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Jan. 12, 2022 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor

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Colin Flaherty, RIP

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	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
	I'm Jared Taylor, and with me, of course, is my indispensable co-host, Paul Kersey.
	And, as usual, on this January 12th, Year of Our Lord 2022, of all things, we'll start with a listener comment.
	This is a lady who writes, Dear Mr. Taylor and Mr. Kersey, I'm writing in response to a couple of items from your last podcast, January 5th.
	First, about Airbnb changing its policies not to show a potential renter's name to the host beforehand.
	The idea, of course, Mr. Kersey, is that people with black-sounding names might be victims of racism if the renter detects those names.
	She goes on to say there's already been a study conducted on this and BBC found that it's true.
	Blacks with blackity black names are less likely to be accepted by hosts.
	But what the story that you quoted failed to mention, I wonder why?
	Is that black hosts discriminate against blacks with black-sounding names just as much as whites?
	Oh dear.
	Well, when they do it, it's just pure prudence, of course.
	So, when whites do it, it's racism.
	And she actually sent a link, and I looked it up.
	It's a BBC story, and according to this, this is a survey of more than 6,000 hosts in five U.S.
	cities, when profiles had white-sounding names like Todd or Allison.
	There was a 50% success rate per positive response.
	Did you know that half people get rejected?
	That seemed mighty high to me.
	I had no idea.
	Yeah.
	So, 50% were offered a room.
	But with black-sounding names such as Darnell and Tamika, the figure dropped to 42%.
	So, there was a difference.
	42% versus 50%.
	And the study suggested that black hosts were just as likely to discriminate.
	Again, prudence on their part, racism on the part of whites.
	Well, that means that white applicants with those names are, they get rejected 50% of the time.
	I mean, come on.
	That's right.
	It's only, and then 58% of the time, that's not exactly, what is that?
	Is that even 16% difference between white and black?
	16%.
	How many white Darnells do you know?
	Two.
	Now I'm dry.
	I don't know any way to turn it.
	Yeah.
	Okay, now our listener goes on to say, what BBC refuses to tell you is that when blacks rent Airbnbs, there is a huge problem because many groups use this service just to rent a house in order to throw a giant party where they destroy the property, disturb the peace, and may even have shootings.
	She says, I don't have any articles on this, but I've seen countless news stories.
	Look it up.
	Now, she goes on to say second in regards to the need for more black vet veterinarians.
	Remember we had that story.
	She says many people are reluctant to give their pets to someone like this.
	And then she included a link to a rather gruesome story of a Florida vet who pleaded guilty to raping dogs and making crush videos.
	Forgive me for not knowing what that means.
	A crush video?
	I don't know.
	That involves killing an animal on video.
	Okay.
	Sadomasochism, basically.
	Yes.
	I think it started because you'd take a woman with stiletto heels and she would crush a mouse to death or something like that.
	Gruesome stuff.
	Fortunately, I've never seen such a thing.
	Then she goes on to say, I too have noticed that black people are cruel to animals.
	They seem to believe that having pets is white.
	Which, let's face it, it kind of is.
	And some blacks are even angry about how much white people love their dogs.
	Just Google some search phrases like, white people love dogs more than blacks.
	And see what comes up.
	She could be right about that.
	In any case, she concludes with this note.
	P.S.
	I'm not sure which is funnier on your podcast, that attention-seeking, meowing cat, or when Jared tries to pronounce Indian tribal names.
	I'm doing my best!
	You're doing a great job!
	But they've got apostrophes and they've got consonants in strange places.
	I'm doing my best.
	And, by the way, so is the cat.
	I'm doing my best.
	I just quickly looked up how many shootings there have been at Airbnbs, and there are at least five that I saw in different states.
	In fact, we actually talked about one that happened outside of Sacramento about a year ago on this podcast, and yes, it was a melanin-enhanced fiesta.
	You mean it wasn't Todd and Allison who opened fire?
	No, Todd and Allison were not involved in that shooting.
	Oh dear, oh dear.
	Well, yes, we do have to start with a somewhat sad story, and that is the death of Colin Flaherty.
	Colin Flaherty was a great writer, journalist, book author, podcaster, video maker, live streamer, and on top of that, a really great guy.
	And he has certainly done more to uncover and expose the media hypocrisy on reporting black crime.
	author of, when a white girl bleed a lot.
	White girl bleed a lot, don't make the black kids angry.
	Don't make the black kids angry.
	And at one time, I know he had, I believe he had such a huge following on YouTube.
	He was making $12,000 a month before they cut him off.
	$12,000 a month!
	Oh, I've seen, he used to share the statistics with me and, you know, let me look at the dashboard and there were some months he was making well north of that.
	How many followers did he have?
	In the hundreds of thousands, I mean, this was in the wild west days of YouTube before Google purchased them.
	So this was, you're talking 2014, 2015, even into 2016.
	And it's funny, I've been thinking a lot about how, we've talked about how Gannett has basically said, hey, we're no longer going to show the pictures of suspects.
	I believe that there must have been journalists in meetings and editorial meetings where they would say, we got to stop doing this.
	We're giving this guy too much content.
	We're giving this guy so much content.
	We can't show this anymore.
	Of course, nothing that they can do can completely hide it.
	But yes, Colin Flaherty, we were hoping for him to be one of the real headliners at the conference last November.
	But he was suffering already from cancer by the time we agreed and he figured he could make it.
	I think he was really trying to hang on specifically to make that but instead he was still alive but he wasn't strong enough to make it and a fellow called Alan the barbershop guy did a wonderful, a marvelous musical tribute to him at the time.
	In any case, I expect to write a more detailed tribute to Colin Flaherty.
	That should go up on our website, www.amaran.com, later today or at the latest tomorrow morning.
	But Colin Flaherty, rest in peace.
	You were a wonderful guy.
	As I say, just an absolute great guy.
	So much fun to be around.
	I never heard him.
	Just always pleasant.
	Always a great guy.
	So, and taken from us at far too early an age.
	He was only 66 years old.
	He fought leukemia and then he was given a clean bill of health.
	He's someone that I've known for more than a decade.
	He was someone that I would talk to a lot on the phone.
	and share stories and he would always say, you know, it's going to take a
	dramatic example to wake people up if this one doesn't or if that one doesn't.
	And he developed such a wonderful mindset and having to report on all this because it would
	get overwhelming when you'd see. I know he was really upset about the Canaan hit.
	it.
	Canaan Hinnit.
	Yeah, Canaan Hinnit.
	And then also the one at the mall in 2019.
	When the black guy threw the young white boy off a balcony.
	At the Mall of America.
	And there were some that really just stung with him.
	But there's one more thing before we move on to point out is he started talking to me, gosh, Seven years ago, eight years ago, about critical race theory.
	In a lot of his videos, he was talking about this.
	He was talking about this concept of what all this was about.
	And I wonder if he influenced people like Chris Rufio.
	Is that how you pronounce it?
	Chris Rufo.
	Yeah.
	Because his stuff was being published all over the place.
	And kudos to American Thinker for always giving Colin Flaherty a really big sounding board.
	Yes, he has a huge archive there that I welcome all of you all to stop by and learn a great deal.
	Now, just to touch briefly on the Democrat festivities in celebration of the Capitol riot of January 6th.
	Oh, gosh.
	Oh, it's going to be the thing they're going to be proudest of until they die, this riot.
	Well, Joe Biden called it a dagger at the throat of democracy.
	And he also promised God's truth about January 6, 2021.
	Did you know that?
	Well, I think we're going to get that.
	It might not be what he wants to hear, but I think we're going to get it.
	Let's hope so.
	Of course, he wanted to honor Officer Brian Sicknick.
	Now, this is a guy who actually died of natural causes later on the next day.
	And he also, believe it or not, I was astonished to hear this, he also asked the entire country to honor Officer Billy Evans.
	Now, you, Mr. Kersey, are one of the few people who know how and under what circumstances Billy Evans lost his life.
	But he says he lost his life defending this Capitol as well.
	I don't think that's what happened.
	Well, he was defending the Capitol.
	Yes, but not as well in the sense of January 6th.
	He was killed by a black nationalist follower of Elijah Muhammad, who drove his car into Evans and other Capitol Police officers on April 2nd, 2021, Quite a few months.
	We should start remembering that date.
	In fact, April 2nd should be a date that you give a big press conference at the Capitol.
	You should go there and just start talking.
	Flags half-mast.
	Yes.
	Now, of course, this tremendous outpouring of grief and gratitude towards police officers is a startling contrast to the silence about everyday anti-cop violence all around the country.
	And through November 30th of last year, 67 police officers had been murdered by criminals.
	That is a 56% increase over 2020, which was no picnic either.
	Now, the toll rose in December 2021, and so we don't know what the toll will be, but also ambush assaults on officers.
	You just walk up to some poor police officer, maybe sitting in his car, doing paperwork, and they were up 91% in the first six months of 2021 compared to 2020.
	These victims elicited no tears.
	Their families elicited no media tributes.
	No national politicians give two hoots about them, but if somebody shoots dead an unarmed white woman who is trying to climb through a door, oh boy, that guy is an absolute hero.
	And if you die of a heart attack after the riot, or they're also honoring these guys who committed suicide weeks, months later, what the heck is this?
	These people are just heroes Now, this is an interesting thing, too.
	All these officers all around the country, especially the George Floyd riots, by comparison, members of Washington, D.C.' 's law enforcement community have been serviced by trauma experts and wellness dogs to help them recuperate from the emotional scars.
	They are just going to be constantly monitored for post-traumatic stress syndrome.
	And did you know, Mr. Kersey, that on the January 6th jubilee, the jubilee anniversary, petting dogs were wandering the halls of Congress to provide comfort if the ceremonies triggered flashbacks in Democratic elected officials.
	Now, you never can tell when Nancy Pelosi is going to clutch her breast and scream, I forgot to pet a dog!
	It's not recorded to have happened that day, but just in case, the pettable dog was there.
	Now, Mr. Cartersey, I believe you have a story about one of the leading indicators.
	It's a political indicator, an emotional indicator, and probably, sotto voce, a racial indicator.
	A lot of petting dogs are being left behind in some of these states because of you all, revolutions taking place.
	This was actually on Drudge today, Mr. Taylor.
	This was one of the big stories.
	Of course, today is January 12th.
	2022.
	We hope all of our listeners around the world and the United States are having a great new year.
	Before we get started, I'd love to point out, stay in contact with us.
	You heard that great listener question, that great listener observation about Mr. Taylor's pronunciation of Indian tribes, which I thought was funny, but also to bring joy that the racially aware kitty brings to all of our listeners.
	So thank you for that.
	So shoot us an email, thoughts, Concerns, criticisms, or story ideas to BecauseWeLiveHere at ProtonMail.com.
	Once again, BecauseWeLiveHere at ProtonMail.com, or go to Amaran.com and click the Contact Us tab, and we will find out what it is you want us to talk about.
	Yeah, and if you have any great memories at Calm Flaherty, send those as well.
	I know that a lot of people probably listening were Awakened by Mr. Flaherty's fantastic work, and they decided to take that proverbial red pill because of what Mr. Flaherty did.
	All of you out there, you better have been a Colin Flaherty fan.
	So yes, speak to us if you are.
	So this was a story with the headline, America's U-Haul Revolution.
	And this is from the Editorial Board of Issues and Insights.
	And they said, quote, Not everyone in blue state America is moving to a far healthier red state.
	It only seems that way.
	But enough for doing so to say, without a doubt, it's one of the most significant trends in America today.
	A revolution of sorts.
	It's long been known in demography and population economics that people leave areas known for authoritarian tyranny, stagnation, stultification, crime, and excessive regulation in order to find the opposite somewhere else.
	I'll say this, unfortunately, they tend to bring their politics that you brought about all of those nefarious things that were just mentioned to the place where they go.
	But that's just like third world immigrants.
	Exactly.
	They are they are refugees with their own policies that unfortunately they they don't retire when they cross state borders.
	Economic freedom, social diversity, good government.
	It's a big reason why literally hundreds of millions of people around the world have expressed their desire to immigrate to the US.
	But it's also true within countries, such as our own.
	Amid a backdrop of slow overall population growth, a problem in itself comes the mass exodus of more than a million Americans, moving largely from blue states to red states, expressing dissatisfaction.
	With high taxes, rampant crime, lockdowns, vaccine mandates, excessive state government regulations, a political stifling woke culture, and lack of economic opportunity and freedom.
	So, from 2010 to 2019, census data show that the top 10 mostly blue states lost 845,000
	citizens, while the top 10 mostly red states gained just over 1 million.
	Of course, this doesn't factor in illegal immigration or anything like that.
	This is just based on some census data.
	In short, as the blue state model crashes, the red state model soars.
	AEI Institute's Mark Perry recently noted in a tweet, quote, Americans are moving from high-tax forced unionism, business-unfriendly blue states like California and New York with high housing costs, low tax, right to work, economically vibrant, business-friendly red states with lower housing costs like Florida and Texas.
	Well, what AEI fails to note, I suspect, is people are moving from diversity to homogeneity.
	They're trying to, but unfortunately we're running out of time.
	So, he looked at 14 demographic, economic, and regulatory data.
	There's a table that you can find in the story.
	Again, if you want to pop it in your Google machine, America's U-Haul Revolution, you can see this table that he put together.
	Another massive measure of the blue state exodus, though, going back to the title of this piece we're talking about, is the U-Haul Growth Index.
	It's a yearly report that gauges the net number of U-Haul trucks leaving and entering a state.
	If you've ever moved, you know, one of the things, if you have to move a long distance, you don't want to have to drive back to where you're going.
	You leave your truck where, or you don't want to drive back where you came from, you want to leave it where you're going.
	These are one-way routes.
	Exactly.
	So it's a measure of the state's raw immigration rate.
	This year, no surprise here, the top five destinations were all red states.
	Texas, Florida, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Arizona.
	Arizona might be more purple, but Anyways, the bottom five included California, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Alabama.
	The only outlier there in that bottom five is Alabama, but I can see why.
	Unless you're moving to some of the nicer suburbs of Birmingham or Huntsville or Mobile.
	Not much there.
	Maybe outside of Auburn.
	Uhaul doesn't mince words in its description of the meaning of its data, saying, quote,
	the Uhaul growth index is an effective gauge of how well cities are both attracting and maintaining residents.
	They also noted the data would have looked even worse, but they literally ran out of equipment in California.
	So large was the demand to leave.
	They couldn't get enough trucks there for people that were packing up and headed to Idaho,
	Montana, Arizona, Nevada.
	As I recall, they were charging five or six or seven times the amount, the tariff, to go the other way.
	Correct.
	They just didn't have the equipment.
	Now, what does all this mean?
	This means that these blue states, as they lose population, they're going to lose seats when the censuses are done in the House of Representatives.
	Conversely, for red states, the population growth means the exact opposite.
	It means they'll gain seats, they'll gain influence.
	But don't worry, don't worry.
	California is making up for it with Mexicans and Hmong and Guatemalans and Haitians and Chinese.
	Come on, they're not going to lose seats.
	Um, so yeah, again, you know, and one of the fascinating things that they point out at the end of this really fascinating editorial, right now, I'm quoting the editorial, quote, right now there's a lot of talk, mostly on the left, about a coming civil war in the U.S.
	as Americans increasingly split into two angry, culturally antagonistic right-left camps.
	This talk is mirrored by the continued flood of people moving from blue to red.
	But the fact is, our country, since its founding, has always used the right to move and relocate in any state, and even earlier, to uncivil territories, as a de facto political pressure release.
	As we expanded, that right became ever more precious and useful.
	That Americans can vote with their feet, as we noted, is a big thing.
	Choice is a big thing.
	America's changing.
	Once dominant blue states like Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, and even mighty New York City are sadly in decline.
	These are facts.
	States and cities that haven't embraced the poisonous theory that more government, more taxes, more regulation, more bureaucratic control, more woke schools are what we need, are thriving.
	It's not a civil war.
	Call it the U-Haul revolution.
	No shots fired, just people moving for personal freedom and growth.
	Or, as you noted, for a taste of what America once was.
	Instead of having to taste The shawarma and whatever else, the ethnic dishes of what America is becoming.
	Enjoy America while it lasts, folks.
	Find it where it still persists.
	Well, now we're going to move, not by you, Hall, to Bristol, England.
	And do you remember the statue of Edward Colston?
	We talked about it.
	We talked about that, but this is yet another aspect, a new wrinkle on this story.
	Now, Edward Colston, he lived from 1636 to 1721.
	He was a very prominent citizen of the city of Bristol, but he was a shareholder in the Royal Africa Company.
	It traded slaves, but he became wealthy through various enterprises, not all of which had, of course, anything to do with slavery.
	And in Bristol, he founded almshouses, hospitals, schools, and out of gratitude to his good works, the city of Bristol put up a statue for him in 1895.
	Well, on June 7th of 2020, the statue was toppled, defaced, and dumped into Bristol Harbour during the George Floyd protests.
	Now, this is interesting.
	I haven't heard of much like this happening in the United States, but four of the ringleaders were charged and put on trial for destruction of public property.
	This took place December 13 last year.
	The defendants, Jake Scuse, Rian Graham, Milo Ponsford, and Sage Willoughby, Argue that they were doing what Bristolians had been campaigning for for more than 100 years.
	More than 100 years?
	Yes, that's what they claim to think.
	That they've been trying to take this thing down for more than 100 years.
	I found that doubtful.
	But, early this month, They were acquitted.
	After arguing their actions were justified by the offense caused by the presence of the statue in Bristol, which they called the southwest of England's most multicultural city.
	The jury took just three hours to acquit them of destruction of public property, and the vote was a majority of 11 to 1.
	Apparently, in civil cases, a majority is all that's needed.
	11 to 1 in favor of acquittal.
	Now, this is to me a key phrase in the reports.
	As the majority verdict was read, the public gallery erupted in cheers and applause.
	They were demonstrators outside during the trial, waving placards and chanting.
	So, jurors certainly know which way they were supposed to vote on this trial.
	Are you saying they were intimidated?
	I suspect they were intimidated, except for one brave person who voted to convict.
	I'd like to meet him and shake his hand.
	Unfortunately, you can't.
	Unless he comes here.
	He may come here.
	We'll invite him.
	Now, Raj Chadha, Clearly not a descendant of the British aristocracy who represented two of what became known as the Colston Four.
	The Colston Four.
	He explained the acquittal was because of their right to free speech, their right to conscience, and that a conviction would be disproportionate interference with their rights.
	And they were preventing a crime.
	It was a criminal offense to keep that statue up because it was so offensive.
	You believe that?
	It was a criminal offense, having it up there, and they were stopping crime.
	Sage Willoughby.
	Now that's a male, despite this sort of willowy name.
	Sage Willoughby helped to fasten climbing ropes to the statue before it was pulled down.
	He said Colston quite literally cast a shadow over the city.
	The 22-year-old said he considered its presence in the town a hate crime.
	And Rhian Graham described her involvement as an expression of her allyship and solidarity with people of color, adding, we were removing a symbol of great harm and oppression that towered over our community and offended so many.
	Jake Skoos said he believed it was acting according to the will of the people.
	I knew we had Bristol behind us.
	Now, one of the defense lawyers said the Colson statue was so indecent and abusive that the defendant's actions were lawful and proportionate.
	They showed the world that the people of Bristol are willing to stand up for what they believe in.
	So you can destroy anything you like, as long as you stand up and you believe in it.
	And another one of the defense lawyers says, Colston's statute normalized abuse.
	It condoned the acceptance of racism.
	It celebrated the achievements of a racist mass murderer.
	The continued existence of that statute was a hate crime.
	Now this is perhaps my favorite, my favorite quote of the defense counsel, Blini Negardia.
	I'm trying to pronounce it.
	Yet another Indian name.
	Sorry, listeners.
	I'll try again.
	Blini Nigerali.
	It's L-A-I-G-H.
	Don't know how you pronounce that.
	Said that her client Was part of a long and honorable tradition of direct action, the protests are in essence what democracy is all about.
	Of course!
	Get out there and destroy things.
	Throw statues into the harbor.
	Great!
	Now, I have heard that the Attorney General of Great Britain, Suella Braverman, she said that she's carefully considering whether to refer the Bristol Colston statue case to the Court of Appeals.
	Ordinarily, it's hard to appeal a jury verdict, but this is so outrageous.
	Oh, it's insane.
	So obvious contravention.
	This is democracy.
	This is freedom of speech.
	It's a hate crime to have a statue up there.
	Hell of a precedent.
	I'll say it's hell of a precedent.
	Have you ever been to Bristol?
	Not that I know.
	I've never been to Bristol.
	But it's true that apparently the police stood by and did nothing.
	The same thing happened in America.
	Exactly.
	They stood by and did nothing.
	And were these rioters to think otherwise, that there was some tacit approval, that the laws were temporarily suspended while they did that?
	And the fact is, remember, we had a discussion of people who were indicted for tearing down a statue somewhere in Virginia.
	Was it?
	Portsmouth.
	Was it Portsmouth?
	Yes, Portsmouth.
	And the mere fact that they were indicted resulted in their being awarded damages, despite the fact there's no doubt that they helped tear the thing down.
	Correct, correct.
	So, we're even worse than they are.
	We are far worse.
	We won't even bring press charges against these people, much less acquit them on phony baloney grounds like that.
	So, there you go.
	Now, talking about rewriting history as these people are trying to do, we have some of that going on in the United States today.
	Oh, we have the story that I believe tops all stories thus far for 2022.
	Senate passes bill to honor Emmett Till and his mother.
	If you recall, just a few weeks ago, we talked about how the DOJ was closing their investigation into the cold case file or what were they trying to do?
	Trying to figure out if someone had lied in the Emmett Till case and this was done under Trump's DOJ, mind you.
	And that case was closed just before the end of 2021.
	Well, now we have some more late-breaking Emmett Till news.
	Hot off the press, the Senate has passed a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously To Emmett Till, the Chicago teenager murdered by white supremacists in the 1950s, and his mother, Mamie Till Mobley, who insisted on an open casket funeral to demonstrate the brutality of his killing.
	That was the way that the story was written in the AP.
	I'm reading that verbatim from the Associated Press.
	We now learn in the next paragraph, quote, Till was abducted, tortured, and killed after witnesses said he whistled at a white woman at a grocery store in rural Mississippi, a violation of the South's racist societal codes at the time.
	In return, he was rousted from his bed and abducted from a great-uncle's home in the pre-dawn hours four days later.
	Now, we don't learn Why he wasn't living with his father in this piece, but perhaps we'll get to that in a second.
	The killing galvanized the civil rights movement after Till's mother insisted on that open casket, and Jet Magazine published photos of his brutalized body.
	Senators Cory Booker, a Democrat from New Jersey, and Richard Burr, a Republican from North Carolina, by partisan effort, introduced the bill to honor Till and his mother with the highest civilian honor that Congress awards.
	They described the legislation, Mr. Taylor, as a long overdue recognition of what the Till family endured and what they accomplished in their fight against injustice.
	You know, that's the thing.
	Black people can accomplish enormous things simply by dying.
	I mean, isn't that what this is all about?
	It's what George Floyd was all about.
	Yes, yes.
	Now, the precedent here is very clear.
	George Floyd deserves one of these medals.
	What he accomplished is far more extraordinary than Emmett Till.
	And I don't know, maybe his partner in porn films, maybe she deserves one too for encouraging the boy, you know?
	This is the highest award that you can give a civilian in the United States.
	Highest award?
	Highest award.
	Well, okay.
	Do you think that Lewis Till deserved one, too?
	Lewis Till.
	Daddy Till.
	Daddy Till.
	Emmett Till's father.
	He was a World War II veteran, right?
	Yes.
	He came to a sticky end, as it turns out.
	He raped and murdered a French woman, and he was arrested by the American forces.
	And he was hanged for his crime.
	But before they hanged him, they had him locked up in a cell next to that of... Oh, why am I... Ezra Pound?
	Ezra Pound, Ezra Pound.
	And Ezra Pound wrote about having been essentially a cellie with Father Till, whose crime he described as rape with all the trimmings.
	So that was, he didn't have a father to live with, and apparently he'd been sent south because he was such a handful, even living in, I believe he was from Chicago.
	He was from Chicago!
	Yes, and they sent him down because he was just getting into so much trouble.
	But then, there you go, of course he did not deserve to be killed for what he did.
	But a gold medal, I think I can say that with great confidence, he doesn't deserve that either.
	But my opinion certainly doesn't matter.
	Now, we have a story here about racist cameras, and this was in ProPublica's publication.
	ProPublica, as you know, is this nonprofit super, super duper lefty outfit that never publishes anything if it's not for social justice.
	And the title, I nearly fell out of my chair when I saw the title of this piece, it's called Chicago's Race Neutral Traffic Cameras.
	Now, race neutral is in quotes.
	The race-neutral traffic cameras ticket black and Latino drivers the most.
	What?
	Race-neutral cameras ticket black and Latino drivers the most.
	Yet another crisis of racism.
	Cameras can't see race.
	It's a social construct.
	Well, they are just as racist as any human.
	Maybe more so.
	So let me read a few passages.
	Chicago's automated camera program began in 2003, and in 2020, Lori Lightfoot herself assured residents that her expansion of the program was, quote, about making sure that we keep communities safe.
	I mean, you don't want people running at red lights and speeding.
	But for all their safety benefits, the hundreds of cameras that dot the city and generate tens of millions of dollars a year for City Hall have come at a steep cost for motorists from the city's which neighborhoods?
	Yes.
	Majority black or the lowest income.
	Black and Latino.
	Black and Latino.
	They're quite straightforward about it.
	Okay, wow.
	A pro-public analysis of millions of citations.
	Boy, they got time on their hands.
	They found that households in the city's majority black zip codes received about four citations per household, more than twice the rate for majority white zip codes.
	More than twice the rate.
	And they received fewer than two.
	So, it's well over twice the rate for white households.
	Yeah, households in Hispanic zip codes.
	Once again, they're sort of right there in that sweet spot in between.
	They got about three tickets per household per year.
	Have you ever gotten a traffic ticket from a camera?
	Oh, never from a camera.
	Oh, it's awful.
	You open up your mail and you're like, what is this?
	Don't they show a little photograph?
	Oh, you get a picture of your license plate.
	It's absolutely terrible because then you have to pay it.
	I'm sure you do, but you are probably driving in a black neighborhood because those are the only places that get them, right?
	Racist cameras, racist cameras.
	Well, so the Pope Publica continues, the consequences have been especially punishing in black neighborhoods, which have been hit with more than half a billion dollars over the last 15 years, contributing to thousands of vehicle impoundments, driver's license suspensions, and bankruptcies.
	Olatunji Obey-Reed.
	He's a long-time activist for racial equity in transportation.
	Oh.
	Racial equity in transportation.
	Every phase of life.
	Everyone should have a Tesla.
	That's it, yes.
	He says that we felt the brunt of it the way white people didn't.
	So, there you go.
	Now, he too has received a handful of camera tickets over the years.
	Mmm, poor boy.
	See, he felt the brunt the way white people do.
	Well, I wonder if it has something to do with the way they drive.
	Now, ProPublica goes on to say, as they're really pushing their luck with this stuff, in Rochester, New York, officials eliminated the city's red light camera program in 2016, in part because motorists from low-income neighborhoods received the most tickets, and financial harm outweighed safety benefits.
	So said they.
	Miami ended its program in 2017 amid complaints from low-income residents who felt unfairly burdened.
	See, I've actually heard the opposite for places like Washington, D.C., where they actually try and get, because it's primarily whites who are driving into the city to work, who have access to cars because, I guess, of racial inequity problems, and they basically get in speed traps.
	Wrong, Mr. Kersey.
	Am I wrong?
	Wrong, Mr. Kersey.
	Wow.
	For the first time in your life.
	Oh, I did wrong before.
	In Washington, D.C., well, as Voltaire said, somebody he was in argument with, somebody said to him, Mr. Voltaire, are you ever wrong?
	And he said, well, once.
	I thought I was wrong, but I was wrong about In any case, in Washington, D.C., the Washington Post found that cameras in black neighborhoods issued a disproportionate share of tickets even there, Mr. Kersey.
	Even there.
	Now, although some cities have eliminated their camera programs, automated enforcement has been gaining support in the aftermath of the nation's racial reckoning following the death of George Floyd.
	From California to Virginia, citizens groups, safety organizations, elected officials and others are pointing to cameras as a, quote, race-neutral alternative to potentially biased And for many black men, fatal, police traffic stops.
	Okay.
	For many black men, how many traffic... What was it that Heather McDonald found that there were, what, four blacks who were killed by cops in 2021?
	Seven unarmed blacks.
	Yeah, it wasn't that many.
	No, no, tiny, tiny.
	For many black men, these are fatal.
	Now, Chicago is considering a pilot program that halves the cost of fines and allows for some debt forgiveness for low-income residents.
	I mean, that's the solution.
	I mean, if you're black, you just pay 10 cents on the dollar.
	Sure, sure.
	Why not a 20-22-3-5 compromise?
	I like that.
	Because, as Popublica says, racial inequities are baked into the camera program.
	And a footnote, they also note black Chicagoans are killed in traffic crashes at twice the rate of white residents.
	Is that maybe because black people drive differently from white people?
	Is that why black people are more likely to die?
	No, because cars aren't race neutral.
	Cars are actually now basically becoming the next step in the evolution of racism and implicit bias.
	They say, hey, there's a black driver in me.
	That's why they don't want artificial intelligence, because then it'll go up to four to six times the rate.
	Well, now, believe it or not, the best way to reduce traffic fatalities, says ProPublica, is to fix the underlying road infrastructure that contributes to unsafe driving.
	How about the human infrastructure?
	In any case, with late penalties, almost half of the tickets received by low-income residents end up incurring additional penalties.
	Ooh, full interest.
	For white residents, only 17% get additional fees.
	I guess procrastination has its costs.
	Now, here we have somebody that ProPublica found to interview, Olatunji Oboi-Reed.
	Oh no, I think we found him earlier.
	Yes.
	Olatunji Oboyi-Reed.
	He is the equity and equity in transportation.
	He said he's got it all figured out.
	He says the root cause of traffic violence in our society that is disproportionately impacting black and brown people is structural racism.
	Structural racism.
	Structural racism.
	The highway system?
	Beats me.
	Structural racism.
	Now, they tracked down a fellow named Rodney Perry, who has been caught in the cycle of ticketing.
	What a phrase.
	The racial?
	Why is it the racial cycle of ticketing?
	It's the cycle of ticketing.
	This 28-year-old entrepreneur quit his job at a logistics firm last spring to build a digital marketing and production company.
	Last year, He received three tickets for running red lights and eight for speeding.
	The penalties eventually, because of late fees, added up to more than $700 and the city immobilized its 2018 Jeep Cherokee with a yellow Denver boot.
	Now, this guy, this guy quit a full-time job.
	He's driving a 2018 Jeep Cherokee last year.
	I don't think this guy's hurting for cash.
	I mean, a $700 ticket, I mean... Well, that's with all the interest, too.
	That's with the fees, yeah.
	That's with all the fees, because you won't pay the things off.
	You said, you said he had eight tickets for running red lights or for speeding, and three... Eight for speeding, eight for speeding, three for running red lights.
	Three for running red lights, yes.
	Hey, why don't they just say, don't run red lights?
	Well, don't speed.
	Go five miles over the speed limit.
	Well, I actually will probably trigger it because... Asking him to do that is all part of structural racism.
	So there you go.
	Cameras are racist.
	And ProPublica wrote this with a straight face.
	You know, we talk about fare beating.
	We talk about other things.
	All of these crimes, allegedly, of poverty, public this and public that.
	All of these things are being done away with because blacks primarily can't maintain the rules.
	Looks like these traffic tickets are going to go the same way.
	Well, as you pointed out, Rochester, Miami, D.C.
	It's a great source of revenue, it sounds like.
	As somebody who just doesn't like getting tickets, that's what makes me upset, that it's intrusive.
	But at the same time, as you noted, many states are talking about it because it beats having a white guy knock on your window and say, hey, license, registration, please.
	Proof of insurance.
	Potential violence, potential death.
	Now, of course, if cameras can be erased, so can mountains.
	Because an experienced team of nine black climbers dubbed the Full Circle Everest Expedition will attempt to scale Mount Everest in the spring of 2022.
	After two years of preparation, the stated mission of this attempt at the summit is to combat the mountain's, quote, intentional lack of access for black people.
	Did you know that?
	So, if they fail, is it going to be torn down?
	No, that's a good question.
	They also are decrying Mountaineering's colonial history.
	Colonial history.
	Yeah.
	Now, what about all the Sherpas, the Nepalese Sherpas who climb it?
	Are they colonizing the mountain too?
	So, Mountaineering's got a colonial history.
	Mount Everest has intentional lack of access for black people.
	They've got a GoFundMe page that now has $150,000 for them.
	To climb the mountain, they say to our knowledge only 10 black climbers have stood on the top of Everest.
	This expedition will permanently change the future of mountaineering on a global scale.
	Well, especially if they're hot dye doing it.
	Well, I don't know.
	No, I wish them the best of luck, because I'm sure they'll then demand that Edmund, or that, what was his name?
	Edmund Hillary.
	Yeah, that he have his name removed.
	Yes.
	The fact is, only 9% of all people who've made it to the top are women.
	I guess the mountain hates women.
	It's misogynistic.
	It's misogynistic.
	And I bet no cripples have made it to the top either.
	So it hates handicapped people.
	There are no wheelchair ramps.
	Gotta fix that.
	No.
	So now that we got racist cameras, we got racist mountains, statistics are racist.
	Well, how many non-binary people have made it?
	Do we have that data?
	I'm not counting.
	Non-binary people.
	Good question.
	But in case, Realtor, Realtor.com.
	It doesn't believe in statistics.
	This is one of those moments where I've got to recover from the past couple stories, because that one about Mount Everest now, but being implicitly racist.
	It's explicitly racist.
	Exactly, you're right.
	Intentional lack of access.
	Come on.
	Openly white supremacist.
	And Snow's white, too.
	That's going to be a hell of a thing to get rid of.
	Realtor.com, NYX's crime map, an effort to promote fair housing.
	Astute listeners might recall we talked about Redfin.com, which is a real estate website that did the same thing.
	It got rid of crime maps because of the fact that if you overlapped, it happened to show that the majority black, majority Hispanic areas tended to have the bulk of the crime.
	Well, now we learned that Realtor.com, one of the bigger online websites for perusing real estate, has decided to find other ways to integrate safety data.
	Because, well, as the CEO David Doctorow wrote in the past week, Realtor.com decided to quote, rethink the safety information on listings to provide fair and accurate neighborhood data for homebuyers in an effort to avoid penalizing black and Latino communities.
	Quote, historically, our industry has rated neighborhoods using metrics that unfairly penalize communities of color.
	That's another way of talking about crime rates.
	We can all do a better job explaining the facts in a way that does not unfairly penalize neighborhoods, towns, and cities.
	So the, end quote, the site plans to spend the next few months figuring out new ways to integrate safety data on its platform.
	Although the company declined to comment beyond the CEO's posted explanation.
	Dr. Rossetti was struck by stories about the hurdles black, Hispanic, and Asian homebuyers face.
	I kind of, it's like, wait a second, something doesn't really fit here.
	Incongruent.
	Whether it be racial steering, discrimination in the appraisal, and or mortgage process.
	Quote, we know that a person's home can affect many other things.
	Their education, their health, the opportunities they and their children will have in life.
	Housing segregation is interconnected with other social and racial equity challenges, Dr. Roo said.
	So, um...
	It's fascinating.
	They're not only nixing crime maps, there's other ways that they're working to promote fair housing including incentivizing agents who represent properties valued at $150,000 or lower and improving transparent and improving transparency and education to remove bias
	from appraisals and lending.
	We cannot let more years go by and accept the same inequities to persist in our industry.
	You know, I wonder if anybody might end up suing them because they removed all the crime data
	deliberately and somebody got shot by a neighbor.
	But it's just part and parcel of living in a diverse neighborhood.
	You're doing your part for racial equity.
	You know, it's all part of what the great Colin Flaherty called, what did he call it?
	Delusion, deceit, and deception.
	Wasn't that it?
	That was his phrase.
	Yeah.
	Denial.
	Denial, deceit, and deception.
	Of talking about crime, we just deny, we deceive, and we suffer from delusions.
	So Redfin has climbed on board.
	Moving to New York City, Mayor Eric Adams, the newly elected African-American mayor, has named his brother, equally African-American, as deputy NYPD commissioner in charge of his personal security.
	Do you have to be a deputy police commissioner for that?
	I wonder what his salary is.
	This is Bernard Adams, a 56-year-old retired NYPD sergeant.
	He currently serves as assistant director for parking at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he's worked for 10 years.
	10 years as assistant director for parking.
	My brother is qualified, says Mayor Adams.
	Number one, he'll be in charge of my security, which is extremely important to me at a time when we see an increase in white supremacy and hate crime.
	Oh, I'm sure we could look at the hate crime data in York and completely dispel whatever he's saying, but sure.
	White supremacy is on the march.
	Stormtroopers marching down Fifth Avenue.
	I guess the younger brother learned a lot about fighting white supremacy working as a parking cop at VCU.
	In any case, the Conflict of Interest Board will make a determination on whether this is nepotism.
	But after this CNN interview in which he announced his appointment, he defended his decision saying that New York has a serious problem with white supremacy.
	He says, yes, we have a serious problem with that.
	And when you talk about the type of security I want, it's extremely unique.
	The mayor's office directed reporters to the NYPD when they were asked if the mayor has faced threats from white supremacists.
	NYPD failed to reply.
	Now, of course, Adams was elected with a large number of white votes on the promise of stepping up law enforcement.
	But you know, Eric Adams could be right.
	There could be a real threat.
	Did you know that in 2020, the NYPD investigated a white supremacy group called the New Jersey European Heritage Association?
	I didn't know this.
	It was on Staten Island.
	It left dozens of flyers and stickers across various neighborhoods.
	Urging people to reclaim your nation.
	Oh.
	Yes.
	I'm sure the next thing they're going to do is say, attack the mayor.
	Now, I looked this up because I'd never heard of this bunch.
	And it's a story from a year ago.
	An alleged white supremacist group, in the original story it's alleged, but in this latest it is just not alleged, this is just cast iron, has placed well over 50 flyers and stickers across multiple neighborhoods in Staten Island over the past seven months.
	That's really high density leafletting.
	50 stickers in seven months.
	It's under investigation by the NYPD and district attorneys.
	The group, the New Jersey European Heritage Association, has been labeled by the Anti-Defamation League as, quote, a small New Jersey-based white supremacist group.
	And the NYPD says the matter is being investigated.
	I wonder what they're investigating it for?
	Littering?
	I mean, 50 stickers in seven months.
	50 stickers in seven months?
	I mean, that is like a ticker tape parade of white hate.
	In any case, NYPD Commissioner Dermott Shea talked about, in explaining why they're doing this, a shooting in Jersey City that killed a veteran police officer.
	And three people inside a Kosher supermarket, and just three weeks before that, five people were stabbed inside a rabbi's home in Monson, New York during Hanukkah.
	What apparently Commissioner Dermott Shea failed to point out is the perps were all black.
	The perps were black.
	But this justifies, this justifies all this hand-wringing about the white supremacist group, the European Heritage Association.
	Which put out a sticker, you know, less than one a day over seven months.
	It's 50 stickers.
	This is, I mean, it's like, ah, you know, that's too much work.
	Let's put up one sticker every nine, ten days.
	Well, as Dermot Shea explained, there's escalation.
	There's a common theme here.
	It's ignorance and it's hate.
	So, there you go.
	It's a real problem.
	Now, I looked up the website.
	They have a website.
	And let me read to you some of the slogans in their stickers.
	One says, anti-racist is code for anti-white.
	Another says, open borders spread disease.
	Another says, stop the third world invasion of America.
	Then, black crimes matter.
	Another one says, our land, our country.
	Well, this is clearly a ferocious threat to a newly elected black mayor.
	So there you go.
	I guess the threat of white supremacist violence will never go away so long as there are white
	people.
	I believe they actually were aping one of Colin Flaherty's statements there with that black crimes matter.
	So...
	And just real quick, some of his better ones were Without Racism, Without Rancor, or Apologies, and it's Delusion, Denial, Deceit.
	I beg your pardon, Colin.
	Delusion, Denial, Deceit.
	Yeah, he's got a great cup you can order still.
	Yes, a coffee cup.
	Well, one little quick story here.
	There's something called White Coats for Black Lives.
	And these are not the people who take you off to the nuthouse.
	Those men in white coats.
	This is a different group of white coats for black lives.
	It's a radical socialist organization of doctors and medical students.
	They believe, and I'm quoting them verbatim, the dominant medical practice in the United States has been built on the dehumanization and exploitation of black people.
	Did you know that?
	I did not know that.
	Well, that's the way it is.
	It has 75 chapters in medical schools across the country.
	We're in trouble.
	Look, don't get sick in America.
	It advocates prioritizing black patients over other patients, and unlearning toxic medical knowledge, and relearning medical care that centers the needs of black people and communities.
	They come first.
	Sorcery.
	This is no longer medicine or science.
	Well, I mean, this is outright, you know, you're not going to get a bed and honky.
	You can sleep in the corridor.
	We're prioritizing the needs of black patients.
	Triage, yeah.
	Good grief.
	They're going to say whiteness is an invented political tool created through violence in the service of establishing domination.
	Whiteness has been historically used as a violent means for stealing lives.
	Did you know that?
	I did not know that.
	It steals lives.
	I wonder how it does that.
	Boy, whiteness is really powerful.
	Pretty spooky.
	And as you say, this is black magic.
	Then they go on to say racism, capitalism, and white supremacy are interdependent systems that lead to the particular dehumanization, exploitation, and murder of black people.
	Now, Columbia University's Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons has an anti-racist task force.
	It cites White Coats for Black Lives as a major contributor in their action plan for anti-racism in medical education.
	What was that college?
	It's called Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.
	I've never heard of V-A-G-E-L-O-S, but that is Columbia University Medical School.
	So, yes, so they've got 75 chapters in American medical school talking spouting this absurd rubbish.
	I mean, really, you just can't afford to get sick in America if you're white.
	And they're going to center all medical training on black knowledge and throw out all this stuff that white people learn from their supremacist ways.
	So, but while they're at it, let's talk about Navy training.
	Let's talk about what's going on in the Navy.
	Sorry, some of these stories today have just been mind-blowing.
	This was in the Daily Mail.
	Navy training goes woke.
	Boot camp to include classes on hazing, racism, and sexual assault after numerous crises over the past number of years.
	So the U.S.
	Navy is going to expand its eight-week boot camp You know, they didn't have these problems.
	weeks of classes, like I said, focusing on sexual assault, hazing, racism, and interestingly,
	suicide prevention. It's the first major overhaul in nearly 20 years. It comes as the Navy grapples
	with a major shipboard issues over the years that include failures to address sex assault,
	fires, deadly collisions, and the rise of extremism in the ranks.
	You know, they didn't have these problems when the Navy was all male and all white.
	No, that's one of those...
	What was it, Truman, 1948?
	When the military was desegregated?
	Well, but he never dreamed of women being on combat vessels or in infantry.
	How many wars have we won since that decision?
	Oh, millions.
	Come on.
	But no, they didn't have that problem.
	I'm sorry.
	Rear Admiral Jennifer Couture, who heads the Naval Service Training Command, said that the extra two weeks of classes would reinforce the behavior, keyword here, desired in a US Naval officer.
	Quote, we're telling our recruits, here are all the things that we expect you to do, and here's how we expect you to behave and act, she said.
	It involves treating people with respect and holding peers accountable.
	We believe very strongly that those types of behaviors are directly impacting our fighting readiness.
	And the performance of sailors.
	The additional two weeks will be devoted to the Sailor for Life course phase.
	Sailor for Life!
	Sailor for Life, where recruits would take in mentorship classes focused on avoiding bad behavior.
	So, you know, this is, again, I find it hard to believe that the Chinese and the Russian Navy are subjecting their Their top officers and training to this type of two weeks of behavioral modification fight racism and sexism.
	Yeah.
	Okay, well, different strokes for different navies.
	Nice.
	Wow, wow.
	Well, you know, we have one or two minutes left.
	You know, I don't think we have a story that will fit into the time remaining, so I think I would like to repeat our plea for input from our listeners.
	We love to hear from you, and we especially, I mean, I especially, now maybe not Mr. Kersey.
	I mean, he's touchy about these things.
	I like to be told anything we got wrong.
	But now, tell us if we got something wrong, send us ideas, and tell us what you think of the podcast.
	And the way to do that, if you want to send something to Brother Kersey, it is... BecauseWeLiveHereAtProtonMail.com.
	Once again, all one word, BecauseWeLiveHereAtProtonMail.com, or you can go to Amaran.com.
	A-M-R-E-N dot com and click on the Contact Us tab.
	And I suppose I will have to commit myself if I actually do this, if I say this and remind you that I hope to have a nice piece about Colin Flaherty up on the website either later today or tomorrow.
	Again, he was a wonderful guy.
	He died far too young.
	We miss him very much, and it was a terrible shame that he was not able to address the American Renaissance Conference, which otherwise was a huge and roaring success.
	Yeah, I got to spend a lot of time with Colin.
	He's one of the people that I would speak to probably every other day, and it definitely will have a cigar in his honor and think about him.
	He was just a tremendous character.
	He had such a great heart.
	He would never let me pick up a check.
	And he was someone who was not just passionate about the things that he covered, but he was passionate about his friends.
	And his family.
	But he was one of the more loyal people I think I've ever known.
	He was passionate about life.
	He was.
	When I did some reporting to look up some of the tales about his life, I was very surprised by some of the things I learned.
	And so I will not go into that at this point.
	Don't mean to have spoilers on this piece that I've just about finished.
	But once again, thank you so much for listening, ladies and gentlemen, wherever you are.

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