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Sept. 15, 2021 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Polygamous Refugees Coming Your Way?
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance, and with me, of course, is my indispensable co-host.
And as has become increasingly customary, we're going to begin with reader comments.
They are always interesting, always edifying, and one of ours starts with by pointing out, for your next podcast, can you touch on how NPR covered the 9-11 events on Saturday morning?
When I turned on my radio, they were talking about Muslims as the real victims of the 9-11 attacks.
The government harassed them so they were unable properly to grieve poor things.
I finally turned it off when NPR reported on all the children coming among the Afghan refugees proudly waving American flags.
It seems to me if people are unwilling to fight for their own country, How are they now going to become good citizens of the United States?
Excellent question.
I noticed the same thing.
I was listening to NPR and yes, they made the whole 9-11 business into something that was just a terrible thing for American Muslims.
We took it out on them in the most brutal and heartless way.
Now, another comment having to do with Afghans.
This is a particularly interesting one, and as usual, our listeners come up with things that had never occurred to me.
So, I have added a few facts to this comment, and I've woven them together in a way that will, I think, make a little bit of sense, but our listener says this.
What about all these Afghan refugees?
What do we do with polygamous families?
Yes!
Had that occurred to you, Mr. Kersey?
Maybe it had.
Everything occurs to you.
But polygamy is legal in Afghanistan.
Afghan men may take up to four wives because Islam allows that.
A man must treat all of his wives equally, but for the most part that regulation is rarely enforced.
There's no way to do it, in fact.
Now, the Quran states that a man gets a maximum of four, but an unspecified number of women are allowed to be his concubines.
Don't know quite how that works.
Wow.
Yes, and as it turns out, most Afghan women would rather be a man's third or fourth wife rather than remain single.
Being a single woman is no joke, even if she is abused or unfairly treated.
However, according to reports, when multiple wives live in the same house, they usually establish a harmonious division of labor.
Listen to this heartwarming story.
Haji Sardar Muhammad's first wife, Bashtun, age 52, looks after the younger children he had with his second wife, Gulalai, age 40, who, in turn, makes more of the decisions about running the house.
But the two women cook together, eat together, and, most important, they pray together.
That's all that matters.
All that matters.
Eat together, cook together, pray together.
I don't know if they sleep together.
Now, she is my best friend and like a daughter, Bashtun says of Gulalai.
She is my best friend and like a mother, says Gulalai of Bashtun.
They're going to be great Americans.
Yeah, oh, they'll fit right in.
They'll fit right in.
I know plenty of households like that.
Now, in 2008, a study found that 12.6% of Afghan women were in polygamous marriages.
So, our listener asked, if we're bringing in 95,000 Afghans, that's the general number being bandied about, how many polygamous families will there be?
1,000?
5,000?
Now, will the U.S.
recognize these marriages?
The diversity crowd will scream that imposing U.S.
standards on our new diversity enhancers is bad, so we'll have to recognize those marriages.
The effect will be that Sharia law will usurp U.S.
law.
Now, of course, the easiest way to get around the problem is to legalize polygamy in the United States, at least for Muslims.
Our astute and perceptive listener goes on to say, maybe it's better to settle these families in countries where polygamy is already legal.
That makes too much sense.
That would be insensitive.
Now, he goes on to write, I wish I could feed a question to a reporter in a Gen Psyche press conference.
I'd have him ask.
It's estimated that among the 95,000 Afghans coming our way, there will be about 3,000 polygamous marriages.
Is the plan to apply U.S.
anti-bigamy laws, or will Sharia law be applied instead?
I'd love to see Jan Psaki squirm under that one.
But still on the subject of Afghans coming our way.
Here they come, boys and girls.
The Biden administration has suspended flights of Afghans to the U.S.
after Fort Robles tested positive for measles.
Measles, of course, has been eradicated in the United States, but it's on its way back.
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki herself, none other than Ms.
Jen, said the pause came at the request of the CDC.
The affected individuals have been quarantined and the CDC is conducting contact tracing.
I saw an article about this that mentioned all the different places where you might have been and they might have been and if you've been in those places, watch out!
If you breathe the air, you could be a measles carrier.
She added that the arriving Afghans are required to be vaccinated for measles as a condition for entering the U.S.
Ha!
I guess some of them are slipping through, just like all the vetting.
How close to the New Century Foundation's global headquarters are where the...
They come in the airport, which is about 15 miles away.
I don't think the measles will travel through the air for 15 miles.
And I was not there welcoming them, wavering banners saying we love immigrants when they
got off the plane.
Now, of course...
Well, why not?
Well, why not?
Because I didn't want to get measles.
I thought it was mandatory at this point.
The administration appears to estimate that as many as 65,000 will arrive by the end of the year, followed by another 30,000 next year.
And Ms.
Psaki now says the administration is weighing vaccinating them before they arrive, and that would be at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, which is apparently where they are sent for temporary housing before they come here.
Now, at Ramstein, the home now of thousands of Afghans, U.S.
personnel said that measles, tuberculosis, and COVID-19 are running wild through the camps.
Measles and tuberculosis.
However, the pause in flights to the United States poses a challenge because according to the U.S.
and German agreement, evacuees are supposed to stay for only 10 days.
Now, some have already overstayed, but mostly for acceptable reasons, such as medical emergencies, which you and I, of course, get to pay for, and issues with unaccompanied minors.
I wonder what those issues are.
Now, the German politicians have recently raised concern about the Afghans passing through Rammstein who have requested asylum.
So far, about 1% have done so, according to Foreign Minister Heiko Maas.
Now, can it be that the Germans don't want them?
That seems to be the case.
Well, we talked a couple weeks ago about that National Journal piece that discussed the shocking amount of sexual assaults that were largely perpetrated by Afghan refugees in Germany.
That's right, and Afghans have raised the Swedish rape rate to number one in Europe, maybe the world for all I know.
So, yes, the Germans are wisely saying we don't want them asking for asylum here.
So there you go.
Now, on the subject of asylum for Afghans, there is an even more heartwarming story about uniting families that were separated at the border by the bad, mean, wicked, and cruel Trump administration.
So do warm the cockles of our little hearts, Mr. Kersey, with this wonderful story.
We're washing all that away with a big glass of cerveza.
U.S.
steps up effort to unite families separated under Donald Trump.
We learned that the Biden administration is expanding its effort to find and reunite migrant families who are separated at the U.S.-Mexico border under President Trump's zero-tolerance policy on illegal crossings.
So we've got a federal task force that's been launched, ladies and gentlemen, a new program on September 12th.
I'm sorry, September 13th, that officials say will expand efforts to find parents, many of whom are in remote Central American communities, and help them return to the United States where they will get at least three years of legal residency.
And other assistance.
Now, hold on, hold on.
These are illegals.
Yes.
Who showed up with children.
Yes.
And because the children cannot be held in the detention centers along with adults, they were separated.
Yes.
And somehow, then the children get shipped off to alleged relatives someplace, right?
Correct.
In the United States.
Yes, yes, of course in the United States.
But now these illegal border hoppers who are lost in the mountains of wherever it is, might be Guatemala or El Salvador, we're going to track them down and bring them here and they're going to be legal for at least three years.
Yep, yep, that's the plan.
Oh dear.
Let me continue.
Yes, please do.
I'm sorry.
No, no, no.
It's important that you, it's important that you elucidate exactly how insane this is because again, they bring in their kids.
A lot of them, they weren't even their kids.
They were trying to use these kids.
They would, they would buy them.
They would, they would have these coyotes would try and smuggle them in.
They at least were sent back.
But then the children, if they knew relatives say in New York or Cleveland or whatever, they'd just be shipped there.
And now we're, Our government is going to go and find their relatives wherever they are.
In the mountains of Guatemala.
Exactly.
It's like tracking for the abominable snowman.
We're going to find them wherever they are.
We'll find a lot more than the abominable snowman in Bigfoot.
Yes, yes.
Okay.
Quote, we recognize that we can't make these families completely whole again, said Michelle Brunet,
the executive director of the administration's Family Reunification Task Force.
But, she went on to say, we want to do everything we can to put them on a path towards a better life.
The new program, which includes a contract with the International Organization for Migration
to help with an often complex task of getting expelled migrants back to the US.
So again, illegal aliens.
No, you can't come in.
No, of course you can't come in.
You've got a task force now with that federal word behind, before it.
Out hunting for them.
Exactly.
So again, like I said, they're going to address what they say was a dark chapter in U.S.
immigration history that drew widespread condemnation.
It drew praise from us.
The task force has reunited about 50 families since starting its work in late February.
There are hundreds of parents, and perhaps between 1,000 and 2,000, who are separated from their children and have yet to be located.
But how much is it going to cost?
A lack of accurate records from the Trump administration makes it difficult to say for certain.
Good job, Trump administration, for that.
So minors who cannot be held in criminal custody with their parents were transferred to the Department of Health and Human Services.
They were then typically sent to live with a sponsor, often a relative, or someone else with a connection to the family.
Another illegal immigrant who had somehow gotten into the country and found a way to live in the shadows.
And lost contact with mom and dad, apparently.
Or alleged mom and dad.
Yeah, again, the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas held a virtual call with reunited families last month, and he said this.
He made it very clear that an apology is not enough, that we really need to do a lot more for them, and we recognize that.
So they hopped the border illegally with the children.
We send them home.
We let the illegal children in who shouldn't be here at all.
But, as an apology, we're going to let the illegal border hopper adults in.
They were sent back home.
And they can't find them.
Because they live in remote areas.
No plumbing, no electricity.
Do they speak English?
No internet.
I don't think that matters.
I think it's a prerequisite they don't speak English.
Oh, you're right.
You're right.
That adds to our diversity.
So there you go, ladies and gentlemen.
Okay, well, you know, and there's other good news.
I think some of y'all know about the Center for Immigration Studies.
Everything I know about immigration and immigrants I learned from the CIS.
They're really a great group of people.
They have done a study of this latest $3.5 trillion reconciliation budget bill.
That has a few things tucked away in the corners.
One has to do, of course, with amnesty for an estimated 8 million illegal immigrants.
Now, as the CIS Center for Immigration Studies points out, major policy changes deserve rigorous debate by our representatives in Congress and the public.
Yet, An amnesty has been slipped into a reconciliation bill.
Now, a reconciliation bill is supposed to be reserved for items related to the federal budget.
Of course, these days, anything can be federal budget.
Anything.
And this means it can pass with only a simple majority in the Senate.
This is clearly a way of bypassing the ordinary procedures to get amnesty.
Amnesty which the left and the Dems have been struggling for year after year after year and we won't go over the whole shenanigans about Barack Obama's unilateral amnesty for the so-called dreamers, our nightmare.
Now, What would this cost if 8 million illegal immigrants become legal?
The estimated cost of Social Security and Medicare is roughly $1 trillion present value, because under current law, illegal immigrants are net contributors to Social Security and Medicare because they partially pay into these programs, but most cannot legally receive benefits.
But as soon as they become legal, the money flows both ways, so we'd add another $1 trillion to the deficit.
The bill also grants green cards to a large number of illegals, even those who are removable on criminal grounds.
Can't be shipping the criminals out now, can we?
The DHS Secretary is given the ability to waive applicants' criminal, smuggling, student visa abuse, and unlawful voting for humanitarian purposes, or for family unity.
Doesn't care.
Doesn't care if you're a criminal, we have to keep these illegal immigrant families together, or if a waiver is otherwise in the public interest.
Now, we know how imaginative our rulers are.
They can really think of all kinds of public interest benefits that will be served by keeping drunk drivers and child abusers in America.
The Secretary can waive any criminal grounds.
Anything.
Murder, arson, treason.
They can waive anything if it's in the public interest, and they'll find a way to see that it's in the public interest.
The bill also disregards current immigration law and the congressionally set ceilings by, and this is the phrase they use, recapturing unused immigration visas.
Under this theory, a green card that could have been issued in a given fiscal year in the past, but was not used, is therefore brought back to life for the benefit of a current or future prospective immigrant.
In other words, we have caps, but we can get rid of the caps.
And all of those that were... I guess you're storing up credit in heaven by not actually using them in the year they're due.
Now they can be brought back to life like Frankenstein's monster.
And the CIS estimates that could mean another 703,000 extra green cards.
Now, I was curious in my idle way as to how many pages there are in this reconciliation bill.
I'm almost afraid to give this.
Well, I couldn't find out.
Okay.
No one seems to have counted.
No one seems to have counted.
But this is, as I say, a $3.5 trillion bill, and I did find the page count on the $1.2 trillion bill that passed just a few days ago.
Guess how many pages it takes to ladle out $1.2 trillion?
Uh, 710.
Ah, you're off by 2,000.
2,702.
Who writes this?
Well, who reads this?
Yeah.
In any case, if it takes 2,702 to work your way through 1.2 trillion, at the same rate, if we scale this in a proportional manner for a $3.5 trillion bill, it would require 7,880 pages.
So there you go.
Now, this to me is just insanity.
I think a bill should never be more than three pages long, and every single person who votes on it should have to read every word of it.
It should be less than a page.
You should get the legalese out.
Just a simple page.
A simple, concise breakdown of what's going to be happening.
What's it going to cost?
You know, again, you read that and just think about what's going to happen with this, uh, what was the name of that?
The family What's that?
The family reunification task force.
Oh, yeah.
Think about how that's going to expand if this amnesty, like you just said, somehow gets pushed through.
Oh, yes.
And this would happen in this sort of utterly backdoor way.
No hearings, no commentary.
It is just despicable.
And the idea that we live in a democracy, boy, that went out the window years ago.
Now, moving on to East St.
Louis.
Just a little breaking news.
This was in the Daily Mail earlier this week.
I just thought a few of the headlines were interesting, or a few of the main bullet points.
The headline was, six people, including a child, were injured in East St.
Louis Thursday night after three gunmen opened fire from a moving car.
The mass shooting occurred on the 500 block of Martin Luther King Drive.
The three suspects then tried to flee the scene in their vehicle but were struck by a passing train as they attempted to cross the tracks.
Sounds like a real Keystone Cops kind of a thing here.
And as a CODA, no arrests have been made.
The condition of the victims remains unclear.
That's all we know about what happened on Martin Luther King Drive earlier this week.
And just as a little reminder, race unspecified in all of this, but given that East St.
Louis is, according to the census, no less than 97.74% African American, My suspicion is this little drama had an all-black cast.
I think it was probably the 2.6% non-black, non-African-American population that participated in this mass shooting on Martin Luther King Drive.
That's where they all hang out.
Yeah, exactly.
Anyway, now moving on from East St.
Louis to Birmingham, how sweet it will be to be black and female.
Oh my goodness, Birmingham, Alabama.
Well, a year after they removed some of the most beautiful Confederate monuments in the country against the wishes of the state of Alabama, Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin is unapologetic in spending $100 million with black women-owned businesses by 2025.
$100 million?
$100 billion.
Okay, splash it out, Mayor.
So a parade of Birmingham mayors, all black mayors, have been criticized for the perceived dearth of black millionaires in the city.
A direct result, many believe, of a lack of intentionality.
That's yet another crisis in the black community.
Not enough millionaires.
Yeah, intentionality and spending public dollars with black and women owned businesses.
So that means the government looks to fill the coffers of black owned businesses exclusively to the benefit of creating a fake black Millionaire class.
They won't be fake.
Those dollars will be real.
Oh, those C notes will be real.
Yes.
So the off-sited Holy Grail is the city of Atlanta, where the first black mayor, Maynard Jackson, you know, he was inaugurated the same year that Coleman Young was inaugurated in 1973.
Detroit went one way.
Maynard Jackson, they convinced a few more pale faces to stick around Atlanta.
They could all benefit financially from that decision.
So Jackson threw down the gauntlet with local banks and businesses during his historic tenure
as the city's first black mayor.
And he laid the foundation for a plethora of wealthy African-Americans at the city.
Well, why is that?
Because he steered government contracts in the city exclusively to black owned businesses.
So in January, Birmingham revealed it spent $24.4 million with black and women owned businesses in fiscal year 2020.
Last week during a wide ranging conversation about what he hopes to accomplish.
Mayor Randall said that he hopes, he called it, the spending amount unacceptable and vowed to be more intentional, more Maynard Jackson-like in his approach.
More intentional?
More intentional.
More racially intentional.
Quote, I'm a fan of Maynard Jackson as well as former Washington, D.C.
Mayor Marion Barry.
I hope it's not any of the crack cocaine that Marion Barry was selling.
Maybe that's included.
Maybe so.
What they said To their business community is, this is who we are.
This is where we need to be.
You have the option.
We're going to get there together or things won't grow the way they need to.
Basically, I think that's blackmail.
That's a threat.
Unapologetic, unabashed.
You don't really mean to call it blackmail, do you?
You know, turn a phrase.
Try to be coy there.
So they then give this story about how, you know, Birmingham's trying to gentrify when you get to a point where you're close to 75% black.
You can either go the way Detroit or you can try and climb your way back.
And Birmingham, in 2016, they signed a deal with Topgolf to try and build a big Topgolf.
If you don't know what that is, it's a really nice outdoor driving range, fun place to go, good place to go on a date, hang out with colleagues, that kind of thing.
So they built one in downtown Birmingham.
They signed an inclusion agreement with a goal of 30% participation by minority and woman-owned firms.
and the construction of this facility. As an incentive, there was going to be a separate
agreement where they promised Topgolf a minimum annual payment of $228,000 or 30% sales of tax
revenue. So there's all these incentives if they hit this 30% mark of minority-owned businesses
that would work with the construction.
Well, it didn't quite go that way.
They couldn't meet 30%?
Turns out, they were just at 3.52% of the construction costs were spent with minority firms and 2.5% of the total project costs.
They didn't even come near it!
So, the city terminated its project agreement and will not pay any of the incentive.
But I'm sure not having to deal with those minority-owned businesses saved Topgolf Who knows how many cost overruns.
They're going to get about a quarter of a million dollars a year.
Correct.
But they turned their backs on a quarter of a million dollars a year because the hassle of hiring minority firms was going to be so great.
Correct.
Well, what's fascinating, I didn't read another point, up to a cap of $1.5 million if they hit that 30% of sales
tax revenue back.
So they basically did the math.
They crunched the numbers somewhere, wherever Topgolf's headquarters are.
And they said, listen.
Not worth it.
No.
Let's just get in, get out.
Because we looked at the cost overruns.
We looked at the Yelp ratings of some of these construction companies.
And we realized what happened at the Birmingham airport a couple of years ago when a white kid was killed
because part of the building collapsed on the family as they were going back to Kansas, if I remember correctly.
And they said, you know what?
We'll be fine with not getting the incentives.
We'll get this thing built way ahead of schedule and we'll just enjoy all the revenue we get and the profit.
Wow.
Isn't that interesting?
Well, you know, we have another black woman story, but we are running out of time already, so we'll get back to that, I hope.
But I wanted to tell our listeners about an article that was in CNN, written by someone by the name of John Blake, who appears to be of mixed race.
Well, he says he's mixed race, so I suppose he appears to be of mixed race also.
The article was called White Supremacy with a Tan.
And John Blake points out that around 2045 white people are projected to become a minority.
It's now taken as a given that the browning of America will lead to the erosion of white supremacy.
He goes on to say, I used to believe that, but don't ever underestimate white supremacy's ability to adapt.
Even when whites are a minority, white supremacy apparently will still be at its, reaching its horrible evil.
He goes on to say, racial diversity can function as a cloaking device, concealing the most powerful forms of white supremacy while giving the appearance of racial progress.
Those clever whites, they can appear to be a minority while maintaining all of their white supremacy.
And the way it works is this.
White supremacy isn't just more resilient than many assume, it's also elastic.
Now, he goes on to ask, why do so many racial groups gravitate towards whiteness?
And he goes on to quote someone by the name of Tanya K. Hernandez, author of the forthcoming book, Racial Innocence, and she says, sometimes looking white puts money directly in your pockets.
You get access to jobs, opportunities.
Now, doesn't that happen to you, Mr. Kersey?
All the time.
All the time.
Every day.
Just the other day, I walked into a bank.
I didn't have an account there, but a guy, a teller rushes up to me and says, you look white.
Here's a $50 bill.
Put that in your pocket, please, Mr. White man.
So looking white, putting money in my pocket.
So, uh, and, uh, uh, Mr. Blake goes on to say, if Hispanics ultimately identify as white Americans, then whites will remain the majority for the foreseeable future.
Apparently it's not up to us, Mr. Kersey.
Uh, if whites say they're white, then they're white and white supremacy will continue.
Obviously.
Obviously.
I mean, uh, after all, uh, they, they, uh, the enhanced, uh, Mr. Mr. Blake goes on to write the enhanced status and socioeconomic benefits that come from identifying as whites will be too tempting For many Hispanics to ignore, they want Bank Teller's $750 bill in their pockets, too.
However, this is the strange thing.
He somehow comes to a hiccup in his article when he notes that the number of Hispanics who identified as white plunged.
In the 2020 census, that's right.
Yes.
It revealed a drastic drop in the number of Latinos or Hispanics who identify as white.
Gosh!
I guess they don't want money in their pockets at all?
No!
How can this be?
They're not getting that $50 when they walk in.
If they actually say that they're Hispanic, then they get $500.
Yes!
And this author, this mixed race author, John Blake, has absolutely no idea why the number has dropped.
But then he goes on to talk about Brazil and Cuba.
He says, these countries offer proof that a country can have a large and expanding population of black, brown, and multiracial people and still be governed by the same racial hierarchy that gave us slavery and colonialism, even in Cuba and Brazil.
He says, in Brazil, some 80% of the country's 1%-ers are white.
And in Brazil, the thinking seems to be the less black a person looks, the better.
However, even in Brazil, he says, in a recent twist, the percentage of Brazilians who identify as black has risen because of affirmative action policies.
It works in Brazil, but it never occurred to him that it might be working that way.
What is the point of this guy's article?
The point of this guy's article is, despite the fact that all the facts are refuting it, he thinks that all these people are going to claim to be white, and so whiteness will dominate, whiteness, white supremacy can expand and include Hispanics, and black people will continue to be at the bottom.
I think that's his big fear.
He goes on to say, also Cuba, even Cuba, is dominated by Anglo-looking Cubans.
That old devil racism, he be wily, he be wily.
So even in Cuba, even in Brazil, gosh, white supremacy is just baked into the system.
Then he goes on to say, in the U.S., the dominant group will remain white people, however they may be defined by 2045.
He's completely discounting Asians.
Yes.
They always have to discount.
Oh, maybe Asians will be white too.
Who knows?
I don't know if they'd like to be called white.
Now, then he goes on to say this.
Here's the bad news.
There could be bad news as whites decline in number.
There will be more, not less, racial inequality in the U.S.
because people will cite the nation's growing diversity to drown out those voices of darker skinned people still fighting for racial justice.
Why?
Because you can no longer fight racism if everyone believes the country has moved past race.
Isn't this a tragic future for darker-skinned people?
In other words, when whites are what?
10% of the population?
5%?
Maybe 25%?
People think, well, no, they can't be running the show.
They can't.
No, no, no.
They're still running the show.
They're still running the show.
And all their non-white allies who claim to be white are just oppressing black people.
So he says, we may live someday in an America where there are no racial majorities, but whiteness can still reign supreme.
Okay!
There's CNN for you.
They've got it figured out.
They've got it figured out.
Now, this is another really exciting story that just came across my desk today.
And you will be very excited to know who Time Magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world are.
Did you see the story?
I did see the story.
So you know who's right at the top of the list.
I'm well aware of who the most influential couple are in the world.
Yes.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
The most influential.
Now, you know, I got to thinking about this.
Whom do they influence?
And what do they influence people to do or to think that they wouldn't otherwise do or think?
Do you have any idea?
I have no clues, no answers, and I'm going to try.
What is their influence?
I'd like to know what is their influence.
Now, how is the world any different, better or worse, because Harry and Meghan are in it.
And tell me this, if they disappeared tomorrow, would millions of people suddenly just veer off course because their influence has disappeared?
What does any of this mean?
It just seems utterly cuckoo to me.
Now, most of these 100 I had never heard of.
For example, Have you ever heard of Selwyn Saar and Benedict Savoy?
I've not.
Well, according to Time Magazine, economist Saar and art historian Savoy proposed that objects obtained through colonial-era theft be returned in 2018.
Now, have any actually been returned?
Time is silent on that.
But they proposed that in 2018 and that makes them among the 100 most influential people in the world.
And then there's Dorothea Redeye, who we're told is a scholar and activist focusing on gender and sexualities.
There you go, sexualities.
Then there is, I won't belabor this for too long, but there's Kathy Park Hong.
A poet who has published three volumes focusing on mixed language including English, Spanish, French, and Korean.
That sounds mighty influential.
How many people read all four of those?
I don't know.
And then here's another just absolute hot shot influencer, Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara.
Okay.
He, I guess it's a he, if it's Louis Manuel, is a Cuba-born performance artist who has openly criticized the government and its policies.
Oh!
Which government?
Cuba, I suppose, but probably American while we're at it.
You know, why not?
But he's one of the most influential.
And then here's another one.
I love this.
I love this name.
Mimi Aoun.
Mimi, okay.
Mimi.
Mimi is a Burmese-American engineer and project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
We're going to Mars.
We're going to Mars just on her back.
Yeah, probably next week we'll make it there.
Now, this Mimi, is she more influential than anyone else at NASA or JPL?
She's a project manager.
But apparently, as a project manager, she's more influential.
And is anyone really at NASA or JPL influential in a worldwide manner?
Is anybody there?
Do you think?
Well, I guess if you're a Burmese-American woman, you are.
That seems to be what it takes.
Another hidden figure.
Now here's a name, but she's not hidden anymore.
No, she's out.
She's out loud and proud.
Yeah, boy, is she out of the closet.
Now here's a name, here's a name, here's a name that I'd heard of.
Dolly Parton.
Okay.
And I thought to myself, well good grief, a white country singer?
Well, but listen to this.
She is a country music star who has diligently celebrated the queer community.
Oh, she's beloved by the LGBTQ, XRTB, ZB, I love that.
We could go on for days.
That's what made her an influencer.
Because she's been diligently celebrating the queer community.
Good for Dolly, good for Tali.
Well, I'm proud of you, Dolly!
A white person makes the list!
A white person makes the list.
So, uh, no, this is really a very eye-opening reading.
Most of the people whose names appear on there, I say, I have never heard their names before.
Most of them are unpronounceable by ordinary Americans, but Time Magazine says they are the most 100 influential people in the world.
We talked about Probably a month ago, maybe two months ago, who you most respected, admired in the world.
Who do you think should be on that list?
If we were a sane country, I would of course say you should be on that list if we were a sane world.
Well, I mean look, obviously somebody like Xi Jinping Pretty damn influential, if you're really talking about who is influential.
And somebody like Tucker Carlson is probably pretty influential.
There are many people.
There are Nancy Pelosi, alas and alack, pretty influential.
I'd say she's probably a little more influential than me, me, own.
But there are people who actually are influential.
But no, we got Kathy Park Hong.
Whose daily decisions actually impact human beings.
Yes, yes.
Far removed from where they are.
Exactly, exactly.
Who have some sort of influence.
I mean, blessing, even old daughtering Joe Biden is influential in the world today.
But no, no, no, no.
We got Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara.
So, there you go.
Now, just a little story here about Squaw Valley.
The Squaw Valley Ski Resort hosted the 1960 Winter Olympics, but it will be officially renamed ahead of the coming 2021-2022 winter season.
As you can imagine, Squaw Valley, that just won't do.
The decision announced Monday was reached after consulting with local Native American groups and extensive research into the etymology and history of the term Squaw.
Now it arrives the word squaw is from the Algonquin language and once simply meant woman.
But over generations the word morphed into, we are told, a misogynistic and racist term to disparage indigenous women.
And so what will be the new name?
I would have expected Sacagawea Slopes or something like that, or maybe George Floyd White Powder.
I'm sure he was into white powder.
But no, it's going to be Palisades Tahoe.
Okay.
That sounds very insensitive to me.
And the Squaw Creek Chairlift will also get a new name.
The Squaw Creek?
The Squaw Creek.
There's a Squaw Creek.
Okay.
Now whether or not the creek will get a new name is as yet unreported.
But okay, while I've been ripping right through these, let's go back to this black woman story about brain scans.
I'm deeply skeptical of this story.
I mean, I was thinking maybe this should be shuffled to the bottom of the deck, but since we're on the subject of black women becoming millionaires, I think we should learn about what goes on inside their brains.
Okay, this story is crazy.
I'll just read it.
Brain scans of black women who experience racism show trauma-like effects, putting them at a higher risk for future health problems.
This sounds like something from The Onion, but anyway.
Black women who have experienced more racism throughout their lives have stronger brain responses to threat.
Which may hurt their long-term health, according to a new study that an individual conducted with clinical neuropsychologist Negrafani and other colleagues.
I'll pull her name up at the end, but I'm just going to read as if it's first person.
She's part of a research team that for more than 15 years has studied the ways stress related to trauma exposure can affect the mind and body.
In a recent study, they took a closer look at a stressor that black Americans disproportionately face in the United States.
Racism.
Racism.
So her colleagues, they completed research with 55 black women who reported how much they've been exposed to traumatic experiences of racism.
Oh, I see.
There's a self-report.
Yep, such as childhood abuse, physical or sexual violence, as well as racial discrimination, experiencing unfair treatment due to their blackness.
So they asked to focus on a task that required attention while simultaneously looking at stressful images.
They use a functional MRI to observe the brain activity during that time.
They found that black women who reported more experiences of racial discrimination had more response activity in brain regions that are associated with vigilance and watching out for threat.
That is, the middle cortex as well as the prefrontal cortex.
Their reactions were above and beyond the response caused by traumatic experiences not related to racism.
The research suggests that racism had a trauma-like effect on black women's health.
Being regularly attuned to the threat of racism can tax important body regulation tools and worsen brain health.
Wow.
Well, let's see.
Go ahead.
Oh, dear.
Well, they just asked them.
I guess they ranked them on a scale of 1 through 100, how much racism have you experienced?
And that's how they decided.
Purely subjective.
Now, maybe it's people who have damaged brains who think every time they turn around, they're victims of racism.
We don't know.
We don't know.
This sort of goofy science makes the front page these days.
It does.
So that was, uh, just so you know, that was, um, I will go ahead and tell you who it was.
So if anybody wants to look it up, it's, uh, Sierra Corder.
She is a, she's a, looks like she's affiliated with Georgia State University.
So I'm trying to find out her CV.
I don't see it.
I'm sure she's on her way to a Nobel.
This sounds like Nobel-worthy research.
Well, when you come up, we're going to stick to the black woman theme for a while longer here.
Let's do it!
So, one is Jen Jackson.
This will be very short, but she's a professor at Syracuse University, yet another key element of our black intellectual elite.
And just two sentences.
On 9-11, she said, we have to be more honest about what 9-11 was and what it wasn't.
It was an attack on the heteropatriarchal capitalistic system that America relies on to wrangle other countries into passivity.
Did you know that?
I did not know that.
Osama and the boys were going after the hetero-patriarchal capitalistic system.
I guess they are gay rights, women's rights.
This hetero-patriarchy has got to go, they said.
We believe in gay rights.
We believe in women's rights.
So we're going to kill as many Americans as we possibly can.
So, that is part of the Black Intellectual Elite, and sticking with our theme, our provisional theme of Brilliant Black Ladies, let's stick with Lori Lightfoot.
Chicago Mayor Lori is expected to announce a plan that will allow city attorneys to take legal action against gang-affiliated offenders.
Now, I thought they were already criminals.
You'd think you could take legal action against criminals.
She says, as a city, we're using every tool to push back against the gangs.
And if successful in their legal efforts, the city could thwart gang activities by seizing property such as weapons, money, and vehicles.
She says, take away the profit motive by seizing assets by virtue of their violent activity in our neighborhoods.
We would laser focus on gangs and narcotics in the city.
Now these sound like civil lawsuits to me.
Now, how on earth do you even serve a lawsuit on these guys?
Do the Bloods and the Crips have a registered agent so you can drop off a subpoena?
Are they going to sit still under oath while you take their deposition and find out What is this?
It's an obscenity.
This is cuckoo.
This is just cuckoo.
And as it turns out, so far this year, Chicago PD has made 1,931 total arrests.
Boy, they better defund those police.
That sounds too active to me.
And they have recovered narcotics of an estimated street value of $328 million.
Now, $328 million, that's a cool sum.
Now, how do you turn that into cash?
There's probably no good way to unload it in the United States.
No, no.
But, I mean, what would you think?
If you run a PD and you're in the evidence room, you've got $328 million worth of narcotics.
You know, I think we should start, we should sell it to Afghanistan or something.
Sell it back to Afghanistan.
Exactly.
The hobby fields need to be replenished.
Or, you know, we might start our little opium war and carve out new markets.
But, you know, it's a terrible waste.
$328 million worth of swag.
Might be worth it.
Now, in the meantime, just last weekend in Chicago, from 6 p.m.
Friday through Sunday, 60 people were shot, including children.
60 people.
And the police superintendent, David O. Brown, begged the city's criminals to stay away from children.
He said, you stay away from children if you want to live that life.
I'm sure they're paying close attention.
He says, you're harming this community.
You're harming these families.
So stay away from children.
But you know, we keep telling them they got to be good daddies.
And when they have, you know, 17 children by 12 different women, they're supposed to spend time with children.
But no, no, stay away from children, says police superintendent David O. Brown, because you're harming our communities.
And this leads me to the next attempt to keep black men from harming each other.
Okay.
These are these brilliant billboards.
Oh my goodness.
We're going to Trenton, New Jersey.
Another, another garden spot.
I think there's a, uh, for any New Jersey listener, you can let us know if I'm wrong about this.
You can email us at BecauseWeLiveHere at ProtonMail.com.
Once again, all one word, BecauseWeLiveHere at ProtonMail.com.
Or you can go to the Amarin.com page and go to, what part of the page can people contact?
Contact us.
Contact us at Amarin.com.
I believe there's a bridge in Trenton that has the message, Trenton makes, the world takes.
Something along those lines.
So Trenton, New Jersey.
That's the capital, right?
Trenton is the capital.
Trenton's the capital of New Jersey.
The Garden State.
Well, there are S.E.E.D.
seed billboards that Trenton hopes to heal the city.
What does that mean?
So it's a new initiative that city leaders are hoping is going to reduce black-on-black violence committed by African-American males.
This latest billboard positioned in the city's Wilbur section across the street from P.J.
Hill Elementary School hopes to use Use the attraction as a way to change attitudes and behaviors, i.e., black people stop killing and shooting other black people.
By putting up billboards?
Yes, billboards.
I guess it's like telling them to stay away from children.
Yes.
Quote, it's a billboard that pays tribute to all the young African-American men who are striving to be young men of character, who make an impact in their community and the world.
These young men are in college, gainfully employed, succeed as entrepreneurs, or in trade school.
Stacey Heading, a certified life coach and program director of Servants Endeavoring to Empower And develop male mentoring program.
So the billboard is actually going to be presented officially on September 16th at 5 p.m.
So if you're a listener and you want to go to Trenton and see this billboard presentation, by all means, that's 5 p.m.
Thursday.
That's tomorrow.
It will be unveiled.
Yeah.
So the young men featured on the billboard are seed mentees who are engaged in planning their futures and taking the necessary steps to become strong, committed men who contribute to their families and community.
The billboards appear as part of a Heal the City effort, that they believe these postings can be a powerful way to provide uplifting messages to the community in which they are placed.
Again, i.e., black people put the gun down and stop shooting, killing other black people.
Doesn't say, of course.
But all the subjects are black and they go up in black neighborhoods.
That's right, that's right.
To date, Keele the City has placed about 40 billboards in target communities, heading into the billboards exists as a source of encouragement and enlightenment.
They're changing lives and attitudes One viewer at a time.
One viewer at a time.
Just look at it once and you will save a bullet.
Yep.
He added, young African-American men face numerous obstacles as they grow up, such as racism, violence, and an educational system that often mistakes their energy for aggression.
They're often stereotyped and labeled.
Some of these young men are being raised by strong single mothers who make sure their sons are focused on their future and provide them with opportunities to keep them on a path to realizing their goals.
But I guess some aren't.
No, that's that's true.
So a sample billboard.
As of today, I have no problem with other black men.
My goal is not to hurt or harm you, but to support and uplift you.
We have enough enemies.
Be safe out here, black man.
We have enough enemies.
But again... Who might they be?
I think they're talking about Whitey.
But again, they've already admitted the reason behind putting the billboards up to reduce black-on-black violence.
But Whitey never stepped on my shoe.
I never had to pop Whitey.
He's still an enemy, according to this billboard.
So, maybe it's a good idea you don't go, if you're white, to this unveiling of the billboard, because they might then start whispering, hey, there's one of those enemies over there.
The billboard isn't saying anything about not killing them.
That's true, that's true.
You know, now I'm a supporter of black men, right?
That's right.
Hmm.
Okay.
Look out, white boy.
Now, this is not really our beat, but this is very short, and I think it's worthwhile.
We all know about the requirements for vaccination that are trickling down from the central government, and there is a Dr. Lianna Wen.
She is a Chinese-American, and she was on CNN just yesterday talking about the requirement for proof of vaccination for travelers.
She said, and I found this quite interesting, that travel is not a right according to the Constitution.
Travel is a privilege.
So to exercise that privilege, the government has every right to make you get the jab.
Because travel is not a right.
To exercise the privilege of travel, the government can say, get the jab.
Now, Would the Asian Dr. Wen use that argument on the southern border with illegal immigrants, I wonder?
Would she say, oh, no, no, no?
Travel is not a right.
Travel is a privilege.
I think somehow she would change her tune.
Not only should she change her tune, but again, all we have to do is point to the Family Reunification Task Force that Biden has launched where illegal aliens sent back home because they didn't have the right to come to the United States are now going to be brought and they are going to make sure that they travel on the expense of the U.S.
taxpayer.
Yes, I'm sure.
To the United States.
So that is a right.
It's not just a right.
It's an obligation if you're an illegal.
Vax or unvaxed.
We will not be worrying about that, dear me.
Now, this is a story about clever Israelis.
The headline is, Israeli firm unveils armed robot to patrol volatile borders.
Now, we present the story without commentary of any kind.
This is strictly for informational purposes.
Don't try this at home.
It is operated by an electronic tablet and can be equipped with two machine guns, cameras, and sensors.
The Israeli military uses a smaller one but similar vehicle called the Jaguar to patrol the border with the Gaza Strip.
The semi-autonomous Jaguar is equipped with one machine gun.
A tablet can control the vehicle manually but many of its functions including its movement and surveillance system can also run autonomously.
As one of the experts in the company's robotic division says, with every mission, the device collects more data, which it then learns from for future missions.
As I say, this information is just out there for just FYI.
Strictly FYI.
We make no recommendations whatsoever.
In the meantime, moving to London.
The police chief in London who is in charge of violent crime or stopping violent crime.
He's Commander Alex Murray.
He says the police stop and search is an essential weapon for tackling youth violence.
And the force is taking 400 knives off the street every month.
400 knives.
And he says stop and search should not be targeted equally in London.
Very, very risque, controversial stuff.
But he says 70% of the teenage homicide victims are black.
I'd like to know what percentage are Asian, what percentage are white.
I would too.
But he says black.
The senior officer defended the use of stop and search, a tactic which has attracted strong criticism because it predominantly targets young black men.
Can't have that.
His comments come as violence in London streets has reached record highs and the figures have put London on course to surpass its worst year of violence in 2008 when young black men are being killed at quite a clip.
Now he says, he's very sensitive of course, he's not one of these I just lock them all up.
We recognize that trust in the police by the black community and stigmatizing of black youth is a problem.
Our challenge is how do we stop people being murdered while trying to take the community with us?
See, he's trying to do it right.
And here's what he says.
Our number one priority is to get violence down.
Our number two priority is to build trust and deal justly with communities, but he recognized there's a contradiction there.
There is a huge...glary!
Yes, yes.
It's a terrible balancing act.
Trying to keep black people from killing each other and then trying to keep black people from hating you, that's a very, very tough thing.
So, on the subject of black people killing someone, speak to me of Justine Desmond.
There have been a new development.
You know, it's funny.
We talked about her last week briefly.
If you remember back in 2017, she ran out hysterical.
A couple cops showed up.
One of them was the first Somali cop, I believe, on the Minneapolis force.
He reached across the driver's seat and shot her.
Well, the Minnesota Supreme Court on Wednesday has decided to reverse the third-degree murder conviction of Mohammed Noor, who in 2017 shot the Australian woman Justine Desmond.
No, you say she was hysterical.
I don't think she was hysterical.
She thought there was some sort of rape or robbery going on.
She thought there was a robbery going on and she ran outside.
Remember, she was dressed in her pajamas.
the back alley, but she ran to the window of the car and Muhammad Nur, just for some
unbeknown reason, reached across with his gun, shot across his partner.
These blood women are dangerous.
Exactly.
So he was convicted of third degree murder and second degree manslaughter in the death
of Daymon, who called 911 as we said to report a possible sexual assault behind her home.
He was sentenced to 12 and a half years on the murder account, but was not sentenced
for manslaughter.
The ruling means his murder conviction is overturned and the case will now go back to the district court where he will be sentenced on the manslaughter count.
He's already served more than 28 months of his murder sentence.
If sentenced to the presumptive four years for manslaughter, he could be eligible, Mr. Taylor, for supervised release around the end of this year. In the ruling, the Supreme Court said that
for a third-degree murder charge, also known as a depraved mind murder, the person's mental
state must show a generalized indifference to human life, which cannot exist when the
defendant's conduct is directed with particularity at the person who is killed.
The justices said the only reasonable inference that can be drawn in Noor's case is that his conduct was directed with particularity at Dimon.
And the evidence is therefore insufficient to sustain his conviction for depraved mind murder.
Well, and as you have noted, that is one of the charges under which Derek Chauvin was convicted.
Depraved mind murder.
Ordinarily, depraved mind is used if somebody just opens fire in a random way at a crowd.
Correct.
That shows a depraved mind and utter lack of care for any life in sight.
And so if it requires a generalized depraved mind state, then Chauvin's conviction can be overturned there too.
But it won't help him.
Because in addition to depraved mind third degree, he is subject to unintentional second degree murder.
That's correct.
But this is a weird thing in Minnesota.
It involves Killing somebody unintentionally while you are committing a felony.
And so, if you are robbing a bank and you accidentally knock someone over and he dies, that could be second-degree unintentional murder, for which the maximum sentence is 40 years.
Now, in Minnesota, it's one of the very few places where it doesn't require two separate actions.
In other words, you knock somebody over unintentionally while you're robbing the bank.
Those are two things.
In Minnesota, the conviction is, the felony is the assault on Floyd, which is the same act that accidentally killed him.
So, it is a very strange law, and many people have thought that that law itself should be gotten off the books, but insofar as it is keeping the beast, Derek Chauvin, who was involved in the death of George Floyd, in jail, I suspect there'll be no challenge to that anytime soon.
So, Mr. Moore, uh, Moore is his name, or Noor, Noor, right, Officer Noor, he'll be back on the street, probably, possibly, but certainly not Derek Chauvin.
Well, again, like I said, the end of the year, so you can imagine him being celebrated.
I should think so.
I should think so.
He will be another one of those strong black men wrongly convicted by a racist... Get him back on the police force!
Yes, back on the police force.
Now, I have kind of a feeling his career's over there, but we'll see.
Maybe he'll be... well, I won't guess.
Now, we'll finish up a little book-burning story.
In Ontario, there is a Catholic school district known as the Conseil Scolaire Catholique, which in consultation with First Nation elders and indigenous knowledge keepers, knowledge keepers, they decided to purge with fire books that were deemed offensive.
This was to be done during a flame purification ceremony that was held for educational purposes.
They removed 4,700 books from school libraries and classrooms at more than 30 different schools.
Among those removed were children's classics like Asterix and Obelix and Tintin, which are comic-style adventure books, and also a modern-style comic book about the exploration of Quebec.
One titled Tintin in America was removed for its negative portrayals of indigenous people.
Also books that allegedly contain cultural appropriation removed, as well as history books considered outdated.
Two biographies of Jacques Cartier, the explorer, and also one of Étienne Brûlé.
He is a French explorer and outdoorsman who spent much of his life among indigenous tribes serving as an interpreter.
Well, reportedly he was killed and eaten by his adoptive tribe, the Hurons.
So, this is apparently an embarrassment and we got to get rid of that one too.
So, these 30 children's books along with 4,700 others were burned in the flame purification ceremony.
The ashes of the book were used as fertilizer to plant trees.
This was called giving back to Mother Earth.
So, there you go.
So, the Canadians can be just as goofy as we.
Oh, far goofier.
They're far goofier.
So, as usual, we've run out of time.
We have so much more to tell you, dear listeners, and we will do our best next week to pack as much information as we can.
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