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Oct. 14, 2021 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to Radio Renaissance.
I'm Jared Taylor, and with me is my indispensable co-host, Paul Kersey.
It is October 14th, Year of Our Lord 2021, and I hope you had a very enjoyable Columbus Day.
I suspect it will not be Columbus Day for much longer, and I wrote a little piece for Amren.com in which I proposed a new name for it.
I propose it be called Opa-Chunkinaw Day, and you'll have to read my little piece at Amarin to find out why.
But as usual, we're going to begin with some listener comments.
Someone writes in to tell us, In your October 6 podcast, you tell the story about how Tesla was slapped with a multi-million dollar judgment against them when black employees used the n-word with no consequence on the job, but this created a hostile workforce for another black.
Yes, I believe, Mr. Kersey, you were the one who gave us that story.
It's a good one.
Yes.
The court award of $137 million raises questions, says our on-the-ball listener.
For reference, the median court award for wrongful death in California is $2.2 million.
And nationwide, it's $1.45 million.
That's if you kill somebody.
The plaintiff, Diaz, is alive and unharmed.
Assume that Diaz is 30, retiring at 65.
Net 35 working years remaining.
The award equates to nearly $3.9 million a year for every remaining year of his working life.
This is a good email.
Yes, isn't this good?
Here's your thinking man.
He says, and he's not impaired nor in untreatable debilitating pain.
Or maybe he is.
He was traumatized.
He's in untreatable debilitating pain for having heard the N-word.
He says, by this standard of compensation, our wounded servicemen would each be billionaires several times over.
Good point.
And then he also goes on to say, I found it interesting in your podcast later on you talked about black-white job interviewing and why in some sectors of the economy it's difficult for people names like LaShonda and Leroy to get hired or at least to get job interviews.
He says this followed your segment on the Tesla settlement.
Why would any employer subject himself to such a liability?
That's true.
You're never going to get $137 million damage for firing a white guy no matter what.
You could kill him five times over and not get that kind of damage.
Remember the fascinating aspect about that Tesla story is that they also hired as a contractor, his son.
That's right.
That's right.
Hired his son.
And as our listener continues, if there was ever motivation to minimize black hiring, surely the Owen Diaz case is one.
I would, I would, an emphatic, emphatic one.
Yes, yes, yes.
Now, this is why we love our listener comments.
People point out things that had never occurred to us in quite the same way.
Here is another comment, once again on Owen Diaz.
Again, this is the Tester fellow who was fired because people around him, equally melanin-enhanced, had used a bad word.
He writes, this reminds me of a job I once had at a carpentry mill shop.
On the job, there were two black guys.
One guy was experienced, but he had a short fuse.
The second black guy was a new hire, inexperienced and slow.
The experienced black guy, I'll call him the fast guy, would ride the slow guy, something fierce.
Why are you so slow, N-word?
N-word?
Why do you ask so many stupid-ass questions?
The fast guy said this often and loud enough so that everyone, including the managers, could hear.
But no one ever did anything.
The slow guy one time came up to me and said, man, that guy's terrible.
I don't like being called N-word, and it's always black guys.
I never have problems with white guys calling me that.
Our listener goes on to say, I think what goes on is that blacks use this word and white managers don't dare get in the middle of it.
If they tell black employees to stop using that word, then they're policing black speech.
If they don't, they're creating a hostile work environment.
I'm sure that's true.
Double-edged sword.
Double-edged sword.
The white man just never gets it right.
Never gets it right.
Do it one way, you're wrong.
Do it the other way, you're just as wrong.
Well, we have a story from Mexico, so to speak.
Mexico is coming our way.
And this is from the Wall Street Journal.
This is one of the few places where you find observations of this sort.
The journal writes, more migrants illegally entering the U.S.
to apply for asylum are members of South America's middle class who fly to the border by plane.
None of this through the jungle tramping for them, I guess.
The growth in middle-class migrants reflects continued hardship in nations such as Brazil and Venezuela from the pandemic and associated economic downturns as well as political instability.
And it quotes a Border Patrol spokesman, they get off the plane and catch a cab.
They just walk up to us at the border and turn themselves in.
I like that.
Get off the plane, catch a cab, walk up to Border Patrol.
Most are released to shelters and then travel elsewhere to wait for their claims to be adjudicated, a process that can take years due to immigration court backlogs, as we all know.
Now, this is good.
Middle-class migrants often leave the shelters soon after arriving for flights they booked ahead of time.
They know how the system works.
Yes, they do.
They know when they'll be out.
Oh yeah, that'll be the 10-12 for Los Angeles.
Yes, thank you very much.
Now, the journal goes on to explain, only a fraction of those not from Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, or Honduras have been turned back, in part because Mexican authorities wouldn't accept them.
Isn't that great?
Now, they can travel.
People from Venezuela, for example, which is all falling apart, they can travel to Mexico without a visa.
They just show up.
But now, I don't understand.
If they can travel to Mexico without a visa, if we turn them back, aren't they just showing up without a visa again?
But they say, no, we ain't taking them.
And so we say, si, senor, as you say, and we keep them.
Si se puede.
So isn't that nice?
Now here's a heartwarming story about an Afghan refugee.
Uh-oh.
Let's hear this one.
This will warm the cockles of even your hard heart.
A man by the name of Daoud Wardak.
Recently bought a house in Beverly Hills for 20.9 million dollars.
Oh, that's it.
Okay.
20.9.
Yes, probably a pokey little dump if it's in Beverly Hills for just 20.9 mil.
He is described as an ethnic Pashtun refugee born in 1977.
Now, as it turns out, Dawoud Wardak already owns a 5.2 million dollar property at the St.
Regis Ball Harbor Resort in Miami Beach.
So that makes at least $27 million in real estate and just those two properties.
Who knows what else he owns, this refugee.
Well, who is Dawood Wardak?
He is the younger son of Abdul Rahim Wardak.
And he, ladies and gentlemen, was defense minister in the U.S.-backed government in Kabul between 2004 and 2012.
Eight years of defense ministering.
The elder Dawood was a key player in setting up the Afghan National Army.
Oh, we know how well they fared.
Oh, that crack fighting force.
Yes, it collapsed in 11 days.
11 days.
Yes.
11 days.
Poof.
Gone.
And the Pentagon spent an estimated $85 billion on the Afghan National Army.
I understand that those 85 billion dollars might have leaked here and there, and I suspect if you were the Minister of Defense, some of it came your way, but I wouldn't want to insinuate too strongly on that.
There were persistent allegations over the years that some ANA commanders were falsifying the number of troops under their command.
Ghost soldiers, as they're called.
These are like ghost students in schools in the United States.
You see, you've got 500 students, only got 300.
You get paid for 500.
Beefsteaks for the boys.
Well, in any case, of course, they pocketed the difference.
And it's interesting, as we should note, while the elder Wardock was touring Western capitals, grubbing up money for the ANA, he got it not just from Washington, billions from other places too.
He clearly didn't believe in the future of Afghanistan enough to leave his children there.
Both Dawood, that's the younger, and his older brother Hamad ended up in the U.S.
Hamad ran a military contracting company called NCO Holdings.
I bet he supplied things to the Afghan military.
Do you think there's any chance of that?
A lot of triple, quadruple, quintuple, sectuple, dipping.
I can't imagine how many.
Oh my goodness.
This is just too much.
But he's an ethnic Pashtun refugee.
Well, I suppose it's true.
If he were to return to Afghanistan, he might face something.
He would at least face, probably, inferior digs to what he has in this 20.9 million place in Beverly Hills.
Now, is he classifying as Caucasian?
Of course, of course.
He's a white man.
He's our fellow white man.
Yes, Dawoud Ouardak.
Now, I believe, Mr. Kersey, you have a story about someone who's fighting some of the insanity.
It's always good to hear these fight the insanity stories.
Well, it's definitely not John Gruden.
We'll get to him in a little bit.
Little Chucky, as he's known by football fans.
This is a story about, this is Fox News, reported that a professor suing UCLA after refusing to grade black students more leniently than peers.
So an accounting professor at UCLA has filed a lawsuit against the school after it put him on leave and allegedly threatened to fire him for not grading black students more leniently than their peers.
Quote, recently I was suspended from my job for refusing to treat my black students as lesser than their non-black peers, Gordon Klein wrote in an op-ed titled Why I Am Suing UCLA.
The ordeal began on June 2nd, 2020, eight days after St.
George Floyd was killed and endured that 8 minutes and 32 seconds of a knee from Derek Chauvin on his neck.
A white student emailed Klein asking for a, quote, no harm, end quote, final for black students, meaning low grants would not be counted in response to the unjust murders of Ahmed Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd.
What a hydra that makes.
Klein described the proposal as deeply patronizing and offensive to black students.
He said the email left him shocked.
He shouldn't have been shocked.
Anyway, this sort of thing happens all the time.
So he responded to the student, the student who was not named, writing, Are there any students that may be of mixed parentage, such as half black and half Asian?
What do you suggest I do with respect to them?
A full concession or just half?
Also, do you have any idea if any students are from Minneapolis?
I assume that they are probably especially devastated as well.
I am thinking that a white student from there might possibly be even more devastated by this, especially because some might think that they're racist, even if they are not.
He recounted an op-ed adding that he also included a quote from Martin Luther King.
So I guess he had to make sure he had some touch to fall back on.
Of course.
His response was slammed by students as racist and the petition circulated.
Calling for his petition, they garnered about 20,000 signatures.
20,000?
Because of this reply?
Over two days.
In which he says, what about white students who are from Minneapolis?
Somebody might think they're racist even if they're not because it happened in their town.
Doesn't matter.
And if you're half black, How do you get treated?
So that makes him unfit to teach.
So here's what happens.
Again, one of these days people are going to sift through the wreckage of the American experiment, the American empire, and they're going to look back at what you call the year we went mad.
That's a piece at Amarin.com.
Have we gone mad?
And these are the types of stories that happened just in the few days after the George Floyd stuff happened.
And here's what happens.
The Dean of UCLA's Business School launched an investigation, put Professor Klein on leave, and nearly terminated him.
He was reinstated after nearly 3 weeks of suspension, but the story is not over.
You see, most of his income comes not from teaching at UCLA, but from consulting to law firms and other corporations.
Several of these firms dropped him after they got wind that he'd been suspended.
The better to put distance between themselves and a quote-unquote racist.
That cost me the lion's share of my annual income.
The students involved in this escapade may have moved on to other causes.
I have not.
I'm not sure I ever will, he explained as to why he filed the suit against the University of California system.
UCLA has not responded, but He basically said this, quote, No employee should ever cower in fear over his employer's power to silence legitimate points of view, and no society should tolerate government-sponsored autocrats violating constitutional mandates, end quote.
Well, good for him.
Go, Mr. Kline.
Good luck.
Carry the flag.
Best of luck.
Yes, best of luck.
Yes, I'm afraid he'll need it.
Bonchance!
But good for him at least giving it a try.
Now Kamala Harris, on the other hand, do you know how she spent the day after Columbus Day?
I don't.
I bet you don't.
She was at the National Congress of American Indians' 78th annual convention.
They've been convening every year for 78 years, apparently, the National Congress of American Indians.
They call themselves American Indians.
I wonder when they'll start calling themselves Indigenous Peoples.
In any case, this year was held in Portland, Oregon.
And she really gave them stuff that they could lap up.
In her speech, she talked about the people who came, the white man who showed up on this continent.
Those explorers ushered in a wave of devastation for tribal nations, perpetrating violence, stealing land, and spreading disease.
We must not shy away from this shameful past, and we must shed light on it, and do everything we can to address the impact on Native communities today.
I guess that means if they want to go back to the Stone Age, in which we found them, there's nothing stopping them.
Back to the Stone Age, boys!
She went on.
Native communities have led for generations upon generations in protecting our environment.
I'm sure that's true.
Well, I mean, hunter-gatherers don't have much choice, do they?
I mean, not even... Not even a total combustible engine to worry about?
No, no, no, no.
Gosh, no coal-fired plants, no electronic generation.
No, they're protecting the environment.
Of course, aren't they the ones who are supposed to have mastered all the megafauna?
The giant sloths and saber-toothed cats.
Correct.
And I think we had these enormous sort of camel-like creatures glumping about, but they didn't care enough about their environment to keep them around, so we could put some in zoos.
Now, also, Kamala, VP Kamala, pointed out that native women and girls are missing and murdered at alarming rates.
Well, who's doing that?
Have you ever murdered a native woman or girl?
I suspect not.
I have not.
I can state for the record that I have not.
I've never known anyone who did.
Who's doing this?
Do clansmen show up on the reservations and spirit away these native women and girls?
I suspect not.
If it's a problem, I suspect that it is native gentlemen and boys who are involved.
Now, all of this stuff about how we ravaged them and we were bad to them.
Of course, before we ever showed up, Indian tribes were massacring and slaughtering each other and stealing each other's hunting grounds.
And I've said this many times, the Battle of Little Bighorn, the Lakota Sioux, every square inch of territory they were on.
They had stolen from some other Indian tribe.
Right.
But that's okay.
That's just okay.
And we just turned out to be the stronger tribe, that's all.
And we did not exterminate them the way they had a habit of exterminating their enemies whenever they had a chance.
And let me read a few passages about Indigenous Peoples, because that's what we're going to be calling this someday, Indigenous Peoples Day, from Francis Parkman's book, France and England in North America.
He was a Harvard historian.
And he quoted from a Jesuit missionary who wrote about an attack by Iroquois Indians on a band of Algonquins in 1641.
The Algonquins apparently were asleep at their campsite and they were taken completely by surprise.
They thought they were far away enough so they didn't have to post any guards.
Well, and he says, in a few minutes all were in their power.
They bound the prisoners hand and foot.
Rekindled the fire, slung the kettles, cut the bodies of the slain to pieces, and boiled and devoured them before the eyes of the wretched survivors.
That was dinner.
Dinner on the house.
The conquerors began their march homeward with their prisoners.
Among them were three women who each had a child of a few weeks or months old.
At the first halt, their captors took the infants from them, tied them to wooden spits, placed them to die slowly before a fire, and feasted on them before the eyes of the agonized mothers, whose shrieks, supplications, and frantic efforts to break the cords that bound them were met with mockery and laughter.
These are indigenous peoples.
These are our moral betters.
Yes, our moral superiors, clearly.
They call that dinner and a movie, by the way, in the indigenous vernacular.
This is how they protect the environment.
They entered the town, leading the captive Algonquins.
On the following morning, the prisoners were placed on a large scaffold in sight of the whole population.
It was a gala day.
Young and old were gathered from far and near.
Some mounted the scaffold and scorched the prisoners with torches and firebrands, while the children standing beneath the bark platform applied fire to the feet of the prisoners between the crevices.
Teach them young.
The Algonquin women were told to burn their husbands and companions.
Well, I will stop there and you can imagine the rest, but happy Indigenous Peoples Day nonetheless.
Now we leap from 17th century Algonquin and Iroquois conflict all the way to San Francisco across the country and yet again we have a shoplifting story.
This one will be brief.
Walgreens said on Tuesday be closing another five San Francisco locations.
It has to do with organized shoplifting.
People just march in.
We've seen videos of this.
Really quite remarkable videos.
They just clean stuff off a shelf at a time, and they sell it at cut rates.
And Walgreens has already shuttered at least 10 of its stores in the city since the beginning of 2019.
And, now this is the part that I really find baffling.
Because it has to do with a referendum that California passed in 2014 which degraded theft of property to misdemeanor as long as it's less than $950.
The people of California voted for this.
Well, it begs the question.
Could you go fly to San Francisco, go to a Walgreens and get enough stuff to pay for the trip if you sold in the secondary market?
As a white man, would they stop you?
I don't think they can stop anybody.
I mean, it does seem to be a black specialty.
All the people in the videos who are walking in completely unconcerned and walking out with garbage bags full of stuff.
They seem to have a distressing lack of diversity in their ranks.
No, I don't see why they'd stop us.
In fact, no, there was an article in the San Francisco Chronicle about a white lady who went in and tried to do that.
She said she won and she got herself a nice little coffee maker and she walked out the door.
She said it just she nearly threw up.
She was so terrified and felt awful.
And as soon as she was out the door, she turned around and came back and put it back on the shelf because just stealing things is not what she does.
But She just did it to demonstrate how easy it was.
So, there you go.
Yes, another five stores closed.
That's ten already.
San Francisco is 15 Walgreens the fewer since 2019.
Now, this problem is traveling east because we now moved to New York City where the shelves of drugstore chains were half empty last weekend.
The New York Post reported after having visited more than a dozen CVS, Duane Reade, Walgreens and Rite Aid stores.
Empty shelves.
Unemployed one CVS said the items from the now barren shelves were simply stolen.
Anonymous sources with the NYPD said nearly 80 thieves with 20 or more shoplifting charges on their rap sheets are walking the city street at the moment.
20 or more!
Twenty or more.
But you see, you can't throw them in jail on account of that.
It's a misdemeanor and it doesn't really matter.
You get a ticket and come back next Tuesday.
Take three in the morning and the doctor will see you a year from now.
Take three in the morning of the aspirin you stole from them.
That's right.
You don't need to go see a doctor.
Yeah, you got plenty of aspirin.
And New York City Police Commissioner Dermot Shea blames the spike in criminal activity on the bail reform undertaken in 2019 by the Democrat-controlled state legislature.
Abolished bail posting for most misdemeanors and petty crimes resulted in these charges being released soon after arrest.
So, if you've got 20 charges already for shoplifting, why not add 20 more?
It's not going to change anything.
Thieves can walk free the same day after being detained and their cases are often not prosecuted.
And in San Francisco, they're not even detained.
They just keep walking.
September's shoplifting levels in New York City set a new record high with statistics not seen in at least 30 years.
Have you been to New York City since this whole...
Worldwide shutdown?
No, I've not.
I've not.
It sounds like a very, very sad place.
I know people who do live there and they say it's as bad as it sounds.
You've gone into D.C.
though since this has all happened.
I have been in D.C.
What's one of the most striking things besides, well obviously if you went post-January 6th, but what I've noticed in major cities is where areas that were gentrifying, all that's now been abandoned because you basically had people no longer going to businesses and You know, they were the ones that shut down first.
Even with the PPP, even with the money from the government, it just wasn't enough.
No.
I mean, it's astonishing.
No, American cities are becoming absolutely unlivable.
I don't know why anybody would stay in San Francisco.
Maybe they're hoping that the pendulum will swing back.
Maybe they're speculating, buying up property on the cheap and hoping it'll come back.
That could be a way for a killing, you know?
I don't know.
I don't know.
This can't last, surely.
I hope that San Francisco doesn't turn into Baltimore or Detroit.
It's a beautiful city.
But... I mean, the reality is the black population has been declining.
It's less than 5%.
That's actually, hopefully, a city that we'll see in the Great Replacement Series soon.
Because back when Dirty Harry came out in the early 70s, I believe San Francisco was close to 75-80% white.
Definitely majority white.
Now there are more Asians than whites.
There are more Asians than whites.
And yet, who's the mayor?
Uh, a black lady.
London Breed, I believe is her name.
What a name, London.
Yes.
Yeah, it's not Londonia or Londwinka or anything.
It's London.
But now, but New York City can solve its problems.
All its problems can be solved by moving a statue.
Dead white males need not apply for veneration in post-George Floyd America.
New York City Mayor De Blasio assumes Jefferson's statue will be removed from City Hall, though he punts responsibility.
What are we talking about here?
He expects, he said this today, this is breaking news today, October 14th, You mean not at the bottom of the Husband Hudson?
is going to get the heave-ho from City Hall after a design commission he appointed reviews
a request to remove it next week. If approved, the request, which originated with City Council
Speaker Cory Johnson and the Council's Black, Latino, and Asian caucus, would result in
the statue of the Founding Father being moved out of the City Council Chamber and house
indefinitely at the New York Historical Society.
You mean not at the bottom of the Husband Hudson?
Not yet.
That comes later.
Okay.
That's called a spoiler alert from 2025.
They're treating him very nicely.
Considering that the statues from Monument Avenue are all in the Richmond dump, just there.
Robert E. Lee is sawed in pieces, good lord.
But no, they're going to put him in a museum.
At least Jefferson can stay in a museum for a while.
So here's a very fascinating point.
The statue has stood in City Hall for nearly 200 years, but it's coming up for review by de Blasio's Public Design Commission because of Jefferson's history as a slave owner.
I guess the lie that he fathered a child with the octoroon Sally Hemings isn't enough to keep him up, because wouldn't that be a cause for celebration?
That's always struck me.
The multiculturalist, wouldn't she want to celebrate Jefferson for that?
No, no, because clearly he raped her.
Clearly.
If it happens.
No, no, no, no, no.
She would never have wanted to sleep with this nasty honky.
We know that.
So the Commission is going to review the matter on Monday.
So here's what de Blasio said.
I start with the assumption that it'll be approved, but I don't know.
That's ultimately the decision the Commission makes.
The city council spoke out their belief of what is right for their chamber for their side of city hall and and that
to me Is just a straightforward matter if that's what they feel.
I want to respect them as another branch of government So de blasio whose term ends in december suggested while he
appointed the 11 member design commission They would act independently of him and exercise their own
judgment Okay, well great
But Jefferson's on the way out, huh?
Well, I guess we don't know for sure.
We don't know for sure.
But chances are he's on his way out.
But he did say this to try and deflect.
He said this.
The idea to remove the statue didn't originate with him or independently of his commission he did.
It actually was from the wife of First Lady Chirlane McRae.
Or his wife, it did not, who he appointed to review the fate.
Who is African-American?
Who is a former lesbian, who then for some reason... No, I didn't know that.
I mean, she saw Bill de Blasio and thought to herself, my God, where have men been all my life?
She was hit with a bolt of lightning and immediately became heterosexual when she saw wild Bill de Blasio.
Is that?
I didn't know that.
That is a fact.
And then went on to have at least two children.
They do have two mulatto children, yes.
No, I did not know that.
Wow, what a triumph!
What a triumph!
He brought her back.
Again, you go back and you dare cast aspersions on Thomas Jefferson's machismo when you look at what Bill de Blasio did.
Well, okay.
That I did not know.
There you go.
You learn something every day.
You're also going to learn that in Virginia, we have something similar happening.
Community colleges are dropping President John Tyler and others from their names.
Amid what the Washington Post dubs, the racial reckoning.
The racial reckoning.
So, John Tyler, the 10th president of the United States, who backed the Confederate rebellion before he died, is seeing a community college in his name.
Change it.
Get rid of it.
Dead white male, you gotta go.
Another is ditching Thomas Nelson Jr., a signer of the Declaration of Independence and a prominent military and political leader.
Historians say he enslaved hundreds of people of African descent.
He's gotta go.
He enslaved them.
Yeah, I'm sure.
He traveled all the way to Africa and caught them and enslaved them.
Boy, if you were a slaveholder, you were an enslaver.
Okay.
All right, here's the one that, you know, that great phrase, give me liberty or give me death, Patrick Henry.
A third community college has inserted an ampersand to emphasize that Patrick and Henry Community College is named for a pair of counties it serves in, the southern region of the state, no longer in honor of Patrick Henry.
Wait a minute, it used to be in honor of Patrick Henry.
Yes, the famed revolutionary orator of that name who said, like, give me liberty or give me death.
But now it's Patrick and Henry.
There's an ampersand, yes.
Well gosh, an ampersand saves the day.
So I'm sure you can do the same with Washington.
Just rename it Booker T. Washington and I don't know what Lee is there.
Bruce Lee.
Yes.
Washington and Lee.
There you go.
Booker T. and Bruce.
Makes a lot more sense.
Yes.
So these are name changes within the Virginia Community College system reflect the breadth and persistence of the racial reckoning.
In higher education, once again these words are from the Washington Post, since the murder last year of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.
The National Movement for Social and Racial Justice led to fresh scrutiny of names honored in each of the system's 23 colleges.
In a state with a long and painful history of slavery and racial oppression, alongside a vibrant tradition of public higher education, much to consider.
A painful history.
I can tell you that I have never missed an hour of sleep over the painful history of either Georgia or Alabama or Virginia.
You have felt no pain?
I have felt not an ounce of pain.
Not an ounce of pain.
No, but I'll tell you, John Tyler Community College is near Richmond.
It's transitioning over the next several months to Bright Point Community College, Thomas Nelson Community College, and that thriving metropolis known as Hampton.
For those who aren't from the Virginia area, that was said firmly tongue-in-cheek, one of the more dangerous parts of the Commonwealth.
From what I understand.
They're changing the name of Thomas Nelson.
It's going to become instead, Virginia Peninsula Community College.
That's got a real ring to it.
At least it's not, I don't know, not Nat Tyler.
It's not naming them all invariably.
Well, I guess not invariably.
When they remove some wicked white man's name, they give some black female name.
Again, you've got Katherine Johnson, who is from Hampton, the so-called hidden figure.
You could have easily named it after her.
She's still alive as well.
You could drag her out and you'd be shocked when they put her up on stage.
You'd be like, wait a second.
But she said we're on in a black woman.
That's a white woman with a tan.
Anyways, if you've ever seen Katherine Johnson, ladies and gentlemen, listening from around the world or in the United States of America, you'll see what I mean by that.
One quick point here.
Glenn Dubois, the system's chancellor, said this, quote, we enroll lots of people whose ancestors were enslaved, were marginalized, were clearly taken advantage of.
And what do you say to those students when they're looking at some of these names?
In reference to Tyler and Patrick Henry and Nelson.
Of course, that factors to Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, every founding father from Virginia.
Every one of them.
What do you say to them? What you say to them is study hard, work hard, and don't worry, get over it for heaven's sake.
I know we've got to turn the country inside out.
It's not going to make a bit of difference.
That's the thing.
You take down all these statues, are all of a sudden black people going to stop shooting each other?
Are all of a sudden they going to start getting better grades?
No, nothing is going to change.
Actually, there was a great piece by Steve Saylor on UNS today where he talked about during this whole racial reckoning, the gap between white and black students has only grown bigger and serves a test course.
I mean, this again, 2020, we will look back on, and that was the moment where was America so weak that the death of a dude who was overdosing on fentanyl, and I believe, didn't they say he had COVID in the system?
Oh, he had COVID.
Yeah.
He was sick with COVID, fentanyl, he'd had marijuana.
I mean, this was the guy.
There's something else here.
Some other illegal, illegal.
Yeah, and it's just, it's hard to watch it all and seeing all that's happened.
I mean, No.
A hundred years from now, the authors of the great Chinese encyclopedia will look back on the white man, and I think they will be smart enough to say, something happened in 2020.
Something happened.
We're not quite sure why, but something happened.
The white man just lost his mojo.
Not if we can do something about it.
Hey.
Hey.
That's what we've got to do.
Yes.
Once more into the breach.
Yes.
But you know, no place is safe.
No place is safe, Mr. Kersey.
You think that Wyoming is a sensible place?
Now, the Washington Post points out, condescendingly, that Wyoming is overwhelmingly white and Christian and has never formally welcomed refugees.
God bless the cowboys.
Oh, boy.
You can just imagine Washington Post readers just whinnying with superiority at the thought,
oh, those white Christian Wyomingers never welcomed refugees.
Just a few years ago, debate over refugee resettlement spiraled into anti-Islam protests
and a Koran burning, alarming the state's tiny Muslim population and dashing hopes for
refugee advocates.
It spiraled into, you know, whenever white people do anything that goes wrong or they think went wrong, it spiraled.
That's their, that's one of their new curse words.
And this summer, amid a deluge of support for Afghan evacuees, leaders of just two states, Wyoming and South Dakota, said they did not want to take in refugees.
God bless South Dakota and God bless Wyoming.
Yes, once again, you can just feel those readers whinnying with virtue.
Wyoming is the only state that has no refugee resettlement program, nor has it ever had one.
No refugees.
Now, neighboring Idaho is expecting about 400 this year.
Utah is welcoming 765.
Montana will soon receive 75 Afghans.
Oh, they're so superior.
But in Wyoming, there's negligible overt support in a state where in 2020, guess what happened?
70% of the voters cast their ballots for Donald Trump.
That explains it.
Bigots to the core.
There is hardly any public discussion here about refugees, but some see openings.
Because of the need to resettle 95,000 Afghans, it's so overwhelming.
That is the hope of Bishop Paul Gordon Chandler, who leads the Episcopal Church in Wyoming.
Let me hasten to say that he is badly melanin deprived, but he wants Afghan He arrived last year, just last year in Casper, a city of 59,000.
Previously a rector in Goddard, that's in the Middle East.
He grew up in Senegal and has worked in North Africa and Europe.
So he, if anybody, should know better.
No, he knows better than you or I.
Too white, and it's got to be... It's got to be more like Senegal.
It's got to be more like gutter.
Bring on the vibrancy.
Oof, boy.
Bring on the falafel.
Well, here's this guy.
He just gets parachuted in from outside the state, but he knows better.
He's going to tell the Wyomingers what to do.
What do you call them?
Wyomingers?
Wyomingites?
Call them cowboys.
Okay, cowboys, yes.
He's confident the Episcopal Church, with its long history in the state, can play a unique role as a bridge.
Now, a Congolese refugee, Bertine Bahige, who was settled near Baltimore and later moved to Wyoming.
Now, you might think Bertine was a woman, but you'd be wrong.
Or, well, maybe she is a woman, but prefers to be called he or you just never know these days.
In any case, what's referred to as he, Bertine, said, Refugees can be contributing members of our community and help with diversification.
A badly needed thing, of course.
Help with diversification.
So is that an admission that refugees aren't going to be white from any of these countries?
We're just going to use them to document New Hampshire?
I think that's a state that the Washington Post, about six years ago, lamented was still 94% white.
Can't have that.
Yep, that's right.
Now it's, you know, Wyoming, which is choking to death on white privilege, as you know.
Now, so Cheyenne in Wyoming is home to a small number of Somalis who first settled in Colorado and then they trickled in to Cheyenne.
However, advocates for immigrants say most do not stay long.
I wonder why they even come at all.
Now, says this Mohamed Salih, a Sudanese who for 33 years lived in Cheyenne before moving to Denver.
He said, Wyoming needs to do better, especially if they want human beings to move up there.
Well, maybe they want certain human beings and not others.
They need to be better, says Mohammed Salih, a Sudanese who knows better.
Now, this is, you know, WAPO readers who probably never met a Somali or an Afghan or a Sudanese and certainly don't have any neighbors of that kind, I can just imagine.
How superior they feel to these Wyomingers, these cowboys, as you say.
So there's, let's hope that Wyoming holds firm.
My suspicion is that the Washington Post is probably read in some quarters in Casper.
And I don't doubt that Bishop Paul Gordon Chandler is absolutely thrilled by this coverage of his little plan.
Oh, definitely.
Now, moving on to a question of death.
In really quite shocking, shocking places.
Gun violence, according to the Associated Press, is killing an increasing number of American children.
Gun violence, mind you.
Not people.
Gun violence is killing them.
Experts say that idleness caused by the COVID pandemic shares the blame with easy access to guns and disputes that too often end with gunfire.
I love the way they blame COVID, you know?
I mean, when it's over, what are they going to think of to blame then?
Maybe high gas prices?
Supply chain problems.
Anxiety over global warming.
Inflation.
I don't know, the memory of those nasty Robert E. Lee statues.
Something, something is... A lack of George Floyd statues.
Yes, that's it.
Something they're going to have to figure out to blame for all of this gun violence that's killing certain people.
Well, apparently there's a fellow named Legend, or LeGend, I'm not quite sure.
How would you pronounce this?
If you had named your child L-E, capital G-E-N-D, one word, Repeat?
L-E-G-E-N-D.
Legend?
Well, I don't know.
Maybe legend.
I don't know.
I don't know.
In any case, legend or legend, Taliaferro.
Now, you know where the name Taliaferro comes from?
The only Taliaferro I know was that's Booker T's middle name.
Really?
Yes.
I never knew what his middle name was.
Taliaferro.
That's right.
Fascinating.
In any case, he's a four-year-old boy who was shot last year.
Four-year-old boy.
I mean, I'm sorry to have joked about his name.
A four-year-old boy should not get shot.
No.
A man who had been involved in a dispute with Legend's father had been trying to find Legend's dad after an altercation.
I guess found him instead and blazed away.
I mean, this is just horrible.
I mean, imagine you've got a dispute with some guy.
You show up and you find his four-year-old son and you shoot him instead.
Is that what happened?
This is just heartbreaking and horrible.
According to the AP, the U.S.
saw 991 gun violence deaths among people 17 or younger in 2019.
991.
In 2020, it went from 991 to 1,400.
And this year is on pace to be yet another record.
Yes.
People 17 or younger.
in 2019, 991. In 2020, it went from 991 to 1,400. And this year is on pace to be
yet another record. Yes, people 17 or younger. There could be 1,500, who
knows how many dead people 17 or younger in this country.
By Wednesday, last week, shootings claimed 1,165 young lives.
I guess COVID has really hit hard, Mr. Kersey.
Now, this is really, I mean, you know, you get hardened to these things, but some things, sometimes, even hard-hearted guys like me are moved.
At Philadelphia's Simon Gratz High School, that is a charter school, five students were killed and nine others were shot during the last school year.
Repeat that number.
Five killed and nine others shot.
That's one high school.
That's in one high school.
That's 14 guys stopped bullets in one high school.
And the student body of about a thousand.
And five of those who stopped those bullets have stopped their lives.
That's just one year.
Now the school offers a space for memorials to slain students.
Can you imagine that?
You walk by some schools and there are these glass cabinets full of athletic trophies.
I don't know what they do.
They've got, I don't know, photographs and teddy bears and bouquets of flowers.
That's just some dark stuff.
I'm sorry.
I agree.
It is very dark.
I can't even conceive of that.
I know.
It is very, very dark.
What?
Yes.
They have memorial space and they offer... They're going to run out of memorial space if you have 15 people shot in one calendar year.
Yes.
One school year, he says, the principal is named Leondo Dunn.
L-E apostrophe Y-O-N-D-O.
He says, we've gotten exceptionally good at knowing what to do and how to offer help when a young person loses his life.
We've gotten really good at that.
Well, I guess they had a lot of practice.
I don't know how good they've gotten, but they've got a lot of practice.
Now, and just this year, three of their students were shot just in a few days.
Within a few days, as the school took the day off.
Okay.
I can see why.
Anyway, Shaquille Barber was killed June 6th, a week before his high school graduation.
He was shot 13 times as he rode his bike home from a corner store.
13 times.
No arrests have been made.
The police are offering no motive.
Now, a police detective in Philadelphia says they call it walking a person down.
You know what that means?
I don't.
They shoot a person to incapacitate him so he goes down.
Then they walk him down, stand over him, and unload their firearm.
Their full magazine.
The full magazine.
They will empty an entire magazine into someone's torso or head.
That's called walking a man down.
New lingo.
New lingo for new time.
City of brotherly love.
Wow.
Yes.
Yes.
Extraordinary.
Now, as I say, Simon Gratz, it's a charter school.
Now, in 2012, and I was trying to look this place up, find out more about it.
In 2012, the school was removed from the persistently dangerous schools list.
Yes.
The fact that there is even such a thing as the persistently dangerous school list should give you all the pause you need to question all of what's happened since 1964.
Persistently dangerous schools?
Yep.
Just last month, three current and one recent graduate died in just a few days.
In any case, in 2019, not surprisingly, 86% of the children and teenagers who died from gunfire were boys.
That makes them six times more likely than girls to die in gun homicides.
And this is the killer statistic, ladies and gentlemen.
Black boys were 18 times more likely to be killed in gun homicides than white boys.
18 times.
I'd like to know what percentage greater than whites are involved in the shootings.
Oh, I suspect it's it's probably even higher.
Yeah, probably higher I mean, that's the thing we always know or almost always know the race of the stiff.
We almost never well We not not nearly as often.
Do we know the race of the shooter exactly but In all these cases, young black boys, overwhelmingly, they are shot by other blacks.
18 times.
You know, in sociology, if you get more or less equivalent groups and you find a difference of 30 percent or 20 percent or 50 percent, but we're talking about 1,800 percent difference.
18 times difference.
This is just staggering.
But now King County.
King County, you say, is suffering from violence also.
Probably of a similar hue.
We talk about King County quite a lot.
King County, of course, is Seattle.
It was renamed in the late 70s for, I think, the founder.
And they said we'd be more expedient to just go ahead and capitulate and say, let's just name it after Martin Luther King.
Let's just retcon it.
So, always like to bring that point up because Thus far, in 2021, the gun violence in King County, a county, by the way, that is 66% white, 7% black, it's already surpassed 2020's record toll.
So last year, it's been, you know, it's continued unabated with fatal and non-fatal shootings.
In the first nine months of the year, already exceeding 2020's year in totals.
People of color, especially young black men, continue to be disproportionately affected by gun violence, as has been reported in previous years.
The prosecutors' 2021 numbers point to an especially bloody summer with 31 more firearm-related homicides, 129 more non-fatal shootings, and 456 more shooting incidents in which no one was hit during July, August, and September.
So we have an organization called the Shots Fired Project and in 2020 there were 69 firearm related homicides and 268 non-fatal shootings.
That represented a 36% increase above the three-year average from 2017 to 2020.
This far this year it's already above that number in terms of fatal shootings and we're only in... Well we're now in October.
We were in October, but this was through September, so it was the first nine months.
They didn't have October's data.
So you have still three months left to add to that grim total.
We learn that 85% of those who have been shot are male, 32% are between the ages of 18 and 24, and 81%, Mr. Taylor and dear listener, are people of color.
Now that's just the victims.
We don't have the suspect data that we're constantly told that almost all crime is Entra racial.
Well, violent crime tends to be, yes, but it depends on the crime.
Correct.
And murder is the most limited within the race crime there is, but to the extent that it leaks out, a black person is an estimated, the data are hard to find, but maybe 30, 35 times more likely to kill a white person than a white person is to kill a black person.
The numbers are small, but the disproportions are great.
But the key takeaway there, King County is 66% white, 81% of those who have been victimized by the gun violence in 2021 are people of color.
It makes you wonder, would you even need police if King County was 100% white?
I'll let that answer Well, yes.
I'll let you come to your own conclusion.
You could defund the police.
Now, here's a story for you from New Zealand.
The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, the country's leading professional orchestra, Chief Executive Peter Briggs appeared before a parliamentary select committee and he says that it has altered its touring model deeply to engage with diverse communities, particularly with Maori and Rangatahi.
You know what Rangatahi are?
I do not.
Some Star Wars song?
No, no.
Sounds like it.
They're young Maori.
Apparently, in the New Zealand press, the word Rangatahi does not need any explanation.
I had to look it up.
It means a young Maori.
And reverse its carbon footprint.
They're going to do that at the same time.
Great!
Yes, they're going to engage with the Yirangatahi and decrease their carbon footprint.
He also said the orchestra could do better in terms of cultural diversity of its staff.
It's got room to improve on representing Aotearoa better.
Now, that too is, you know what that means?
I don't.
Aotearoa, another word that apparently in the New Zealand papers needs no explanation.
Aotearoa is the New Zealand word for Maori.
Okay.
No, I beg your pardon.
It's the Maori word for New Zealand.
So they're going to represent New Zealand better.
Aotearoa.
That's how the enlightened and the baptized and the circumcised and the elect talk these days, I guess.
The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra was looking at working with Tongan brass bands and Pacific choirs.
I guess they all sing Bach.
Collaborations are underway with two iwi.
The Ngai Tuho and the Ngai Tahu.
Got that?
The Ngai Tuho and the Ngai Tahi.
Now, iwi means tribe, yet another word that is left untranslated for us bonehead Americans.
And if that's successful, the orchestra hopes to use the model for future work.
It also looks to invest in a director of Maori engagement.
There's a lot of work to do in this space.
I bet there is.
Oh, a tremendous amount of work.
There's so many top-flight Maori bassoon and oboe players and viola players who just can't get the jobs they deserve.
I'm sure it's a big problem.
Now, all of this work, all of this care about Maori and rangatahi, those are the young Maoris, what percentage of New Zealand do you suspect is Maori?
Do you have any idea?
I want to say it's less than 2%.
Oh no no, you'd be wrong.
Really?
Usually you are on the money with this kind of thing.
Okay.
17% of the population is Maori.
Really?
Yes.
Or at least Maori to some degree.
I'm sure there are a lot of people who are not Maori who... Claim to be.
Who claim to be to take advantage of the special incentives.
That's right.
I'm a rangatahi now.
And I play the fiddle, so I want a professional job.
Now, meanwhile, meanwhile, while we're on the music kick, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra back in the United States recently announced a posting for a conductor diversity fellow.
A position whose responsibilities are essentially the same as an assistant conductor, except for one key difference.
The posting explicitly asks for applications only from those who self-identify as members of historically underrepresented groups in American orchestras, including, but not limited to, African Americans, Hispanic, Native American, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islanders.
I wonder who else they could think of.
Clearly, no whites or Asians need apply.
That's interesting.
Yeah.
And also there's, you know, this attack on the blind audition process.
Blind audition means you need a new, you know, second fiddle player.
They do everything behind the screen.
And the judging committee doesn't even know what they look like, who they are, what sex, what age, any of that.
They go strictly on the sound, but that's not yielding enough persons of the right color.
Actually, what I've read is that it's yielding too many Asians, correct?
Oh, nobody's complaining about that.
I've never heard of anybody saying, no, I've got to stop the Asians.
No, blind nobody is saying stop it because we've got too many Asians.
They're saying stop it because we don't get enough blacks and Hispanics and Pacific Islanders.
You know, those Samoan fiddle players are just not represented.
It's a terrible, terrible disgrace.
Now, let's see, what else we got here?
While we're at it, in Ontario, Canada, the McMaster University Department of Philosophy invites, on this I'm reading from their notice, their hiring notice, invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor, mindful of a long-standing lack of diversity within the discipline of philosophy.
We are pleased to announce that this is a targeted search initiative for Indigenous, Black, and or racialized persons, including individuals who self-identify as persons of color or BIPOC.
But isn't everybody racialized?
I mean, aren't white people racialized to be white?
In any case, I guess not.
The department seeks a candidate who will contribute to the advancement of inclusive academic excellence at McMaster.
Now, if I were gender-fluid or gender-intermediate or gender-confused or just plain old LGBTQ, I'd be outraged.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But I guess, but then come to think of it, if I were gender-confused, I might be white.
You know, they don't want that.
So there you go.
And then one last story about academic lunacy that proves no one is safe.
There is a person by the name of Bright Sheng.
He is of Asian origin, Chinese origin.
He teaches composition at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre, and Dance.
He is an accomplished conductor-composer, award-winning this, that, and the other, and his compositions have been commissioned by all sorts of big-name orchestras.
Two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist.
Wow!
None of that saved him when he was teaching a class on how Shakespeare is adapted for screen and opera, and he showed a 1965 movie of Othello, and it starred Laurence Olivier.
Well, he's a white guy, right?
He's a white guy.
Well, in order to be convincing Moore, he wore a black face.
Now, the production later received four Oscar nominations, the highest ever for a Shakespeare film, but Student freshman Olivia Cook, race unspecified, complained.
She was shocked.
Shocked.
Even more than the blackface.
The fact that students were simply shown the film without any warning.
Well, of course, Professor Sheng apologized.
The dean of the music school, David Geyer, said that this does not align with their anti-racist action, diversity, equity, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Students and staff from across the undergraduate and graduate programs called for Sheng's head.
And, of course, he has been removed from his teaching job.
You know, I guess those orientalists just don't understand white racism.
Not at all.
Not at all.
They're just not catching up.
They've got to get with it.
Sheng, come on.
You can do better than that.
Now, I believe, have we got the time?
Yes, I think we do.
Seattle Elementary Schools are going to solve the problem.
Well, they're going to solve the problem by cancelling Halloween because it marginalizes students of color.
This is from The Gateway Pundit, the racial equity team at Benjamin Elementary School in King County, Seattle.
Once again, it's cancelling the parade and said students cannot dress up in costumes this year and said that children will participate in inclusive events like the thematic units of stuff.
I'm sorry.
The thematic units of study about the fall and reviewing autumnal artwork.
Rather than a costume parade, they're going to review autumnal artwork?
Autumnal artwork.
Well rather than a rather than a costume parade they're gonna review autumnal artwork
Quote in alliance with the With the SPS is unwavering commit commitment to students of
color Specifically african-american males the staff is committing
to supplanting the pumpkin parade with more inclusive and educational opportunities during the school day
Well, you know what, Charlie Brown?
I'd rather Sit and wait for the great pumpkin, then wait for any of this and say, this is just... What?
Why does a pumpkin parade or a Halloween parade exclude black children?
Well, here's what we're told.
We're told that... We're told, yes.
I like that.
Halloween is a very complex issue for schools.
Yes, I agree the event marginalized our students of color.
Several of our students historically opted for an alternate activity in the library while the pumpkin parade took place.
I don't believe that for a second.
All kids love candy.
All kids love dressing up.
All kids love pretending to be a superhero or to be someone that they admire.
This is insane.
I've never heard of black neighborhoods or black people specifically not celebrating Halloween.
Have you?
I've heard a lot of white neighborhoods overwhelmed with black kids who come to get the best candy.
That's right, they love Halloween.
So she then went on to say this.
This was an isolating situation not consistent with our values of being an inclusive and safe place for all students, especially students of color.
Thus, Halloween is cancelled, Mr. Taylor.
Verboten!
And we've come to the end of the line.
Ladies and gentlemen, we thank you as always for your rapt attention.
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