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Nov. 8, 2021 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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‘Can We Hire a White Man? Pretty Please.’
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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, wherever you are, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance, and with me, thank goodness, is my co-host, the inimitable Paul Kersey.
And we'll begin with a reader comment that ever so slightly puts Mr. Kersey on the spot.
Our reader points out the last podcast at minute 21, Paul Kersey said that blacks commit the majority of U.S.
crime.
Well, if in fact that's something that my co-host said, he was wrong.
Wrong in terms of absolute numbers.
Yes, if I had phrased it with a per capita, I would have been correct.
Of course, if we're talking about homicides, that is actually true.
Same for robbery.
Same for robbery.
We know from the FBI stats for 2020, I believe that of known suspects, it's 56% are black males.
So I should have done a better job of Making clear what we were talking about instead of just a broad generalization.
That's not what we do here.
No, we wish to be kept on our toes, on our tippy toes at all times.
So I appreciate that.
Mr. Taylor, if I may be presumptuous and ask you something, something big has come up this weekend and I think we should start this podcast off.
There's still room, correct, for the?
Well, the American Renaissance Conference, you'll have to act mighty, mighty, mighty, mighty fast.
But there is still a possibility.
If you really want to show up, the best thing to do is call 703-716-0900, and we'll see if we can slip you in.
Because, as I say, things are coming up fast, and, well, the sooner you move, the better.
But another listener comment, a rather sobering one.
We are talking about the Virginia elections, and this reader who has been observing the...listener, I should say.
Why do I keep calling our listeners readers?
We hope they read the same too.
They read as well as they listen.
But he has been observing the American racial scene for even longer than I have.
He says, all the celebratory noise about the Virginia election remains blind to three points.
The mildly less evil Republicans carry only the white vote and much less among women than men, by the way, and the white population of Virginia is shrinking 6% less than in 2013.
With the blacks voting 90% for Big Brother and the Hispanics 67%, how can this result be anything less than transitory?
Touché.
He then goes on to say, I've looked in vain for a breakdown of the election age, but I'd like to see what Big Brother's education has had, what effect it's had on the younger whites.
Yes, younger whites, I hope, will turn into older whites and wiser whites, but that's not something you could always count on.
Number point number three.
Republicans' victories are, in the long run, meaningless, given their lack of fundamental beliefs and their acceptance of the left's basic dogmas in their hearts.
Inevitably, that which they oppose today, they will advocate tomorrow.
In any event, the vaguely good guys, as he characterizes them, won by only two percentage points.
We still have 43% of whites voting for the end of their own civilization and its norms.
That is a sobering figure.
This combined with demographic change tells us that the election results mean only that there is some degree of waking up among whites.
But what can they do about the demographics and the total control of education by Big Brother?
Well, we're hoping that podcasts like ours are changing more people's minds.
But, yes, the Republicans, it's a sorry thing to say.
I believe I talked about a Republican event I'd attended where everyone was whooping about how we have this wonderful, diverse, top-of-the-ticket lineup.
We have a white, we have a black, we have a Hispanic.
We're more diverse than ever.
These are Republican white people just cheering themselves hoarse over that idea.
And then a final comment from, and I'll get it right this time, a listener.
He was talking about what he called the false flag race declaration.
I thought that was pretty good.
Last week, as we reported, more than a third of white students admitted, and who knows how many failed to admit, that they lie about their race on college applications.
And our listener writes, of course it's the rational choice.
If preferences are bestowed and not checked, what do you expect?
It's hypocritical that this discrimination favoring blacks is deemed a fantasy by the power elite.
Even high school students know better, don't they?
He says, missing in the application process is the quest for excellence now displaced by diversity A bird whistle for non-white preferences.
I like that too.
A bird whistle.
A bird whistle.
That's right.
The other guys do bird whistles.
I guess we're supposed to do dog whistles.
So, and on that note, I'm reminded of Ibram Kendi.
Ibram Kendi, our favorite black guru, tweeted out the results of this study about white people lying.
I'm sure he was just so thrilled.
He was exalted to tweet that out.
White people are lying!
Well, as Andy Ngo, or Ngo, I didn't pronounce his name.
And how do you pronounce his name?
You know better.
Ngo, I think it's Ngo.
It's Ngo.
Andy Ngo.
A really quite, quite courageous Asian man.
He says, celebrity critical race academic Ibram Kendi tweeted out a story about how white university applicants identified as people of color for better treatment.
He deleted the tweet after realizing it didn't advance his argument of systemic white privilege.
It actually did the opposite.
What's that?
It actually did the complete opposite.
Of course!
Yes, yes.
I mean, it's a... How could you see better proof of non-white privilege when all whites are pretending to be non-white?
His career, of course, is based on the idea that America is structurally white supremacist.
Yes?
Have you ever read his book, Stamped from the Beginning?
The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America?
Gracious.
This is Kendi?
That's the book that really Catapulted him into the forefront.
I'm afraid I haven't.
I'm afraid I haven't.
I really should devote more, more of my time to this man's brilliant ideas.
He's got quite the catalog of work, but that's the one that it reminds me of a book that I think you and I both read, Documents of American Prejudice.
And I remember that's when I read it, I was like, gosh, People that came before us sure knew a lot, didn't they?
They tried to safeguard our civilization.
It's the lefties that are digging this stuff up.
All the conservatives like to pretend, oh, you know, Jefferson really mean it, meant it when he said all men are created equal.
We were all secretly working towards today.
We just got a little bit too far.
No, it's the lefties who dig up all the whys and wonderful things our ancestors said.
Which is why I think it would behoove someone to review and read Ibram Kendi's Stamp for the Beginning, the Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America.
I wonder if he's done any real research.
But we'll see.
In any case, let's have a good news story.
It starts off as a bad news story, as these good news stories often do.
There was a hijab campaign launched in the European Union.
It was an online campaign to promote acceptance of the hijab.
And one of its key slogans was, beauty is in diversity as freedom is in hijab.
Freedom is in the hijab.
Talk about big brother.
Or big sister.
And with a hashtag, joy in hijab.
Boy, that just turns me on.
Pictures and videos featured an anti-discrimination campaign that showed split-screen portraits of women's faces.
One half normal, showing the hair, and the other with hair covered by the hijab and wrapped around the neck and eyes poking out.
But there was a backlash, particularly in France.
And this caused Europe's top human rights organization, the Council of Europe, to take down the posts and the ads.
They stopped it in its tracks.
The French minister for young people, Sarah El Ha'iri.
She does not sound like a Française de souche, as they say.
I don't think her ancestors were there a hundred years ago.
No, I do not think so.
Sarah El Ha'iri told the television broadcaster, LCI TV, that the images, quote, deeply shocked me.
El Ha'iri said that France has expressed its extremely strong disapproval to the campaign.
We want none of this.
I don't think this is pretty good.
Belgian politician Theo Franken, he responded to the EU campaign by highlighting the fact that in many majority Muslim countries wearing the hijab is compulsory.
He says, just ask all those millions of girls in Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Somalia or Afghanistan if freedom is hijab.
Pretty good, pretty good.
And so, interestingly enough, opposition to this Hale hijab campaign has united the left and the right of the French political spectrum.
Laurence Rossignol, for instance, a socialist senator and a former women's rights minister, said A reminder that women are free to wear the hijab is one thing.
Saying that freedom is in the hijab is yet another.
Freedom is in the hijab.
That's what they all want to know.
Freedom is in the hijab.
And Marine Le Pen, of course, the far-right presidential candidate and leader of the National Rally, she tweeted, it's when women take off their veil that they become free, not the other way around.
And this is an interesting little thing that I dug up in association with this story.
Back in July of this year, judges at the European Court of Justice, that's the EU's top court, ruled that women can be fired from their jobs for refusing to remove their hijab, especially if they work in a job that deals with the public.
The public doesn't want folks looking like Muslims.
The reasoning was that this is an expression of religion.
An expression of religion of this kind is not acceptable.
So, what started out as a bad news story ended up being a good news story, but once again it's just playing defense.
The other side steps a little bit too far and we screech.
We have to make the other side start screeching.
Now, on to gifted programs in California.
This is another one of these.
Could have been bad news, but it's been somewhat thwarted.
The whole idea was, we're all terrified.
We haven't been closing the racial disparities in achievement.
Oh, that persist at every level in math, and always have, and I suspect always will.
But that is a bother bother.
So now California has new draft guidelines.
They haven't been implemented yet, but they reject the idea of naturally gifted children.
It's all in the environment, Mr. Kersey.
Your genes have got nothing to do with it, and they recommend it against shifting certain students into accelerated courses.
You can't have that, because it's all in the environment.
The draft also suggested that math should not be colorblind, and its teachers could use lessons to explore social justice, looking out for gender stereotypes in the real world, or applying math concepts to topics like immigration or inequality.
Yes, if Leroy makes $10 an hour and Chad makes $20 an hour, how badly is Leroy being discriminated against?
When they do the same job!
I bet you could do that math.
Now, but let's see, even in heavenly democratic California, the draft guidelines encountered scathing criticism.
With charges that the framework would inject woke politics into a subject that's supposed to be practical and precise.
What an idea!
And then, I think this is very encouraging, an open letter signed by hundreds of Californians working in science and technology called the draft, an endless river of new pedagogical fads that effectively distort and displace actual math.
So what do you know?
These brand spanking new guidelines may not be adapted after all.
And my guess is Asians are at the forefront of this.
I mean, California is running out of white kids.
You look at the numbers and you can see that the percentage of white students in K-12 public schools is dropping precipitously.
You can fact check me on that, anyone out there.
It's obvious.
The graphs are there.
So you have to wonder, you know, at what point Are we going to see under 10% of the K-12 students be white in California at the current trajectory?
And a lot of them will be in private schools.
But then the Asians, the Asians will be there.
The Asians will make sure that at least a few gifted classes and they'll be full of Asians.
But moving on to the Rittenhouse trial, I guess it puts in day three now?
Yes, I believe so.
And there have been some interesting developments in that.
I wish I'd been able to follow it moment by moment.
But in connection with this trial, George Floyd's nephew has posted a video threatening jurors if they don't convict Kyle Rittenhouse.
This is the way justice is done in the new America, in black run America.
I coined that almost a decade ago.
Yes, you did, and it's increasingly true.
The deceased criminal's nephew.
The deceased criminal's nephew.
I like that.
That's how we describe George Floyd's nephew.
Cortez Rice is his name.
He claimed that he knows people who've been taking photos of the jurors at the courthouse.
They're supposed to be kept confidential, but he says, I ain't even going to name the people that I know that's up at Kenosha, says he, but cameras in there.
It's definitely cameras up there.
There are definitely people taking pictures and everything like that.
We know what's going on.
So we need some results, man, says he.
We need results.
That's against the law, correct?
I think it probably is.
Okay.
Yes, it ought to be.
We need results.
Well, of course he was talking about objective justice.
Isn't that the result he was looking for?
It has to be.
Well, earlier this week, I mean, that's what he would claim in court.
But that claim might be a little tottery, given that earlier this, earlier last week, he brought a group of Black Lives Matter militants to the home of a judge.
In an officer-involved shooting case and posted her home address on Facebook.
Intimidating judges.
Now that really is something that gets under the skin of the judicial system in the United States.
I don't know what sort of consequences he's faced for this, but this was the case having to do with Duante Wright and Kimberly Potter.
You will remember, I think it was about a year ago, it was in the Minnesota area, This Kimberly Potter, who was a 26-year veteran of the force,
She was dealing with an obstreperous black young man, and she said she decided to taser him.
So she starts taser, taser, and mistakenly pulls out a gun and shoots the boy.
Correct.
This was really an awful, awful mistake.
And she immediately knew the mistake.
She knew this wasn't malicious in any way, shape, or form.
And I think, you know, not even Wikipedia says it was.
Wikipedia even concedes, you know, this was a mistake.
Everybody agrees it was a mistake.
Well, her name was Kimberly Potter, but two days later, she and the Brooklyn Center Police Chief, that's this Minnesota suburb, odd name for Minnesota suburb, but Brooklyn Center, Police Chief Tom Gannon resigned.
And when Kimberly Potter's address was leaked on social media, she had to flee her house.
Before she did that, they erected, maybe it was after, they erected the fence, a wall around it, if you remember, this chain link fence to protect it from being vandalized and set on fire.
Yes, yes, for a mistake.
You know, that's what happens.
That's white privilege for you, you know.
You know, I was thinking about this.
If this had happened and the guy she'd shot was white, We'd probably never even hear about it.
There might be some sort of disciplinary proceeding, but I wonder if she might even be indicted.
I can tell you why we know that to be a fact, because there was a similar incident in Minneapolis, where there was a police shooting, and immediately Black Lives Matter Antifa started gathering, preparing to go, and then the call came out, they said, The police actually said to the media, yes, it's a white person that we shot.
Don't worry, you don't need to, you don't need to mobilize to protest this.
And this happened within, I believe the past 10 to 12 months.
So white privilege again, you know, white privilege means you get shot and there are no riots.
So, now I'm wondering where Nephew Cortez has the time for all this organizing, and it occurred to me that he may be one of the people that got his hands on that $27 million that the citizens of Minnesota paid out on account of the death of St.
George.
Interesting.
Just a speculation.
I wonder what sort of fight they had.
Was it a nice family food fight they had over that $27 million?
It'd be interesting to know.
We'll find out, I'm sure, in the coming years.
Oh, I bet we'll never find out.
We'll never find out.
Well, okay.
You're a believer in the truth.
Now, I believe you have a story about skin color.
Well, skin color grading system.
It's funny you mentioned the whole fact about the Cuban who's going to be the, or the Cuban American who's going to be the Attorney General of the Virginia, the Commonwealth of
Virginia. Yes. You look at him and it's like that's that's a white guy
He looks awfully white to me. He looks like a white guy and why I say that is because this story has made the rounds
This is from Russia Today Latinos graded by skin color in COVID discrimination poll a
new Pew Research poll on discrimination during the COVID-19 Pandemic has received much pushback for classifying Latino
Americans based on the darkness or lightness of their skin tone
I would say that the new Um, a.
AG for Virginia.
He's pretty, he's probably got that one.
He'd be on the lowest level.
Well, what's the scale?
1 to 10?
Yeah, well, here, I'll get to that.
Over 50% of Latino adults in the U.S.
participated in the poll said they experienced some form of discrimination based on their skin color during the first 12 months of the coronavirus, though many claimed skin color is directly related to potential for racist encounters.
The head-scratching part of the survey came when the pollsters categorized respondents on a 10-step scale.
Based on how they describe their own skin color.
Well, you know, if we're trying to figure out that the darker the skin, the worse the prejudice, doesn't this make sense?
It makes a lot of sense, actually.
So, among all respondents, 56% said their skin color shapes their daily life experiences, while 62% who said they had darker skin claimed their color affects their lives.
Those who said they have lighter skin were a bit lower on daily discrimination.
With 57% saying their race affects their day-to-day activities.
57%?
Yeah.
Even with light skin?
Exactly.
Oh boy, those fights are awful bad.
A Pew study relied on respondents to identify their own skin shade, with those choosing a level between 1 and 4 placed in the lighter skin category, I would call Caucasian.
You look white.
Category, and those who chose 5 to 10 on the scale placed on the darker side.
Respondents were able to select from a list of animated hands with various shades on them, meant to represent the different skin tones for Hispanic Americans.
I would recommend all of our listeners out there try and track down this chart, and you can you can put your hand out if you're if you're if you're a Caucasian or say you're Hispanic.
You could say, I wonder where I fall in that?
Even you, you too, could be a number three.
Wow, okay.
What's, there you go.
But, again, I don't understand what the Führer is about.
If the theory is the darker the skin, the greater the prejudice.
I have to measure skin darkness somehow.
I guess being biological is just against the rules.
I'm sure if you spent some time in your garden, you'd probably go from a 1 to a 4 with a little bit of a tan.
I'd go from a 1 to a 1.1.
But, back to the whole question of color.
The election for mayor in Boston raised an intriguing question that has been just torturing the brains of sages for decades now.
Are Arab Americans people of color?
Inquiring minds want to know.
The question, according to this news story, has been bubbling beneath the surface of Boston's historic mayor's race where one of the two candidates Anissa Esaibi-George has found herself challenged on the campaign trail about her decision to identify as a person of color.
Esaibi-George, one of these hyphenated names, describes herself as Polish Arab.
First, I've heard of a Polish Arab, but in the great new melting pot of America, I guess we'll get Polish Arabs and Arab Poles and who knows what.
She has identified as a person of color during her years in elected office.
I wonder why.
She's turned her back on white privilege.
It's extraordinary.
Now, I saw a photograph of her.
She could pass for a white lady in my book.
In any case, S.I.B.
George has frequently talked about the obstacles faced by her father, a Muslim immigrant from Tunisia, and the challenges he believed that she would face as his daughter.
Uh-oh.
And although she identifies as a person of color, S.I.E.B.
George acknowledges her physical presence.
Yes, her physical presence.
Just what I was talking about.
As well as her heavy Boston accent.
Allows her a certain amount of privilege.
Well, I guess she can pass, in other words.
And she describes herself as a woman who can maneuver in different rooms and different spaces.
So she's got white privilege and Arab privilege, as it sounds like.
Does she wear the hijab all the time?
Not so far as I know.
I guess only when it's necessary.
Only when needed.
Only when it's useful.
Only when it is beneficial to getting those Yeah.
Those Saracen points.
Yes, the Saracen points.
Yes, very good.
When it's need be, I'm sure you can say, Salaam Alaikum!
And press her head to the floor, but probably most of the time that's not necessary.
Let's see.
Her father, yes, who's from North Africa, but she generously concedes she's not herself an African-American, even though her father's from Africa, because she says that term refers to black people.
Now, the whole question of are Arabs white or non-white, Nuha E. Muntasir, who describes himself as a Muslim Libyan-American, says she cringes whenever she has to check the box for white.
Because she doesn't feel white.
That word you just used is my least favorite word in the English language.
Can you guess which one it was?
Muslim?
Cringe.
There's something about that word that just immediately repulses me by the people who utilize it in their everyday language.
Well, you're just not a cringer.
I think it just goes against everything about you, Mr. Kersey.
No cringing from you.
And also, the lack of a box to check for Arab Americans can also limit economic opportunity.
Says former Cambridge City Councillor Nadeem Mazen, an Arab-American and an Arab-Muslim.
Once again refuting Ibram Kendi's concepts.
Oh dear, oh dear.
Yes, we want to be able to prove that we're not white.
So we can get ahead and we can get handouts.
He says that's particularly relevant when dealing with possible business contracts.
Oh, well, yeah.
Oh, the truth is out.
The truth is out.
And everybody's just shocked and amazed that all of these white high school students want to pretend not to be white.
I wonder why.
Moving on to a ballot initiative that was in Detroit last Election Day.
They passed, overwhelmingly, Proposal R, which asked whether Michigan's largest city should form a committee to consider, guess what, reparations for the residents.
And if memory serves, Detroit is what, 92?
1% black?
No, it's been whitening lately.
Okay.
Whitening, whitening.
It's only 77% black.
Wow, really?
Yes.
Wow!
It's gentrifying.
So, if you get enough white people in there, maybe you can stick it to them.
But the group will recommend.
Now see, this is it.
Theoretically, it's a commission to consider reparations, but they've already figured out how the reparations are going to be spent.
It will be on housing and economic development, quote, that addresses historical discrimination against the black community in Detroit.
So there you go.
The proposal does not require steps beyond the group's formation.
It includes members and timelines for a decision, nor any mandate or guidance of how it will be carried out.
But the city council will now start a framework to select the task force.
I wonder how many whites will be on the task force.
Uh, it's going to be few and far between.
Few, yes, few.
I'll be social distancing.
They'll be far between.
But yeah, now this is, this is hilarious.
You have this overwhelmingly black place that overwhelmingly voted, yeah, handouts for us!
Well, where are the handouts going to come from?
I guess you know those 20-23% of the population are really going to be squeezed.
The guy who runs, Dan Gilbert, the guy who runs Rocket Mortgage, remember they relocated to Detroit because he was like, we've got to help this city out.
And unfortunately, he's helping out quite sufficiently if you've gone from 91% Black to 77% black within a few years.
That surprised me, that figure, that maybe we're mistaken and maybe we will be called on the carpet by some flinty-eyed listener.
But in any case, moving on to Minneapolis.
Minneapolis is always a source of astounding news.
But now this is an interesting one.
On the same ballot, on the same election day, I should say, approximately 56% of voters rejected a ballot question that would have removed the Minneapolis Police Department from the city charter and replaced it with a public health-oriented Department of Public Safety.
Public health, boy.
Now, that means 44% of people voted for this Looney Tunes idea, but a day, just a day or two after George Floyd's death, most members of the Minneapolis City Council appeared at a defund rally.
Oh, yeah.
Including, I believe, the mayor was there.
The mayor was there, too.
Who, unfortunately, was re-elected, by the way.
Yes, he was re-elected, but he waffled on the question of actually defunding it, and so he was booed and he was insulted.
Now, of course, U.S.
Representative Ilhan Omar, Somali, and State Attorney General Keith Ellison, Black and Muslim, weighed in to support this measure.
So their wishes went unheeded.
The NO campaign pointed to the language in the Charter Amendment which said that a remade Department of Public Safety would have been established to provide a comprehensive public health approach that could include police officers if necessary, police officers optional, social workers for sure, nurse practitioners plenty, police officers Public health?
I mean, I think voters just don't care about the health of muggers and murderers.
They want them caught.
They want them put away.
I wish that were the case, but as you said, 44% of the residents of Minneapolis voted to introduce this new concept and replace the police with this insane concept of, hey, you know what?
Yes, we are seeing all-time high of Highs of homicide and non-fatal shootings in Minneapolis.
We're going to say, you know what, we're no longer going to pull over individuals who have expired tags or broken taillights in Minneapolis because, hey, guess what, that disproportionately impacts the black residents.
I mean, it's, it's exhausting.
But before you leap, or before any of our listeners leap to surprising, well, to conclusions that suggest themselves it might be wrong, Deeply buried in a Minnesota Public Radio article about the vote on replacing the police with social workers was this line.
Black voters were less likely to support the proposed public safety department than white voters and are more concerned that cutting the police force would have a negative effect on police safety.
What do you know?
The wisdom of the black multitudes.
But I suppose there's another way to look at it.
First, you get your new sneakers and computers and have some fun burning and pillaging, and then you want the police back.
You want your target back open.
You know, now that the fun's over, yeah, we might have fun.
Wasn't there a target, Mr. Taylor, in Minneapolis that after it burned down, they put up a mural of the arsonists?
Yeah, they brought it back brand new.
They also had some sort of mechanism that if there was a riot, some sort of walls would come up that would... These were metal doors.
Yes.
But that's flood control.
That's for when the snow melts.
That's right.
When there's too much snow melt, you know?
Yes.
I know it was designed by a black firm.
That's right.
They went around to all the neighborhoods and said, uh, what kind of stuff you want?
And they said, Colt 45.
And, uh, they had all this attractive merchandise, uh, that was all supposed to be black firm.
Anyway, they'll get me started.
I think we already got you started.
But I would like to go back and answer the question about Detroit.
I'm at the Detroit News real quick.
And yes, Detroit from 2010 to 2020 lost 16% of its black residents.
The number of black Detroiters fell by more than 93,000 to now just more than 493,000.
So that's down from 586,000 10 years ago when the city was 83% black.
Down 93,000?
That's a lot of people moving to Georgia.
Well, listeners, listeners, they're moving in right next door.
Yeah, including, so white residents rose 9% to about 61,000 of the overall population
of Detroit compared to 56,000 in 2010.
I bet you can pick up a nice brownstone for not much.
I bet you could pick up blocks and blocks and blocks of brownstones for not much.
You'd have to be careful how many leaves there are on them.
Yes, yes.
But you know, about this Minneapolis vote, we must take into consideration, this is another important factor, that the police chief, Medaria Arradondo, is an African-American police policeman who came up through the ranks the NPD and is more popular than any of the local politicians and minority groups in the city see him as a force for reform and opponents of the amendment appealed to the black vote warning that eliminating the office of chief of police might mean losing Arradondo and we could not have that.
Now, I believe you have some hot dope on the nature of crime in Minnesota.
Yeah, these are one of those stories that's supposed to show, oh gosh, we're arresting these people disproportionately, but what it shows is...
Black individuals are collectively committing a disproportionate amount of the crime, requiring arrest to get them off the street.
So here's the story.
What a twisted attitude you have.
The chair of Minneapolis Police Conduct Oversight Commission says she plans to propose a vote to decriminalize some nuisance crimes in the city.
I'm sure every resident's going to be excited about this.
Abigail Serra says based on newly obtained data, which she believes shows racial disparities in misdemeanor arrests and citations, She will propose a vote during the Commission's November 9th meeting.
For those paying attention, that's going to be Tuesday of this week.
In a city that is 19% black, data provided to the Commission by the Minneapolis Police Department shows 85.2% of loitering arrests and citations are among black residents.
81% of people arrested or cited for public urination were black.
I guess they loiter and they pee.
Public urination.
Yeah.
They pee in public.
They pee while they loiter.
Exactly.
While just 22% were white for public urination charges.
I'm sure those were drunks leaving the Minneapolis, whatever the hockey team's name is, or the Twins game, or the Timberwolves.
I think that's the NBA team.
I don't know.
Public consumption and disorderly conduct had very similar figures.
Interesting.
Pattern recognition intensifies.
Obviously, systemic racism is to blame.
Implicit bias is to blame.
Redlining is to blame.
The legacy of Emmett Till is to blame.
Columbus is to blame, dammit!
Get to the root of the problem!
Sarah said being jailed or convicted of such nuisance crimes is a gateway into a problematic court system.
She believes by decriminalizing these minor offenses, offenders can avoid entry into the criminal justice system so they can just loiter
all they want to, they can just whip out their Johnson and pee in public all they want to.
I think I'll go do that. That sounds like fun. Right in front of City Hall. In Minneapolis. Pee on
the steps. That's what I think of your new law. She would like to propose a motion to decriminalize loitering,
public urination, and again they're going to try and figure out as many nuisance
crimes as they can. Just be like let's just get rid of them and if nothing's illegal no one's
going to be arrested.
That's for sure.
Obviously, the City Council, if approved, it would go to them to vote, and we know this will obviously be passed because the City Council was the ones that passed the idea to get rid of the police, which then went to the ballot.
We'll see.
Welcome to post-George Floyd America.
You know, if I'm not mistaken, a majority of the city council is non-white now, but perhaps I am mistaken.
Maybe you could look that up.
We don't wish to make any further errors, and I may be misremembering, as I sometimes do, because I've got quite a bit of material to read for this next story.
Yes, you're right.
First time ever.
Why?
Minneapolis, didn't you say that about 65% is white?
It's about 62%.
But all those white liberals, they love to vote for BIPOCs.
They say, you know what, if you urinate in public as long as you're BIPOC, you've got our vote.
That's not a nuisance to us.
If it was a white guy, we'd call the cops.
That's right.
But now, let's see.
Wajahat Ali.
Have you been following this guy?
He writes The Daily Beast.
He is really something else.
And his article starts like this.
As a student of American history and a person of color, I never underestimate the white hot rage, anxiety, and resentment of a Karen Scorn.
You might think you've won them over with Beyonce, Opera, Chai Latte, and Henna, but the cult of Karen will always turn on people of color on a dime to uphold oppressive systems that ensure they remain influential and powerful handmaidens of white supremacy.
This guy's really over the top.
And he says, don't believe me?
According to, he's got proof, according to an NBC exit poll, 75% of white women without college degrees voted for Glenn Young and for governor in Virginia.
They're handmaidens of white supremacy, you see.
Compared to 56% who went for Trump in 2020, they're getting worse.
They're just getting worse.
They voted for a man whose single campaign message was about stopping the manufactured boogeyman of critical race theory, the latest incarnation of the Southern strategy, which most of his voters can't define and isn't taught in school, but they're certain it's terrifying and worth canceling because it's making their kids hate white people and become transgender.
Clever lad.
This guy's good.
In some bright news, 60% of college-educated white women went for Democrat Terry McAuliffe.
I suppose, despite the fact of being white, he's not a white supremacist.
Up from 58% who went for Biden last year, 58 to 62, but overall a majority of white women.
57% went for Youngkin, a remarkable 15-point swing from 2020 when 50% went for Biden and 49% for Trump.
But then he goes on to say, I'm not surprised.
The sad truth is that a majority of white women have voted Republican candidate since 1952.
Can you believe that?
I can't.
Breathtaking.
Every single time except for Lyndon Johnson and for Clinton's second term.
They did step up and do the right thing twice since 1952.
They vote for their interests, which is preserving whiteness at all costs.
Preserving whiteness.
And we know what whiteness means.
Why dismantle a system where you can always be the victim and weaponize your tears into bullets against black and brown bodies?
Isn't that a great phrase?
They weaponize their tears into bullets against black and brown bodies.
You know, you've heard about sweating bullets.
Well, white women weep bullets.
Well, they weep white bullets.
Some silver bullets.
Yeah.
And when doing the right thing means that your white son and daughter would have to compete equally with children of color in academic sports in the workplace.
And your white husband wouldn't get a head start on job promotions, higher wages and bank loans.
Yeah, this guy lives in fantasy land.
In this version of America, it's good to be a white man.
He goes on to say, Winsome Sears was elected as the state's first female black lieutenant governor.
He says, this is what these people who claim not to be racist say.
And Republican Jason Meares, the son of Cuban immigrants, also won as attorney general.
And he provides further cover of color to many of those white women and GOP voters who delude themselves into believing they have zero racist bones in their bodies because they elected two people of color.
You know, what did you have to do?
Of course, no person of color has ever caped for whiteness, embraced racist policies, and echoed racist dog whistles.
That's a new one on me.
They caped for whiteness.
Caped for whiteness.
I guess that's, I don't know, a supervillain.
A supervillain attire is your caping for whiteness.
And this guy mentions, oh, what is her name?
The turning point lady.
Oh, the black lady.
Oh, God.
Why can't I think of her name?
Yeah, it's her.
But this is his example of caping.
Please look her up.
Caping.
Caping for white supremacy.
Maybe it was actually a typo.
She meant to say aping for whiteness.
Oh, never, never, never.
And so, okay, so who is this guy?
Who is this guy?
Wajahat Ali.
Well, I mean, you can tell from his resume just how miserably oppressed he's been.
Candace Owens is caping for whiteness.
And she embraces racist policy and she echoes racist dog whistles.
At least not a bird whistle.
Well, bird whistles go the other way.
So this guy, yes, listen to just how terribly oppressed, horrible his life has been.
He is a New York Times contributing op editor.
He is a consultant to the U.S.
State Department.
He regularly appears on CNN to discuss politics and current affairs.
He was honored as a Generation Change Leader by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Geez.
He has given many presentations from Google to the United Nations to Princeton to the Abu Dhabi Book Festival.
He's everywhere.
Abu Dhabi Book Festival is booking this cat.
He has also written for The Atlantic, Washington Post, The Guardian, New York Review of Books.
He is the author of The Domestic Crusaders, which is the first major play about Muslim Americans post 9-11, which was performed off Broadway and at the Kennedy Center because he's so oppressed.
Life has been so cruel to him.
You know, it works every time.
The more they benefit, the higher they go, the more they hate us.
There's no exception.
Have you been invited to the Abu Dhabi Book Festival to give a talk?
Yeah, next February.
Yes, I'm going to be there.
Abu Dhabi Book Festival.
They want to know all about it.
But I think you've got the inside dope on a GOP fight that stopped the Trump immigration plan.
You know, at some point there are all these books coming out about what happened with Trump.
I love the story about how he admitted that this whole Platinum Plan, you know, this is Jared's idea, the blacks are going to vote for me.
He said this, apparently said this, or he wanted to have the Insurrection Act.
called after they tried to burn the White House down on May 31st and what, 60 plus Secret
Service agents were injured. And who's the Joint Chiefs of Staff who said he wanted to
understand white rage? I can't remember his name, but he basically got in a shouting match.
There's all these amazing little anecdotes where you had- Was that Milley?
Milley, yeah. Yes, yes. You had Trump on the verge of doing something great. And one of
the reasons why I believe he was elected was because of his stance on immigration.
We all thought that, hey, we can get some mass deportations, a lot of cool things could be happening.
Well, Byron Newark, one of the great journalists out there, a true journalist, his latest daily memo has this great title, The GOP Fight That Stopped Trump's Immigration Plan.
I encourage you all to check out that article and read just bits and pieces of it.
It was this highest profile promise was to build the wall.
Build the wall was a chant you heard echoing throughout the entire country at every campaign stop he did.
You know, best chance came.
Congress was controlled by who?
Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
You know, this might be one of the last times you ever see at...
At the State of the Union, three white guys there.
So anyways, we know it didn't happen.
Now one of Trump's strongest supporters on Capitol Hill, Republican Rep.
Jim Gordon, is out with a new memoir, Do What You Said You Would Do.
Great title, by the way.
It's due out at the end of this month.
It describes those months when GOP lawmakers fought over competing visions of immigration reform.
The battle was intense.
It was passionate.
It came to Signify what Faulkner said.
So much happens in human history.
Nothing.
No stricter immigration laws were passed and there was no significant funding for a wall.
For that failure, Rep.
Jordan points the finger of blame straight at the P90X performing speaker, Ryan.
Quote, Paul Ryan is not where the American people are.
Ryan's positions on immigration is the same as the positions of the National Chamber of Commerce, end quote.
In a world of conservative immigration policy activists, accusing someone of siding with the Chamber of Commerce is about as harsh as it gets.
He then goes on to delineate in this book how Ryan sabotaged Republican immigration reform by refusing to support a bill that the large majority of Republicans supported.
Instead, he pushed the weaker bill the chamber supported.
The result was that facing united Democrat opposition, neither Republican bill passed.
The one that was promoted by Jordan and his colleagues, the House Freedom Caucus, would
have, quote, ended family-based chain migration apart from spouses and children, contained
mandatory e-Verify language for employers, eliminated the visa lottery, eliminated the
the visa lottery.
It also defunded sanctuary cities and appropriated $30 billion for construction of the wall.
The bill Jordan argued was consistent with the message of 2016 election.
Save one major point.
Deport illegal aliens.
And I would have also added arrest sanctuary city mayors and arrest any elected official that advocated for illegal aliens.
The bill supported by Ryan would have also funded the wall, albeit with $25 billion.
So then it just goes on to talk about more and more about what happened, the behind-the-scenes machinations to try and build these coalitions within the Republican Party.
And it just shows from day one.
So Ryan was just chucking sand into the gears right from the start.
Oh, not chucking sand.
He was saying, hey, I need every bag at every Home Depot to be brought in here.
We're pretending this is the biggest flood ever because these guys are actually trying to do something that would raise the wages of Americans by not having an endless sea of labor flooding.
Although, of course, with COVID, you know, this is just a quick observation.
I'm sure a lot of our listeners think about this.
Isn't it amazing when you go to a restaurant now how there's almost no servers in?
Have you noticed this?
Because they can't find employees.
I don't eat out much.
My wife makes wonderful food right here at home.
But what I have got a story today is about Mexico.
You know, we don't talk about Mexico all that often.
We talk about the border.
We rarely talk about Mexico.
But eight state police earlier this week were patrolling on a dirt road in Valparaiso, Zacatecas.
And guess what?
They were ambushed by an armed criminal gang.
Approximately 50 heavily armed individuals emerged from the undergrowth and began shooting.
Apparently from the cartel Jalisco.
The police seeing themselves at a disadvantage, they surrendered.
I don't understand why they didn't get the heck out.
The road must have been blockaded.
Terrifying.
Yeah, they're blazing away.
And the criminals therefore then took 16 weapons, 8 bulletproof vests, ammunition, 4 radios, as well as the officers' patrol cars.
One they apparently kept, and one they used for target practice because it was left abandoned, riddled with bullet holes.
Now, these Cartel Jalisco boys then forced the police to record a cell phone video making statements in defense of criminal activity.
Then the gang kidnapped the policemen and abandoned them in an area which is described as with difficult vehicular access.
Fortunately, they seem to have found their way back to civilization and are reported to have been unharmed.
So this was, I guess, the kinder, gentler version of the Jalisco gang.
They had to ask for support over the phone and the armed group fled into the neighboring state of Zacatecas.
And so far, no people have been reported detained for the crime.
Now, one thing I wanted to point out Most of all of this horrible cartel gang violence has to do with drug trafficking and human trafficking into the United States.
Who gets the business?
And a lot of it is in the northern parts of the country.
This all happened 700 miles from the U.S.
border.
That's quite a ways into the interior.
Have you been to that territory?
I've not been to that part.
But not all that long ago, I was in Oaxaca, which is, oh, quite a ways away to the south, way south of Mexico City.
This is still north of Mexico City where this happened.
But it goes to show you just how deeply into the interior this wallallessness can go.
Now, our next story is a really sad one.
It's one of these initiatives.
In this case, about 200 people were at a boxing match held outdoors at the Skyway Plaza in St.
Petersburg, Florida.
The event was organized by the Neighborhood Boxing League.
This was set up, dedicated to fighting gun violence, by encouraging community members to take up boxing.
Subtler differences the old-fashioned way.
The group's website reads, they began the guns down, gloves up movement, encouraging people to express their anger and frustration in a different way.
Rather than handling disagreements by grabbing a gun, how about fight it out and live to see another day?
Well, I mean, maybe it'll work, maybe it wouldn't.
Maybe they should have said, guns down, transcendental meditation begins.
I don't know.
Maybe some Vikram yoga?
Yes, yes.
But the group's mission took a tragic and ironic turn.
When gunfight broke out at one of their events, bringing an abrupt end to the festivities.
The shooting reportedly began with two groups that got into an altercation that escalated to violence.
One person was killed in the crossfire.
Now a reminder for those who might not have been paying attention when you started.
What was the boxing?
It was, what was it actually trying to stop?
Gun violence.
Okay.
Yes, guns down, gloves up.
Okay.
Guns down, gloves up.
And it ended because of what?
Because of, well, they put the gloves down and picked up the gun.
It's not, you know, these things are ironic.
I'm sorry.
These things are ironic, but it's, it's, it's just horrible.
It's really, it's really quite horrible.
It is.
I don't disagree, but it's one of these things that it's... I know, where do you begin?
You got to laugh to keep from crying, I guess.
Now moving on to Chicago, the Art Institute.
This is really one of the stupidest, just the most idiotic stories.
The Art Institute of Chicago, which is one of the great museums in the world.
I love the Art Institute.
Every time I'm in Chicago, I try to slip in there for at least a couple of hours.
They fired more than 150 volunteers and suspended their decades-old docent program.
Okay.
You know who docents are?
These are these ladies who are just passionate about art.
They walk you through the museum and they explain this masterpiece and that masterpiece.
They're volunteers, right?
Volunteers!
Volunteers!
And, you know, it's astonishing to me.
You go around to the docent and you ask some question and you think, gosh, how do they possibly know?
They know the answer.
They just know everything about this stuff.
These people just eat, sleep, drink, walk, talk, art.
Well, they were fired by email.
Because the Institute wants to rebuild our program from the ground up.
And the museum hired the Equity Project, a Colorado-based consulting firm.
They got to go all the way out to Colorado for Chicago to find brainy people.
And they found the program outdated and skewed towards wealthy white women.
Oh, no.
Wealthy white women.
And there were too many barriers preventing people of color from entering the program.
They're volunteers.
What are the barriers?
I guess the only barrier is you have to know something about art.
And it helps to be passionate about it.
Now, the Equity Project Executive Producer, Monica Williams, one of our African American-ess fellow citizens, she says, sometimes equity requires taking bold steps.
You really have to dismantle and disrupt the systems that have been designed to hold some up and others out.
I mean, as if the docent program was designed to keep black people out.
I bet for the past 20 or 30 years, if a black person has showed up who has the same knowledge and zeal about art, the same passion, I bet they wrap their arms around her.
I bet they're promoted to be the main speaker at every fundraiser.
They shed tears of joy if somebody like that shows up.
Instead it was, oh god, another white woman.
But yes.
But the president of what's known as the Institute's Docent Council said the move was a complete shock.
They responded with a letter of protest that pointed out the position requires twice a week training for 18 months, five years of research and reading, and ongoing further training.
But the Equity Project, Monica Williams, she says the problem will be solved if the docents become paid positions.
Then they can go out and hire ignorant people of color, and this particular demographic of mostly white and wealthy can be eliminated.
As Monica Williams says, docent programs have perpetuated whiteness in these spaces, so the docents have got to go.
Isn't that one of... I mean, it's a small thing, but it's such a brutal, utterly uncalled slap in the face for these ladies who've dedicated their lives to trying to share their passion for art.
They do it for free, and because you can't get black people to do that, they're going to turn it into paid jobs for people who drag themselves to the motions for a paycheck.
You spoke about how you love going to this particular museum when you visit Chicago.
Do you have any experiences with one of these volunteers that you can remember?
Not specifically at the Art Institute of Chicago, in the National Gallery here in DC.
I've been around with docents.
And where else have I been around with docents?
In the Philadelphia Art Museum.
That is a spectacular museum.
We've got so many wonderful art museums, but now they're all ashamed that all the stuff on their walls is done by wicked, wicked white people.
But I believe you have a story about State Street Investment Group doing a similar sort of thing.
Down with white people!
They're embarrassed by whitey here in Sena.
This is an investment firm that manages I want to say it's in the trillions of dollars of assets.
Oh, I think so.
It's some extraordinarily massive number.
I'm sure that if they've diversified into cryptocurrency, that is only going up since Bitcoin just hit its highest ever.
So hint, hint, wink, wink for everyone out there.
If you want to make a donation and you want to get rid of some of those capital gains, you can donate cryptocurrency to American Renaissance, I believe.
And with the end of the year coming up, what better way to make a tax-deductible donation?
Hint, hint, wink, wink.
Wow.
Boy.
Boy, you're better than I am at this stuff.
So anyways, one of the world's largest investment firms will need permission.
May we please?
To hire white men.
State Street Global Advisors previously commissioned the Fearless Girl statue that stared down Wall Street's Charging Bull sculpture.
Well, guess what?
Now they're saying, hey, you know what?
Let's be fearless in our discrimination against white males.
Because leaders at one of the largest investment firms in the world is going to have to ask permission, like I said, as part of this new diversity hiring initiative to keep white men in Rosa Parks' backseat.
There's nowhere they can go to get in the front at this point.
Now, don't they have a particular goal in mind?
They do.
Quote, this is now front and central for State Street.
It's on every senior executive scorecard.
You know, you would think that if that's the senior executive scorecard, well, they're just going to resign if they're white and voluntarily give up their position.
In fact, give up their book of clients and say, you know, I got this through systemic racism.
That's right.
And you know what?
We should find a way to, and guess what?
Most of these clients I have are white, so we should redistribute their wealth while we're at it.
You know?
Gosh, it was all ill-gotten.
It's pure undeserved white privilege.
So all of our leaders, this is from Jess McNichols, the Bank's Head of Inclusion, Diversity, and Corporate Citizenship in London, said this, quote, all of our leaders have to demonstrate at their annual appraisals what they have done to improve female representation And the number of colleagues from ethnic minority backgrounds.
The company aims to triple the number of Black, Asian, and other minority staff in senior positions by 2023.
Triple?
That's in two years.
Well, if they're starting from one, they may make it, but triple them?
Good Lord.
Here we go.
If executives don't meet the target, they will face lowered bonuses.
Smell a couple of lawsuits with this one.
Recruiters will now have to establish a panel of four or five employees.
Including a woman and a person with a minority background when hiring middle management staff.
Memo to any white male out there who wants to apply for a job at State Street Global Advisors.
Go ahead and say on your application you identify as a homosexual black female.
That's the way to do it.
And if they say anything you can say, hey, we'll have to take it up with the Department of Labor.
This is discrimination.
I'm a homosexual black female.
The company is pledging to, quote, hold ourselves accountable for strengthening Black and Latinx-owned businesses, end quote.
And to wrap it up, hand it back to you.
Boy, I'm glad I'm not looking for a job in the bank and business these days.
Now, here's a really horrifying story.
November 2019, a white Illinois high school student from Naperville posted a Craigslist ad offering a black classmate as a slave for sale.
Bad taste, for sure.
He was a 14-year-old freshman at the time.
He took a picture of his classmate, posted it on Craigslist, and the ad also featured a racial slur, which is not printed, but I imagine we can imagine what it was.
The two used to be friends but they quarreled and this culminated in the ad being posted.
Oh dear.
Well he got a two-day suspension from school but the black student's mother said that wasn't enough and she is grateful that the Naperville Police Department and DuPage County State's Attorney have come through with charges.
14 year old boy and charge him they did.
They forced him to plead guilty to two felony hate crime charges.
That's a 14-year-old!
Yes!
And he will serve two years probation and do 100 hours of community service.
For this rather bad-taste Craigslist offering of a black classmate as a slave.
The DuPage County State's Attorney's Office says hate crimes have no place in a civilized society and will not be tolerated regardless of the accused's age.
That means a three-year-old could do it.
It means a two-year-old.
Hey, you knock over a black kid's bricks.
That's a hate crime.
Studies show that the victims of hate crimes can suffer from depression, increased anxiety, low self-esteem, and insecurity.
Everyone deserves the right to feel safe and my office will continue to charge and prosecute anyone regardless of age who engages in this type of behavior.
Well, depression, anxiety, low self-esteem.
What about 14 year olds who do something stupid and end up with two felonies on their record?
This is just an incredible case to me, but what do you expect?
Land of the free and the home of the brand?
Home of the brave.
Yes, home of the bled.
So, once again, our dear listeners, wherever you are, thank you for your attention.
It is a privilege and an honor that we look forward to next week.
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