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Dec. 16, 2021 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Keechant Sewell Makes Her Debut
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Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to Radio Renaissance.
I am Jared Taylor with American Renaissance, back after an absence of two weeks, during which my indispensable co-host, Mr. Kersey, took over in a manful and entirely confident way, I'm led to believe, so I'm very much obliged that we're back both in the saddle together, and it is a pleasure and an honor to be with you.
We would like to start with a story about the new police chief in New York City.
Her official title is Police Commissioner.
And not only is she the first woman in a long string of men that go back, I think, about 130, 140 years.
It's the oldest police department in the United States.
But she, of course, is an African-Americaness.
And her name is Keechant Sewell, or Keechant.
I'm not quite sure.
K-E-E-C-H-A-N-T.
One of those inventive African-American names.
And she was appointed by the new black mayor, Eric Adams.
Now, Eric Adams, who is a former police officer himself, promised that he would appoint a woman.
Now, I wonder about that.
Why disqualify probably three-quarters of the most competent potential police chiefs in the entire country just because they're men?
But in any case, he appointed a woman, as he had promised.
Well, she held her first press conference after being nominated for the job, and it took place at some place called the Queensbridge Houses Housing Project in Queens, where Keechant Sewell, now aged 49, grew up.
So, she grew up in the projects.
So, she is a Horatio Alger story.
Project's girl makes good.
Now, of all of this, what is more significant to me is the mural in which they spoke.
The mural at the Queens Bridge Houses, I suppose it's to inspire African-American youth.
It depicts only black people, and only certain black people.
I would call them somewhat disquieting figures.
And Mr. Kersey, I used to criticize you for talking about black-run America.
And increasingly I find myself eating my words.
You know, that was hyperbole spoken a decade ago, but as we've, I mean, you go back and you could spend a lot of time in the archives of this program and you would be astonished by the stories.
When the print edition of AR was still in existence, what was it?
I mean, it really is just, and this is one of those images, as you're about to tell the story of each black individual depicted, our listeners need to search this story out and actually see the mural.
Oh, the mural is very inspiring, very colorful, all these important black figures.
Well, as they spoke, looking down upon them benignly, I'm sure, was none other than Huey Newton to begin with, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, who was jailed for the murder of a police officer in Oakland, California in 1967, although his conviction was later overturned on a technicality.
Now, also depicted in the mural is my favorite, my favorite.
She's now known as Asata Shakur.
She is still on the run after having killed a New Jersey state trooper in 1973, in addition to which she was accused of committing quite a string of crimes in the New York City area, along with other members of the Black Liberation Army.
So this is all just black, black, black as can be.
Two bank robberies, Kidnap and murder of a drug dealer.
Now that might have been a benefit to society, who knows.
Armed robbery during which she herself stopped a bullet.
And then attempted murder of a policeman in an ambush.
So, in 2013, she had the remarkable achievement of being the first woman ever added to the FBI's most wanted terrorist list.
She fled to Cuba, correct?
That is correct.
She was listed under her birth name, I'm sure that was a deep insult to her, Joanne Chesimard.
So there you go.
Yes, she's sunning herself in Havana these days, but this is a lovely role model for a future New York City Police Commissioner.
I guess Keechant Sewall grew up with this thing and just developed a deep affection for the personalities in this mural.
So in any case, that is a mural in front of which they held their first press conference.
Yes, now aged 74, Joanne Chesimard, living in Havana, Cuba, with a $2 million bounty on her head.
Now, this sounds like a good job for an enterprising bounty hunter.
I mean, what would it take to bring somebody back from Cuba?
You'd think Dog the Bounty Hunter.
I'm sure you know who that is.
You'd think he'd be wanting to play on this.
I would think so.
Two million bucks?
I mean, even if you set aside a million dollars just to pull off the caper, there you go.
In any case, also on the mural was Malcolm X, the Nation of Islam leader.
He was assassinated in 1965, not by J. Edgar Hoover's operatives, of course, but by people probably working for the Nation of Islam with whom he'd had a break.
Various jealousies.
In any case, in 1962, he described a plane crash which killed more than 100 white people as a very beautiful thing.
That's the quotation that sticks in my mind.
You have to wonder if the new police chief feels the same way.
One has to wonder.
One has to wonder.
And maybe the mayor, you know.
They both selected this place for this interview.
In any case, after 1962, he went to Mecca as a Muslim and he came back claiming to be a changed man.
And he had renounced racial separatism.
Too bad.
And he had renamed himself al-Hajj Malik al-Shabazz.
After having gone from Malcolm Little to Malcolm X, you know what the X means?
The X is what the black Muslims put in place of their original slave name, you see.
I didn't know that!
Oh, they didn't want to take the name that the white man gave them.
This is a phony name.
They wanted to be African, but they didn't know their African name, and so they used an X instead.
X, the unknown quantity, you know.
In any case, yes, after baptizing himself El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz.
El-Hajj, by the way, is an Arabic word meaning someone who has gone to Mecca and performed the Hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca.
He officially left the Nation of Islam.
And he started something called the Organization of Afro-American Unity, but it is thought that envious Nation of Islam people assassinated him.
Well now, who are some of the other great people involved in this mural?
Nat Turner!
Another great role model for aspiring police chiefs in New York City.
Well, you've always said that he deserves to be the one canonized with the statue for the former representative of Virginia.
The former great state of Virginia.
That's right.
They've got this woman named Johns, who the most important thing she did was try to organize a student boycott in the name of integration.
Boy, Malcolm X wouldn't have wanted that.
Integration, yes.
And then she went on.
Her highest achievement was to be a librarian in an elementary school.
But she's the lady who has taken Robert E. Lee's place in the Rotunda Hall representing the great state of Virginia in the United States Capitol alongside with George Washington.
Washington isn't long for that haul.
But anyway, Nat Turner.
Yes, good old Nat.
He started a slave rebellion in Virginia in August of 1831.
He and his band of merry men killed somewhere between 55 and 65 people.
I guess they weren't counting all that carefully.
At least 51 of whom were white.
Now, the rebellion was suppressed within a few days, but Nat Turner, he went on the lam and he was in hiding for some two months afterwards.
But he was caught and he came to a sticky but expectable end.
Now, the whole question of holding this interview in front of a mural of this kind, whites generally thought it was awful.
I believe most of our listeners would think it was awful.
Blacks took a different view.
Okay.
Some argued that the decision by the police chief and the mayor to stand in front of the mural was designed to appeal to blacks, but it was all fake.
Here's one quotation.
That's just to fool black people into believing he, the mayor, is on our side when in fact he's not, said one.
In other words, if you're a cop or a former cop, you've sold out to the white man.
So they think this is all insulting to black New Yorkers.
It's all this fake blackity black stuff and they're really whitey white inside.
Another one says, this is all for the optics.
Truth is, we're already onto the con.
Wow.
And then, so others said it was insulting to the memories of the activists depicted in the mural.
An activist.
Oh, that's Olnett.
That's Olnett.
He was an early activist.
He was.
He was an early abolitionist who took it to its logical conclusion.
Yeah.
Abolish the white man.
And Joanne Chesimard, cop killer.
He was, you know, they were just activists.
What do you think that they, obviously they say the con is on Mr. Taylor, what do you think it is that they actually want?
You've been doing this now for, you're talking about 31, what, AR, New Century Foundation, 1990.
What do you think they actually want to have implemented day one?
You know, everybody you talk about, everyone had outsized expectations for Trump when he took office January 20th, 2017.
When this guy comes into office, they see a black man, they see him appoint a black female police chief.
What is it exactly that their expectations are, in your opinion?
My suspicion is the people who are reacting this way would not be satisfied unless they completely abolish the police.
If they said, okay, no more police, black people, you're on your own, we love you, and everything you do is wonderful, and we're never gonna send the police into your neighborhood again.
I suspect that's what they want.
And so that's why they say that it's insulting to the memory of these activists.
I bet they probably think, oh, Malcolm, Malcolm, he wouldn't do what these house Negroes are doing.
I'm sure they've got a completely different idea of how the world should be working.
So here you go.
Um, so blacks thought it was an insult to Nat Turner and cop killer Joanne Chismark.
I don't suppose it was if their sympathies lie with them.
They don't want a police chief and a mayor, even if they are blackety black, standing in front of people like that.
And then white people thought it was an insult to the people of New York that they stood there like that.
So, once again, a remarkable illustration of the enormous chasm that separates white In any case, now this is another story about ridiculous white people brought to you by Redfin Realty.
You know, I'm sure a lot of people out there have probably actually used this website.
It turns out now, this was the headline that they published on December 13th, 2021.
It's on their blog, on their website at Redfin.com.
Yes, these are real estate agents.
Correct.
Big, big, big, big operators.
You know it.
Neighborhood crime data doesn't belong on real estate sites.
Oh, okay.
You know, if you're going to move into a community, you definitely want to know that you've got a little social capital.
If you need to borrow some sugar from a neighbor when you just move in, you know, you probably want to go knock over on the door and say, Hey, you know, just want to introduce myself.
Tell me about the neighborhood.
And you don't want your throat slit.
No, I noticed there are a lot of bars on windows.
I wonder why that, that might be.
So here's, and this is in their tense.
This is in their voice.
We recently decided not to add neighborhood crime data to Redfin.com.
We were considering this because we're very much focused on answering all the questions people have when they're considering a home purchase.
And we know that one of these questions is whether they'll feel safe in a given neighborhood or home.
Data available, but the data available don't allow us to speak accurately to that question, and given the long history of redlining and racist housing covenants in the United States, there's too great a risk of this inaccuracy reinforcing racial bias.
Now, what on earth redlining, whatever that really turned out to be, have to do with the safety of a neighborhood today?
That's completely irrelevant, but sorry.
No, it's okay.
And then they go and continue to say this, quote, we believe that Redfin and all real estate sites, think about that for a second, all real estate sites should not show neighborhood crime data.
So, obviously, for those listeners who might not know, Housing Covenants, that was one of the first big battles, legal battles, that the NAACP fought from basically their founding.
And it wasn't until, I want to say, Shelley v. Kramer in 1947 that restrictive covenants were overturned.
And it took years to defeat.
And just for those of you who may be overseas or who don't know what a restrictive covenant is, it was an agreement among house buyers and sellers not subsequently to sell to anyone but white people.
Correct.
Correct.
So, people are interested in safety, not crime.
The blog would continue.
One big thing we learned through our research is that there's a real variety in how people define and evaluate safety, and that it doesn't line up very well with purely crime-based data.
When we survey people about what they want to know about a neighborhood, they define safety in a number of different ways.
People variously say they care about whether there's trash on the street, care solely about violent crime, or care whether they're going to frequently see people who are homeless.
Here's where it gets really interesting.
Reported crimes may not accurately reflect actual crimes.
Even if you narrow down to crime as an indicator of safety, there are reasons to doubt the usefulness of the data available.
The most straightforward source of crime data is the Uniform Crime Report from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which collects reported crimes from police departments across the country.
Most crimes in the U.S.
go unreported, however, and most reported crimes go unsolved.
Not sure what they're trying to get with there.
That's actually even more terrifying, if you think about it.
What they're saying, I guess, is that all the numbers are baloney.
Exactly.
They're even worse than what we're reporting.
But you can't tell.
Just because somebody reported crime, it might have been imaginary.
In any case, the numbers are all baloney, so we're not going to report it.
Yeah, and then they go on to say, the fact most crimes are missing creates a real possibility that crimes that show up in the data set skew one way or another.
Yeah, they do tend to skew.
Yeah, they do.
And the fact that most reported crimes go unresolved means that some of the crimes being recorded, in fact, may not be crimes.
What?
If you're extracting data at the neighborhood level, the risk of these gaps leading to inaccuracy becomes high.
Now we get to the nitty-gritty of why we're not going to see racial data published on Redfin.com.
You mean crime data?
Crime data.
I'm sorry, you're right.
I mean, it's not like the same thing.
That's called a Freudian slip.
I'm sorry.
Crime surveys risk including racial bias.
To get around the gaps with reported crimes, the main other data source we considered was the National Crime Victimization Survey from the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
By virtue of being a survey, this has the advantage of being able to capture both officially reported and unreported crimes.
However, also by virtue of being a survey, if there's a racial bias a respondent enters, this will get reflected directly in the data.
There are troubling signs of this.
In the 2019 survey, people reporting crimes will more likely describe their offender as young, male, and black, They would be expected, given the representation of those groups in the population.
Think about what I just said there for a second.
I saw that, and I thought, wow.
This deserves to be emblazoned in boldface and underlined and highlighted in yellow and red, white, and blue.
Yes, in other words, because the survey data, which is more accurate than the reported data, suggests... Which they admit, by the way!
They actually admit that!
It's more accurate, but it suggests that young black men commit more crime than you would expect, given their percentage of the population.
So it's got to be baloney!
It can't be true.
It's not validated.
It can't have any validity whatsoever.
It simply cannot be true.
You recall, you did a pretty in-depth analysis of that.
I can't remember what the It's quite remarkable.
for blacks who victimize whites versus whites who victimize blacks. I think even
Hispanics who victimize blacks were shockingly high. It's quite remarkable.
A black person is about twenty-five to thirty times more likely to attack a white
person violently, some sort of committed violent crime, than the
other way around.
The ratios are really remarkable.
Now, you have to specify that the majority of whites are in fact attacked by whites, and the vast majority of blacks are attacked by blacks.
But, when violence crosses lines, crosses racial lines, blacks are about 30 times more likely to attack whites than the other way around.
But, that's really not necessarily the point.
They're just talking about the number of actual blacks who commit crime.
Correct!
It doesn't matter if it's a crime against, if the victim is white, black, Hispanic, Asian, it doesn't matter.
It's that The majority of the individuals that are being told that are committing the crimes.
Redfin might as well just say every single neighborhood in America is equally crime-ridden or crime-free.
We don't know, so we're just not even going to talk about it.
What an incredible boy.
Hey, if it's a food desert, we don't know why that is.
No?
That has nothing to do with crime.
We're not going to report there is a correlation.
Nope.
Well, gosh, Redfin.
Don't buy a house from Redfin.
If you want honest answers to questions, boy, they ain't going to give them to you.
In any case, Uber.
Uber.
Apparently, Uber's having a hard time getting drivers.
Uh-oh.
And one is they're not coming back after COVID, and they're not even coming back after this temporary unemployment compensation ended.
They're having a hard time bringing them back.
Well, prices are extreme.
I don't know if you've read some of the articles about major cities.
Lift charges.
Yeah, the lift charges, the Uber charges.
They're probably 30% to 40% more.
Apparently, now is a great time to be a Lyft driver, if you ever considered it.
Except for Lyft driver Lamont Liner.
He thought he was picking up a regular fare in Chicago late last year.
Instead, his passengers pulled out a pistol and stole his car and phone.
So, I guess he was out of a job for a while.
He has not gone back to the Drive app, even though ride-sharing companies are offering loads of money.
He's 63 years old.
He says the money is so good right now, but it's not worth it to have somebody put a gun to your head.
The shortage of drivers.
As I said, COVID was a worry, and despite the big bonuses from companies, they are not getting people back, even though the unemployment benefits extended to gig workers have stopped.
Now, here are some of the reasons.
Apparently, Uber and Lyft drivers read the news.
They have learned that in Minneapolis, there were 494 carjackings reported through November.
That's up 279% from the same period in 2019.
and 79 percent from the same period in 2019. Up 300 percent.
In Oakland, official data show carjackings through November 7th were up 85 percent
compared to the period last year and 144 percent compared to the year before.
So, I think people don't want their sole means of livelihood stolen right from under them.
And rideshare and food delivery drivers have been shot and killed in Washington, D.C., St.
Louis, Mitchellville, Maryland, and in other cities this year.
As a consequence, some drivers work only during the daytime, and some will pick up passengers only from the airport, on the assumption that muggers are not hanging out at the airport.
But who knows?
I don't know if this is the case.
Does your image show up when you try and get an Uber or Lyft in some cases?
No, it doesn't.
And that's one of the things that the drivers are worried about.
I'll mention that.
Okay, great.
I was just curious.
As I say, some of them actually have taken to wearing bulletproof vests.
Yep, they're just not taking any chances.
The fact is, passengers can create accounts using false names, and the app does not require you to disclose your identity.
So yeah, you can phony up anything you like, and you do not need to supply a photograph.
And that's Lyft or Uber as well?
Both of them.
Now, the drivers are all insisting that that be changed.
Airbnb, however, requires U.S.
travelers to upload IDs and checks their information against criminal databases and sex offender registries.
But Uber and Lyft don't do anything of that.
Nope, don't do that at all.
Now, speaking of other crime news, of which there just seems to be an awful lot, Oakland.
There was a Washington Post story about Happy days in Oakland.
A TV crew was filming outside of City Hall in downtown Oakland, interviewing a city official for a story about a recent spate of violent crime.
And, Guillermo Cespedes, the city's chief of violence prevention, was just telling them, I think Oakland deserves better.
Now what does that mean?
Oakland deserves better.
Are white people supposed to deliver a safe city to them?
For heaven's sake.
In any case, after the words, deserves better, two armed men walked up, interrupted the interview, knocked a camera to the ground.
A scuffle broke out as the robbers demanded the cameraman hand over his equipment.
And then, this will warm your heart, Mr. Kersey, the news crew's own security guard pulled out his own gun.
They have armed security when they're out and ordered the robbers to leave and they left without stealing any equipment.
So there's a happy ending.
I'm surprised that they don't have these reporters wearing bulletproof vests.
Maybe they do under their nifty suit jackets.
Now this happy encounter followed the city council's decision to cut $18 million from the mayor's proposed budget for the police department.
The money instead was going to go to social services, violence prevention programs that are not run by the police.
I mean, that will stop crime, all right.
Now, another NBC, San Francisco Bay Area Clued, was robbed earlier by two people pulled up in a Lexus.
And told the reporters that they had concealed weapons.
They didn't show them.
That's all it took, I guess.
Reporters said, uh-uh, yes sir, yes ma'am, and handed over the equipment.
And also earlier, a cameraman for KPIX was reporting on car break-ins in San Francisco.
When a luxury white sedan pulled up, three men jumped out and demanded the camera gear at gunpoint.
Another reporter for the same station, KPIX, was pepper sprayed during an attempted robbery.
The security guard They had a security guard.
Chased the assailants until the thief carrying the camera was hit by the guy in the getaway car.
That sounds like a confused undertaking.
He dropped the camera and fled.
So, I don't know.
These cameras probably don't take being dropped on the sidewalk too well.
No.
But at least the guy didn't get away with it.
Now, murderers look like they're going to hit an all-time record, but the city will be funding youth employment programs and alternative crisis responders to handle mental health issues.
That's the Bay Area for you.
Oakland, Oakland is doing just fine.
And as for the latest tussle in front of City Hall, the police said, now this sounds like just the most obvious bromide, we encourage everyone to be vigilant.
And please stay safe.
That's the police department's word to the Oaklanders.
There's a reason why the Oakland Raiders left for Las Vegas.
There's a reason why there's a big push for the Oakland Athletics of the Major League Baseball.
It might be to move to Las Vegas as well.
And this is a perfect example of division of labor, but you probably don't know that Oakland used to have a first-class symphony orchestra.
Really?
Yes, it did.
But it moved too, Mr. Christian.
It did, it did.
I just can't imagine why.
Probably symphony orchestras, orchestra professional musicians probably think the way professional athletes do.
There are certain places that they prefer to work.
And they probably Don't go to Redfin to find out if neighborhoods actually have crime, because they know it's not going to be placed there.
They may publicly say they agree with Redfin's decision, but they'll privately do everything they can to be in a neighborhood where... They somehow figure it out, despite Redfin.
They do.
Now, you have a story about Fordham.
I do!
I've got a story.
This is one that I was actually holding until you returned.
Fordham University.
You saved it just for me?
I saved it just for you.
Fordham University fires a white English professor who mixed up the names of two black students in class.
That's a firing offense, boy oh boy.
He sent an email after the incident about his innocent mistake And blame the confused brain.
Didn't matter.
Lost his job anyways.
So again, he mixed up the name of two black students and he sent this rambling, incoherent email about his innocent mistake.
Well, too bad Mr. Christopher Trogan Your 40 he was 40.
He's 46 years old.
He was fired on October 25th.
The Fordham Observer reported.
He's now the former English professor again.
He allegedly mixed up the names of two black students when they walked into his class late on September 24th.
You just got to understand.
You know, you're on Color People Time here, pal.
You can't acknowledge this.
Just keep teaching.
As I recall, yes, he said his brain was confused because they showed up when it already began to teach.
Correct.
So, after class, Chantelle Sims and another unnamed student emailed Trogan to express their frustration with the professor's mistake, explaining they believed the mix-up was due to their skin color.
Well, it probably was, you know.
Sure, probably the only two black students in the class that showed up late.
He's probably thinking, gosh, Stereotypes confirmed.
Let's just keep going here.
Well, they probably look a lot alike, you know, to ignorant white people, anyway.
I'd imagine so.
So he responded by emailing the entire English class addressing the situation that he described as, I quote, as I quoted earlier, an innocent mistake, which he blamed on his confused brain because the students arrived to class while he was in the middle of teaching.
After his termination, he decided to send an email again, this time a nine-page letter to his 80 former students explaining his view of what
happened. The university has since told him to refrain from communicating with the students about an
incident where two black students came to class late and he misidentified him. I wouldn't want a
man with a confused brain communicating with my students either. Anyway, well, now I
understand this is a composition class.
That's correct.
And this guy sends a nine-page rambling letter.
I'd fire him, too.
Well, you know, it was a Composition II class.
Second-level class!
It was centered specifically and explicitly around issues of You want to take a guess?
Diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Justice, equality, and inclusion.
And noted that he has spent his entire life dedicated to those issues.
His entire life?
No amount of dedication as a 46-year-old Composition II class instructor was going to...
Prepare you and protect you offer some form of shield From misidentifying the two black students in your class.
That's a hanging crime. Yep Again, there's not much else to say in this
Except for the fact that the student said that trope trogan has reportedly called her by the wrong name
Despite her correcting him a black student. He said this quote. I felt really disrespected
I did not feel heard because every time he misnamed me, I would tell him.
And it just seemed like he would brush it off or that he did not care.
Oh, boy.
Well, he deserves to be kicked out of the teacher.
As I say, you know, a guy who sends a rambling nine-page letter under those circumstances, if he's claiming to be a composition teacher, I'd die in fire.
I'd actually like to read that letter.
Hmm.
Well, I wouldn't.
I made that up.
I'm sorry.
We'll have a story about Ryan Rogers.
The name is familiar to you.
Yes.
He was a 14-year-old high school freshman from Palm Beach Gardens.
I believe that's, yes, that's close to Miami.
He had gone out for an early evening bike ride on November 15th and never pedaled home.
His body was found the next day in a wooded area.
He had been stabbed many times in the head and face and, of course, killed.
Well, on December 1st, Sammy Williams, 39, one of our African-American fellow citizens, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder.
His DNA was found on a pair of headphones at the scene, which the young white man apparently had been wearing, and the white man's blood, 14-year-old, I remind you, was found on a bandana that Williams had in his backpack.
And as a deputy was fingerprinting Williams, he asked him if he understood why he was being arrested.
Murder.
Because of what they did to black people about giving them syphilis.
This appears to be a dunder-headed reference to the Tuskegee business.
Now, a lot of black people think they were deliberately given syphilis.
That, of course, did not at all happen.
They were not taken into this until it was clear that their syphilis was at a stage where, first of all, they didn't have treatment at the time, and even after penicillin was invented, that treatment would have not done them any good.
They were too advanced a stage.
Am I wrong in saying that's one of your titanic essays?
Well, it is an essay I wrote, yes.
The Truth About Tuskegee has a nice ring to it.
So, there was absolutely nothing wrong with that study, but it's become the great reason why blacks don't get their medical checkup.
If they're too responsible to take care of themselves, they blame it on Tuskegee.
In any case, this guy, Semmy Williams, got into a scuffle with a deputy while being booked into jail, and he called him a white devil.
So clearly there was a racial motive here.
It's one, this is a story that the mainstream media have dutifully ignored.
And Semmy, as we can call him I suppose, he has a long criminal history of 12 years in three different states.
Assault with strangulation on a senior citizen.
So he really picks his targets with great care.
Two domestic assaults, battery carrying a concealed electronic weapon.
What do you think that would be?
Carrying a concealed electron.
Maybe that is a little homegrown taser or something.
I'd imagine he's a taser of some sort.
Yeah.
Resisting arrest and larceny.
So he's really a fine citizen, but I suspect we will be hearing no more from him unless he somehow gets out.
But anyway, that's the word from Florida.
And again, clearly and obviously a racially motivated murder about which we will probably never hear again.
This will just go disappear.
And now here's another little story, a charming story from Denver.
Centennial Elementary School in Denver.
It's a public school.
Now I wonder what the centennial is memorializing.
It's probably something deeply racist, or at least homophobic.
Whatever it was, went on for a hundred years.
It's got to be bad.
Probably white people were involved.
White people?
Probably white people and Amerindians, more than likely.
No telling.
In any case, Centennial Elementary School set up something called Families of Color Playground Night.
There was a request from black families of students attending the district and what it meant was the playground was going to be available only to people of color.
A spokesman for the system said that Centennial School teachers met with some of the black families and they requested a segregated place to meet other black families.
Now I saw a photograph of the sign board out in front of the school and it said people of color Playground night.
I saw that as well.
Were you offended?
Well, I thought, gee, if I were Hispanic, I might want to go.
I wonder what the blacks would have said.
I guess it's families of a certain color.
But there you go.
They've got to have it both ways always.
When we can't have anything that's exclusively ours, but when they want things exclusively theirs.
Now here's a question of Ghetto Lottery.
I hope you are not familiar with this story because I'm going to give you a quiz about it at the end.
It'll be a guessing game.
Anjanette Young.
You know who that is?
I don't.
All right.
Well, you may sound this story may sound familiar.
She was in her home on the night of February 21st, 2019.
So it is almost three years ago at this point when several Chicago police officers entered announcing a raid.
Well, she was just getting ready for bed and Anjanette was naked.
She was handcuffed while naked.
This is approximately 15 seconds after the door was breached and she was covered with a blanket less than a minute later.
But she was not permitted to put clothes on for another 10 minutes.
Okay.
While police pranced around the place.
And she screamed at the officers several times saying they were in the wrong place.
They were looking for a suspect they thought had a gun, ammunition and drugs.
It turned out the lad had not lived there for four years.
So they were in the wrong place.
Okay.
And Anne Jeanette was understandably upset.
Now, after negotiating with the city, the City Council Finance Committee has agreed to a settlement.
And Lori Lightfoot has decided that this is adequate compensation for the humiliation and unpleasantness that Anjanette Young suffered.
Now, I'd like you to guess how much the settlement is worth.
What's the figure?
What would you think?
You didn't mention one thing.
The race of the female.
Was she not... Anjanette?
Come on.
Yes, she's black.
I'm going to go $10,000,000.
How many?
$10,000,000.
Wow.
Well, you know, Lori Lightfoot's just not nearly as generous as you think.
$2,900,000.
$3,000,000.
Okay.
$3,000,000.
Now, you know, you never hear of white people hitting the lottery this way.
That's quite the impressive lottery trick.
I'd pressure on naked for a lot longer than 10 minutes for $2,900,000.
Wow!
So, there you go.
So, Ann Jeanette is reportedly happier.
She's sleeping peacefully tonight.
Now, a story about Methodism.
There's something called the Cathedral of the Rockies First Methodist Church in Boise, Idaho.
Okay.
Believe it or not, when it was built in 1960, which I know that seems like back in the dark ages to a young sprout like you, but I was active and conscious in 1960.
It included a stained glass window depicting George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Robert E. Lee.
And the assumption is that this was something having to do with unity.
Lincoln and Lee, sort of reconciliation under the auspices of the father of the country.
Well, they decided that anything with Robert E. Lee just had to go.
This is typical.
And so they put someone else in.
they tore down the stained glass window, paid $25,591 for a new one. That's quite a precise bill,
$25,591. And guess who's depicted on the new one?
I won't let you hang in suspense.
No suspense.
It's Bishop Leontyne Kelly.
She was the first female black bishop to serve in the Methodist Church, and she is depicted as wearing an LGBT sash with all the rainbow colors.
God!
Yes.
So does that mean that that reconciliation is off?
No, this is more reconciliation.
Well, it's a reconciliation of a far different kind.
Because, correct me if I'm wrong, but all the generals were posthumously awarded their citizenship back, correct?
All the Confederate generals?
I don't know if all were.
Robert E. Lee took an act of Congress to get his.
I don't know if they all got it back, but Lee, it was an act of Congress under,
under, oh gosh, why am I thinking of that? He was from Grand Rapids, Michigan.
The fellow who followed Nixon.
Ford.
Gerald Ford.
Gerald Ford, I believe, was the guy behind it.
It took a long time to get Robert Lee reinstated.
In any case, Bishop Leontyne was not herself apparently a lesbian.
She had a number of children, but she was a big promoter.
And the former window featuring these three old dead white people, guess where it's now being held?
Well, I won't keep you in suspense.
Go ahead.
The Idaho Black History Museum is now the happy custodian of this racist stained glass window.
I'm sure they're going to inadvertently drop it when they're cleaning it.
No, they'll probably make it a centerpiece exhibit and say, this is how white people were oppressing us in the 1960s.
Look at how awful they are.
How many black people are even in Boise?
Well, I guess enough to have a black history museum.
Okay.
Diversity comes to Boise.
Now, here's another story about voting in New York City.
I thought this was really quite interesting.
I think you probably were aware of this.
New York City Council approved a bill last week to let about 800,000 non-citizens vote in local elections.
The measure passed 33 to 14 over strong dissent, including from Democrats.
I thought that was interesting.
But as I read further, I understood why.
Now, Councilman Kalman Yeager, a Brooklyn Democrat, said it's unconstitutional under state law.
The New York Constitution, the state constitution, guarantees citizens the right to vote.
Provided that such a citizen is 18 years of age and has been a resident for 30 days.
So you can vote in local elections if you're 18 and been there for 30 days.
Now, the touchy-feely, progressive, liberal, hippy-trippy argument is that this language doesn't explicitly exclude non-citizens.
It says citizens have to be 18 and have to be there for 30 days in order to vote.
That's it.
That doesn't exclude non-citizens.
And so, the Constitution specifically says that a citizen has to be 18 years old.
It makes no such limitation on a non-citizen.
So, if you're going to drag in non-citizens, why not let 12-year-old non-citizens vote?
Or 10-year-old non-citizens vote?
In any case, now, this was the Democrat argument that particularly struck me.
There's a councilwoman by the name of Lori Cumbo, another African-Americaness.
She is a Brooklyn Democrat.
She was worried that the bill would not amplify black voices.
So there you go.
First things first.
She says the top three groups that will benefit from this are people from the Dominican Republic, China, and Mexico.
Not enough black people.
No, no, no.
It's not going to end.
They're going to run out of photo ops with that symbolic picture of the blacks for the black mayor and the black It's not going to amplify black voters.
And she says, and many of our Latino brothers and sisters voted Republican.
And so she opposed the bill.
Well, first things first, you know.
Now, I think you learned of a judge who said a naughty word.
Oof!
I did.
And it doesn't matter why she used that word.
Well, you know, the story, it seemed a little unclear to me whether she herself uttered the word or someone else in there.
But do tell.
Yeah, well, it was her.
It was her.
It was she.
Yeah, you know, I saw this on a really good Twitter account.
Gotta recommend it.
Scott Greer.
And he pointed out that The usage of the word is a far greater crime than the crime itself.
Oh, yes, undoubtedly.
The headline that I saw is Lafayette City.
I hope I get this right because Lafayette, Lafayette, it depends where you are in the South how that actually is.
This is Louisiana.
So sometimes it could be Lafayette or Lafayette.
I'm pretty sure it's Lafayette in Louisiana.
So if I'm getting that wrong, that enunciation for any Cajun down there, hey, Mia culpa.
Lafayette City Judge Michelle O'Donoghue responds to use of racial slurs in home video following burglary.
So it turns out that this Lafayette City Court Judge Michelle O'Donoghue confirmed with News 10 that over the weekend she and her family were victims of an armed burglary at their home in the upscale area of Bindle Gardens.
Police were called and the suspect was arrested.
Quote, my children and I were the victim of an armed burglary at our home.
Police were called and the assailant was arrested.
The incident shook me to my core and my mental state was fragile.
Odinay said.
Despite Odinay's position as a city court judge, Lafayette police have treated this crime like any other burglary.
59-year-old Ronald Handy has been arrested and charged with two counts of simple burglary.
He's currently in the Lafayette Parish Jail on a $10,000 bond.
Now, why this story is so intriguing.
They confirmed that there was no weapon found on Ronald Handy's person at the time of his arrest, despite Judge Michelle O'Donoghue's claim that her family was involved in an armed burglary.
Quote, I was a wreck and I am still unable to sleep, she said.
Following the incident, cell phone video of security footage from O'Donoghue's home has been posted on several social media sites.
When the hell I got there?
Several people in the video are heard yelling racist slurs during playback of the incident.
In a response to those accusations, Odinay said, quote, I was given a sedative at the time of the video.
I have zero recollection of the video and the disturbing language used during it, end quote.
Quote, anyone who knows me, my husband, know this is contrary to the way we live our lives.
I am deeply sorry and ask for your forgiveness and understanding as my family and I deal with the emotional aftermath of this armed burglary, end quote.
So, you know, there are a lot of people on social media who said things like, all decisions this judge ever made that sent black men to jail, they need to be freed because this is a deeply bigoted judge.
It doesn't matter at all if there was a black man who engaged in a burglary of her home that deeply shook her.
What's shocking is the fact that Mr. Taylor, and dear listener, that she dared use, or other people within her household, used racial pejoratives.
So she was traumatized and drugged up and doesn't remember it, but there is a recording of her saying the wicked N-word?
I'll tell you what, that's a lot better than writing a nine-page letter for our Fordham University friend to try and tell why he misidentified the two black students in his class who showed up late.
White people do have problems, don't they?
Well, back to Waukeesha.
Waukeesha.
Yes, it's another very sad story.
I suppose our listeners are familiar with the events of, what is it, nearly a month ago now?
It was a month ago.
Yes, when an SUV mowed down a number of white people at a Christmas parade.
The driver was, of course, an African-American, but that sort of dropped out of the story and it's of no interest to anybody anymore.
Just last week, an 87-year-old woman was returning books to the Waukesha Public Library.
A 14-year-old took the woman at knife point from the book return area, forced her back into her car, drove around, and sexually assaulted her.
The suspect is a Waukesha High School student.
And he's also the nephew of Milwaukee City Council President and Milwaukee Mayoral Candidate, Cavalier Johnson.
Cavalier Johnson!
Known as Chevy to his friends.
Cavalier.
Now, the district attorney can petition the juvenile court to waive its jurisdiction and have the child tried as an adult if the juvenile is at least 14 years old and is alleged to have committed felony murder, reckless homicide, sexual assault in a particularly heinous way.
Now, some in the system are worried about BLM outrage if the boy, who just happens to be black, is charged as an adult.
So, we have to be careful about this.
And, as it turns out, according to police reports, the Waukesha police have been extremely tight-lipped about the incident, saying the community doesn't need, quote, more bad news.
Oh dear, oh dear.
You didn't see this because you were gone, but of course the Republican Senator joined with the Democrat Senator of Wisconsin to say that please don't politicize this issue of what happened with this SUV that randomly started attacking white people, zigging and zagging to maximize damage on as many white people as possible at that Christmas parade.
It was a self-driving, what is it?
I don't think Tesla has an SUV like that yet.
No, no, no.
You can't program it to... No, no.
Well, yes.
The driver had nothing to do with it.
It was an SUV that just went wild.
Target only those who are melanin unenhanced.
Yeah.
That's the program.
Execute.
You know, the 14-year-old, I suspect, he'll probably use the Marion Barry defense when he was arrested.
The bitch set me up.
No, I won't elaborate on that.
Now, there's no specifics on the race of this alluring 87-year-old, but when you're returning library books in the middle of the day, I suspect she was not richly endowed.
Well, considering how many stories you and I have read and laughed at about libraries that are getting rid of late fees and late fines because the people who have a tendency not to return those on time Well, she was doing her part.
I've got a crazy question to ask you.
Of course, a lot of our listeners who are younger never had that opportunity to check out movies from Blockbuster.
Did you ever check out movies from Blockbuster?
Yes, I did.
Did you ever return one late?
Or did you ever not rewind your video?
I don't think I ever did.
Good boy.
I wonder if there were ever any studies done about the race of who, A, didn't rewind VHS.
Again, a lot of our listeners are probably saying to themselves, what is a VHS?
What is that?
What?
Or if there was demographic data on cities or zip codes that had the highest rate of videos not returned on time, a rental.
Well, I will tell you something that I don't believe I've ever mentioned on podcast.
I lived in Louisville, Kentucky for a while.
And Louisville, Kentucky had an ambitious recycling program.
And we had three or four different tubs for putting in plastic and colored glass and white glass and all this sort of stuff.
And the guy was coming around through our neighborhood once and he was picking the stuff up and I engaged him in dialogue.
And the highlight of the conversation was, he says, Oh, no, no, we don't, we don't even bother to drive through the black neighborhoods.
Nobody does it.
Why?
We're not going to waste our time.
They just use the tubs for litter boxes.
Uh, you know, I don't know.
They wash diapers in them.
No, we never, we never see them after we distribute them.
So we don't even bother.
I wonder if that program is still in action.
I do not know.
Anyway, now this sounds like sort of a comedy story.
We need a little comic relief from Cancun.
Because tourists at a four-star resort in Cancun were forced to run for their lives as gunmen on jet skis rode down the beach opening fire.
Hey, as long as we're not anywhere near where that is, that does sound somewhat comedic, but it sounds terrifying if you're there.
That's right, roaring down the beach on a jet ski.
I mean, I never thought about it before, but I guess it worked fine on the beach.
In any case, It's the latest little burst of gunfire in the region that has led Mexican authorities last month to deploy a 1,500 man strong National Guard force.
But in the latest incident, and this is what's comedic about it, five men in military uniforms converged on this family-friendly Cancun resort and fired about 20 shots into the air.
And then they jumped off their jet skis, changed into civilian clothes, and fled.
Yeah, they got away.
Okay.
The jet skis have been found and seized.
Now that sounds like crack police work.
You know, they abandon a jet ski.
They've arrested the jet skis.
So, there you go.
I mean, I don't know.
They must have been really, maybe they were high on Mexican marijuana or something, but hop onto a jet ski, roar down the beach, fire into the air, change into civilian clothes, and run away.
Maybe they had a couple cervezas, uno mas, come on, they're having a good time.
I don't know.
Who hasn't wanted to do that in Mexico?
One of these excursions.
That's actually, Mr. Taylor, that's an excursion at some of the great resorts.
That's what you get to do.
You get to do a quick Take the jet ski.
We're gonna have a spot where you quickly disembark from the jet skis.
We're gonna have a change of clothes for you.
We'll take you back to the resort.
You'll be partying again in no time.
Welcome to Mexico!
I guess so.
I guess so.
Well, let's see.
The nation has struck yet another crisis of underrepresentation.
Oh my goodness.
This is a very disturbing one.
This is a story that you open your email box and you're like, oh gosh, what's this one?
This isn't a comedy, unfortunately.
This is reality.
And the headline, I got this yesterday, it was from Medpage Today, I'm not even sure why I'm subscribed to this, and the subject line was, The Whitest Specialty.
So I thought, hey, I'm gonna click on and see what this story is all about.
You open it up, and the subhead was, Orthopedics Diversity Problem.
Oh yeah, these are people who are patching up individuals who have hurt themselves in weightlifting and sports.
These are well-paid individuals because they're dealing with college athletes, professional athletes, or jet skis that take a wrong turn.
While medicine has been trying to close its diversity gaps, the field of orthopedics has consistently been an outlier.
Fewer than 2% of orthopedic specialists are black, just 2.2% are Hispanic, and a mere 0.4% are Amerindian, according to the investigation.
Even Asian Americans, who are considered over-represented in medicine, Make up just 6.7% of orthopedic physicians.
That's still a slight over-representation.
It is, but it sounds like a good old boy white network.
If I add all that up, I believe we're looking at about 89% are white.
So that's a diversity problem.
Orthopedics was one of the first medical specialties to acknowledge its diversity issues decades ago.
Back in the 1980s, there were task forces and pushes for diversity efforts.
However, this specialty may be worse off today than it was even then, when they acknowledged the diversity problems.
The number of orthopedics residents from underrepresented groups fell from 2002 to 2016, even as their percentages among medical students increased.
Also, the number of orthopedic residency programs without a single trainee from one of these groups rose from 40 to 60 in 2016.
From 2002 to 2016, the investigation found, orthopedic surgeons from underrepresented groups told STAT that there's been a failure of leadership and an outsourcing of diversity efforts to already overstretched orthopedic surgeons of color.
I don't know.
Those orthopedic surgeons, they wear those white suits, you know.
That keeps people out.
Ku Klux Klan, they wear white too, you know.
A lot of the doctors are wearing white...
White accoutrements.
Eric Carson, he's an MD at the Washington University School of Medicine in St.
Louis.
He's a black orthopedic surgeon, said this, quote, orthopedic leadership has, quote, made it clear to me that this is not something they want to address.
Uh-oh.
Daniel Guy, a white orthopedic surgeon from Georgia and president of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, he told Stat that the group was aware of the field's diversity problem No one is going to put us as the poster child for diversity, but we are heading in the right direction.
The perception may be that we don't care, but we do care, and we want to make it better.
We are listening.
I can promise you that.
Oh, what a good white man.
What a good white man.
Oh, that's just gross.
We care.
We listen.
Oh boy.
You know, that's probably one of the hardest professions of the amount of knowing all the snooze and the muscles and having to figure out the right way when you're dealing with a athlete.
That's going to be a high-pressure situation.
One of the names I know is Dr. James Andrews.
He used to be involved with HealthSouth down in Birmingham, Alabama.
He's the one, probably the most renowned orthopedic surgeon.
Old white male.
One of the nicest guys you'll ever meet.
Very gregarious, outgoing.
But he has the added pressure of whenever a high-profile athlete hurts themselves, Mr. Taylor.
He's got to patch him up.
Imagine that pressure!
Well, you'd like to think you'd feel the same pressure if I needed patching up, dammit!
I'm sure you would be!
Come on!
But when you've got an athlete who's making $30 million a year as a quarterback, that's not something that you're just going to put into some... I guess everyday counts.
Well, Black Lives Matter and Jussie Smollett, a marriage made in heaven.
Here was a statement from Dr. Malina Abdullah, director of BLM Grassroots and co-founder of BLM Los Angeles, on the Jussie Smollett trial.
She wrote, in an abolitionist society, I mean, we still need an abolitionist society, you see, because they're still enslaved, this trial would not be taking place.
And our communities would not have to fight and suffer to prove our worth.
In our commitment to abolition, which has not yet happened, by the way, we can never believe police, especially the Chicago PD, over Jussie Smollett, a black man who has been courageously present, visible, and vocal in the struggle for black freedom.
We will continue to love and protect one another.
She's talking about black people.
And wrap our arms around those who do the work to usher in black freedom.
So she says Jussie is innocent.
He's a freedom fighter.
We gotta believe Jussie no matter what.
He's a freedom fighter.
No matter how.
Yes, he's ushering in black freedom.
Well, so who is Malina Abdullah?
Well, she's got quite a pedigree.
Her father, John Ryman, must have been a white man, was a union organizer and self-proclaimed Trotskyite.
That's daddy.
Her mother is Linda Fowler Blackstone, raised by OG Baba Blackstone, Who is probably another freedom fighter with a name like that.
And her paternal grandfather was Gunther Riemann, born Heinz Steinke, a German-Jewish Marxist economist and a member of the Communist Party of Germany.
So, she comes by her crazy ideas legitimately.
The Eternal Abolitionists.
And she earned a Master's Degree and a Doctoral Degree in Political Science from the University of Southern California.
And she changed her name from Riman to Abdullah due to her marriage to filmmaker Fahlan Abdullah and kept the name after their divorce.
Furthermore, Professor Abdullah is a tenured professor and served as the Chair of the Department of Pan-American Studies of California State University, Los Angeles.
And this is the lady who's telling us that in this pre-abolitionist society in which blacks are still slaves, you should never believe a PD officer if he disagrees with Josie Smollett.
Wow!
Now, on her Twitter page, she says, my beliefs are most aligned with African scientific socialism.
I've never heard of that.
That's making pyramids fly with your mind, Mr. Taylor.
African scientific socialism with a heavy dose of womanism.
Okay, mysteries abound, but we have come to the end of our time.
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