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Sept. 23, 2021 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Here Come the Haitians
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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance, and with me, of course, is my always trusty, always well-informed co-host.
And as usual, we're going to begin with listener comments.
Here's one that I don't quite understand, but we'll try to get to the bottom of it.
Our listener says, during Jared and Paul's most recent podcast, a list of the influential people by Time Magazine was brought up.
Our hosts questioned how some of those chosen were influential, and then they dropped a few names of those who might be more so.
However, it's my opinion that our hosts made their choices not by the influence, but by how powerful they were, and they missed the point entirely.
Now, we of course mentioned Xi Jinping, even bumbling old Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, they are very powerful people, but it is through their power that they influence.
I am very curious to know how Mimi Aung, for example, or Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara, Or Kathy Park Hong?
Or Felwyn Saar?
Or Benedict Savoy?
How they influence people and in what way?
How is the world different because those people exist?
This is to me the question of influence.
People's lives change, the things they do change, the things they think change.
Whereas the people that we mentioned, powerful people, Biden, Xi, Nancy Pelosi, someone like Oh, the dictators of any country.
Putin, the people running Myanmar, Burma.
They are influential and they influence people's lives.
But, as the Time Magazine people pointed out, they weren't necessarily looking for power.
They were looking for people that they wanted people to pay attention to.
They are clearly wanting these people to be more influential.
So, what they are really describing is a kind of an aspirational thing, and that's why we have all these obscure people, most of them non-white, most of them working in utterly and forlornly progressive fields, and they're the ones that Time Magazine wants us to pay attention to.
Another listener comment.
This had to do with a British news story.
Not entirely our beat, but I thought it was interesting nonetheless.
He quoted to us a headline, Young man with Down syndrome to become presenter on BBC children's television.
Well, I'm happy for him.
Apparently, his family had always told him he could achieve anything.
So, no doubt, next is medical school.
On the other hand, it seems to me that this Down Syndrome Village performance on TV probably isn't going to be much different from what we get from CNN.
What do you think, Mr. Curtis?
No, not at all.
Yes.
Now, the big story, inevitably the big story this time around, is what's happening at Del Rio.
This was really an astonishing story that bespeaks a kind of incompetence, an inability to understand the world as it is, almost as catastrophic, well, as catastrophic in its incompetence and stupidity, although not quite in its scale, as the collapse in Afghanistan.
Another absolute black eye for the Biden and Kamala Harris administration.
And just to read a few stories, this massive illegal immigrant shantytown grew up to 15,000 in less than a week.
15,000 people.
First, there were none.
A week later, 15,000.
This was, of course, after the Biden administration decided that it was going to halt deportations of Haitians because of instability back home.
The word got out, and so they showed up.
You ring the dinner gong, and people will show up.
And so using cardboard and brush and everything to get a hold of, they built these little structures under the Del Rio International Bridge.
And the Center for International Studies, Immigration Studies, Center for Immigration Studies, which is really a wonderful think tank in Washington, DC.
They really do thorough work.
They sent a man down there to find out exactly what happened.
And he said that on September 12th, The Mexican government effectively sent a mass of migrants that had bottled up for months in the southern states right up to the American border.
As it turns out, they have these camps where they hold people who are trying to get to the United States, and they said, okay, the starting gun goes off.
Apparently, Father Biden wants you.
And as the CIS report says, it could find no public reporting of any official Mexican announcement or confirmation of these accounts, but that is what they heard from the migrants themselves.
So question, did they walk?
Did they horseback?
Did they boat?
I don't know.
Did they fly?
Did they take a bus?
Well, you know, some of them have talked about how much money they spent moving from this country to that country.
I spent $12,000 doing this, that, or the other.
So, who knows?
They clearly have enough money so they don't have to walk, at least some of them.
But there are so many mysteries to this program.
Really, what happened is really quite bizarre.
And but as the CIS says, Center for Immigration Studies, if their accounts are true, Mexico can basically open the floodgates anytime.
They've got plenty, they got a large supply of people down there and they can just turn them loose.
Why did they end up at Del Rio?
According to CIS, the Mexican cartels in the city don't involve themselves in human smuggling.
All they do is drugs.
As they do, they do human smuggling in northern Mexico, but the people who manage to get to Acuna, just across the border from Del Rio, they can cross the river themselves.
I imagine you saw a picture of them just wading across.
Another reason why we need that wall, for heaven's sake.
If you can just wade across, boy, do we need a wall.
But the point is, they can go without paying smuggling fees to these ruthless Mexican people trafficking cartels.
Of course, if that's the case, why doesn't everybody go to Del Rio?
Again, mysteries here.
Also, Breitbart, they toured one of the camps last Friday.
And they saw a steady stream of mostly Haitians crossing back and forth across the Rio Grande with supplies, cardboard, bedding, bedding materials, food, diapers, in and out, just like it was their own house.
So wait, they were getting supplies from the United States?
No, no, no, no, from the Mexican side, from the Mexican side, going over to the Mexican side.
Looks like once they've got in on the U.S.
side, they wanted to build their little shanties to be just like home in Haiti.
Yes, and so they're just going back and forth.
They're buying supplies, bedding, food, and despite this constant transfer of migrants from the camp to local detention facilities as space opens in them, the Border Patrol had not been able to reduce the population of the camp.
They take them out, they get 15,000, and it's not even a detention, it's just this open-air area, and they're just shacked out there.
It's mostly according to Breitbart.
Family units with children, but also thousands of single adult men and some women.
Now, back to how the Center of Immigration Studies looks at it.
They pointed out that last Sunday, the Biden administration began deporting Haitian migrants from the illegal alien camp in Del Rio back to Haiti.
And as a result, over just this last weekend, 372 Haitians had been sent out.
Now, a lot of them have been boarding buses and then they crossed back over the river and they get on buses and head south apparently because they don't want to be sent back to Haiti.
No.
They think they're better off in Mexico.
Now, on these flights though, Haitians have attacked the ICE agents several times on the deportation flights.
In one incident, two Haitians reportedly bit ICE officials before they took off in Texas.
Nice guys!
And in another occasion, on Tuesday, just a couple days ago, the people who had been unloaded in Haiti off of one plane, when another plane came in, they tried to storm the plane on the runway at Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and try to fight their way on to get back to the United States.
Crazy!
Talk about a nation of white privilege dominated by white racists and white supremacy.
I mean, it seems like Haitians, you know, I believe the Constitution of Haiti doesn't only allow blacks to own land in Haiti, or initially?
That is the case with Liberia.
I don't know about Haiti.
Haiti might be the same.
Okay, I want to say the first black republic in the Western Hemisphere.
It could be, but they're dying to be victims of white supremacy in the United States.
There you go.
And so, yes, they are demanding to be taken back to the United States, injuring ICE agents trying to fight their way back on these airplanes.
Well, I think these fellows will fit in great in North Philly, don't you?
They just seem to be cut from exactly the same cloth.
Southwest DC, Detroit, Memphis.
They'll do just fine.
Then there are others.
Again, the CIS points out that once the word got out they might have to go back to Haiti.
They went across the border to Ciudad Acuna at the bus station buying southbound tickets.
So they didn't walk.
They at least bought bus tickets.
These people seem to have money in their pockets and many plan to go back to Tapachula To get Mexican papers and wait out Biden's determination to repatriate them.
They know that their time will come.
Just wait him out, wait him out.
Now there, of course, there was this crazy horse story.
I'm sure you saw photographs and most of our listeners did too.
Men on horseback, you know, they got these long split reins and they're flying in the air and people say, oh, they're beating these poor Haitians.
They're whipping them from horses just like in slavery days.
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said these images were horrific.
And Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said the agents' actions were grotesquely inhumane.
Now, I'm very glad to see the Texas Border Patrol agents have really fought back.
They said, they quoted one guy, anyone with two brain cells knows that you use reins in that way to control horses.
That is what's going on.
One agent told Fox News, the outrage over the images show officials lack basic knowledge of horse handling and just proves what absolute idiots they are.
Of course, they have pulled all the horses out.
All the equestrian teams are no longer at the border.
That's right.
Can't have that.
Somebody that might be effective can't have that.
No, no.
And National Border Patrol Council Vice President Art Del Quedo said agents were using absolutely approved techniques.
Anyway, it appears now that despite Joe Biden and the administration saying they were all going to be pitched back to Haiti.
Many are being released in the United States.
U.S.
officials have pointed out that thousands are being let loose, completely undercutting the administration's claims that they're going to face immediate expulsions.
Haitians have been freed on, quote, very, very large scale, according to one U.S.
official, and they got notices to appear at an immigration office within 60 days.
Oh, okay.
We know what happens with that.
Was it like 97% of the people don't show up?
Yes.
Here's your meal ticket.
Show up in 60 days.
Ha, ha, ha.
Wink, wink, wink.
Yeah, at an immigration office.
Well, I'm sure a lot of them will probably try and apply for temporary protected status that we know a number of tens of thousands of Haitians Continue to be from the 2010 earthquake.
That's right.
And that was one of the reasons they came swarming up.
TPS, TPS.
I bet even if they can't speak a word of English, they can all say TPS.
And then, okay, this is of course at odds with the claims of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who says they're all heading straight back to Haiti.
And then there are other interesting methods.
Several groups of Haitian illegals who are being transported from the Del Rio camp took control of the federally contracted buses that they were being shipped out on.
Did you hear about that?
I did not.
They essentially hijacked them.
What they do is they overpower the drivers and then they drive down the road a couple of miles and then they hop off and escape.
This has happened to several buses.
Yeah, nice guys.
Nice guys.
And in one case, they didn't actually hijack the bus.
They kicked the windows out and 22 on board just escaped out into America.
So they could be shown up on your doorstep, these enterprising lads.
And as someone was explaining to the press, they're not shackled or anything.
They just load them up on the buses.
And if they decide they want to hijack a bus, nothing is going to stop them.
Again, they'll just fit right in with the residents of Baltimore.
Just the kind of people we need.
Now, Mexico apparently has begun busing and flying Haitian migrants away from the U.S.
border, showing a new level of support for the United States.
I don't know why they're bothering.
No.
Yeah, why should they?
It's not Donald Trump anymore.
And this is also interesting.
Marcelo Ebrard.
This is once again information from the Center for Immigration Studies.
Mexico's foreign relations secretary said most of the Haitians already had refugee status in Chile or Brazil and yet they had come to the United States or come to Mexico in the hope of getting into the United States.
They've already got refugee status.
That's a heck of a long It's a very long way.
These people, as I say, I read one guy explaining that he'd spent $12,000 getting to the United States and it was about time he got in with his attitude.
And he should get refunded, double that.
I'll say, I'll say.
I mean, you'd think you could start a pretty fancy business down in Haiti with $14,000.
But, just back to the old question of statistics.
The number of illegals apprehended in August was 208,887.
was 2,208,887 in July up to 2,000 in 2013 and 530, 2013,534, 189,020 in May.
So we're cruising along at about 200,000.
200,000 every month.
More than a million and a half illegals have been caught so far this year.
Triple the 458,000 caught making the same trip last year.
And as we all know, when lots and lots of them are being caught, that means lots and lots of them are getting through.
And the more that are being caught, that means the more manpower is out there being distracted and they are less able to catch the ones who are coming through.
So, the more they come across, we can be assured that the greater the portion of those who make their way through.
So there you go.
Now, you have a story about a different group of so-called refugees and immigrants.
These are ones that we brought over ourselves.
I do.
I have a question.
Oh yes, please.
Is this going to produce a sufficient amount of blowback?
We saw Tucker Carlson talk about the Great Replacement on his show.
People are going crazy about that.
You have other representatives now, Republican elected representatives, talking about what this represents.
The breakdown of the border equals the Great Replacement.
The people of America, the American people, the historic American nation being replaced.
Is this being reported enough to have sufficient blowback in 2022?
I sure hope so.
That's all I can tell you.
I sure hope so.
I think even Democrats are wondering, what the heck?
15,000 Haitians under a bridge?
Just wading across the river getting in?
Haiti's an island, right?
Haiti's an island?
Exactly.
That's the ultimate geography question.
Yes, and of course Kamala Harris in charge of the border.
I suspect if she is the candidate next time around, perhaps people will remind her that she was the border Tsarina when all of this excitement happened.
So we'll see, we'll see.
But these days, of course, the media pretty much controls everything, and the media is trying to make it all sound just a little mishap, just like Afghanistan.
A bit of a surprise.
It was Greg Hood who said it's not a state-run media, it's a media-run state.
Exactly, exactly.
And it ends up being much the same thing.
Exactly.
Speaking of which, so in Idaho, an Afghan refugee has been arrested.
I love this line.
An Idaho man who was a convicted rapist was arrested by authorities while trying to re-enter our country from Afghanistan.
The Afghan refugee had lived in Idaho where he was convicted of rape in Atta County back in 2010.
And he must love Idaho.
He's trying to get back into Idaho.
You know, he must be a big fan of potatoes.
Must be.
Gaydar Hedari served time in Idaho before being released and deported.
The issue of Afghan refugees coming to the state of Idaho following President Biden's orders has been a point of contention between state lawmakers and the administration.
The Idahoans expressed concern over the vetting process for the Afghans coming to Idaho.
I think that would probably be a good reason too.
Wait, wait, wait, this guy's a rapist.
Fled back to Afghanistan only to be able to come back to Idaho.
Governor said that he would ask the state police to help with the vetting process.
Canyon County Sheriff Kieran Donahue spoke to the Washington Times saying that No truer word said.
Yeah, I agree.
and Joe Biden brought him back to America.
Quote, we're going to pay for this for some time, possibly for decades.
And as law enforcement, we're kind of that first line of defense out here.
These people are coming into the country without a thorough vetting process,
and I don't believe there is one being done thoroughly.
We stand to have a whole bunch of law enforcement respond to tragic events, up to and including
terrorist activity on our soil.
No truer word said.
Yeah, I agree.
So he's currently being held by ICE.
The State Commission on Pardons of Parole is taking action on the case.
Over 400 Afghan refugees have arrived in Boise and Twin Falls, Idaho.
The Biden administration has announced 400 Afghans in Boise and Have you ever been to Boise?
I have, long ago.
But you know, this is of course why the Afghans throw blankets over their women and don't let them out.
Because Afghans, as soon as they see a pretty leg, they just can't control themselves.
So this is just the sort of person we want in this country.
Well, it's a great segue to the next story.
Two Afghan men at Fort McCoy have been charged with assault, engaging in a sex act with a child.
Two Afghan men staying at Fort McCoy in western Wisconsin were charged Wednesday with committing unrelated crimes while staying at the base, including assault and engaging in a sexual act with a child.
Now, these are these lovely people that we brought back because they were loyal helpers.
They were supposedly loyal helpers who immediately put their guns down after being trained for Tens of billions of dollars to defend the United States-led coalition that fell within, what, 48 hours?
They're the ones who are spreading the American way of life overseas.
Yes, yes, yes.
Now they're getting a good dose of it back here.
Yes, indeed.
Barula Nuri, 20 years old, is facing three counts of engaging in sex acts with a minor, including one allegedly involving the use of force.
I'd say that's rape.
He's charged with the fourth account of attempting to engage in such acts with a minor while using force.
The alleged victims were at least four years younger than Nouri and had not yet reached the age of 16.
Mohamed Haroun Imad of 32 is charged with assaulting his wife on September 7th. The indictment alleges Imad choked
and suffocated her.
Charges have been filed in federal court. The men made their first appearance September 16th.
If convicted, Nouri could spend up to life in federal prison.
prison for the charges the lead force and up to 15 years for the other two charges
Ahmaud faces a decade in fed prison.
You know I say just send them back to the Taliban.
I don't want to pay room and board for these clowns for 15 years.
I think the Taliban still operates under the eye for an eye.
I don't think they tolerate much of this kind of nonsense.
No.
Sex attack on a child.
These are people who are being held in a base while they're being processed for release into the civilian population, right?
So probably my guess is these were family members of other Afghan so-called refugees.
I recall reading that a number of the army officers that were training the Afghan army would be on duty at night to make sure the base was safe and they'd stumble upon two Afghans buggering each other.
Or some of them would have little boys in their pants buggering them.
Exactly.
And they would basically say, go away, go away.
This is the way we do it in Afghanistan.
And whenever officers tried to bring this up to the hierarchy, to individuals in the chain of command, it was said, hey, shh, shh, this is who's protecting the new American way of life in Afghanistan.
And we saw how fast that fell.
And so, like you just said, the Flotsam and Jetsam of that failed experiment, hey, they're all here now.
They're in Idaho, they're in Wisconsin, they're in Northern Virginia, Atlanta.
That's right.
Enrichment.
Be the first on your block to spot one.
Now then, of course, there's this lovely story about Carmine's, the Italian restaurant in New York City.
It was in the news, of course, because three women, initially reported to be Texans, had beaten up the hostess, the maitress D, at the restaurant because there was a question about the validity of their proof of vaccination.
New York has become the headquarters of the vaccination police.
You have to show proof of vaccination in order to eat indoors.
Well, these Texans, so to speak, had gotten into fisticuffs with the staff of Carmine's and then, of course, Twitter all erupted.
Oh, those ignorant Texans.
What do you expect from Texans?
They don't know about vaccination.
Well, it turned out these Texans were black.
And all of a sudden the story changed.
The story changed.
Must have been racism.
Must have been racism.
Well, it turns out, of course, that the hostess, the maitress, the maitress D, is an Asian woman.
So that story sort of fell apart a little bit too.
And so now, of course, it turns out the blacks apparently... It's a slightly complicated story.
The women apparently did have vaccination certificates, but they were joined by a few men who did not.
And then the whole party was asked to leave.
They didn't take that kindly and started beating up on the poor Asian hostess.
Well, that story was well reported.
Now, and this is the part that I find very interesting, I mean, so far, I mean, it's those unremarkable stories, this sort of thing that happens, this is diversity at its best.
Now, Hank Newsom, the co-founder and chairman of Black Lives Matter Greater New York, says that restaurants, quote, are using vaccine mandates to enforce their racist beliefs and are excluding black patrons.
Oh my, so this is all a racist plot right from the beginning.
Chivona Newsom, also a co-founder of the group, I'm guessing there's some sort of relationship between Hank and Chivona Newsom, she said, what's going to stop the Gestapo, I mean the NYPD, from rounding up black people, snatching them off the train, off the bus?
Now, I don't believe you have to show vaccination proof to get on a bus.
You have to wear a mask.
In some states you have to wear a mask, correct, in municipalities.
But I guess, you know, they've got it figured out.
Black people are going to be snatched off of buses and trains.
She further issued the threat.
BLM was quote, putting this city on notice that your mandate will not be another racist social distancing practice.
This is the vaccine mandate.
And black people are not going to stand by or you will see another uprising.
Isn't this great?
So, apparently, she's threatening to burn the city down if they, in fact, enforce this vaccination requirement to eat indoors in a restaurant.
I'd love to see that happen, actually.
This would really flummox the liberals, wouldn't it?
They're pets, the people they love to love.
And after they've been insulting everybody, if you're a Trump supporter, not vaccinated, if you're a white person, not vaccinated, you are scum.
But a black person who's not vaccinated?
Ooh, this confuses them.
What to do, Mr. Kersey?
What are they going to do?
And as it turns out, Hank Newsom says 72% of black people in this city ages 18 to 44 are unvaccinated.
And so, obviously, that's why the city required vaccination in order to eat indoors.
Isn't that obvious?
They want to keep the blacks out.
I guess that's the way they think it.
That's the way they have figured it out.
And, you know, this is quite interesting, quite interesting.
When President Joe Biden overhauled his approach to COVID-19 and announced these across-the-board restrictions, vaccine requirements covering millions of Americans, his support among Blacks has plummeted.
I saw that.
Yes.
Isn't this interesting?
I didn't realize that Black people read the news all that carefully, but I guess they figured it out.
Morning Consult.
...has found that Joe Biden's approval rate dropped 12 points among black voters since September 8th when he announced this comprehensive new COVID-19 mitigation plan.
Now, it's perhaps related to the fact that he said he was going to deport all these lovely black Haitians, so I don't know.
But that is a remarkable thing to me.
If, in fact, blacks are paying such careful attention to these vaccine mandates that they are despising Donald Trump, despising Joe Biden, if he's going to require vaccines.
So, all you anti-vaxxers out there in Radio Renaissance listener land, black people are your allies.
They have the lowest vax rate.
That's right.
They're going to burn the city down if they insist on requiring vaccination proof in order to get a meal at Carmine's.
So there you go.
Now, so another piece, I think, of very significant news was a story that you, Mr. Kersey, dug up, and that is the invalidation of a North Carolina voter ID law.
This is, to me, a very, very chilling story of which I was not even aware.
So, Regé, let's see if you would.
I shall.
So, two North Carolina judges, both Democrats, on September 17 struck down a law that required photo identification to vote, saying the measure was, quote, enacted with the unconstitutional intent to discriminate against African-American voters, end quote.
The law was enacted in violation of the Equal Protection Clause in North Carolina's Constitution.
The majority of the panel said the clause says that no person shall be denied the equal protection of the laws, nor shall any person be subjected to discrimination by the state because of race, color, religion, And this had to do with just shorting a picture ID.
Correct.
And that's racial discrimination.
And this is their reasoning.
Defendants in the lawsuit, including North Carolina House Speaker Timothy Moore, failed to show that racial discrimination wasn't a substantial or motivating factor behind the enactment of the law.
Failed to show it was not a motivating factor.
That's right.
The two Superior Court Democrat judges, that's what they wrote in a 102-page ruling permanently blocking the measure.
It turns out that the law in question, Senate Bill 824, was enacted after a majority of voters in North Carolina approved it as a constitutional amendment in 2018.
Wait, wait, the voters approved it?
They did.
Before that, the Republican-controlled state legislature passed the bill and overrode a veto from North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, a Democrat.
According to previous court rulings, plaintiffs challenging a law in the state must show that discrimination was a motivating factor in passing a law.
In the past, if to strike something like this down, you'd have to prove that it was racist.
Now the people who are passing the law have to prove that it wasn't racist.
Correct.
And how is it that the people of North Carolina can be proven that they weren't racist?
Precisely.
Go ask every one of them?
Can we see your browser history?
This is Never Never Land.
Jabari Holmes and five other voters in the state sued over the law on the same day the legislature overrode Cooper's veto, noting that a previous voter identification requirement was invalidated by the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit because it alleged to be intentionally racially discriminatory.
This decision was upheld by the U.S.
Supreme Court.
Well, presumably those laws, to the extent that they really were racially motivated, and I highly doubt it, you had to somehow demonstrate that they were.
Correct.
Now, I mean, this is guilty until proven innocent.
This stands the Constitution on its head.
Well, but I guess, well, you know, this is just logical.
White people are racist no matter what.
You can't even prove that you're not.
So we just have to assume that anything white people do is racist.
So that's what the story basically says.
Wow.
Boy, white people voted this law.
White people are racist.
And if they can't prove they're not racist, and of course, white people never can because they're always racist, then voter ID goes out the window in North Carolina.
This to me really is an astonishing story.
But moving on to another story that is working its way into possible law is the Democrats' $3.5 trillion proposal To expand the U.S.
safety net.
Now Jason Reilly, who is black, wrote in the Wall Street Journal what I thought was a very perceptive and well-argued piece pointing out how crazy this is.
He wrote, liberals view a larger welfare state as an unalloyed good.
But what's the track record?
Entitlement programs were dramatically expanded in the 1960s in the service of the war on poverty, yet poverty fell at a slower rate.
After the Great Society initiatives were implemented, an overall dependency on the government for food, shelter, and other basic necessities increased.
Very important.
All this money being splashed out, all these programs, all these pat them on the head, give them free this, free that programs, that does not reduce poverty at anywhere like the rate of just buckling down and getting to work.
Democrats, as Mr. Roddy points out, are not aiming to create new entitlements and expand existing ones.
He points out that between 1940 and 1960, the percentage of black families living in poverty declined by 40 percentage points.
40 points!
No welfare program has ever come close to replicating that rate of black advancement.
And that, of course, predates all the racial preference programs that are everywhere today.
He says what we experienced in the wake of the Great Society Interventions was much slower progress or, in fact, outright retrogression.
Black labor force participation rates fell, black unemployment rates rose, and the black nuclear family disintegrated.
Well, of course, if there's free money, why work?
Why work?
If you get free housing, why bother to get married?
We've seen that crisis happen since the COVID Money was allocated all across the country you see in restaurants anywhere you go.
They say hey, please be patient with us We're having trouble with staffing That's right.
They're getting better.
They're making more money on unemployment than they were working.
So why work?
It's the American way.
If you can spend your day in a hammock and make just as much, only a fool would work.
And in 1960, this is also one of the crucial statistics, fewer than 25% of black children were being raised by a single mother.
That's about 70%.
Now it's about 70%.
Crime, single parenting, and drug abuse also increased among poor whites in the aftermath of the Great Society.
So white people are subject to this kind of perverse motivation as well.
If Uncle Sugar is writing the checks, why should you bother to work?
As Jason Reilly points out, when the government indulges and subsidizes counterproductive behavior, we get more of it.
Another little tidbit here.
And of course, now the government is planning on splashing out more free money, more free services, and we'll get that much more irresponsible behavior.
This stuff is nuts.
Here is a little tidbit also.
The median time a family spends in New York City public housing today is 19 years.
19 years in public housing.
That's the median.
Two decades.
Yes.
And 10% of public housing residents have been there for more than 40 years.
More than 40 years.
Housing that is supposed to help families through a rough patch has become, in some cases, a multi-generational trap.
And why not?
If the government is paying your rent check.
Ah, well.
So there you go.
Well, thank you, Jason Reilly.
Thank you very much.
All this is very important, and we're glad the Wall Street Journal is writing about it.
The chances of it affecting legislation, slowing it in its tracks, I fear, are very low.
But we'll see.
At least there have been a few Democrats who think all of this spending is not necessarily a good idea.
So maybe that $3.5 trillion will not end up being $3.5 trillion.
Maybe they'll put it down to $2.5.
In any case, now here was a story about a shooting in D.C.
I will read the story more or less verbatim here.
Several people have been shot, including a young boy, in southeast D.C.
near a convenience store Tuesday morning.
Five victims were hurt.
Police said the victims were two men, two women, and a young boy.
They're all said to be conscious and breathing.
Well, glad to hear that.
Then, D.C.
Police Chief Robert Conte was also at the scene.
It's unacceptable for someone to shoot into a crowd of people at 8.30 in the morning, he said.
That's unacceptable.
8.30?
I guess if it had been midnight, you know, that'd be okay.
It's unacceptable to shoot into a crowd of people at 8.30 in the morning.
Now, unacceptable.
I'm sure that's not, of course, what he meant.
He says it's unacceptable.
When people use the word unacceptable, that means something's got to change.
If you say, this paper is unacceptable.
If somebody said that to you in school, you had to turn in a different one.
Correct.
But everybody says, this is unacceptable and it just keeps on happening.
But this is the word that people love to use to make it sound as though something's going to be done and nothing gets done.
This is unacceptable.
If somebody paints your house and you say, this is an unacceptable job, he doesn't get paid.
But no, nothing's going to change.
It's unacceptable, but it doesn't get changed.
Now, this to me is the key line in this whole story.
People are on the lookout for a man about 5'5 to 5'7 tall in a black hoodie, wearing gray sneakers and blue jeans.
This was in D.C., correct?
This is the D.C.
story, yes.
And it happened at 8.30.
This happened at 8.30 in the morning.
Five people hit, including a young boy.
And people are looking for a man about 5'5", 5'7", tall, in a black hoodie, wearing grey sneakers and blue jeans.
That's all they can think of to tell us about this guy?
Now, I wonder, when the people write this stuff, they think, well, why bother to mention that he's black?
Because everybody knows he's black.
You think that?
I'm sure there are some people out there who say, my god, Black, that's scapegoating an entire race if you put that in there.
Maybe so, maybe so.
How dare you put that in there in stereotypes.
You can't perpetuate stereotypes.
And it was probably a Japanese tourist, you know?
Well, you know, we've talked about that story from the Poynter Institute where newspapers nationwide are basically saying, let's just not even cover crime.
So I'm surprised that story's even reported.
Well, we got so much to do here.
We got to move along, and I really do not want to not get to this Baltimore street sign of yours, but things are in a certain order.
Maspeth High School, that's in Long Island.
Principal Kursid Abdul Muktakabir.
Why is he principal?
Well, this is multi-culti America.
He demanded that teachers pass students no matter how little they learned.
Says a 32-page report by the Special Commissioner of Investigation for City Schools.
Yes, pass no matter how they learn.
Now, listen to this quote.
This is what this guy says.
I don't care if a kid shows up at 744 and you dismiss him at 745.
It's your job to give that kid credit.
Then he goes on to say that they will be giving students a diploma not worth the paper on which it is printed and let him have fun working at Taco Bell.
This is the principal talking.
He's acknowledging these people are learning nothing.
They're getting a degree, a diploma that means nothing.
Let him have fun working at Taco Bell.
Well, this report confirms a culture of cheating in which students could skip classes, do little or no work, but still pass.
And look toward a future of employment at Taco Bell.
That's right.
Little did they know.
Someone probably thought that they were actually getting a high school education.
The school set up courses to grant credits to students who didn't have to show up.
And Maspeth High School enrolled students in classes scheduled during zero hour, 8th, 9th, and 10th periods, none of which actually exist.
So you're taking classes in the Twilight Zone, getting A's in every one of them.
They also sought to have troubled students with attendance and behavioral academic issues graduate early.
Sometimes, as soon as the end of their junior year, just to get them out.
What?
Yes!
So they would fill them full of 40 credits, a lot of extra credits, and bounce them at the end of their junior year.
And where was, what part of the country is this?
This is New Jersey, you said, right?
This is Maspeth High School in Long Island.
Okay, Long Island.
Long Island.
Thomas Creighton.
He explained to newspapers that he spent 11th and 12th grades drunk or stoned, rarely attended class, did no homework his senior year, and finally the school gave him a few worksheets to complete.
He had a pal fill them in and he received his diploma six months early.
One student was accused of selling drugs on campus.
He too was offered an early out.
A lot of phony credits and boom, out the door you go with a diploma before graduation.
One staffer was handed a list of problem students who were unlikely to graduate, and this fellow Principal Kursid Abdul Mutaghabir, he said, give them enough credits to make sure they no longer have to be dealt with.
Those were his words.
Any problems?
You know, just give them so many credits they walk away.
Then there was a wrestling coach who provided answers to students while proctoring a Regents exam.
And there was a teacher's favorite clique, a favorite few, who followed his orders and got very well paid overtime.
The school did not properly account for drugs and weapons that had been confiscated.
And as one city councilman, Robert Holden, said, this is more like an organized crime ring than a school administration.
Now, this principal, he had such a high pass rate, and now we know why, that he got a fancy award from the U.S.
Department of Education.
I saw a photograph of him.
What was the award?
It's this big framed thing with ribbons and gold all over it.
He's a super-duper principal who managed to get all his students out the door with wonderful grades.
Now, I looked this school up, and I was a little bit surprised.
It is 44% Hispanic, 32% white, and 18% Asian.
Is it a white working class area?
A lot of Long Island is white working class, but this is a shocking story.
I guess this is the kind of thing that happens even in a 32% white, 18% Asian school when you've got somebody by the name of Khurshid Abdul Mutakabir running the place.
But, meanwhile in Baltimore, we have similar things going on.
A former Baltimore school principal says she believes there is an organized effort in the city schools to push kids through the system at any cost.
Sound familiar?
Sounds just like mass death.
Even if it means enrolling them in classes that do not exist.
I wonder just how widespread this is.
Well, go back to the Atlanta public school crisis back in 2010.
Yes, I remember.
They basically were trying to get teachers to get their bonuses because they were tied to the advancement of students.
That's right.
The no-child-left-behind nonsense.
Exactly, that's right.
Boy, they cheat, cheat, cheat, cheated.
Now, the allegations come as the school district is under fire over so-called ghost students and now ghost classes.
Ghost students are students on the books, and that means the school gets more money, and ghost classes don't even mean the classes of the class are taking place, just like in Mass Path.
Now, as you'll recall, in Baltimore, there's at least one school in which a GPA after four years
at high school puts you right in the middle of your graduate, a GPA of 0.3,
puts you right in the middle of your graduating class. I remember that story.
Yes.
Now this principal, her name is Angel Lewis.
She is melanin enhanced, but God bless her, she was trying to stop this craziness.
She says the school district knew all about ghost students and ghost classes years ago because she told them.
And only now is it coming out through investigation.
She says, I had already reported this.
And so that's why I can emphatically say that the city was absolutely aware of it.
She is currently suing Baltimore City Schools for wrongful termination.
She says the school violated whistleblower protection laws.
She says at the time she inherited a school.
She had five dead students enrolled on paper because keeping them enrolled meant they could increase the funding.
She says what had been going on for years prior to my arrival because I was the one who reported it and began to give attention to it, I became the scapegoat.
She started in 2016.
She says, I felt coming in, I could be part of a solution, not knowing that a solution isn't what they wanted.
No.
Wow.
Wow.
Now, in her case, her school was 3% white.
So that's the kind of story we would expect in a 3% white school.
But as this mass death story makes us think, and as you're pointing out, Atlanta, One wonders to what extent this is increasing a trend in the United States.
You've got administrators who are prepared to invent phony classes, give phony grades, push people through just to claim a high graduation rate.
Correct.
And also, if there are problems, pile on also the phony credits and say, okay, this guy's so smart, he could graduate early, get him out the door.
I wonder how widespread this is.
In any case, that was a Baltimore story, and we have another heartwarming Baltimore story.
So the city of Baltimore has decided to suspend its ceremonial street sign program after a sign honoring a convicted drug dealer turned up in Pigtown.
So this is a street name?
A street name for a drug dealer?
A ceremonial street sign program.
Yep.
The sign honored Anthony Covington, a convicted drug dealer who was shot dead in Pigtown last year.
An application obtained by Fox 45 shows a sign was requested by Covington's sister, Aneesha Covington.
Who is an employee of Baltimore's Department of Transportation.
Transportation officials, along with six other city agencies, are responsible for approving ceremonial signs.
However, a city spokesman said the transportation agency simply pushed the application through without the proper approval.
The application arrived during the height of COVID last year, and a spokesman blamed a breakdown of the continuity of government for bypassing the normal approval process.
Well, his sister, his loving sister, decided he had a deserving memorial here.
To use COVID as an excuse is an absolute cop-out, said David Williams, president of Taxpayers Protection Alliance.
One Pigtown resident who was afraid to be identified said, quote, we all have to stop this.
We have to be accountable.
And they have to say no, end quote, as if saying, how in the world are we going to put up a street sign named after a convicted killer?
You know, a convicted drug dealer who is peddling drugs to the kids in the street.
But go back 2015, Freddie Gray.
He was a convicted heroin dealer, and they named a community center after him in Baltimore.
Well, after all, after all, Mr. Kersey, given the kind of activity that is so common there,
a man who is a drug dealer gets shot to death.
It looks to me like he is a real role model.
People are following in his footsteps.
Why shouldn't he get a street name?
So I know you never watched The Wire, but this past, about two weeks ago, one of the
actors in The Wire, which was a show that glorified the black underclass of Baltimore
by David Simon, a disgusting author.
He wrote Homicide.
He wrote Homicide, a book.
It's actually a very good book, as it points out.
How low the clearance rate was for homicides back in the 1990s in Baltimore, basically because blacks went snitch and then they had jury nullification.
So blacks on juries just said, Hey, no, we're not going to convict these guys.
They're one of us.
They're a brother, you know, going back on the street.
So the show, The Wire, glorifies the drug trade.
And one of the actors died of a heroin overdose or a drug overdose.
I think his name was Michael Williams.
The Baltimore Ravens game, they actually played, I think he had a whistle or something that he did in the show, and they actually, over the loudspeakers at the Baltimore Ravens game, they played that out to celebrate this wonderful thespian, this wonderful actor who died of a drug overdose.
It's just, you know, Baltimore is a beautiful city, and yet at the same time, this is what you have when the white population left and went to Baltimore County and rebuilt, and all you have left with is, well, Those blacks were part of that great migration.
And I wonder if they're going to get some migrating Haitians coming in.
Look, I think they'll actually get some Afghans.
I know that St.
Louis, the black mayor of St.
Louis, is also open arms about Afghans in St.
Louis.
Is that right?
Correct?
Is that right?
I wonder for how long he'll be singing that song.
But moving on here to Colorado.
A Colorado gunman who killed a classmate and wounded eight others during a 2019 school shooting was sentenced in Friday for just last Friday life in prison.
His name was Devin Erickson, age 20.
He was also sentenced by a Douglas County District Court judge to an additional, drumroll please, 1,282 years.
An additional 1,282 years.
Okay, why is that?
For attempted murder and other charges.
Stemming from the 2019 shooting at the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math School in Highlands Ranch, Colorado.
Now, Erickson was convicted of first-degree murder for fatally shooting Kendrick Castillo.
Now, Erickson, the shooter, is white, he's said to have been a chronic drug abuser at the time, and he was in such an addled state that he is said to have been left unable to think clearly.
However, Judge Teresa Slade listened to statements from the victims, including Castillo's parents, the parents of the fellow who was shot, and she told Devin Erickson that his lack of remorse throughout the proceedings compelled her to impose the additional years to his sentence.
Now, he killed one and wounded eight.
How many times a week does that happen in Baltimore or Chicago or Philadelphia?
Have you ever heard of any of the fellas, any of the brothers, getting an additional a thousand years in prison?
No, no, no, no.
You've got situations where like in that one county of Michigan, They're actually trying to get rid of gun laws because they disproportionately are used against blacks.
That's right.
That's right.
But here's some white kid who was 18 at the time.
He apparently did not show sufficient remorse, so he's getting an additional 1,282 years.
Frankly, to me, the most shocking sentence of this entire article was the following.
This describes the circumstances under which the shooting took place.
He walked into the school room and it says, students in that room were watching The Princess Bride as part of their British literature studies.
Princess Bride, okay.
Good movie.
As part of their British literature studies?
What in heaven's name?
And this was at the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math School.
Well, I guess they concentrate on that stuff, and as far as English literature is concerned, all you need to do is watch movies.
But, moving on to a different subject entirely.
Speak to me, Mr. Kersey, of home appraisals.
Home appraisals.
Yes.
Every decade you see a story on this same topic, and again, it's We know what those who promote diversity and inclusion and equity want, and that's the equity in the homes of white homeowners.
Home appraisers are more likely to undervalue homes in Black and Latino areas than those in the white ones, a new report by Freddie Mac has found.
It's the latest example of racial inequities in the housing sector.
This is a well-documented phenomenon, it tells us, that has led to lower rates of homeownership among Black and Latino families.
Well, I should think it should lead to higher rates of homeownership if the prices are lower.
That's too much logic to introduce into the conversation.
Sorry.
I withdraw that comment.
Yes.
If the homes are predominantly Latino and black areas are lower appraised, then that's exactly right.
Then the burden of ownership, which you have to put down in terms of your down payment, your housing payment in terms of your mortgage per month,
it's going to be considerably less.
That allows you then to build up more wealth. But then of course they'll say,
well, black Latinos make less than white families.
Well, I'm just a racist white guy. What do I know?
So please continue.
I don't think you can prove that you aren't.
I don't think that you even once said so.
Like you pointed out with the North Carolina voting law.
That's right.
Try and prove it.
Quote, an appraisal falling below the contracted sale price may allow a buyer to renegotiate with the seller,
but it could also mean families might miss out on the full wealth building benefits of homeownership.
But that I don't understand.
The price comes down, and presumably the buyer is Black or Hispanic, or maybe the seller is
Black or Hispanic.
I don't know.
In any case, houses are cheaper.
Should be more homeownership.
I guess now we're looking at this from the point of view of the seller.
Correct.
And if you look at the point of view of the seller, when you see stories about, oh my gosh, Birmingham or
Atlanta gentrifying.
That means that the more whites that are coming into community, the home values are going up where before they were lower for black homeowners.
So then they have the opportunity to sell at a price that wasn't appraised when the community was all black.
But that's racist too.
Exactly.
Yes, exactly.
That's actually even more racist because they're displacing blacks and rising their property bills.
Well, even if they're making a kill and selling the place, that's racist.
Yes.
And if the houses are cheap and Blacks and Hispanics can afford them, that's racist too.
Yes.
Okay, now I understand.
Proceed.
Quote, this is a persistent problem that disproportionately impacts hundreds of thousands of Black and Latino applicants, he said.
That's Michael Bradley, a senior vice president at Freddie Mac, a government-controlled entity that guarantees home mortgages.
Disparities in home appraisals have been getting more and more attention recently as Freddie Mac's newly released analysis of more than 12 million appraisals between 2015 and 2012 provides evidence of racial and ethnic divide.
According to the report, only 7.4% of appraisals and majority white census tracts came in below a property's contract price.
However, that figure jumped to 12.5% for black areas and 15.4% for Latino census tracts,
where homes were more than twice as likely to be undervalued compared
with those in white areas.
More racism against Hispanics than against whites.
Twice as less likely to have white people living in the areas.
So the analysis also found that as concentration of black and Latino populations grew in a particular area,
so did the share of undervalued appraisals.
I guess I jumped the gun there on that.
On that, on white that's undervalued.
You let the cat out of the bag.
There you go.
Researchers also found that even when they accounted for structural differences in homes
and unique characteristics of different neighborhoods, black and Latino areas were still more
likely to see lower appraisals.
There was no evidence that disparity was caused by a smaller number of appraisers, the report
said.
2018 study by the Brookings Institution found that homes in black neighborhoods are worth 23% or $48,000 per home less than similar homes in neighborhoods with few or no black residents.
The market is racist.
Supply and demand is racist.
The law of gravity is racist.
Hey, there's no constitutional right to live near white people.
And if for some reason areas that are heavily black, monolithically black, or heavily Latino, they don't have the same demand for people to move in, ipso facto, what does that mean?
It means that the home is going to be valued less.
White supremacy.
Yeah, exactly.
The wealth of a home and the home appraiser, that is basically an indication of the type of community That you live in, folks, so it's up to you and your neighbors to make things nice.
I have a story from Britain, a story from Britain, and this is written by a doctor about London hospitals.
And let me read some of the highlights.
Of the many horrible things you might witness as a junior doctor in the capital London, among the worst must be watching a teenage gang trying to break into the ward you work on, hoping to finish off a victim, punching your colleagues out of the way to get to him.
We have permanent security guards posted on the highest risk areas for guard violence, gang violence, but most entrances are open at all hours.
Usually when there is a gang-related incident, there are stabbings, mostly stabbings and not shootings in London.
Stabbings on both sides.
Hospitals go to great lengths to ensure members of rival gangs are taken to separate trauma centers.
But sometimes a mistake is made.
That's the same thing in the United States, where you have rival gangs.
They have to do all they can do to make sure that there aren't shootings that break out in the trauma centers.
Exactly.
Well, now in Britain, they've got the same problem, except it's knifings.
Gangs come up with all sorts of ways to try to access victims who've survived.
Sometimes they pretend to be family members.
The hospital has started to set code words that they give out to genuine relatives so they can identify themselves.
Occasionally gang members who've been stabbed are personally guarded by the police because they're in such demand to be stabbed.
London surgeons, she goes on to say, have become experts, the best in the world at treating stab wounds.
People survive horrendous attacks that would have proved fatal only a few years ago.
That's like our trauma centers.
You know, best patch them up after being shot.
People in the world.
Yes.
Now, some attacks are not meant to kill.
We mentioned this one some weeks ago.
Gangs sometimes go in for bagging.
That is when they stab the victim in the rectum so that the victim needs a colostomy bag for the rest of his life.
This is supposed to be the most humiliating punishment.
Worse than death is to have a colostomy bag.
Another little anecdote here.
After a stabbing victim arrives, you often see the victims of the revenge attacks coming in the very same day.
Many victims will come back again, either to the hospital ward or to the morgue.
And unless someone happens to tip off a reporter, these incidents seem to get swaddled in the general mass of crime stories and injuries.
Perhaps it will be reported only if someone is murdered in the hospital.
Apparently that hasn't happened yet.
So that is the kind of excitement that you get working in a trauma ward in a British hospital.
Now, we'll end up with another little British story.
What started off as a story that I would call a glimmer of light, goes dark, one one discovers Louise Richardson, vice
chancellor of Oxford, said we need more ideological diversity in our universities. We need to
foster more open debate. We need to teach our students how to engage in civility and reasoned debate with
people with whom they disagree personally. Discussion.
What an idea!
Didn't they call Britain the mother of Parliament?
Because people could disagree civilly?
Well, at the same session, we heard from a University of Cape Town vice-chancellor, Mamugati Fakang, and she looks like somebody from her photo who would have such a name.
She criticized the debate about whether continents such as Africa were suffering from a brain drain.
She says, some of the talk about the brain drain comes across as Africans go home, she said, but Africans may not be able to go home or they may not want to.
People need to be free about their futures, just as everyone has a free choice.
Yes, they should be able to traipse off to Britain anytime they like.
And she suggested one way around the problem would be for developed countries that have benefited from the movement of talent to pay a form of tax or some kind of support back to the country of origin.
Isn't that great?
Blacks have the right to move wherever they want to, and if they show up in Britain and we get a doctor, then we pay some sort of tax.
Now, what if we get the people who are stabbing each other and banging each other?
We have to pay a tax for that, too.
We pay a tax for that, too.
We have to have them patched up, and of course, Haiti, you know, they should be paying us to take their people, but this is probably, if you actually look at it this way, the people who are getting here and spending $12,000, $14,000 to make it to the United States, that's probably the brain drain from Haiti.
That's the brain drain from Haiti, but boy, that's the story.
They have the right to move wherever they like, but if they are useful people, then we should pay extra just to get them.
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