the same time, the white British proportion of the population has fallen from 89% to 79%, while ethnic minorities have grown from 10% to 21%.
I mean, 79% white sounds pretty good for you and me, living in a 60.8% white country, of which Middle Easterners are counted white, but in any case, Since 2001, 84% of the UK population growth has been due to immigrants and their children, rising to 90% since 2017.
As a consequence, the majorities of London, Slough, Leicester and Luton have an ethnic minority background.
Whites are a minority.
This is Great Britain, ladies and gentlemen.
About half the births in London, Birmingham, Manchester and Cambridge are to foreign mothers.
A third of British school children are already from ethnic minorities and in 20 years ethnic minority children, that's their nice way of saying non-whites, will constitute more than half of the students in state schools.
While Britons, and these are the lines that particularly caught my eye, while Britons who greet these figures with anything short of delight, oh sorry, white Britons who greet these figures with anything short of delight know perfectly well to keep their traps shut.
The country's original inhabitants, for them to confront become a minority in the UK, perhaps in the 2060s, with any hint of mournfulness, much less consternation, is now racist and beyond the pale.
Well, so it is.
Now, this article, The Spectator, God bless it, it goes on to point out that it's only in white countries where this sort of thing is considered wonderful and virtuous to disappear.
So, good for The Spectator.
I don't know whether anything will happen from this, but good for them.
Now, moving on, back to the United States, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, let me read a few lines from a press release.
An important step forward in MIT's ongoing efforts to create a more welcoming and inclusive community.
The Institute has hired six new assistant deans, one in each school and in the College of Computing, to serve as diversity, equity, and inclusion professionals.
Six new deans!
Yes!
Ah, here you go.
Provost Martin Schmidt, he is quoted as saying, this talented group will be an invaluable resource to everyone in our community as we roll out and implement our DEI strategic action plan.
There was a link to the plan, of course, for those who re- Did you read it?
revel in this stuff.
No, I could not drag myself through it.
He goes on to say, MIT's success in developing solutions to the world's greatest challenges depends on our ability to attract and retain a diverse and collaborative community.
Diverse!
Then another spokesman says, this cluster of new hires is significant and there are more in the works.
There are a lot of people in the MIT community who already work in this area, said the spokesman, and this is starting to feel like critical mass.
Critical mass.
I think everyone at MIT should be in the diversity and inclusion business.
You know, the more diversity noticeably fails, the more our elite who've been promoted because of their, you know, religious devotion to diversity.
The more is demanded.
That's right.
It's the cult.
The more it fails, the more it's got to be forced upon us.
Now they had in this press release that a photograph of these happy new six new deans.
Three are black women.
So boy, you know, they are just diversity squared.
One black man, one indeterminate female, not sure what she was and she ain't telling.
And then one appears to be a white woman.
Astonishing.
Now, they're trying to build a welcoming and inclusive community, except for whom?
White people.
White people.
Especially white men.
Now, Mr. Kersey, I believe the Marines are just charging gung-ho right down the same path, are they not?
We talk about the military so much, whether it's the need for non-white pilots.
I mean, you look at the travesty of what just happened in Afghanistan, which to me is is one of those moments that years from now as the Chinese century becomes more and more obvious and they look to the moment where the American empire, the air went out.
We were joking before we started about this just obscene situation where the Taliban on the eve of the 20th anniversary of 9-11 is parading around with I think you said they have three C-130s.
Three C-130 transport airplanes.
3130 but C3 C 130 transport C3 130 transport airplanes.
They've got over 70,000 vehicles, Blackhawk helicopters, you know, untold amounts of
ammunition, firearms, they've upgraded from AK 47s to all the snazziest
they are.
Yeah, exactly.
I like the night vision goggles.
They wear all these helmets, these rip-snorting crewman helmets with the goggles on the top.
You're talking about... Yeah, exactly.
So, while all this is going on, while all this is happening, we have this story.
A diverse Marine Corps is necessary to implement future force design, top officials say.
The Marine Corps needs increased diversity to fully implement the force design changes required to face off against China, Russia, or other potential threats, said Marine Brigadier General A.T.
Williamson, Director of Manpower Plans and Policy.
The commandment right now is focusing on force design.
The Marine Corps is making a concerted effort right now in investing in several capabilities, he said, at the Navy LEADS Sea Air Force Space 2021 Conference in Maryland.
But what the commandment has stated, and what we as Marines always know, is the primacy of the expeditionary force is the Marine.
So what does he mean by that?
Some people think that diversity, women, minorities, add to the Corps' success, Berger said.
He's the Marine Corps Commandment General David Berger at the 2020 Women in Defense Virtual Leadership Symposium.
But it goes beyond that.
We can actually not do our mission in the Department of Defense and the Marine Corps without the dedication of women.
Williamson laid out three reasons the cadets need to be a diverse institution, which he termed the ethical, practical, and operational imperatives.
Now, Mr. Taylor, looking at what happened in Afghanistan, What do we have to say about the ethical, practical, and operational imperatives that were on display by our military brethren?
What was it General Wiley said before the Joint Chiefs Chairman, before that committee on January 6th?
He wanted to study white rage.
They might want to be studying tactical operations.
Well, you know why it's been such a spectacular failure?
Because the Corps was not diverse enough!
That was the problem!
And by the way, A.T.
Williamson?
I just looked him up.
You know what the A stands for?
I don't.
Ahmed.
Ahmed!
And he is very, very diverse.
Okay, well there you are.
He's just the kind of guy.
Because we didn't have enough of those guys, that's why we failed.
And that's why the Taliban rolled right over our boys.
If our boys had been, if Ahmed had been out there training the Taliban, boy, they would have been 10 feet tall.
You know, the... I'm sorry, training the Afghan National Army.
The practical imperative, Williamson said, refers to the Corps' need to tap into a shrinking but more diverse pool of people in the country We don't want to leave any talent on the table, the General said.
Everyone is competing for the same talented pool of men and women.
They are going to work somewhere.
But most important is the operational imperative.
When looking at the complex battlefields of the future, it's all about the lethality and warfighting.
Well, I'm not exactly sure.
We just spent 20 years basically showing that we're not really interested in warfighting, more about babysitting and pathetic attempts at nation-building, which completely are building up.
How many billions did we spend on trying to train the Afghan Army?
800 billion?
I think the price tag, as I understand it in Afghanistan, is 2 or 3 trillion.
But how fast did the American-trained Afghan Army fold to the Taliban?
Did they last two weeks?
Three weeks?
I think it was less than that.
I think there are intelligence services that they could last for three months.
I think it lasted two days.
Well, at the point they were saying they could get to Kabul within 90 days.
That's right.
Then they were there two days later.
That's our intelligence for you.
Yeah, so here we have some great choice quotes.
We'll make this quick.
Today, unconscious bias may play a role in unfairly forcing good Marines to leave the Corps or denying them to improve themselves, Williamson noted.
Quote, if we see that a particular demographic or subgroup or element is not performing to a standard, Or not performing as well as others, we ought to be intellectually curious enough to ask why, not just accept that and believe that that is going to fit a certain bias that we have.
Some biases are not only good, but necessary for the Marine Corps to thrive.
With all our slanted or we all have slanted or have certain perceptions.
In fact, the Marine Corps, we expect Marines to have a bias towards action.
We have a bias towards being disciplined.
We have a bias towards physical fitness.
However, the most important bias now is toward diversity over the effectiveness of a supreme fighting machine, because we know, again, they already have those three tenets of what diversity means.
Well, that was the problem in Afghanistan, for sure.
For sure.
Not enough one-legged lesbian Negroes.
That's why we failed over there.
But, now, I believe you have yet another diversity story for us.
Newsrooms!
Newsrooms better be diverse, along with MIT, along with the Marine Corps, along with everything we can think of, along with our personal lives.
Is your personal life diverse?
Not enough.
Not enough.
Well, you better work on that.
I will try and add some diversity.
I want more rich people.
I want more better-looking people.
You said that on Phil Donahue's show, all your neighbors are white, rich, and good-looking back in 2003.
That's what I'd like, yeah.
That's the kind of diversity I like.
That's your property value, at least.
Season of appreciation.
So we've talked about how newsrooms are doing everything they can, whether it's, I think it was, Gannett basically said, yeah, we're not going to really have crime stories anymore because Disproportionately black or we're not going to show the pictures of perps.
I think the AP came out and said that basically just do away with crime reporting.
It's too many negative perceptions and stereotypes perpetuated.
It perpetuates stereotypes.
Yeah.
So now we have this.
We are committed to a diverse newsroom in coverage of Southwest Florida.
This is from a journalist.
This was her essay.
I don't recall.
Oh, I got it right here.
It'll come up in a second.
I'll tell you her name.
Cindy McCurry Ross of the Fort Myers News Press.
Is her last name hyphenated?
It is.
That's often a giveaway.
But it's pure speculation.
Pure speculation.
For the news press and Naples Daily News to have the strongest possible local coverage, we must have a diverse newsroom.
We should have a workforce that reflects the diversity and the communities we serve.
We have set a goal to make our workforce match the racial, ethnic, and gender mix of our community by 2025.
And as part of that commitment, each year we are publishing the makeup of our newsroom staff.
This is happening across our USA Today Network.
Of course, I kind of did a spoiler.
Gannett is the principal owner of the USA Today Network.
They own newspapers, the subsidiaries all across the country, which is made up of more than 250 local publications.
And the USA Today.
I've not read USA Today in a couple years now.
They don't pass them out as much as they used to at hotels and stuff.
And it's very thin, by the way.
It used to be a pretty thick paper.
But anyways, we know that a diverse newsroom makes our journalism better.
It's a pretty objective statement.
We know that.
It helps us better connect and serve our community.
On a daily basis, we discuss how we can each reach undeserved communities.
Across the state, we're part of a team of journalists working on coverage of issues of race and inequality.
Just call it the George Floyd Beat.
Let's just do that.
Let's just posthumously award it the George Floyd Beat.
We have assembled a community advisory group that is made up of five local citizens to help your eyes and ears on topics Such as public service, education, and health care.
The board includes a Black woman from Fort Myers and a Hispanic woman from Amokali, an Indian tribe named Florida City.
These trusted voices have opened our eyes to stories that we might not have covered otherwise and have helped us with that coverage.
Our coverage has reigned from highlighting participants in the Black Business Expo in Fort Myers, To amplifying the voices of Cubans throughout Southwest Florida to investigate the disproportionate impact the pandemic has had on farm workers of Imokalee, the city.
But when it comes to race and ethnicity in the newsroom, we're a long way from parity.
Just as bad as the Marines?
While a third of our community, nearly 34%, is made up of residents who are Black, Hispanic, Asian, or Native American, Pacific Islander, our newsroom falls short.
Just under 15% of us are people of color.
On the gender side, our community is pretty evenly split.
However, our newsroom is skewed toward men.
But our leadership team is pretty evenly matched.
And remember, they're creating a welcoming and inclusive environment except for... White people.
White men.
White men have no voice on this new panel.
Better not try to be a Marine.
Better not try to get a job in the newspaper.
Better not go to MIT.
So since this information was made public on July 13th, guess what they've done?
We've made progress having hired five journalists who come from racially or ethnically diverse backgrounds.
Meaning non-white.
They are all passionate and talented journalists and we know their auditions will only help us do better.
Boy, white people are just such miserable journalists.
They can't get anything right, you know?
Just can't get anything right.
So we have to get gingered up by these people who are utterly unlike ourselves.
Well, this was an item that was not widely reported in the major media, but after Hurricane Ida came through, something happened in Louisiana that reminds me of 1995.
There was a wave of looting.
And there are fears that crime could spiral out of control in New Orleans and other cities after energy suppliers warn that power will be cut for at least three weeks as utility crews work to restore more than 2,000 miles of downed energy lines.
Jeez.
2,000 miles.
Wow.
And a group of men, race unmentioned, were caught by a drone camera trying to rob an ATM machine in the scorched remains of a market in New Orleans.
Scorched!
And once again... How is it scorched?
What does that mean?
Well, I saw the drone footage.
Boy, was it scorched!
It was burnt to a cinder.
And it looked like several other stores in the area were too, but I don't know how.
I guess that Hurricane Ida just came through.
Spontaneous combustion, is that the term?
Scorched it, that's the one.
And witnesses used their cell phones to record several people looting a store in New Orleans East.
And then there are photographs of a Dollar General.
The interior of the trashed store in the parking lot outside littered by overturned shopping carts with merchandise spilling out of them.
I guess it's back to school shopping all over again.
However, listen to this.
Mayor LaToya Cantrell.
Did you know that New Orleans' mayor was a black lady by the name of LaToya?
I did.
I did know that.
Latoya, and Latoya sounded tough.
She said at a press conference, the city is cracking down, and all offenders will be charged with a felony.
She said, my directive has been clear.
Lock them up.
We will not tolerate, and we will not tolerate, and we have not tolerated.
I say, you go girl.
Give them hell, Latoya.
But they're working with the Louisiana National Guard to protect businesses from looters.
But Police Chief Sean Ferguson, he sounds a little bit wimpy to me.
He says, it is incumbent upon the community to lean in and lean forward and say, this is not the time.
When is the time for looting?
That was back in 2005, back when When is the time for looting?
Back when Hurricane Katrina hit?
Maybe last year when New Orleans had all sorts of riots?
But now is not the time.
Now is not the time, says the police chief.
Come on, all right.
Now, I did, I probably need not say this, but there was a painful lack of diversity in these looting crowds.
Every single one that I saw shared certain characters, so they have not got the memo from the newsroom. They've not got the memo from MIT. They've
not got the memo from the Marine Corps.
They need to diversify.
Ah, they need to diversify. Indeed they do. Now, news on Molly Tibbetts.
You, of course, Mr. Kersey, being well up on all these matters, know exactly who Mollie Tibbetts is, but for those of our listeners who do not recall, she was a student at the University of Iowa, and she vanished on a rural road outside her hometown of Brooklyn, Iowa, population 1,700, probably a lovely little place.
While she was out for a run, this is on July 18, 2018, family members and co-workers feared the worst when she did not show up for her summer job at a daycare.
I'm sure just the sweetest possible girl.
Hundreds of volunteers and law enforcement officers searched for weeks but came up empty.
Investigators began focusing on someone named Cristian Baena Rivera.
who worked under an alias at a nearby dairy farm after, and this just sounds like pure happenstance, coming across a homeowner's surveillance video that happened to show Mr. Rivera's Chevy Malibu repeatedly driving past Molly Tibbetts while she ran.
And after a lengthy interrogation, Rivera led authorities to a cornfield where he had buried Tibbetts' body under leaves and stalks.
Only her bright running shoes were visible, and an autopsy found that she'd been stabbed several times.
He told investigators that he approached Tibbetts because he found her attractive, and that he fought her after she threatened to call the police.
He then said he blacked out, and when he came to, he was driving with her body in the trunk.
No!
Okay.
Yes, that happens all the time, you know?
I black out, and I come to, and I'm driving someplace with some dead woman's body in the trunk of my car.
Now, during the trial, Rivera's lawyers argued that his confession was false and that his client, at trial, his client gave surprise testimony, giving a different account.
He said that two masked men kidnapped him from his trailer at gunpoint and made him drive while they attacked Tibbetts.
And they told him where to dispose of her body and told him to stay quiet or his young daughter and ex-girlfriend would be killed.
That was his story at trial despite the confession.
So this guy should have been a novelist.
The jury rightfully disbelieved him, found him guilty, and he now gets life in prison because there is no death penalty in Iowa.
It turns out he came to the U.S.
illegally from Mexico as a teenager.
A dreamer.
A dreamer.
Dreaming of the high life.
Dreaming of the American way of life.
And now, I must add just a little curlicue to this story.
It is the bitter cherry on the top of the parfait.
Marty Tibbets' mother, Laura Calderwood, addressed Rivera in an impact statement read to the court.
And among other things, she accused him of causing a situation that resulted in Hispanic workers having to flee the area in fear.
That was one of the terrible things that he did, along with killing and probably raping her daughter.
But she was very worried about that.
So there you go.
But he is going to be in the big house for a long time to come.
I don't know what sort of parole provisions they have, but he's getting his just desserts.
Now, understand that someone who, in the view of some, are getting their just desserts are a group known as the Martinsville Seven.
Yeah, you know, at some point in the near, in the future, I'm sure Mollie Tibbetts' murder will be posthumously pardoned, just as Governor Northam of Virginia has granted posthumous pardons to, as you said, the Martinsville Seven.
Quote, this is about righting wrongs.
So he's granted a posthumous pardon to seven black men from Martinsville who were executed 70 years ago for the alleged rape of a white woman.
Family members of Frances Grayson, Booker T. Milner, Frank Hairston, James Hairston, Howard Hairston, John Taylor, and Joe Hampton, known as the Martinsville Seven, say the men were interrogated under duress without the presence of a lawyer.
So how many were brothers, apparently?
Three.
Three.
Brothers who raped together stay together, I guess.
Say the men were interrogated under duress without the presence of a lawyer, and their confessions were coerced under threat of mob violence.
At the time, the circuit court held back-to-back one-day trials over the course of a week, taking about two hours to deliberate.
Four of the men were executed by electric chair on February 2, 1951, and three of the men were executed on February 5, 1951, in Richmond.
Sounds like swift justice.
Don't mind that at all.
It was in those days.
The alleged crime happened in January 1949.
It was the largest mass execution in Virginia history.
Most of the men were in their late teens or early twenties.
The NAACP sought appeals for the Martinsville 7 and the Virginia NAACP held a Martinsville 7 week on September 4th, 10th, 1949 to raise money for the defense.
So this has been a case that has been near and dear to these people's hearts for 70 plus years.
NAACP lawyers argued the men were not given fair and impartial trials, citing they were tied to a They were tried in a hostile environment.
In Virginia, the law provided for the death penalty for rape.
However, in practice, only black men were subjected to the death penalty for rape, even though the statute had changed in 1866.
At the time of these executions, the superintendent of the Virginia prison system wrote a letter in 1950 that underscored these disparities by stating there were no white men on record ever executed for rape in Virginia.
Ever?
Ever.
For a year, the Martinsville Seven Coalition, including family members and community advocates, have been pushing for a posthumous pardon.
Also including this push for pardon are William & Mary's Criminal Law Society, Free Minds Book Club, and Writing Workshop, and the Restorative Justice Collective.
That Restorative Justice Collective, they do a lot of bad things that make our nation and communities across America less safe.
Well, you know, let us not lead to conclusions.
Did they commit this rape or not?
That's what I would like to know.
What did the evidence show?
I mean, I'm sure that they were tried in a hostile environment.
People don't like rapists.
But, uh... No, they did!
They committed the rape.
Oh, I see.
There should be no doubt about that.
The petition does not argue the men were innocent, but it clarifies the trials were unfair and the punishment was extreme and unjust.
Here's what the governor's office wrote in a statement, quote, while these pardons do not address the guilt of the seven, they serve as recognition from the Commonwealth that these men were tried without adequate due process and received a racially biased death sentence, not similarly applied to white defendants.
Well, I wonder how many whites...
You know, you have to, you would have to know how many whites committed rapes under similar circumstances, gang rapes.
This sounds like a particularly high number.
Seven?
Seven.
Seven.
Three brothers.
Okay.
Seven.
Imagine being raped by seven different guys.
That, I don't know.
With today's action, Governor Northam has granted a record-breaking 604 pardons since his term began.
More pardons than the previous nine governors combined.
This is about righting wrongs.
Northam said, we all deserve a criminal justice system that's fair, equal, and gets it right.
That sounds like an impardonable record.
Yeah, no matter who you are or what you look like, I'm grateful to the advocates and families of the Martinsville 7 for their dedication and perseverance.
While we can't change the past, I hope today's actions bring them some small measure of peace.
That the person, the white woman who was raped by seven men, you know, I hope she found some peace with the execution of the men who engaged in the rape of her.
Apparently she was not killed, so they were put to death for rape.
Yeah, that was, I'm sure, that was an interesting view of rape in those days, that you could get a death penalty for it.
I think that makes sense to me.
Punishment must be unusual to serve no purpose.
Now let's switch to a fellow by the name Imran Ali Rashid.
On August 30th, just a few days ago, he got a lift from a lift driver.
Her name was Isabella Ann Lewis, age 26.
She did not know Mr. Rashid.
And Rashid shot Lewis in her own car.
She was white.
Pulled the body out and drove away.
All this is caught on surveillance video.
Rashid then drove the stolen car to the Plano Police Department.
He was from, let's see, what city in Texas was he from?
Some neighboring town.
He drove to the Plano Police Department and he opened fire on a civilian employee and another person inside the building, but missed.
Officers responded upon hearing the gunshots, returned fire, striking Rashid at least three times, whereupon he gave up the ghost.
Now, during the investigation, and this is the part that's interesting, everything so far is just more or less humdrum.
During the investigation, police found a note in the stolen car that appeared to be from Rashid, indicating some of his motivations may have been inspired by terrorism.
However, this is mysterious to me, authorities won't say what exactly the note said or what terrorist organization it may have mentioned.
So, there you go.
We are left in a state of doubt and wonderment.
But the fact is, Imran Ali Rashid was investigated by the FBI.
Back in an investigation that went on from 2010 to 2013.
Three years!
Three years, but the investigation concluded that he did not pose a threat.
Furthermore, the FBI, which is on the case now, won't reveal the details of that prior investigation.
So, we just don't know.
Terrorist, but you know, after all, white supremacist terror is the worst threat in the homeland, so I bet he was probably really part of Atomwaffen.
And we just never knew.
you don't you reckon that's it's funny there's a story I could get to but I
just on that same topic on drudge today there's a story about how black women
are buying guns at record levels because of violence against them and of course
who's committing the violence against black women it doesn't say but it has
buried in the article this line about how the the black woman who their
profiling that wanted to buy a firearm was because she was worried about
rising levels of white supremacist violence in the country And you're reading this, you're incredulous.
You're like, well, wait a second.
Scratching our heads.
Okay.
Yes.
That's, that's gotta be it.
That's, that's why, that's why violent crime in Philadelphia and New York and Chicago, it's all being, it's all being It's all being perpetrated by white men who are leaving ammunition on street corners and they're just laughing because they know that random... No, no, no, they get in blackface, you know, burnt cork, burnt cork, you know, and they adopt those gang signs and they hold their guns sideways and they do the boogaloo while they shoot.
There are apparently conspiracy theories that the violence in Chicago is actually accelerated because white people are dropping off ammo all across the city.
This is something that people will articulate with a straight face.
Have they seen the price of ammo recently?
That's insane!
White people are pretty devious.
Of course, in the meantime, Los Angeles is going to go full woke.
The City Council has unanimously voted Tuesday, a week ago, for its staff to produce a racial equity audit of all the city's programs, policies, and practices.
This is long overdue because of generational inequities that perpetuate racial disparities.
They love these words that mean nothing.
Generational inequities that perpetuate racial disparities.
The motion points out that black people who account for 9% of the city's nearly 4 million residents represent a third of those injured or killed by law enforcement.
So we're going to find out.
We're going to find out what's behind that.
And also, there are nearly 34% of the homeless, despite being just 9%, and half of those who filed for unemployment during the COVID-19 pandemic.
So, the city is apparently to blame for all of this, though there's going to be this audit.
The motion will be, open quotes, the blueprint for establishing an anti-racist Los Angeles.
Great!
And Council Member Ridley Thomas, another one of those hyphenated names, I don't know for sure, but I suspect.
Says it's our responsibility to ensure the equitable distribution of city services and resources.
My suspicion is that the black community gets a vastly inequitable distribution of those resources.
It costs a lot to have a black population.
She says, but in order to do that, we must have the tools in place effectively to examine the ways in which we have unwittingly fallen short So the report will be issued within 60 days and the racial equity audit will reflect findings on potential barriers that black people and other underserved communities, are they underserved by the police?
Can't they argue they're over served by the police?
May face to enroll and access city services, et cetera, et cetera.
They're going to collect and get this data annually and require all city general managers to submit a racial equity plan every single year.
Now the motion builds on Mayor Eric Garcetti's Executive Directive, Directive Number 27, which led to the creation of the LA Reparations Advisory Committee.
They've already got reparations in the works.
And furthermore, They might take this a step further.
Before Tuesday's vote, Councilman Gil Cedillo, I suspect his folks are from south of the border.
He said he wants the city to also audit how the policies impact undocumented immigrants with children who are citizens.
Escape from L.A., baby.
Escape from L.A.
We have got, yes, we have a swim if you have to.
What we've got, what we've got is we've got to look into how the city is underserving illegal immigrants whose children are citizens.
Now, I don't know why they even have that qualifier, you know?
It's city services probably grotesquely underserving illegal immigrants.
We've got to look into that.
But in the meantime, here's some interesting good news.
Michelle Barnier.
The Frenchman.
He is a former Brexit negotiator.
He is preparing to be a centre-right challenger to Emmanuel Macron in next year's presidential election and has called for a halt to immigration into Europe for up to five years.
He wants a complete stop.
He would even bar British citizens moving to Europe so that Brussels can have time to evaluate its whole concept of freedom of movement.
Because once you're in, you can move around to wherever you like.
He says this is no good.
He says lessons must be learned, especially after a failed asylum seeker murdered a Catholic priest who had been sheltering him.
You remember that little incident?
I do.
Ah, yes.
That's how they repay the kindness of the white man.
Catholic priest shelters a Muslim immigrant and gets his throat slit.
And Michel Barnier says overall immigration policy does not work.
It does not work in Europe, it does not work in France.
That's why I'm making this moratorium proposal.
He says voters are angry about new arrivals and France has become the prime destination for asylum seekers because that is the quickest way to hop across the channel to Britain.
True.
And more than 10,050 migrants have crossed in small boats this year.
And that figure has already surpassed 2020's record of 8,420.
So, they're all going to get canoeing and rowing merit badges once they get to Britain.
I think they should get those as soon as they hop off the boat.
Now, the British Border Force has braced for 22,000 people to cross the Channel in small boats this year, with thousands more expected to be smuggled across in trucks.
So, Good luck, Michelle Barnier.
I hope your message reverberates.
Now, on the subject of common sense in high places, Dan Patrick, Lieutenant Governor of Texas, has said some remarkable things.
He said something very remarkable.
He was asked about the surge in coronavirus cases a couple weeks ago on an appearance on Fox News.
The Republican Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick said this, quote, African Americans who have not been vaccinated are the biggest group in most states contributing to the spike.
No, just buried in the story says that about 46% of Texans are fully vaccinated.
According to the Washington post tracking, the nationwide rate is about 51%.
However, the Texas Tribune reported this month that black Texans hold the lowest vaccination rates among racial groups statewide at 28%.
As opposed to 46%.
Yeah.
And now 46% is the entire state.
Yes, yes.
So, oh boy, so whites and Hispanics are even higher than that.
Yes.
So for that population, the paper noted a lack of trust in healthcare can be common based on generations of disparities in the American system.
Again, COVID cases, we're seeing it skyrocket in states all across the country.
It is largely hitting people with comorbidities.
I think I read a story in the Wall Street Journal where in Oregon, people who were hospitalized, they were all primarily over 70 with comorbidities.
Those who died were actually over 80.
So, again, we're getting such little data about who's in these hospital rooms during this Delta variant.
However, as the lieutenant governor pointed out, guys, look, who has the lowest vaccination rate?
And you can look this data up.
It's there.
I mean, blacks have the lowest vaccination rate.
And again, we're not allowed to bring up this stuff in public.
The truth will not set you free.
No.
And it's funny because, you know, he said Democrats like to blame Republicans on that.
Well, the biggest group in most states are African-Americans who have not been vaccinated.
The last time I checked, over 90% of them vote for Democrats in their major cities and major counties.
That was the quote from Lieutenant Governor Patrick.
Well, I suppose the sky has fallen on him.
He's been accused of all the wicked things that only white people can do.
I'll read this and we'll move on because we've got to close it out.
He was accused, his statement that cast blame on a racial or ethnic minority for the spread of disease is a well-known racist trope.
That predates most of us.
That was from Jorge Caballero, a former instructor at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Racist trope!
Racist trope, the facts are no defense.
So, we've come to an end, alas, unfortunately far sooner than we'd like to once again this hour.
It is our privilege and very much our great pleasure to have your attention.
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