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Jan. 5, 2022 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to Radio Renaissance.
I'm Jerry Tidd with American Renaissance, and with me is my co-host, Paul Kersey.
Today is January 5th, Year of Our Lord 2022.
I got that right.
22, ladies and gentlemen.
So, this is our first podcast of the new year.
We look forward to another fruitful year serving you and, of course, receiving the support and help we get from you.
with your comments, your questions, your encouragement.
And I'd like to start with a listener question.
This is directed to Mr. Kersey, and the question is likely to be answered because it's right down Mr. Kersey's alley.
Our listener writes, as a longtime follower of Amren, thank you and Mr. Taylor for all you do.
New Year's is on a weekend this year, given the homicide rate in Chicago.
I'm curious to know how many hours will pass into the new year before the city records its first killing of 2022.
So, what is the answer, Mr. Kersey?
Well, was the question, were we supposed to guess, or did he want the answers?
I think he wants the answers.
Okay, we'll give him the answers.
We know that the first non-fatal shooting occurred at 2 a.m., so a mere two hours into 2022.
However, it took Four hours for the first fatality, for the first homicide to occur in Chicago to ring in the new year of 2022.
So it was at 4.30am on January 1st.
So opening the new year with a bang.
Another question here.
Have there been any successful attempts at decomposing the monolithic G, that is to say the general intelligence factor, into constituent parts?
As demonstrated by the SATs, it seems plausible that verbal, logical, and mathematical intelligence, while interrelated, are distinct.
I would guess that a decomposition would yield greater predictive power.
Well, this is something I know something about.
And yes, indeed, for many, many years, general intelligence has been divided into a mathematical, spatial component, and a verbal component.
And it's been well established that up until adolescence, The verbal component is found to be more skilled in women, girls, and the mathematical component is better advanced in boys and young men.
As a matter of fact, though, despite the fact that increasingly it's the fashion to say that That doesn't change and that men and women are of equal intelligence up until adulthood.
Richard Lin has recently written a book on this very subject, Sex Differences in Intelligence, and he finds that so many of these tests are done in adolescence and you do get essentially the same average IQ for men and women with a slight male advantage in mathematics.
Female Advantage in Verbal.
He says that, interestingly enough, males continue to mature in their brains for several years thereafter, to the point where, by the time they are fully adult, males have an IQ advantage, an average IQ advantage, of about four points.
To the point that, on verbal ability as well, they pretty much are the same as women and with a considerable advantage in mathematical and spatial ability.
Furthermore, it's interesting to note that the male-female differences in average intelligence are least for Africans, with a only small one or two point male advantage on average, then next for whites, and they are greatest for Asians.
And the theory here is, of course, that it is in the most demanding, harshest environments That there is a real pressure on males to be more intelligent because they're the ones who go out and bring down the big game in the wintertime.
They're the ones who prepare food to make it through the difficult time of winter.
Whereas females, they are not necessarily required to have quite that same amount of intelligence for making it through the winter.
So, in answer to that question that was probably longer than needed to be, Yes, there has been decomposition into verbal and spatial and mathematical.
In fact, it is the spatial, so mental rotation.
That's the area in which men tend to do best compared to women.
Women are better, though, at certain verbal skills.
If you say to a woman, name all the flowers you can in 30 seconds.
They can name considerably more than men can, and it's not because they know about flowers.
It can be the same for brands of automobile or just about anything there is.
There's a greater fluidity, a greater fluency in that respect.
Now I did point out that today is January 5th.
Tomorrow will be the anniversary of the January 6th Capitol Riot.
We will not go into great detail about that.
I plan to put together a video on that which we will release probably on Friday of this week.
But The liberals and the democrats are of course trying to turn this.
They still have got this idea that it was some kind of armed insurrection, that it was a sign of white supremacy, that this was a terrifying threat against democracy.
They are really beating the drum on this and it seems to me pretty clear That the plan is to use this as yet another excuse to crack down on any, any, even the faintest sign of white racial consciousness.
And I believe, Mr. Kersey, you were telling me that the idea is that they're going to, they're going to be a vigil tomorrow and they're going to mourn the deaths of how many police officers?
You know, I think Merrick Garland, the Attorney General, today he said that there were five
deaths that they took a motive selling.
Police officer deaths.
Yeah.
And again, he's talking about police officer deaths.
And I think the one that we know of was Officer Selnick, correct?
Brian Sicknick.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And he didn't he die of a seizure that was completely unrelated?
For weeks, the word was out that he had been hit by a guy with a fire extinguisher.
That never happened.
It's been established that this was complete baloney.
He had two seizures.
He had, I'm sorry, two strokes.
That's right, that's right.
And a medical examiner determined that these were unnatural causes.
So he was by no means someone who lost his life in the line of duty.
And then if there were further police officer deaths, every one of them was a suicide.
That's right.
And the first one, I believe, was about seven days after.
The next one was maybe 15 days after the entire incident.
And if Merrick Garland is going to call them death in the line of duty, this is just, this is completely nuts.
Two quick thoughts.
The New York Times editorialized on January 1st, 2022, happy new year again everyone, that every day has to be January 6th.
It has to be assault under democracy every day.
This is almost a new religion.
So you said something fascinating about, you know, white advocates are now the ones cracked down on.
I would slightly disagree with that.
I think it's anyone right of center.
I think it's anyone who actually questions, who had There were legitimate concerns about the election that, unfortunately, a lot of the people who were going to voice opposition, they shamefully changed their opinion.
And they said, out of respect for what just happened, I withdraw my consideration to even challenge what happened.
You're talking about when Congress reconvened.
When they reconvened, yeah.
I think there was going to be a very important debate about a lot of things.
And that was completely extirpated.
And then I would also add that it wasn't but It was in the spring of 2021 that there was a black nationalist affiliated with the Nation of Islam who ran his car into the Capitol and killed a white police officer.
That's right.
His name escapes me.
I'm sorry for not remembering his name, but that's the way it's supposed to be.
Victims of black nationalism and anti-white attacks.
We're not supposed to remember their names.
And even people like you and me, Mr. Kersey, we don't remember them because we don't think about them much either.
It's really a shameful state of affairs, but we're certainly not reminded over and over and over by the media.
Correct.
But be that as it may, now that the year has come to an end, we are getting something of a tally of the number of shootings and killings in various big cities, and Mr. Kersey, lead off with the tally for Philadelphia, if you will.
Well, we talked about it last week, and why this story stuck out to me is, you know, Philadelphia used to publish Their data was actually tremendous and when the new mayor, the white mayor, took over in 2016, they ceased publishing this incredible report which broke down the suspects in non-fatal and homicides.
So you could have a clear picture.
Apparently a clear racial picture as opposed to the ambiguity of just X amount dead.
Who's behind it?
Well, the Philadelphia District Attorney Office Media Center actually has a Medium.com website where they publish all sorts of data.
So if you actually go there, you can somewhat piece together the puzzle.
Well, this headline struck me because Tell me what you think when you hear this, Mr. Taylor.
Think about that.
disparity in arrest rates in shooting of black victims versus white victims leads to reform
call by Philly District Attorney Office.
Think about that.
What does that sound like it's saying, the passive voice?
Why does this disparity in the number of shooting victims, why does that lead to call for reform?
Well, surely that indicates that because black people are more likely to be shot, something must be done.
That's precisely right.
Or I thought, gosh, there's just too few white victims.
That's the way I read it.
Why are there so many black victims?
Why aren't there enough white victims?
You're too cynical.
We talked about Philadelphia already, but there's some numbers in here that are astonishing.
There have been more than 2,300 shootings in Philadelphia in 2021.
Now let's remember, a shooting is defined when a bullet leaves a firearm and hits a human being.
Correct.
Without killing him.
That's right.
Police have only made arrests in 17% of these incidents.
So you're talking about under 506, you're talking about about 510 of the shootings have even had.
No, well under, I'm sorry, 460 would be 20%, so you're talking about 420.
So, I mean, this is just crazy.
Mind-blowing numbers.
Only 17% of the shootings are solved.
In other words, you can go out and hit somebody with a bullet, bam, and your chances of being arrested are 17%.
These numbers eerily resemble what we talked about in Chicago about two months ago, where the mass shooting in Chicago, I think only one of them had been cleared.
Was that the number?
It was some extraordinarily small number.
So basically you wonder how many of these mass shootings was somebody who was a participant in the prior mass shooting.
Was it a retaliatory strike?
And you just have no idea who's being involved.
So this drastic discrepancy is unfortunately not limited to this year.
The Justice Wire disclosed that's the name for this Medium.com website, noting that only about one in five shootings in Philadelphia since 2015 have purportedly seen an arrest.
So 20%.
Basically 20%.
Which, as they point out, four out of every five victims of these shootings in their families never see justice.
So, they then go into some of these numbers again.
There's a really important piece of publication on that site that was published by Senior Data Analyst Tyler Tran for the Philadelphia District Attorney's Transparency Analysis.
It's entitled, quote, Shooting Arrest Rates, What Can You Do?
End quote.
And if there's someone out there who wants to actually look at it, you could parse through the data.
You could actually put together a really great story for amarin.com.
Well, shooting arrest rates, what can you do?
Well, you can stop shooting people.
That'd be a good, nice first step.
That would, that would be, that makes a lot of sense.
They then have some really great, they're not great graphs, that's the wrong, that's the wrong adjective, but...
He notes that this low shooting arrest rate is a racial justice issue that harms the Black community the most.
According to a graph from the District Attorney's Office's data lab, there have been about 8,000 unsolved shootings in the city with Black victims since 2015, almost 19 times the number of unsolved shootings Well, is that because they're 19 times as many, or are they less likely to solve a black shooting?
Probably the latter.
Well, probably both.
Well, a combination of the both, but again, we know that 19 times the number of unsolved shootings involving white victims.
And then again, this is where it just gets silly.
He then wrote that communities of color are ironically over-policed and under-policed at the same time, explaining that despite heavy police presence and majority black and Latin, I'm not going to say Latinx, sorry, he wrote that, no one uses that term except for silly white liberals, many of the residents feel police are unable to protect them or bring them justice.
As Tran notes in the Racial Disparity and Arrest Rates.
Because too many blacks are arrested, I guess that's a problem.
They've got to try and frame white individuals who they're like, hey, you must have done this.
It's our fault that they shoot each other and it's our fault that the perps aren't caught.
Correct, correct.
And then it's our fault again that there's a racial disparity that so many blacks are shooting one another.
I mean, this is one of the reasons why you're seeing cities like Chicago, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Lose so much of their black population because the black population that doesn't want to live in these areas and wants to have some semblance of normalcy and not have to hide to be, you know, there's kids.
They're moving to Atlanta in the south.
And it may not just be black people moving out.
I've got a story about New York City for you.
You know Manhattan had elections.
It's got a new mayor.
It's got a new district attorney.
It does.
The new district attorneys ordered his prosecutor To stop seeking prison sentences for many criminals and many crimes and to downgrade felony charges in cases including armed robbery.
That's not going to be an armed, that's not going to be a felony.
Is it going to be a misdemeanor?
It's going to be a misdemeanor.
Armed robbery?
Armed robbery!
Oh my gosh!
In his first memo to staff, Alvin Bragg, that was Monday of this week, he said to his office, we will seek a carceral sentence, that means you go to jail, Only in the case of homicides and a handful of other cases including domestic violence felonies, some sex crimes, and public corruption.
Some sex crimes?
Some sex, I guess actual forcible rape, I don't know.
Assistant District Attorneys must also now keep in mind the impacts of incarceration, including whether it really does increase public safety, potential future barriers to convicts getting housing and employment, the financial cost of prison, There it is.
I'm surprised racial disparities, Mr. Taylor, was buried and they didn't lead off with that in the memo.
That's how the memo should have started.
Well, I guess I should have said Alvin Bragg.
The new DA is, of course, one of our melanin supercharged people in this country.
So he's got that on his mind.
And also, this is interesting, when the prosecutors do seek to put somebody in the clink, the request can be for no more than 20 years.
That's the maximum.
No more life in jail.
No more.
Armed robbers, listen to this, who use guns to stick up stores and other businesses will be prosecuted only for petty larceny.
Can you believe that?
Petty larceny?
Petty larceny.
That's right, which is a misdemeanor provided no victims were seriously injured.
In other words, I guess that means, you know, you can shoot somebody's ear off, you know, but he wasn't seriously injured.
You just lost an ear.
I don't know.
What do they mean by seriously injured?
But you can be involved in a stick-up that is a misdemeanor petty larceny.
Furthermore, here's part of the memo.
ADAs, those are Assistant District Attorneys, should use their judgment and experience to evaluate the person arrested and identify people.
Who suffer from mental illness, who are unhoused, who commit crimes of poverty, or who suffer from substance use disorders.
Charges should be brought consistent with the goal of providing services to such individuals.
So, they're talking about homeless people who commit crimes.
So, if you are a psychotic, indigent, drug-addled bum on the street, you get special kid-glove treatment.
That's what it means.
If you're an ordinary person, though, they'll throw the book, to the extent that there's any book left, at them.
But all of these loonies and, well, I suppose loonies are one thing, but drug-addled bums, you got to have in mind what's best for them, not what's best for society.
And New York Mayor Eric Adams, he's the new mayor who was elected at the same time.
He was a former NYPD captain who was elected on a law and order platform.
You remember that?
That was one of his big things.
Crime's out of control, he says.
I have a lot of respect for District Attorney Bragg, a former prosecutor.
He has a real vision.
That's what I'm afraid of, Mr. Kersey.
He goes on to say, well, the press report in the New York Post goes on to say, Adams appeared alongside Bragg, our two new black elected officials, at Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network headquarters in Harlem after both men won their Democratic Party primary races.
In other words, when it was clear they were going to be elected, they did a little victory lap right around Al Sharpton's headquarters.
Hooray, hooray for us.
And at the time, Adams, Eric Adams, the newly elected mayor, he said Bragg's
views on addressing crime were quote, no different from mine.
He says Alvin Bragg is going to redefine the prosecutor's office and how we're going to
ensure that we don't criminalize young people every day.
We're not going to criminalize young people, just terrorize ordinary citizens.
And, you know, the person who sent me this story lives in New York City.
He says more and more people are on their way out there, heading for the doors, and you can understand why.
This is just nuts.
This is Daryl Dinkins 2.0.
Actually, it's probably worse than that.
This is Daryl Dinkins squared.
When was the last time you were in New York City?
I guess it's been probably before COVID.
Not since COVID.
Not since all the craziness.
Not since all the rioting and the Kristallnacht on Fifth Avenue.
Not since any of that.
Have you been back to D.C.
since the January 6th event?
Yes.
Yes, I have.
No, no, not since January 6th.
I was thinking of something else.
So for a whole year you haven't been to DC?
No, I was there in the fall.
I was there for one of the Stop the Steal rallies, the one before the January 6th event in December.
Do you recall being somewhat shocked and dismayed by all the buildings that were boarded up?
Still boarded up.
Still boarded up, yes.
Now, I don't know if they still are, but in the connection with what's going on in New York City, Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas I get more and more respect for this guy as time goes on.
He wrote an op-ed piece that appeared in a number of publications, certainly not in the New York Times, the Washington Post.
But he writes this, in 2020, our nation's state and federal prison populations plummeted 15% to the lowest level since 1992.
I'm glad he's doing his research.
State and federal authorities reduced population by 214,000 And local authorities reduced their jail populations by 185,000.
That's for a total of 400,000.
400,000 people who ordinarily would have been behind bars are out roaming the streets, loose amongst us.
So-called, I'm continuing to read what he wrote, so-called coronavirus protocols caused most of these reductions.
Last year, the federal government sent thousands of inmates home.
Rikers Island, New York City, released 1,500 criminals.
Chicago's largest prison released a quarter of its inmates.
And, in part as a result of COVID releases, California's state prison population dropped by 20%, New York by 21%, Illinois by 22%.
And here are a sample of some of the results.
That last state was Illinois, you said, correct?
Yes, Illinois by 22%.
New Jersey also plunged by a third.
Only two-thirds left.
Now, here's some of the results.
In Virginia, an accused rapist, once he got out, what did he do?
He murdered his accuser.
Well, I mean, that'll shut her up.
That'll keep him from being convicted, right?
He won't be convicted of rape.
In Florida, a gang member murdered a 28-year-old.
And in Arkansas, Senator Tom Cotton's home state, a career criminal, out on the street, murdered a police officer.
These are just a few of the consequences of turning all these jailbirds out.
The drop in incarceration in 2020 was also fueled by a shocking 40% nationwide decline in admission of newly sentenced criminals.
That's just as significant.
A 40% drop.
That might be more significant.
So basically you've got a Bastille situation where the criminals are let out.
Basically what Tom Cotton needs to come out and say, we're dealing with jacobins.
I know you don't like to hear this term.
Maybe this is a debate for Peter Brimel and you for another day.
Bolshevism.
I know, I know, I know, I know.
But the point is, this is insanity to think who's been let out, and then you think about the riots, all that happened.
The ones that are already in get let out early for no reason at all, and the ones who should go in, who have just been committing the crimes, don't.
A 40% nationwide decline in admission of newly sentenced criminals?
I hadn't even seen that figure.
No, no, no.
And all of this was done because Derek Chauvin Put his knee on the neck of a queer black criminal who tried to restart his life in Minneapolis after, and we're going to get this right, after putting a gun not in the belly of a pregnant woman.
That's false.
One of our great listeners went to great lengths, including sending an email to the author of the piece that had published that.
So we're going to get this right.
We know what happened.
So no, I mean, Tom Cotton, kudos to him.
We move on to 2022 and 2024.
I think that's the message that we need to keep hearing.
He goes on to say in New York, there was an even starker 60% drop in new criminal admissions to prison.
Now, I put this story immediately after the one about New York City, of course, for obvious reasons.
They're just not going to prosecute.
If they're going to prosecute, it's just going to be a minor matter and the crimes of poverty, as they call them.
That is to say, all those things that make life miserable in any city.
Vagrancy, public drunkenness, or fornication, or defecation, or aggressive panhandling.
All that's going to be fine.
This is one of the reasons why we're seeing the mass exit of people from New York City, Chicago.
That's right.
We've got to clear out.
Of course, Tom Cotton does not fail to mention that, not by any sort of coincidence, 30% increase in murders during 2020, just while we are not putting people in who should be in and letting people out who were in and should have stayed in.
Then he goes on to write this.
The proliferation of progressive Soros prosecutors and a shrinking willingness to hold the guilty accountable.
We need prosecutors who will prosecute.
That means recalling, removing, and replacing every Soros prosecutor throughout the nation.
Good for you, Senator.
And he concludes with this.
In 2004, a clueless New York Times headline read, despite drop in crime, An increase in inmates.
Of course, what it should have read was, increase in inmates leads to drop in crime.
But that would be too much abstract thinking for the New York Times.
He goes on to say, Democrats are even more ignorant today than New York Times was then.
So, good for him.
So, let's have another one of these city stories.
We'll try to keep them tight.
But what's been happening in New Orleans?
Yeah, just to tie a bow on what you just said, to talk about how bad things are, homicides during the George Floyd era of the racial reckoning have grown 178% from 2019 to 2021 in booming Austin, Texas.
Austin, Texas is about 7% black, and 150% in Portland.
We talked about Portland last week.
Portland is 6% black, and if you actually break down these numbers, we know that this is Solely due to the increase of black homicide black non-fatal shootings in these cities because police Well, they have no they have no one defending them.
What what happened of course is they started from very low numbers They did Austin and Portland had what do they have?
Maybe 60 homicides 40 something like that.
and so it's easy for them to double. Well, Austin went from 32 in 2019 to 89 in 2021.
And Portland went from 36 in 2019 to 90.
and and and And the city we're going to talk about now is New Orleans.
Yes.
Your old hometown, or your old town of Louisville, went from 89 in 2019 to 188 in 2021.
That's the kind of urban growth that the city fathers really love, isn't it?
Yes.
But speak to us of New Orleans.
I will speak to New Orleans.
As our racially aware cat.
She's insisting!
She's insisting!
Come on!
She says New Orleans!
So New Orleans ends 2021 with 218 murders.
We'll never get over this.
So for the second year in a row, New Orleans had a rise in murders.
Three brothers, three brothers, you know, that's that's both actual blood brothers and brothers as blacks, were among the year's victims.
So there were 218 lives were lost to murder in New Orleans in 2021.
According to the police, it's the most murders in a year in the city since before Hurricane Katrina, when the population was about 15% larger.
So your per capita, your numbers, you know, we talked about Jackson being actually above 100.
You know, last week, this is, uh, I didn't send this letter over to you, Mr. Taylor, I apologize.
Somebody actually ran the numbers again for Jackson.
and the rate would be actually about 109 per 100,000, the homicide rate.
100,000?
Yep, yep.
Okay.
So here's one of the- That's a whole lot better than the odds of hitting the jackpot.
Here's what criminologist Peter Scharf of the LSU School of Public Health had to say.
The critical issue, I think, is what does 2022 look like?
What does 2023 look like?
Is this a new normal?
Over 200 murders a year in a city of 400,000 people.
That's a disaster.
Now, we know that Jackson, Mississippi, they had about 150 murders, and they're a population of about 180.
So you think about these two southern cities.
And we know, of course, who is committing.
the murders there because the story we it breaks down it tells us quickly a story about brothers
Brandon Bradley and Brian Veal their ages 30 26 and 20 21 they were killed in New Orleans in 20
2021 they break down the numbers real quick 80 percent of 80% of the city's murder victims, black men.
Black women make up 12% of the city's 2021 murder victims.
So, 92% of the murder victims in 2021 were black.
I believe the city is about 56% black now.
It's gone up significantly.
But that's three brothers in the same family.
Weren't they shot very close to, just maybe a couple of weeks apart?
Yeah, two were killed on February 13th and February 20th during Black History Month in New Orleans.
It doesn't say when the other one was killed.
That's pretty gruesome.
Three members of one family?
So yeah, white men account for 5% of the deaths in 2021, and the remaining 3% were comprised of white women, Hispanic men, and one Asian male.
Well, New Orleans is dangerous for black folks, I guess.
Well, let's set aside crime statistics for a bit and move on to something called Maddie's Fund.
Maddie's Fund is an animal care site, one of the best known in the country.
Well, it ran this headline, Why Are Veterinarians Always What?
They went on to say they are proud to announce a bold new initiative and a series of events to help animal-loving people of color pursue their dreams of helping cats, dogs, and other living creatures.
I guess there are all sorts of institutional obstacles in the way of black people pursuing their dream of helping cats, dogs, and other living creatures.
The scholarship initiative comes at a critical time.
Do you know why it's critical?
Why is it critical?
It's critical because out of more than 100,000 vets in the United States, 90% are white.
Horrors!
And fewer than 2% are Hispanic and almost none is black.
Oh my god, so it's a crisis.
I can't tell you real quick that Tuskegee University in Alabama has one of the biggest HBCU veterinary programs.
Well, I wonder how many people that graduate.
Maybe they graduate and then don't practice.
Who knows?
It sounds like these people would rather have a melanin-enhanced veterinarian.
They don't care if the animal dies as long as the veterinarian they see is of the proper hue.
Well, this story was sent to me by one of our readers.
And she was outraged by this because back when she was a liberal, and it took her a long time to cease to be a liberal, she worked very hard in the streets of a very heavily black city trying to rescue animals.
And she was incensed at the routine cruelty she saw, the negligence, people who would claim to own a cat that she was trying to rescue if it's some emaciated, beaten up thing.
And she's trying to rescue, oh that belongs to me, I'll sell you, I'll sell a tree for a hundred dollars.
And she's actually going to write one of our red pill stories, How I Saw the Light.
She was just infuriated by this because she says, she hesitated to arrive at this conclusion, and this is what really pushed her towards racial realism, but she said black people in her experience just do not care about animals.
And the idea of driving black people into the vet business, let them go into it if they want.
But the idea that somehow they've got to be drag kicking and screaming or even ever so slightly reluctantly into being vets, this just drove her nuts.
Or that somehow the veterinary vocation is at a disadvantage because there aren't enough melanin-enhanced individuals.
And that 90%.
We talked last week, we talked a few weeks ago about the orthopedic industry.
Yes, orthopedics.
Bone and joint boys.
Yeah.
And I think the head of one of the associations was like, oh, we're aware.
The diversity problem.
Well, it seems like all these athletes and people who have to have knee replacements or shoulder replacements or, you know, their shoulder surgery, ankle surgery, they seem to be fine.
They don't care as long as they get stitched up and they can run again.
They're being botched and bungled because white people are doing it, don't you know?
Well, moving on to George Washington.
The Brooklyn Museum of Art has a 1776 oil-on-canvas painting of Army General George Washington.
He's standing in military dress with Boston in the background.
This was painted by Charles Wilson Peale.
It's a famous historic portrait commissioned by the Continental Congress by President John Hancock of the Congress just before the signing of the Declaration.
This has been proudly on display for many years.
Well, now it has a new description card.
A woke description card.
It writes that the tension between the existence of slavery and the Declaration's affirmation of freedom and equality is absent from Peale's celebrated portrait.
Do you realize that?
The tension between slavery and the Declaration is absent.
Heavens!
Well, it's a portrait.
The entire declaration is absent for heaven's sake.
Correct.
And the explanatory card also now goes on to say that Washington enslaved more than 300 people.
So this has all got to be dragged into the museum.
I'm surprised they let it stay up.
I'm surprised he didn't go ahead and just take a torch to it.
Well, that's what they would do if he had been a confederate.
But he was a slave owner and a white man.
Maybe his day will come.
These are oil paintings, you know.
It wouldn't take much to turn them into Roman candles.
You know, if I could tease something, I don't know if Hood has told you, he just read a great book about Washington.
And the premise of the book is that one of the reasons why the colonialists wanted to, especially the wealthy colonialists, wanted to actually secede and create their own nation was because the king was so upset about, I'm sorry, King George didn't want any expansion.
There was some line that he created on a map in 1763.
I'm sorry, 1761.
And a lot of the colonial leaders were like, no, we have to keep expanding.
This is our, we can't give up this land.
We have to, you know, and it's a fascinating tale because it makes Washington look even worse if he thought that the North American continent belonged to pale faces.
So it's yet another way they're going to attack him.
Thoroughly bad.
Thoroughly bad.
Well, let's tell you the saga of Andre Burnett.
On New Year's Day, prosecutors charged Burnett with shoplifting from a magnificent mall department store.
That's in Chicago, of course.
This was his, drumroll please, 78th arrest.
Now, most of his 12 felony convictions were also from theft and retail theft.
Now, when he went for Judge Mary Marubio, she told the 56-year-old melanin-enhanced citizen of Chicago, you're a nuisance and a drain on the system.
I'm sure that really made him feel awful.
That would reform him immediately, having been admonished by a judge from the bench.
Well, Assistant Public Defender Courtney Smallwood, I'm sure Courtney Smallwood has to be a white lady, doesn't she?
Courtney asked Judge Marubio to release Burnett on an I-bond, which is to say he would be required to pay no money because he was accused of a non-violent crime, but the judge set bail at $1,500.
It turns out the way biotech works in Chicago, he would have to post 10% of that to get out of jail.
And, now this is news to me, any jailbird gets $30 a day credit just for being in the clink.
Did you know that?
You can collect $30 a day just for three hots and a cot.
Didn't know that.
That's right.
So he can expect to get out of jail in five days if he doesn't spend it all on cigarettes.
So, just one little note about life in the big city.
Okay, this is our last Crime in the Big City story.
Milwaukee.
I'm going to go fast.
Go fast.
Again, we wanted to ring in the new year just to talk about how people ring out the shots.
You know, shots ring out.
We hear that all the time.
Milwaukee, again, one of those cities where we actually have the data from, and this is why I just want to bring this up real quick.
Another record-breaking year of homicides ends with 197 lives lost in Milwaukee.
That was the Headline from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
It was even more than in 2020, when they experienced 190 homicides.
So, here's what we have.
This, of course, smashed the record in 1991.
So, again, these cities we don't want to talk about, these policies, what Black Lives Matter actually did.
Just real quick, here are the numbers, and here's what they say about it.
Again, following decades of poverty, neglect, and racial segregation in Milwaukee's north and northwest sides, which are home to predominantly black residents, victims of non-fatal shootings and homicides in 2021 are 88% black, while suspects are 89% black, according to the Milwaukee Homicide Review Commission.
For those not paying attention, Milwaukee is about 40% black, 37% white.
percent black, 37 percent white. So again, you have a city where nine out of ten homicides that
we have a suspect for, most of them are homicides.
Mind you that in Milwaukee the clearance rate is roughly 35% so this number I would imagine could probably get to 95% of the suspects or those arrested would be black if you had Doesn't that same story list a number of other cities?
It does!
I wanted to end with that.
So, as of December 8th, 2021, 12 major cities broke their homicide record, including Philadelphia, St.
Paul, Minnesota, Portland, Oregon, Tucson, Arizona, the aforementioned Austin, Texas, also Columbus, Ohio.
We mentioned Louisville, Kentucky.
The number was Just under 200.
Indianapolis.
Those are the cities that have set new records for two straight years.
So think about that.
In Columbus, in Louisville, in Indianapolis, They set the homicide record in 2020, and then they broke it 365 days later.
Well, we'll see what 2022... Nice job, Black Lives Matter.
Nice job, white progressives.
You guys have a lot of blood on your hands.
You know what?
You can say whatever you want to about anybody who points out these stats and just says, This is not right.
These people, you know, these three brothers in New Orleans, they didn't deserve to die.
Nope.
It is terrible, terrible business.
And as you say, they have blood on their hands.
They will never admit it.
They will never recognize it.
It's really an absolute horror.
It is.
For a different kind of story, Airbnb.
For two years, starting in January 31st, that is in just a couple of weeks, Airbnb hosts in Oregon will be able to see only the first initials of prospective guests.
The guests' full names will appear only after the booking is confirmed.
Now, Mr. Kersey, why would Airbnb do that?
Discrimination, I imagine.
You're right, those first names.
If it's Quanisha, or if it's Leroy, or Satavius, whoever it is, we don't want any dead giveaway first names.
Of course, what if your last name is a dead giveaway?
I think they should just have initials first name and last name.
In any case, this is an experiment aimed at curbing discrimination against black travelers.
And discrimination suffered by black travelers has launched the popular hashtag Airbnb while black.
Now, the thing is, how would they know?
How would they know?
Maybe they got a bad review the last time they were at someplace, because it's just like Amazon.
You know, if you buy something, you sell something, you get a review.
You do?
Airbnb customers get exactly the same thing.
Well, so how do they know it was race?
They just claim it was.
Well, they always know.
And one is never to dispute a claim of racism when it comes out of the mouths of one of our non-white pets.
In 2019, Airbnb settled a lawsuit brought by several Oregon women who said the site allowed vacation rental owners to discriminate against customers by requiring and disclosing users' full names and photographs.
Now, so this is Airbnb's fault.
Airbnb had to settle a lawsuit because they thought, oh, how nice, we'll have a photograph of the people, and a photograph of the hosts, and everybody will cozy.
Ooh, that led to discrimination, or so these ladies claimed.
Airbnb changed its policies so hosts using its platform can choose not to require photos, and photos would be shown only after they accepted a booking.
Now they're doing it with names, too.
So there you go.
Pretty soon, I guess, they'll just be numbers.
You will be A34Z38.
That's like convict numbers.
Pretty soon, they're just going to make it so that white people can't rent Airbnb and that white people have to pay tax subsidized trips and vacations for blacks to be able to go out and go to some of these Airbnb places.
Yes, that will be a form of reparations.
And in Canada, In 2016, Mount Royal University, which is in Calgary, announced a plan to indigenize learning.
A new Office of Academic Indigenization would enforce ideological plans to, quote, embrace indigenous knowledge and ways of knowing to integrate indigenous teachings and practices.
What do you think that even means?
Totem poles in the classrooms?
Have people sleep in teepees rather than dormitories?
In any case, in early 2021, it hired an Associate Vice President of Indigenization and Decolonization.
Did you know that Canada needs to be decolonized?
Her name was Linda Many Guns.
Isn't that a name for you?
One of her first acts was to deck the halls with Cultural Revolution style posters.
Here are samples.
If you think Aboriginal people get everything for free, you have a colonized mind.
I don't think anybody thinks that, but if you do, you have a colonized mind.
If you think aboriginal people had no justice system, you have a colonized mind.
Oh, they had justice systems, all right.
They tortured people to death with a hey nani nani and a hot cha cha.
In July of 2021, as Canada was succumbing to mass mania over the discovery of unmarked graves and children at former Catholic schools for Indian children.
Do you remember that last summer?
I do.
All this huge hullabaloo.
A professor at Mount Royal University named Francis Whittleson convened an online panel that countered the hysteria with facts and data.
She debunked claims of mass graves, pointing out that, first of all, no actual graves had been found by anyone.
There had been preliminary ground-penetrating radar surveys, which are completely incapable of detecting anything other than soil discontinuity.
So the idea of mass graves was phony to begin with.
But she pointed out that child mortality for all children in Canada at the time was high, and that pauper cemeteries were the norm for those without family members.
Wow.
That earned Professor Whitteson charges of being a genocide denier.
Of course, that is the highest accolade for serious scholars in the field of Indian studies.
In any case, she was also putting together a study just to show how these claims were so ridiculous.
And this would have been a bit of an embarrassment for the Canadian authorities because the entire woke federal government had put all federal flags at half-mast.
To apologize for this genocide.
Is there a more cucked population in the Western world than Canada?
At least in leadership, you know, they keep getting elected, so obviously someone has to elect them, but... I know.
I don't think there probably is.
Sometimes the Brits can really go overboard with this stuff, but the Canadians, oh boy, what a pitiful lot they are.
In any case, Professor Widdowson has now been fired by our university.
She will be engaged in arbitration, so neither she nor the university is talking.
But, as University of Manitoba Native Studies professor, Niigaanwewidam Sinclair, Bragged on social media, her firing is, quote, the holiday present that gives and gives and gives and gives.
So they're happy to see her go.
Now, she is a honky, of course, you know, none of this many guns, none of these unpronounceable names.
Now, the author of this article had communicated with the Mount Royal University Chair of Humanities, Scott Murray, Who emailed him, and this guy writes, the boilerplate below his email signature and list of pronouns.
He's one of these people who says, yes, yes, I am a he him, or I'm an it or, or whatever it is he writes.
This boilerplate tells you all you need to know.
Apparently it reads like this.
Mount Royal University is located on or adjacent to the hereditary territories of the Ni'itsapi, the Sikiska, the Kainai, the Piikani, the Irahe, the Nakoda, and the Tsu'uitna nations.
This land has become home to non-indigenous peoples and institutions through the negotiation
of agreements like Treaty 7, the terms of which have not been honored amidst the ongoing violence
of settler colonialism and white supremacy. This is what this fool puts on at the end of every email.
White people just need to get out of Canada, it sounds like.
The ongoing violence of settler colonialism and white supremacy.
Boy oh boy.
You know, when white people don't have slavery to feel off about, they can cook up something to work themselves into insane frenzies over.
Colonizers.
Yes, colonizers.
Remember, that's the derogatory term for white people.
Black Panther.
Yes.
Settlers.
Settlers.
Colonizers.
Colonizers.
There you go.
Well, okay.
Now, you had a story to tell us about Washington, D.C.
Things are looking a little grim.
I'll just be quick, because again, this is one of those headlines when you see it, it caused me to chuckle, because it's one of those, there's that meme of the guy who's got the two buttons to push, and they're both contradictory.
And this is one that I think is perfect, because you can't push one without canceling out the other.
Even though you probably agree with both of them.
So, D.C.
Vax mandate would disproportionately affect Black residents, data suggests.
Oh no!
So, this, a lot of people probably didn't know this because this was slipped in right before Christmas 2021.
The new COVID vaccination mandate in D.C.
would disproportionately impact Black residents, vaccination data suggests.
Muriel Bowser, the D.C.
Mayor, announced, I believe it was December 20, Second, that she would be implementing a vaccination requirement for residents starting January 15.
Vaccination data, however, shows that Bowser's mandate would have a disproportionate impact on minorities in the city.
The city's most updated vaccination data shows the vax rate for Black residents in D.C.
is 46.4%.
with only 39% of vaccinated black residents fully vaccinated.
Oh, no.
Oh no.
So, quote, this was a goofy line from the Republican National
Committee spokesman and director of Black Media Affairs, Paris
Dinnard.
She said, quote, Democrats like Mayor Bowser and President Biden should be ashamed of themselves
and their clearly discriminatory vaccine mandate that disproportionately penalize hardworking black Americans who
have the freedom to decide what is best for themselves and their families for personal, religious, or medical
reasons, end quote.
Now, the vaccine mandate was- The Democrats are the real racists now.
Dems are the real racists.
Oh boy.
Look at Muriel Bowser, her black self is a racist.
Again, we are seeing the battle line somewhat draw, though, when it comes to cities like New York and-
Los Angeles and San Francisco and Chicago that are passing these vax mandates and stuff.
The mandate would require DC residents to show proof of vaccination to enter, and I quote, restaurants, bars, nightclubs, indoor entertainment facilities, gyms, and indoor meeting establishments.
The order reads that people 12 and older must have at least one dose of the vaccine, which would be up to two doses by February 15th.
As stated, this order comes just after similar policies were enacted in those blue enclaves such as NYC, Chicago, and Boston Mass.
Well, so this will be a terrifying dilemma, won't it?
Exactly!
I mean, because will we start to see black residents protest and, you know, become Part of the, you know, hated anti-vax group.
Will they start saying, our bodies, our choice?
Remember that old feminist argument from back in the pre-abortion days?
I've heard about it, I've read about it, and I think we might be seeing it.
And I think this all goes into effect just before MLK's national holiday, January 15th.
A terrible, unfortunate coincidence.
Let freedom sing, Mr. Taylor.
I'll say.
The Annals of Internal Medicine, of all places, has published an article about gun ownership.
It points out that an estimated 2.9% of U.S.
adults, that's 7.5 million people, became new gun owners from the January 1st of 2019 to April 26th of 2021.
million people became new gun owners from the January 1st of 2019 to April
26th of 2021. So during 2019 to middle 2021 that is 7.5 million people became
new gun owners.
That's a lot.
Yeah.
Most lived in homes without guns.
Collectively exposing, says the Annals of Internal Medicine, in addition to themselves, over 11 million persons to household firearms.
That's why they were exposed to firearms, including 5 million children.
Approximately half of all new gun owners were female.
Okay.
Isn't that interesting?
I think ladies should be armed.
That is the great equalizer.
A polite society is an armed society.
Well, an armed society is a polite society.
That's right.
Yes.
Some polite societies don't have to be armed.
Take the Japanese.
There you go.
So, in any case of these newly armed, newly exercising their Second Amendment rights, 20% were black.
That is to say, they were over-represented in new gun purchases.
20% were Hispanic.
They, too, were over-represented.
By contrast, other recent purchasers who were not new gun owners, in other words, getting their second, third, fourth, or twenty-fifth firearm, were male.
70% were male and white. 74%.
As with gun owners overall, 63% of gun owners are male, 73% are white.
Now, this I saved the best to the last.
This article from the Annals of Internal Medicine about gun ownership and new gun owners acquiring weapons.
The title of it was called, Firearm Purchasing During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
So that's what it was.
They're lamenting the fact that so many more people now own firearms and so many more people are now exposed to firearm ownership in homes that previously didn't have firearms.
Exactly, exactly.
I guess they think that they're just going to shoot those microbes right out of the air, you know, bang, bang, shoot that virus out of the air.
Firearms were purchased during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Good grief.
Put a mask on the gun, it won't shoot anyone, right?
Yes, excellent idea.
So, along those lines, Beverly Hills seems to have had an uptick in firearms ownership too.
Yeah, Los Angeles, we haven't talked about LA at all.
That's a city that has one of these Soros DAs.
All the best places have Soros DAs.
All the best places.
And Los Angeles is a city that we could have added to this never-ending list of cities that have seen shocking increases in crime and non-fatal and fatal shootings.
Well, Beverly Hills residents are arming themselves with guns in wake of violence.
Are you sure it's not a kind of COVID?
Like you said, maybe they think a 22LR is going to kill the microbes.
That's right.
Actually, microbe is the wrong word.
Virus is the correct word.
Yeah, virus, exactly.
I made that mistake just now myself.
It's okay.
I think our listeners will forgive our lack of...
Understanding of the correct epidemiology words.
We're not epidemiologists or virologists, although we probably do better than Fauci.
Anyways, quote, I've always been anti-gun, said Debbie Mizrahi of Beverly Hills, but I am right now in the process of getting myself shooting lessons because I now understand that there may be a need for me to know how to defend myself and my family.
We're living in fear.
During BLM protests last year, she told the Post her neighbor's home was firebombed with Molotov cocktails.
My kids were outside and they saw a huge explosion.
The neighbor's backyard went up in smoke. Trees burned down, but it's only gotten worse.
Beverly Hills has been targeted.
She's what?
She's a 40-something mother of two teenagers.
She's not alone.
Ever since the BLM protests last year descended into riots and lootings, a growing number of Beverly Hills residents have been buying weapons.
Quote, it's gotten to a point where residents feel insecure even going from their door to their car, said resident Shirley Reitman.
A lot of residents are applying for a concealed carry weapon permit, even though that's a great challenge in L.A.
County.
According to L.A.
County Sheriff Alejandro Villanueva, Villanueva, the department has received 8,105 concealed
carry weapon applications and approved 2,102 of them since he took office in December 2018.
Approved 2,102 of them?
Yep, compared to his predecessor having issued 194 permits in four years.
So that's actually a huge increase.
That's enormous.
Yes, in four years.
Yeah.
Quote, even hardcore leftist Democrats who said to me in the past, I'll never own a gun, are calling me asking about firearms, said Joel Glucksman, a private security executive.
I'd say there have been an increase of 80% in the number of requests I'm getting this year.
Now, this trend has increased this last week.
This article is from mid-December, ladies and gentlemen.
Kluxman said after a beloved black philanthropist, Jacqueline Avant, was killed in her home.
Quote, the killing of Avant shows that even having a security guard isn't enough to deter someone.
The victim and her husband, legendary music executive Clarence Avant, had a private security guard on duty when she was killed around 2.30am on December 1st.
This is from the first lady who was quoted. Debbie Misery.
Wouldn't hire that guy. No grief.
Quote, what you're seeing is a spillover in these communities of crime and violence,
explained LA police officer Steve Robinson.
Before, you would never hear of a robbery or a shooting in Beverly Hills, or if you did, it was once or twice a year.
In 2020, the Beverly Hills Police Department pulled 18 guns off Rodeo Drive.
Rodeo Drive.
18 guns.
That's the fancy shopping district.
Oh, that's far fancier than the Magnificent Mile.
It's pretty fancy.
You go back any year before that and it may have been 0 to 1 or 2.
Ironically, hours after Avant was killed, L.A.
County District Attorney George Gasson distributed a fundraising letter seeking to overturn a law that would keep her alleged killer in prison.
The bill that he was pushing would eliminate additional prison time for using a gun during a crime.
He's really with the tenor of the times, isn't he?
That, ladies and gentlemen, I think wraps up nicely what Senator Tom Cotton was discussing in that op-ed that Mr. Taylor mentioned earlier.
We've got time for one more story here.
A WAPO January 1st article Fascinating to me.
The percentage of Americans who say violent action against the government is justified at times stands at 34%.
34%?
One-third of Americans say violent action against the feds is sometimes justified.
That's 40% of Republicans, 41% of Independents, and 23% of Dems.
That's a quarter of the Dems.
In 2015, 23% of Americans approved of violence against the authorities under certain circumstances.
And again, now it's 34%.
The number is growing.
Also, 58% of Republicans say Biden was not legitimately elected as president.
But that's down from 70% conducted in January shortly after the Capitol attack.
Of course.
Yes, but still 58%.
However, This is something that's often overlooked.
In the fall of 2017, a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll found that 67% of Democrats and 69% of Hillary Clinton voters said Trump was not legitimately elected.
Repeat those numbers real quick.
In early 2017, after Trump was elected, 67% of Democrats and 69% of Hillary Clinton voters said the election was illegitimate.
I think that is very interesting.
You sure don't hear that very often.
Now, furthermore, this is quite interesting.
Republicans, 56%, say they're not confident that state officials in Democrat-controlled states will accept election results.
Well, we know that from Georgia with Stacey Abrams.
Among Democrats, 67% think that Republican-controlled states will not accept a losing result.
This is remarkable stuff.
Americans are becoming very, very disaffected.
So that brings us to the end of our time.
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