I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance, and the date is December 22nd, Year of Our Lord 2021.
And this will be our last podcast before Christmas, Yule, Winter Solstice, or whatever it is you celebrate.
And for all of you around the world, I assure you that you can have a white Christmas, even if it doesn't snow.
I certainly plan to have one myself.
With me, of course, is my indispensable co-host, Mr. Kersey.
Merry Christmas, everyone.
Yes, Merry Christmas to everyone.
As I say, I don't mean to discriminate, so Merry Yule and Happy Winter Solstice, too.
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Now I'd like to start today's podcast with a Wall Street Journal poll on the political attitudes of Hispanics.
And to quote from the article, which showed up last week, one year after giving Democratic House candidates more than 60% of their vote, Hispanic voters are showing signs of dividing their support between Democrats and Republicans more evenly.
Asked which party they would back if the election was today.
37% of Hispanic voters said they would support the Republican congressional candidate and exactly the same number, 37% said they would favor the Democrat with 22% undecided.
Hispanic voters were also evenly divided when asked about a hypothetical rematch in 2024 of the last presidential contenders.
That is to say, Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
44% say they would back President Biden and 43%, I suppose that's probably within the statistical margin of error, said they would back former President Donald Trump.
Well, back in 2020, Mr. Biden won 63% among Hispanic voters.
That was nearly 30 points more than Donald Trump.
So, if these are realistic assessments of the mentality of Hispanics, there's been a remarkable sea change in their political views.
Interestingly enough, there is a huge difference between Hispanic men and Hispanic women.
Hispanic men said that Republicans had a better economic policy by a margin of 17 points.
Hispanic women said that Democrats had a better economic plan by a margin of 10 points.
That's a 27 point difference between Hispanic men and women.
Gosh, the fur is going to fly in Hispanic households if the word gets out on this.
And a majority of Hispanic men They would like to return to the policies that Mr. Trump pursued as president, while a majority of Hispanic women said they would stick with Mr. Biden's policies.
Now, apparently, economic issues are really top on the list, and in last month's election for governor in Virginia, where the world headquarters of New Century Foundation American Renaissance are located, AP Votecast found that Republican Glenn Youngkin, who won the race, out-polled his Democrat opponent among Hispanic voters.
Now, we don't have a statistical breakdown, but more people voted for the Republican than the Democrat.
Hispanic voters also say Republicans in Congress are better at Democrats in handling economic issues, such as reining in inflation, cutting the deficit, and they also have said Republicans are best able to secure the border.
Now, the question is, do they really want the border secure?
But these are remarkable findings, and I've heard elsewhere, Mr. Kersey, this suggestion that Hispanics are becoming increasingly Republican.
Do you have any commentary or insight on these numbers?
You know, there's a really impressive guy named Pedro Gonzalez that I enjoy reading on Twitter.
I believe he's affiliated with Chronicles Magazine and they've, he's gone on Tucker Carlson a number of times and actually made the similar remark that the Black Lives Matter insanity with the Democrats capitulating to whatever is best for the blacks is the policy we're going to pursue, that this circular firing squad, this coalition of the fringes, Mr. Taylor, that is the Democrat Party in 2021, it's going to start to implode.
Now, do the Republicans deserve it as of right now?
No, they don't.
What could happen in 2022?
But I do believe we're beginning to see that diversity is not a strength of the Democrat Party.
Well, this is remarkable, if true.
And yes, Pedro Gonzalez, I think he writes for Quillette as well, and maybe American Greatness.
He's really a very sharp, on-the-ball guy.
I think his stuff is always worth reading.
And I don't really know, he seems like essentially more of a Spaniard than a Mexican.
I don't know what his origins are, but if he's got some sort of pipeline into what Hispanics think, Then maybe he's right.
As you say, Hispanics, they probably react in a more visceral and natural way to this Black Lives Madness, more so than whites who've all been browbeaten and hoodwinked into thinking that it's, oh, it was mostly peaceful and they all deserve it.
In any case, these are intriguing findings, and there may be hope.
For a slightly longer-term survival of Republicans as a national party than has been projected.
And in case I throw this out for the rumination of our listeners.
Moving on to another story that has to do with victims of bail reform and later on I believe you can regale us with a story about Senator Cotton who wants Soros prosecutors removed, but a story in Chicago where Kim Foxx, the Soros prosecutor, has essentially cut bail.
But in that city, Edward Roscoe, age 29, allegedly dropped his four-month-old daughter, killing her.
Now, Did he drop her out of a 10-story window?
Did he drop her deliberately on her head but dropped his four-month-old daughter and killed her?
Well, he was out without bail awaiting trial when he killed the mother of the four-month-old.
Well, so I suspect that it wasn't just a question of accidentally dropping the four-month-old.
This guy has got some sort of grudge against his family.
He is the 61st person accused of killing, trying to kill, or shooting someone in Chicago this year while awaiting trial for a felony.
They were out on bail.
They're supposed to be in the clink, waiting for their trial, but no, no, they don't even have to post bail.
In some cases, the bail is very low.
And a total of 93 victims are involved in these cases, and 25 of them were murdered.
25 murdered by guys who should have been locked up or at least who had posted a huge amount of bail.
So the fact that they were out suggests that probably all 25 of these people would still be alive.
You never know, somebody might be hit by a truck.
But if the perp had been in jail, so that's been a cost of at least of 25 lives.
Now these people were beneficiaries of bail reform and the ACLU Which has been calling, along with the Soros prosecutors, for what they call smart justice.
Listen to their explanation.
On their website they say, originally, bail was designed to ensure people returned to court to face charges against them.
Now we know that simple solutions, like court reminders, often can serve that purpose.
Please come.
Yes, yes.
Please come.
You're going to be on trial for your life.
We'd like you to show up if you'd be so kind as to do so.
And say that to all the illegal immigrants who've been turned loose in the population with little notice saying, you know, maybe sometime year after next we'd appreciate it if you'd drop in by the court for a hearing.
Good grief!
And so the ACLU goes on to say, the money bail system has morphed into one that perpetrates widespread wealth-based incarceration.
Yeah, if you can't scrape together the $10,000 from a bail bondsman to come out, yeah, you're gonna spend more time in the big house.
But the consequence in Chicago alone this year They calculate 25 people have been murdered by people who should have been locked up or certainly out on a huge amount of bail.
This is just extraordinary.
So, what does Senator Cotton have to say about all this, Mr. Kersey?
Before we get to that, you said that there were 61 people who were let out for bail reform, right?
And 25 were murdered, so that's almost 60%.
No, 61 people are accused of killing or trying to kill or shooting someone.
So apparently of the 61, 25 actually hit the target, which is pretty good shooting in Chicago.
So Neil, it's just such an extraordinary time that, you know, this is all part of that word, that buzzword that I think we're going to hear more and more of, restorative justice.
Restorative justice is one of the things that the Soros prosecutors are talking about.
If you recall back in, I want to say it was late 2020, Tom Cotton wrote that amazing op-ed, The Senator from Arkansas, that I want to say was published in the New York Times, where he talked about using the military against the Black Lives Matter and Tifa insurgents.
and caused a huge storm.
At that point, he immediately became my favorite senator.
And this op-ed that he wrote is also one that I believe is worth quoting from at length,
because he's prepared to take all these arrows.
And he's prepared to say, hey, listen, we've got to recall, remove, and replace every last Soros
Well, you know, before you go any further, that first op-ed he wrote for the New York Times resulted in the op-ed editor being fired.
That's right.
Because everybody in the news said, how dare we let this conservative senator express himself?
But yes, restorative justice.
I hope we can restore these 25 murdered people in Chicago back to life.
But in any case, yes, back to Senator Cotton.
Yes, Senator Cotton, again, he writes this op-ed.
I saw this at, I don't know where this was originally published.
I saw it at Zero Hedge, another fantastic website.
So, I'm just going to quote a few key paragraphs that, again, this is Senator Cotton writing this.
So, I'm not quoting anyone else except for the senator from Arkansas who, like I said, I hope we hear a lot from in 2022.
And this is, again, the headline, Recall, Remove, and Replace Every Last Soros Prosecutor.
Last year, our nation experienced the largest increase in murder in American history and the largest number of drug overdose deaths ever recorded.
This carnage continues today and is not distributed equally.
Instead, it's concentrated in cities and localities where radical left-wing George Soros progressives have captured state and district attorney offices.
Mr. Taylor, that's got a beautiful poetry to it.
our rule of law as systemically racist and have not simply abused prosecutorial discretion,
they have embraced prosecutorial nullification. As a result, a contagion of crime has infected
virtually every neighborhood under their charge." Now Mr.
Taylor, that's got a beautiful poetry to it. He pulls no punches. And again, it's so great that
there are people hacking at the roots of this systemic racism charge that you hear as
the justification for, I believe we've talked in some places, I believe it was either
Minnesota or Illinois where they're actually doing away with gun charges because they're
disproportionately arresting blacks.
Bye.
That's right, that's right.
I believe that was, I think it was Minnesota.
But yes, anything that disproportionately affects blacks has just got to go.
That's the way these Soros idiots think.
Exactly, exactly.
And if I could just read one more paragraph just so we can talk, just we can get to how many they are in these What are some of America's biggest cities and most important cities?
Senator Tom Cotton writes this, quote, Soros prosecutors refuse to enforce laws against shoplifting, drug trafficking, and entire categories of felonies and misdemeanors.
In Chicago, Cook County State Attorney Kim Fox allows theft under $1,000 to go unpunished.
In Manhattan, District Attorney Cyrus Vance refuses to enforce laws against prostitution.
In Baltimore, State Attorney Marilyn Mosby has unilaterally declared the war on drugs over.
And is refusing to criminally charge drug dealers in the middle of the worst drug crisis in American history.
And for a time, Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon even stopped enforcing laws against disturbing the peace, resisting arrest, and making criminal threats.
Yeah, it's the resisting arrest.
That means anybody who's about to be arrested, you can punch out a cop.
That's fine.
That's not going to get you in any more trouble.
This is incredible.
Now, I'm sorry, where was this published, this op-ed?
Uh, give me one second.
I've got it right here.
Initially, I read it at Zero Hedge, but they linked to it from... Looks like it was at Real Clear Politics, initially.
So I'm sure he shopped it around to some people, but... I'm sure it wasn't the New York Times, the Washington Post, or the Chicago Tribune, or the LA Times, or a newspaper that really needs to run it, though those idiots would never publish anything like that.
Well, as you mentioned, they did, Mr. Taylor, and that caused the op-ed editorial individual to lose their job because everyone threatened to walk out.
At the New York Times.
Well, moving on to a different criminal crime story.
On December 15th, there was a report from the San Jose Police Department.
It said, the police department's robbery unit concluded a year-long multi-jurisdictional investigation involving a prolific robbery crew that targeted victims of Asian descent.
Asian females were frequently the victims and many were injured during the robberies.
Robbery unit detectives worked tirelessly, tirelessly to identify and arrest six suspects who worked in concert between October 2020, September 21 to commit over 70 robberies, burglaries, and thefts.
The San Jose Police Department goes on to say, the success of this investigation would not have been possible without community involvement.
Many witnesses came forward and victims provided valuable information that assisted in identifying this group.
I think that is a disguised dig at certain snitches get stitches group in this country.
Who are you talking about?
Well, I shut my mouth.
I don't know.
Now, they included mugshots.
All six are between the ages of 21 and 27.
And there is a distressing lack of diversity.
There is an appalling monochromatic character about these six perps.
Now, the Washington Post ran a story on this very set of arrests just two days later, December 17th.
And let me quote from it.
It says, the smash and grab robbery crew knew who they were after.
Elderly Asian women who they figured didn't use banks and were carrying large amounts of cash.
They surveilled Asian grocery store parking lots, stalked women to make sure they were alone, used cars to pin the victims' vehicles, smashed car windows if necessary, snatching purses, shopping bags, and other valuables.
Attacking on a near daily basis.
They use their tactics to great effect over a year-long period stretching from October 2020 to September 2021.
Then they say police have now arrested six men.
They collectively stole cash and belongings worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The robbers shouted racial slurs and Santa Clara District Attorney Jeff Rosen is pursuing hate crime enhancements.
Then they go on to say, these robberies happened during the heart of the pandemic as the Bay Area saw a surge in crimes targeting Asian Americans.
In one such attack, an 84-year-old Thai man was violently shoved to the ground.
He died days later.
In Oakland, a 52-year-old Asian American woman was shot in the head with a flare gun.
All of these things are mysteriously in passive voice, aren't they?
We don't find the subject described anywhere.
And yet, the next sentence is, in February, a white woman approached an Asian-American man sitting outside a restaurant and spit on him before allegedly telling him to go back where he came from.
Well, the only mention of race in this whole story is the white woman they managed to scrape up who'd spat on a guy.
Didn't kill him.
Didn't rob him.
Didn't beat him up.
Unlike this half a dozen.
Now, I suppose I should just go on the record and make it clear when I talk about this appalling lack of diversity.
Yes, all six of the people in the mugshot were clearly African Americans.
But, the Washington Post, if you were to read this, you would think that we're just talking basically about clever white people.
No mention of race, except the single use of the word white.
Now, I was gratified to see that the commenters in the Washington Post, even in the super liberal Washington Post, are not falling for this baloney.
They pointed out, look, this is completely crazy.
Get your acting gear.
Tell the truth.
Now, of course, there were a few commenters who said, oh, oh, race doesn't matter.
We just have to go after the perps, whatever race they are, but most of the people were saying, come on, Washington Post, get your act together.
That was very, that was very pleasing to me.
So I think people are waking up, even post readers.
And I'm moving on to another story.
This is about a North Carolina Supreme Court decision.
There was a recently decided case called Oliver v. Arnold.
And let me read a few passages from the decision, which I think is probably going to be an increasingly pertinent case as time goes on.
And it talks about a public school teacher punished a student for refusing to embrace certain views on America, religion, and race.
There are countless other examples nationwide.
Some teachers require students to view themselves and others differently because of their race.
Others forbid students from using biological pronouns and other terms that, quote, Invalidate a person's gender identity, notwithstanding the widely held view that biological pronouns invalidate no one but are dictated by science, faith, grammar, or tradition.
That's strong talk from a judge.
That is.
Some teachers force students to express views deeply offensive to their faith and still those compel students to endorse certain political positions.
Forcing a public school student to embrace a particular political view serves no legitimate pedagogical function and is forbidden by the First Amendment.
The Supreme Court made this clear in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnett in, believe it or not, 1943.
But still, people have to go to this is the North Carolina Supreme Court, let me remind you.
Then the justices say, naturally this principle applies regardless of what political viewpoint the teacher is attempting to indoctrinate.
No legitimate pedagogical interest is served by forcing a student to endorse the political views of the teacher.
Not in the example cited above and not in the case before us today.
Then they go on to say, it's clearly established that a school may compel some speech I guess when that is permitted.
Otherwise, a student who refuses to answer a question in class or do homework would not suffer any consequences.
Yes, you can force a student to speak if he needs to answer a test question, but I was very encouraged by this extremely clear North Carolina Supreme Court ruling.
And as I say, with all of this stuff about CRT, Critical Race Theory, I suspect that this will be an increasingly a model ruling on case of this kind.
I certainly hope so.
I think the current Supreme Court would entirely endorse this kind of thinking.
I would hope so.
I would hope so.
That's very rational thinking from the great state of North Carolina.
Yes.
Yes, indeed.
So remember that name, Oliver V. Arnold.
Now, I believe you had a story about yet another school problem.
The Makoto School District.
And if you haven't looked up where that is, I will while you explain what's going on.
Where is the Makoto School District, by the way?
It's in one of those goofy states we've talked about where the Scandinavians decided to It's probably named for Native American groups, the Makoto School District, but in any case, regale us with yet another example of the coming Bipocalypse.
You know, I didn't believe the story at first, because it actually used the word BIPOC, and that's a word you just don't see that much, except in a few publications.
It's beginning to be peppered into everyday speech, but this one was crazy.
The story is, this is one of those, you know, maybe we'll tell our grandkids, we lived through this time period, and we endured.
Mankato schools vote to allow extra pay for non-white teachers.
And again, as you asked, where is this?
It's Minnesota.
So the school board there voted earlier this month to allow the district to intentionally place BIPOC teachers in the same work environment, effectively segregating their workforce.
They've also voted unanimously earlier this month for policy.
That may grant additional pay exclusively to non-white teachers.
The board is chaired by Jodi Sapp, who previously came under fire for requiring concerned parents to dox themselves in order to comment on social school matters.
Under her leadership, the board voted to amend district policy so that non-white teachers only may receive additional stipends to become mentors to other Well, excuse me a moment here.
The new policy will also have the district placing quote uh American Indian educators at sites with other American
Indian educators and educate educators of color at sites with other other educators of
color.
Well, excuse me a moment here. They are bunching all the American Indians and the various BIPOCs
in amongst themselves so they can have these cozy little nests, but isn't part of the idea that they
deserve extra remuneration because they're raising the consciousness of all these bonehead whites?
And how can they do that if they're all crammed together?
But maybe that's not part of the thinking.
You know what, it's Minnesota, we see the same pattern of goofy thinking in Sweden, and we see this everywhere.
One of the school board members had this to say, Mr. Taylor, they said, when you're one minority of a white majority, it can be very isolating and lonely.
To have a support system in place for them is not to segregate them.
It is absolutely to support them.
This is Aaron Roberts.
It's not about trying to throw the few BIPOC individuals we have into one building.
It's about showing them they aren't alone.
Whatever that means.
Well, their sense of togetherness is awfully important.
We must do what we can for the poor dears.
I'd agree, but I'm sure we'll see this play out in other places, probably in Minnesota first, and then it'll matriculate into other states, you know, Illinois.
I do like the idea of paying BIPOCs more simply because they're BIPOCs.
I mean, what could be more logical?
Does that make sense in the current view of today?
The life is much more difficult for them and their very presence gives us the inestimable gift of diversity.
So they should be paid more.
Doggone it.
You know what?
That makes perfect sense.
Yes.
That BIPOC logic is just irrefutable.
BIPOC-ologic, yes.
Well, we have similar goofiness going on in New Zealand.
Apparently the Maori, the indigenous population of New Zealand, they believe that all living things originated when Tane Mahuta sent his father Ranginui up to the sky and his mother Papa Tuanuku down to earth.
Got that?
That's how things all got started.
I think so.
Okay, well, you know, that seemed to be about as far as it goes.
Now, a government working group plans to give the same weight to Maori mythology as it does to science in the classroom.
Well, this is a little bit too much for some scientists.
And in a letter called, In Defense of Science, a group of professors accepted that indigenous knowledge, I mean, I don't know why they call it knowledge, indigenous, I would say, myths, should be taught in schools and it is critical for the preservation and perpetuation of culture and local practices and plays key roles in management and policy.
So, they have prostrated themselves In front of all this nonsense and struck the ground seven times with their foreheads before they argued that it should not be treated on par with biology, chemistry and physics.
The letter was signed by seven professors at the University of Auckland.
Believe it or not, five members of the Royal Society of New Zealand then complained about the letter saying it caused, quote, untold harm and hurt.
And the Royal Society has launched a formal investigation.
The Royal Society is a group of high muckety-mucks, academics and scientists, etc.
And, apparently, the views of the authors were denounced by the Royal Society, the Museum Association of Scientists, and the Tertiary Education Union, as well as the vice-chancellor of their own department, University of Auckland, by the name of Don Freshwater.
Can you believe this?
The fact that they say this myth about Tane Mahuta should not be taught on par with biology, chemistry, and physics.
That is causing untold harm.
So Don Freshwater sent an email message to all students and staff saying that this letter had caused considerable hurt and dismay.
And Dawn Freshwater.
You know, at first I thought this might be some kind of native name, like Running Bear, or Three Eagle Feathers, or Sitting Bull, or Least Heat Moon, but no!
I looked her up, and she's actually a White Brit!
She's from Britain originally, so she has no excuse with this rubbish.
And judging from her photograph, she's one of these typical bony hard-faced lady lunatics.
But she apparently is absolutely infuriated that scientists should say that the Tane Mahuta myth should not be put on par with Western science.
But let us not forget the same rubbish goes on in U.S.
schools.
In their book, Native Science, Western Science, and Science Education, written in 2014 by Northwest University researchers Doug Medin and Megan Bang, they say the very structure of science education in most schools reflects an entrenchment of seeing science in only one true way, with only one true set of values, and with only one true curriculum.
They say such a biased orientation must be challenged and transformed into a paradigm that acknowledges the relational nature of science and creates and supports science education of all, especially it must incorporate the traditional knowledge of North American Indians.
That is how we understand and gain valuable insights into the unconscious cultural conditioning of our perspectives of the natural world.
Got that?
North American Indians, they've got science figured out just as well as we have.
But, you know, if the loony Kiwis, if they have their way, I suppose if you are asked a test question on the probable origins of the universe and you write, well, Tane Mahuta sent his father Ranginui up to the sky and his mother Papatuanuku down to the earth, you get full marks!
Perfect answer!
For every question in science, yeah.
I just think if you're in Mankato County schools in Minnesota, you know, teachers, BIPOC teachers get paid more than the white teachers who would grade that paper.
That's right.
Because they're more likely to know the right answer to test questions like that.
Oh gosh.
Yes, this, I mean, you know, as you say, that's a good point.
20 years from now, we'll be telling our children, yeah, believe it or not, people actually, actually said and maybe even believed these things.
Hard to believe, but we lived through it.
Now, the Brookings Institution, it used to be a relatively respected place that did serious research on politics and social questions, but they've just come out with more of this horse pucky of which they are increasingly well known.
It's all about health disparities and what causes them.
And they start out with numbers that are pretty well established now.
They say black people are 1.1 times more likely than white people to get the old COVID.
That's only 10% more likely, but once they get it, they are 2.8 times more likely to be hospitalized, but only two times more likely to die from it.
Now, from these proportions, it means that they are more likely to come out of the hospital alive.
Now, why would that be?
Do they go to the hospital because when they're less sick?
I think that's entirely possible.
Or do they respond better to treatment?
In any case, if they are more likely to come out of the hospital alive, they sure can't complain that they're getting shoddy, racist treatment from hospitals, can they?
Wouldn't that be a logical conclusion?
That would be the simplest conclusion, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
But somehow, you know, they're more likely to go into the hospital, but they're more likely to come out alive.
I guess those racist doctors are concealing their racism so effectively that they're just being well treated.
In any case, Brookings goes on to say, the cause of these racial disparities is hotly debated.
And many fixate on the role of individual behavior when it comes to COVID.
For example, a recent Brookings analysis cited vaccine hesitancy as a key driver of disparate death rates.
But we can't have that.
And no, we can't even talk about obesity or diabetes or the inability to follow doctor's orders or general bad health.
No, no, no, no.
But Brookings is on to say, while personal behavior matters, social determinants of health at the local level play an outsized role.
Now, what might those be?
They go on to say, the conditions of place must be examined to understand the mechanics of racial discrimination that contribute to this suffering.
In other words, where you are could make you die.
They really put it as simple as that later on.
Now, as they point out, In a less than 1% black neighborhood, the average life expectancy is 79.82 years.
That's almost 80 years old.
That is maybe a year and 1.3 years better than the average life expectancy.
And as the number of blacks increases, the average life expectancy goes down.
So that if you have a 20 to 50 percent black population the average life expectancy is about 1.7 years lower than the average and when you have an outright black majority then it's 74.5 as opposed to 78.7 so that's about about a three no about four year a four year lower life expectancy and as they point out One alternative way of interpreting these findings is that black people might carry life expectancy decline with them into the neighborhoods they live in.
Such the crucial variable is the people and not the place.
Well, wouldn't that be the logical idea?
If black people don't live as long for a whole host of reasons, primarily having to do with either their biology or their behavior, then yes, the more black people you find in a neighborhood, the shorter the life expectancy is going to be.
But they say no, no, no.
They say we emphasize the role of neighborhoods as a driver of health and well-being outcomes.
They say previous research found persistent devaluation of homes in black-majority neighborhoods, even when controlling for objective metrics such as home size and neighborhood amenities.
Additional research by our team clearly demonstrates that these disparities are not driven by socioeconomic factors, but are instead the result of racial bias, because these neighborhoods are systematically viewed as less safe and of lesser quality based on racial makeup.
This reminds me of the story you told us about last podcast about Redfin, the realty company.
They say, no, no, crime rates, we just, any information on crime rates has got to be biased because it always makes black people sound like they're more likely to commit crimes.
But these people are saying, good grief, the fact that the same house is worth less in a black majority neighborhood, that's the result of pure racial bias.
This is from Brookings, for heaven's sake.
This is a little bit, so they're saying the location itself has all of these evil consequences, such as devaluing homes, which, and this helps shorten the lives of the people who live there.
So, I guess, black, white, Asian, anybody could live there, and their lives would be shortened simply because that's where they live.
Incredible.
Now, I remember, oh, years ago, people citing statistics to the effect that your likelihood to score well on an SAT was highly correlated with how much your house cost.
Well, well, the implication being that if we took all these ghetto blacks and put them in $500,000 houses, their SAT scores would immediately jump.
It increased, exactly.
Yes, yes.
In any case, the Brookings Institution goes on to say that according to research from the University of California, Berkeley's Othering and Belonging Institute, remember we talked about that once before.
I love the name of this institute, the Othering and Belonging Institute.
Doesn't that make you feel warm and fuzzy?
They said, 81% of metropolitan regions with populations above 200,000 were more segregated in 2019 than they were in 1990.
81% of the big cities more segregated in 2019 than 1990.
Birds of a feather flock together, I guess.
And now this is an interesting finding, too, from Brookings.
Neighborhood poverty rates are highest in segregated communities of color.
That's to say, overwhelmingly black, neighborhood poverty rates are 21%, whereas in overwhelmingly white neighborhoods, it's 7%.
So there's a three-fold difference.
I would have expected it to be actually more than that.
Would you not?
Say an all-black neighborhood as opposed to an all-white neighborhood.
Now, some of these all-white neighborhoods, I'm not sure whether these are city neighborhoods, maybe they include rural neighborhoods in any case, but if it's overwhelmingly black, the poverty rate is going to be three times what you're going to find in overwhelmingly white neighborhoods.
And as you noted earlier, the average age of death dropped by, what, four years?
The blacker it gets versus if it's 1% black.
It's all extraordinary.
I mean, the data is all there for the quality of life.
And as you mentioned, that Redfin article from last week, a lot of people looked at that and they've just said, well, wait a second.
What is the endgame of all this?
Is it just to go ahead and if you're black you get automatically your home is valued 25% greater than if a white person would have bought the same home?
I mean, is that the way that you have equity enforced in a world where race is all that matters?
Where being a BIPOC automatically grants you a few extra points?
That would be a logical conclusion.
But this is almost magical thinking.
Listen to this sentence.
Black people should not have to attach themselves to places that benefit from white privilege in order to flourish.
Living in a black-majority neighborhood should not be a death sentence.
What the heck?
It's up to us to make sure that they flourish wherever they are.
It's up to us to make sure that they don't get overweight, they don't shoot each other, they take their pills when they're supposed to.
Let me read that again.
Living in a black majority neighborhood should not be a death sentence.
This is the Brookings Institution.
As I say, these people used to do respected research.
But now, you know, here is more data that's going to confirm the findings of Brookings, because have you not found a story that says underserved areas have a rise in gun crime?
I think that shortens lives too, just like this utterly artificial and racist devaluation of the values of homes that black people have.
Well, you know, conversely what you just said, living among white people shouldn't be a, shouldn't be a, it's not a human right.
It seems like that's the ultimate goal, that the longer that people have exposure to white people, you know, they're going to see an increase in home valuations and their quality of life seems to increase.
And as you said, they might live a few years longer.
But the article in question that you're mentioning is from some data from the Violence Prevention Research Program at UC Davis.
The headline was this.
America's most undeserved areas saw gun crime rise early in pandemic.
Wait, is it undeserved or underserved?
Underserved!
I'm sorry, it is underserved.
My computer is messing up.
Yes, under, yes, you are.
You mean the one between your ears, Mr. Kersey?
No, it's, it's, um, underserved.
Yes, underserved.
I've actually done that before.
Underserved.
You are correct.
I'm reading it incorrectly.
I've got to get a new laptop.
My MacBook is too small.
So, underserved.
So, research compared disadvantaged areas to privileged ones found homicides and assaults increased in 2020.
I can't wait to see the 2021 study, by the way.
In the first five months of the pandemic, violence increased in the nation's most underserved communities, according, like I said, to that VPR program at
UC Davis.
The study published on December 9th in the American Journal of Public Health compared
zip codes in 13 major cities from LA to Boston to see how gun violence affected disadvantaged
areas versus privileged ones based on racial and economic segregation.
Researchers compared the rate of gun violence in the given areas from 2018 through 2020.
It's a small sample size, but okay.
They found the people living in the zip codes that fell in the disadvantaged category were subject to a dramatically higher level of gun violence than their wealthier, whiter neighbors were.
I added the white part in, but that's what they're trying to get to, as you can probably imagine.
Uh, quote, unfortunately, the findings were not that surprising.
Disparities and disparities in violence have existed for a long time, and the pandemic was
impacting structures in the communities that have endured the greatest burdens.
That was from one of the authors of the study.
Let me get her name.
I'm sorry.
Her name is Julia Schleimier.
Schleimier, this study's lead researcher.
Her team found that gun homicides and assaults increased by 27.7% and 4% in March through July of 2020 compared to the average figure for the same period of 2018 and 2019.
Now, when the team analyzed zip code level firearm violence data against the racial makeup and income levels of people within those areas, they found that racial disparities were deeply entrenched in the neighborhood.
In the neighborhoods, the local... Oh, go ahead.
You want to say something?
Well, no.
It's just, why did they even do this research?
All they need to do is correlate black population with gun violence.
That's all they needed to do.
That's basically what they've done.
And they just decided, well, let's see how much it increased and then see how far we can get with this publication of the study to, again, blame white people for not shooting one another during the pandemic.
I guess that's it.
Is that it?
All of this means they're underserved.
Underserved?
Underserved by what?
It sounds like they're over served by black violence.
But in what sense are they underserved?
But yes, the solution, the solution is you should move into these neighborhoods and then they will stop shooting each other.
That's apparently what happens.
That's apparently the Brookings Institute.
That's what they think.
Yep.
But again, that's what they think.
The locales where low-income black residents and people of color were concentrated were among the most disadvantaged, and on average, each zip code analyzed by Schlemier and her team saw 14 additional incidents of gunfire and violence, 150 more aggravated assaults, and five more homicides than the most privileged areas.
Privileged.
Well, privileged by being lived in by whites.
Well, exactly.
Okay.
Okay.
Well, here is a heartwarming story for you from Florida.
Is the name Mary McLeod Bethune familiar to you, Mr. Kersey?
Uh, it's not.
Go ahead and indulge me, please.
Well, I first learned of Mary McLeod Bethune when I was looking for a place to live in Washington, D.C.
in 1973.
And I was wandering around a somewhat dodgy part of town because those are the only places I could afford to live, and I saw a statue of Mary McLeod Bethune.
And they put her in the dodgy part of town for the reasons that you can well imagine because she was an African-Americaness.
And she was born in 1875.
She moved to Florida and she opened up a boarding school called the Daytona Beach Literary and Industrial School for Training Negro Girls.
Good for her!
Isn't that a quaint name for a school?
Good for her.
I'll read that again.
The Daytona Beach Literary and Industrial School for Training Negro Girls.
It eventually became a college, and it merged with the all-male Cookman Institute to officially become Bethune-Cookman College in 1929.
It is one of the HBCUs.
And, did you know, I guess you didn't because you'd never heard of her, she was the highest-ranking African-American woman in government when FDR named her to be his Director of Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administration.
So, quite a distinguished lady for her time.
Now, the National Statuary Hall, that is in the U.S.
Capitol Rotunda, it invites each state to contribute two statues of prominent citizens for permanent display.
Oh, no.
Except they're not permanent.
You can change your mind.
It is, of course, one of the most popular rooms in the U.S.
Capitol building.
You've seen photographs of it many times.
And it turns out, Mary McLeod Bethune will be the first black person to represent a state in the Natural Statuary Hall collection of the U.S.
Capitol in Washington, D.C.
She will represent Florida.
In other words, she will be beating Virginia to the punch because Virginia is going to be sending Barbara Rose Johns Powell, another relative unknown, who will be standing right next to George Washington as a representative of the state of Virginia.
Now, Bethune's statue will be 11 feet tall and it will weigh 6,000 pounds.
She will be wearing a cap and gown to signify her dedication to education.
Now, I looked up the statue of Washington the Redundant.
It's only six feet tall, so she's going to be nearly twice as tall as GW.
They have selected an artist.
To build this 11-foot-tall, 6,000-pound statue, and it is Nilda Comas.
So, she'll be the first Hispanic master sculptor to create a statue for the National Statuary Hall State Collection.
Now, I'm astonished they got Hispanic.
Yeah, I agree.
I'm surprised that's not a bigger controversy considering the heritage and history of Bethune-Cookman.
I have heard of that college, but I didn't know.
Yes, Bethune-Cookman you've heard of.
Yeah, I didn't know its original name.
What was it one more time?
That was such a great name.
They should go back to that.
Yes, isn't this a charming name?
Daytona Beach Literary and Industrial School for Training Negro Girls.
It has a real charm to it.
That would make a heck of a sweatshirt.
Yes.
In any case, the fact that it's a Hispanic sculpturist, that still makes it sort of bi-pockety-pock-pock, so I guess it's still okay.
Now, This is, in some respects, the punchline.
The National Statuary Hall invites each state to contribute two statues of prominent citizens for permanent display.
So they're going to have to remove one of them.
The person they're going to be removing is Confederate General E. Kirby Smith.
I don't know if you know about E. Kirby Smith, but after Vicksburg was captured by the Union in July 1863, the Trans-Mississippi Department of the Confederacy was cut off from the rest of the Confederacy and became a virtually independent nation.
Its nickname was Kirby Smithdom.
He was quite a distinguished general.
He did quite very well.
I mean, we all concentrate on the battles in Virginia and east of the Mississippi.
West of the Mississippi, there were serious engagements too.
He was in charge of it all.
And after the war was over, he had a distinguished career as an industrialist and as an educator and on a personal note, My great-great-grandfather was E. Kirby Smith's Chief of Staff.
So there you go.
So he used to stand proudly in the Capitol Rotunda representing the state of Virginia, but he's going to be replaced by Mary McLeod Bethune.
I'm almost afraid to ask, was this something that DeSantis is proud to have said that he's done?
I don't know.
I don't know.
That would be an excellent question.
Maybe we can look into that and follow up next week.
The last podcast of 2021.
So if you're listening out there, anyone who's who just heard that, help us out.
Maybe you can help us find that out if you've gotten through this far into the podcast.
Send that answer to either emrin.com, the contact us page or one more time.
Because we live here at Protonmail.com, I'd also like to say, send us what you think was the craziest story or the most uplifting story of 2021, and we'll talk about that as well next week.
Good idea, good idea.
Well, I believe we have a similar sort of transformation at Woodrow Wilson High School.
Do we not?
In New Jersey?
We do, in Camden.
Ninety years Woodrow Wilson High School has existed in the Camden School District, but as of early this month, a vote was taken and they are going to rename the school after After debating on it for about 18 months.
Of course, Woodrow Wilson is one of those dead white males who dared to breathe while white during life.
And now because he had some views that were Well, not exactly a loud and polite society in 2021.
Everything has to change.
So the campaign for change began with a petition on change.org in 2019 before gaining far more support last summer after George Floyd was, well, the article says murdered.
I would say, you know, Died of a drug overdose or whatever it was that he died from.
I think murdered is a little too strong of a word.
Spurring protests nationwide, a 100-member renaming committee composed of parents, activists, and school officials was formed last year to pick a new name.
Some names that were considered included the late civil rights activist and U.S.
Rep.
John Lewis, former President Barack Obama, and former superintendent who recently passed away, according to NewJersey.com.
It doesn't list that individual's names.
Now, some of the other names to replace Woodrow Wilson High School were something as simple as East High School or Camden East High School.
The name change has been put on hold, though, however, when the school focused its attention on its response to COVID-19.
The district said that at its October 26 Board of Education meeting that a new 10-person committee would be formed, restarting the renaming process from scratch.
So... Gosh!
They went on for 18 months to try and figure it out, but they did decide finally, okay, let's just, let's get rid of this.
So they'll ditch FDR, but they haven't yet decided.
So it could be named Paul Kersey High School for all we know.
I'm sure FDR is going to be cancelled.
So, Mr. Taylor, this is Woodrow Wilson.
Yes, I'm sorry.
No, it's okay.
It's one of the great jokes that I've heard people say.
There's a statue of Oh, they've got to go.
They've got to go.
Roosevelt in Washington DC and you know he was one of the main individuals who helped
perpetuate redlining. So at what point does he come down and or you know or Theodore Roosevelt
Island which is in Washington DC.
Oh they've got to go.
Yeah they've got to go.
Well okay.
Yeah I mean again it's if you recall in June of 2020 in the initial stages of the George
Floyd revolution the board of trustees at Princeton University which was Wilson's alma
mater voted to drop his name from his namesake the school of public and international affairs.
This is one of the more widely respected institutions in the Ivy League.
Wilson's racism was significant and consequential even by the standards of his own time.
He segregated the federal civil service after it had been racially integrated for decades, thereby taking America backward in its pursuit of justice.
That was from the University President Christopher Eisgruber.
He wrote in a statement on the board's decision, quote, he not only acquiesced in but added to the persistent practice of racism in this country, a practice that continues to do harm today, end quote.
And of course, I would say, Mr. Taylor, I'm not sure what racism from whites he's referring to when we live in a society where BIPOCs are going to get paid more money for teaching in Minn Kota County Public Schools.
And I'm sure it's just going to be a pioneer movement that will spread like wildfire from coast to coast.
In the meantime, there's news on Joaquim Robinson.
He is a 14-year-old in upstate New York.
He lived just two doors down from an 84-year-old retired French teacher named Eva Fould.
Well, young Robinson and several others on January 21st of this year, that was some time ago, They knocked on the door of her apartment and a horde of intruders, which is what the press calls it, viciously beat Fold before the 14-year-old stabbed her more than three dozen times.
Three dozen times.
They stole her car keys, vehicle, Wallet, credit cards, and insurance cards.
Now, I don't know why they wanted her insurance cards.
But maybe they're planning on going on disability, or are they going to keep it until old age, maybe, and they can source security.
In any case, the former French teacher wasn't discovered until four days later because she lived alone.
Because he was only 14 at the time of the murder, young Robinson is facing a minimum sentence of five years to life.
Or a maximum sentence of nine years to life.
That seems like an odd combination.
In any case, he's scheduled to appear before Judge Matthew Duran in Onondaga County Court next month for his sentencing hearing.
A 14-year-old, your next-door neighbor, leads a gang of people in and stabs her more than 3,000 times.
Well, Jahkeem, what's a boy to do?
Now, last week you had a story about Judge Michelle Odinette.
I did.
Now, yes, she served as a Lafayette City Court judge for about a year.
This is close to New Orleans.
And there was a short video making the round that shows a TV set at her home displaying security footage of what appears to be a thwarted burglary.
And the perp is seen being detained by two members of the Odinette family on the front lawn of their house.
And I have not seen the video myself, but apparently there's laughter and racial slurs.
The viewers who are not visible on camera, one of Ms.
Odinette's children is saying, and mom's yelling, n-word, n-word.
To which the Republican judge responds, we have an n-word.
It's an n-word, like a roach.
Well, as you reported last week, she confirmed that the video was recorded in her house, but she said that the incident shook her to her core and her mental state was fragile and she had taken a sedative and had no recollection whatsoever of the video or of the language being used in it.
She now says she's feeling humiliated, embarrassed, and sorry for the harm she caused the community.
But it hasn't ended there.
The Democrat Governor John Bel Edwards has called for Judge Audinet to resign, and she has been suspended from the bench without pay.
The new development in this story is that New Orleans District Attorney Jason Williams has ordered a complete review of all the cases she handled while she was a prosecutor nearly 30 years ago.
Because in this moment of extremis, she used the N-word.
It's not immediately clear how many cases you prosecuted, but they're going to review them all.
Now, District Attorney Jason Williams, he says, That a judge and former prosecutor so comfortably employed a racial epithet serves as a telling reminder that the attitudes that fostered mass incarceration continue to undermine our pursuit of equal justice.
This is what fosters mass incarceration.
The fact that after seeing an attempted burglary, a judge uses a forbidden word.
That results in mass incarceration, Mr. Kersey, in case you're wondering.
He goes on to say, moreover, the casual dehumanization displayed by Judge Utternet raises serious questions about her impartiality.
Well, the DA is, of course, African American.
And my suspicion is that he has probably used that word at least once in his life.
And what would he call someone who was caught breaking into his house?
What do you think?
Do you think it might be possible that he himself might use the N-word?
Of course, he's allowed, and Judge Audinet is not.
He would probably call them a victim of white racism, Mr. Taylor.
They were only lashing out in the only logical way they knew to try and exact revenge.
So that's what he would say.
That's right.
Well, the suspect has been arrested.
Excuse me.
Charged with two counts of burglary and being held at Lafayette Parish Jail on $10,000 bond.
They actually use bond in Louisiana.
But I think they should pardon him immediately.
Absolutely immediately for having used that word.
In any case, we have come to the end of our time, Brother Kersey, and so we have to sign off.
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