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Feb. 4, 2022 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to Radio Renaissance.
I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance, and it is February 3rd, Year of Our Lord 2022.
How time marcheth on.
And with me, of course, is my indispensable co-host, Mr. Paul Kersey.
And we're going to begin with listener comments again.
And this one starts as follows.
I'm sorry to say that my dog shows very little interest in your podcast.
Except when your feline co-host offers her opinion, at which point my dog always sits up and pays rapt attention.
Should I be nervous?
What instructions is my dog being given without my knowledge?
Well, your dog is being called a stand-up for your kind.
Am I wrong to say these irreverent questions showcase the Great humor of our audience.
They have a sense of humor.
Yes, they do.
Yes, they do.
And here's another comment.
I figured I would contribute to the Jared Taylor is not the devil after all his cat loves him point of view.
I have read a study recently indicating that pets popping up in Zoom conferences rather than being perceived as unprofessional contribute to a sense of humanity.
Or some psychologists are claiming that during lockdown, this has had an ameliorating effect on the social fracturing that has occurred.
Golly!
Okay, so I guess the fact that we have a cat on the show shows that we have a sense of humanity.
Well, Mr. Kersey, the cat is getting more attention than we are.
We need to really work harder and be smarter.
Golly!
But there you go.
Again, that's fine because it just shows this has become sort of this running joke.
Seems to have, seems to have.
And that's great.
So I hope all of our listeners during these past two years, COVID has been going on for almost two years.
And that's a great point that that person just said when they wrote it.
Yes, it is.
Well, I'm sorry to say that we need to be humanized by the presence of a cat, but we take all the humanizing we can take.
Here's another comment.
This seems a little harsh to me, but this person says, Jared Taylor, who must have spent at least four years in New Haven as a student at Yale, did not realize that his guess was wrong when he stated that New Haven was a town of, I think, 40 or 50,000 people, when the city is actually three times that population.
Now, I suspect the guest had to have been you, Mr. Kersey, but I couldn't swear to it.
He says, as one of the worst slums boarded the Yale campus on one side, and before the thought police, one of the riddles that was told by New Haven residents went like this, what is the longest street in the world?
Answer, Dixwell Avenue, because it goes from Hamden, that's a northern suburb of New Haven, all the way to darkest Africa.
Now that's his joke, not mine.
But I'm being chided for not having realized that Yale's only 40-50,000 people when I was living... I'm sorry, that New Haven was only 40-50,000 people.
I really didn't much pay attention to New Haven when I was a student there.
We were talking about crime stats and how bad crime was in New Haven, and I believe we actually corrected ourself in that same podcast.
I looked it up and I found that we were both like, oh wow, wait a second, the city is not as small as we thought.
Okay, well we have sharp-eared listeners.
Thank you for that.
No question about that.
And a final question.
Mr. Taylor, did you meet or know William Gailey Simpson?
No.
Did you ever meet or know Revel Pendleton Oliver?
No.
Did you ever meet or know Dr. William Luther Pierce?
No.
But I did meet and I did know Wilmot Robertson.
That I can claim.
So, all reasonable questions accepted.
Could you just clarify in case some of our listeners, maybe our younger audience, who are unfamiliar with that name and what Wilmot Robertson wrote?
Well, yes, his most famous work is The Dispossessed Majority.
Also, he wrote a monthly publication called Inspiration, back at a time when practically nobody was publicly race-realist.
He was really a remarkable man, and yes, I met him on several occasions.
He is now a ghost.
I think he must have died close to 10 years ago now.
Maybe more.
I'm not very good at dates.
More than that.
Yes, but no.
Wilmot Robertson was an extraordinary figure.
Now we must start this podcast off with a piece of rather viciously bad news.
It has to do with the Arbery shooting and Travis McMichael, age 35, who is the man who actually shot The shot Arbery and his ex-policeman dad Gregory McMichael, age 66, were of course both handed life sentences without the possibility of parole.
The number three guy, as part of it, who was doing the filming, who didn't even know that there was a gun in the car that he was following, he got life with a possibility of parole after 30 years.
The three men face another trial on federal hate crimes, accusing them of violating Arbery's civil rights by attacking him because he was black.
Now, they were reportedly offered a plea guilty to the hate crimes in the hope of having their federal sentence take the place of their state life sentence.
Apparently, the way the prosecution deal was offered is, okay, you plead guilty, you say, yes, this was a hate crime, and you can spend the first 30 years of your state sentence in a federal pen.
Which perhaps would have been a more comfortable situation.
I really don't, I'm not a connoisseur when it comes to the accommodations in a state pen as opposed to a federal pen.
But that was the idea and this would dispose of the charges pending.
Now this was a deal offered only to the McMichaels and not to William Bryan.
Well, Wanda Cooper, Wanda Cooper was furious about this.
And who's Wanda Cooper?
I should make that clear.
Thank you.
That is Mr. Arbery's mother.
She said she was vehemently against the deal.
She and Marcus Arbery, papa, they said that the U.S.
Justice Department betrayed their trust with an unauthorized backroom plea deal, which would allow the father and the son to enter federal custody for the first 30 years of their lifetime sentence.
And the family's attorney, Lee Merritt, African-American, he says, this is an example of the Department of Justice literally snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
The family is throwing themselves at the mercy of the court, asking that they do what the DOJ has refused to do, which is listen to the family and respect their wishes.
In other words, they want them to suffer as much as possible, assuming that a state pen is more rigorous than a federal pen.
Now, the couple said, the proposed deal is a huge accommodation to the men who hunted down and murdered Ahmaud Arbery.
The family is devastated.
Their wishes were completely ignored.
They're devastated.
Devastated!
I mean, she says, please listen to me.
Granting these men their preferred conditions of confinement will defeat me.
It gives them one last chance to spit in my face after murdering my son.
Good grief.
Clearly, this woman, if she could, if she had the choice, she'd put him on a chain gang.
If she had a choice, she'd want to watch them probably hang in Georgia.
Probably.
Yes.
Certainly put them on red water.
Be hanged or hung.
Be hanged.
Be hanged until dead.
Good grief.
Pretty vindictive, if you ask me.
Well, I guess she, yes, she would definitely want them dead.
As it turns out, the federal court rejected the plea deal.
Now, the plea deal probably, I mean, I'm just speculating now, depended on a lot of things.
One was there's a chance they wouldn't get a conviction.
And the other, of course, is that it is a very expensive, time-consuming thing, and I've put on another trial.
The federal judge, apparently after Arbery Payer and Arbery Mayer, through this conniption fit, decided not to accept the plea deal.
But I don't understand what they have to do with it at all.
Why do they get to say what goes into a plea deal?
It makes no sense to me.
In any case, that is the news from the McMichaels.
Now, this leads me, of course, to the Biden Supreme Court nomination.
More strange doings in the legal system, Mr. Kersey.
As we all know, Joe Biden pledged to nominate the first black woman to the Supreme Court.
And now that he has promised to do so, Just over three quarters of Americans, according to a poll, 76 percent, want the president to consider all possible nominees.
Which, that's fantastic.
Yes, yes.
The poll's sample size was not large enough to break out results only for black people, but Only a little more than one in four non-white Americans, 28%, only 28% of non-white Americans want Biden to consider, want Biden considered not to consider only black women.
A majority of Democrats, 54%, also want him to consider all possible choices, all possible nominees, 54%.
And only on other matters.
I think that's really quite remarkable.
Everybody realizes this is just completely phony baloney.
Even Democrats!
And this all started back in the campaign.
When Biden was on death's door in South Carolina.
This is before he was even nominated.
This was to try to win in Super Tuesday.
That's when he made that promise.
Now, other bad news for Joe Biden.
Only 1% of Americans think the state of the nation's economy is excellent.
1%.
And only 23% say it's good.
3 out of 4 Americans say the state of the economy is not so good or poor.
Also, Uncle Joe has seen other troublesome disapproval numbers.
His handling of gun violence, as if he could do anything about it, the disapproval rating is 69%.
Crime, 64%.
Again, what's he really supposed to do about it?
Immigration, 64%.
He's doing a bad job.
Ukraine and Russia, 56%.
He's doing a bad job, etc., etc.
So, things are looking a little dim for Sleepy Joe, but I don't suppose he is on the ball enough to notice or care.
I don't think he is.
No.
Now, Mr. Kersey, as we were just talking about this idea of his eliminating 95% of the field.
I mean, if you're looking at federal judges, I think black women are only 3% of federal judges, and that's the prime recruiting ground for Supreme Court judges.
So he's eliminated 97% of the field.
And there have been people other than wicked race realists, such as ourselves, who have noticed.
And I believe a fellow by the name of Ilya Shapiro, Yeah, he's getting ready to go to Georgetown Law and he came out and he tweeted before, you know, he just tweeted this simple little thing.
He endorsed a friend of his, I believe, D.C.
Circuit Court Judge Shreenivasan, probably mispronouncing that name, for the lifetime appointment, but said that because of Biden's announcement of only targeting a black female for the appointment to the Supreme Court, To be considered nominated, the nominee would be, quote, a lesser black woman, end quote.
Now you say going to Georgetown, he was going to be teaching there, right?
Correct.
He was going to be a professor, that's correct.
So he's now, he's been placed on administrative leave.
I'll just quickly read that this is from Bill Truner.
I believe he's the Dean of the Georgetown Law School.
He said that over the past several days, I've heard the pain and outrage Of so many at Georgetown Law, and particularly from our Black female students, staff, alumni, faculty, Ilya Shapiro's tweets are antithetical to the work that we do here every day to build inclusion, belonging, and respect for diversity.
I've heard and listened to a wide range of views, and I'm grateful to the many members of the community who have reached out to me and other leaders at the school to share their thoughts.
Again, he's been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation to, quote, Decide whether he violated the university's policies and expectations on professional conduct, non-discrimination, and anti-harassment.
Mr. Taylor, this story gets even weirder because the Washington Examiner has reported that Georgetown Law students have demanded a space to cry.
A space to cry.
Because of this?
Yep.
They've demanded a space to cry and have catered food while staging a sit-in protest to promote the firing of, quote, embattled, end quote, Professor Ilya Shapiro.
The Dean of the Law School that I mentioned earlier, Bill Trenner, he met with students during their protest just yesterday, February 2nd, on Groundhog Day.
Seems like Groundhog Day is an app for all these racial hoaxes and this endless parade of victimization.
And he promised the school would reimburse them for any food they had delivered to the sit-in.
So I'm sure they got on DoorDash and Uber Eats and called as many places as they could to get the best food possible.
There's some really good restaurants in DC, so I hope these students took advantage of that.
Time to chow down and cry!
Here's the quote.
Yes?
I don't know what it would look like, but if they want to cry, if they need to break down, where can they go?
Because we're at a point where students are coming out of class to go to the bathroom to cry.
One student protester said.
What?
The Dean of Students replied this, quote, it's really hard to walk out of class or a meeting in tears, and you should always have a place on campus where you can go.
Reach out to me anytime, anytime, and we will find you space.
Golly, I mean this is like, I don't know, footbath rooms for Muslims before they pray?
I mean there's going to have to be a special crying room, a crying room on Georgetown campus.
A crying room for the eternally aggrieved.
What was it, Sowell's really good book, Visions of the Anointed?
Good Lord.
So they've got free food and a place to cry.
Free food and a place to cry.
Man, that's every law student's dream.
Free food and a place to cry.
Wow.
Welcome to the... Who knows what?
Well, you know, Joe Biden is not backing down on this appointments business.
He has nominated Dr. Lisa Cook.
A professor of economics and international relations at Michigan State University to join the Federal Reserve Board.
She, an African Americaness, of course, has focused her research on policies that promote broad economic opportunity, particularly for racial minorities and women.
And she would be likely to weigh monetary policy decisions with an eye to their effects on racial minorities and women.
How's that?
So, she's going to vote on interest rates depending on how they affect racial minorities and women.
That makes perfect sense.
You wonder why, what, 1% of the country believes Biden's doing a good job with the economy, as you said earlier?
Good gosh.
Well, she was actually in the White House Council of Economic Advisers under Obama.
And if confirmed, she would be the first black woman to serve on the board.
And I guess she figures the central bank is one of these woke institutions that's got to be working constantly for equity.
But I mean, if math is racist, then surely interest rates can be racist.
Well, I mean, again, time is racist.
Remember our favorite professor in the United States, Professor Crunk?
Britney Cooper, I believe, is her name.
And she wrote a big essay about how time is a white construct.
Well, okay, so interest rates are going to go up and down depending on whether it's good or bad for black people.
All right.
So, let's see.
Now, I believe things are, whether they're good or bad for black people, goes into the statistics on shootings in St.
Louis, does it not?
This is an incredible story.
I want to thank a reader who shot this over.
This is available at nextstl.com, nextstl.com.
They cover the future of development, transportation, and public policy in St.
Louis.
And this is one of those stories that you wish Every city would have some sort of institution, some sort of non-profit, that they would produce this type of study, this type of story.
Because, inadvertently, they make our case for us!
Dissecting homicide statistics in St.
Louis City and looking at 2022 projections.
You know, Mr. Taylor, real quick, Tucker Carlson called Baltimore Little Haiti and the Mid-Atlantic.
What would you call St.
Louis?
It's a dead city of the United States, the gateway to the West.
What would you call St.
Louis?
I don't know.
The Kinshasa of the Midwest?
I don't know.
The Congo and the Prairie?
I don't know.
Yeah, that's good.
That's good, yes.
So here's what they write.
And this is a leftist site, ladies and gentlemen.
Welcome to Murder Capital.
As an epithet, it's right up there with Gateway to the West and Mound City.
Cursory Google searches about St.
Louis tend to highlight the danger inherent to this place.
Historic white flight and modern black flight are, in part, predicated on a notion and narrative that St.
Louis is no more than an arena for killers and victims.
Though it may be of immense desire to dismiss homicide in the city as a little more than fear-mongering, the nation-leading homicide rate every year since 2015, hovering near 60 per 100,000 residents, should act as a touchstone for our sense of reality.
Killing?
And a lot of it happens in St.
Louis City.
And a lot more of it post-Michael Brown.
Oh my goodness, I can't remember the police officer's name.
Oh, Darren Wilson.
Darren Wilson, that's right.
That was in Ferguson, which is a suburb of St.
Louis City.
So they write, to dismiss that is to gaslight the lived experience of our communities.
To dismiss what exactly?
That it's not a violent place.
Oh, I see.
So using 2020 census data, we can also look at race by race.
This calculation is taking using the five-year average of homicide victims by race and then dividing it by the 2020 population by race.
Then that number is multiplied by 100,000 to get the homicide rate.
So here they break it down for us.
Blacks.
144 per 100,000 citizens.
That's the homicide rate.
That number is far higher than that study that you had of the most dangerous places.
We used to hypothesize, what if this was broken down by race?
Perhaps somebody at nextxtl.com listens to us and they said, hmm, I'm going to do it.
So the white rate is 14 per 100,000.
Well, that's still pretty bad compared to the country as a whole.
Precisely.
You have to wonder how much of that is due to interracial violence.
You sure do.
How many blacks are killing whites?
Asians are 5 per 100,000.
Hispanics are 14 per 100,000.
Same as whites.
Correct.
So, if you were to look at the numbers, and these numbers are without race broken down.
So, the US is 5 per 100,000.
Boston, 6 per 100,000.
Phoenix is 8.5 per 100,000.
Charlotte, 12 per 100,000.
Nashville, 11 per 100,000.
It would be fascinating if somebody would go about and find out the racial breakdown for the homicide rate for those cities.
Or the United States in large.
Very important to know.
And looking at this data, we see two very different experiences.
Black residents are at a far greater risk in the city.
Meanwhile, non-black residents have a rate resembling national numbers.
White folks, and particularly those from outside the city who rant about their safety on every Post-Dispatch article, that's the St.
Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper, should understand that St.
Louis is relatively safe for them.
No, they don't need to bring their gun downtown for a blues game that's the NHL team.
In fact, not only is the homicide rate for white residents similar to perceived safe cities, nearly 80% of homicides over the last five years were committed by an offender with a relationship to the victim.
This includes acquaintances.
What that means, of course, is that 20% of the homicides were not.
So how many of those involved a black perp and a white suspect?
The article doesn't dare surmise or even entertain such a question.
So, conversely, the homicide rate for black residents is startling, and the city should be making every effort to improve safety for the black community.
And then they talk about investing in funding startups, small businesses, rehabbing vacant properties, building more recreation centers, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
So it sounds as though the point of this lefty article is to say, look, white folks, murder's not a problem for you.
So forget the idea that you live in a dangerous city.
You're white.
White privilege.
That's exactly right.
So yeah, again, 143.
So it's actually 110 per 100k for the black victims and it's 9.8 per 100k.
That's when they break things down for a homicide rate of 51.7 per 100k.
But again, you see how much it's weighted due to black people primarily being the people responsible for Well, we have a happy ending story.
It was in Waco, Texas.
says, hey, white people, it's just...
Yeah, don't worry, this is just happening on the other side of the track, so...
Okay, well I feel so much better.
Thank you, thank you lefties.
Well, we have a happy ending story.
It was in Waco, Texas.
A person by the name of Byron Bryant, age 51, was stabbing a woman
and chased her into a gas station.
Whereupon a good Samaritan walked up and shot him.
Unfortunately, only winged him.
The woman who was stabbed and the man shot by the Good Samaritan were both taken to a nearby hospital.
She had severe injuries.
The man has been released.
Too bad.
In any case, the man who fired the weapon remained at the scene and cooperated with investigators.
He was released and has not been charged.
Now, the stabber, Mr. Bryant, is one of our African-American fellow citizens.
The Good Samaritan, race unspecified.
However, we have a clue.
And the clue is that he stuck around and cooperated with the police.
And that does suggest something to me.
In any case, yes, this aggressor was stopped by an armed citizen.
Wonderful.
And that was in what city in Texas?
That was in Waco.
Waco, Texas.
Home of Baylor.
Yes, and home for the Branch Davidians at one point, but that's an entirely different story.
Now, a story on hate crimes I saw.
New research released Monday, that was just this week, Monday finds that hate crimes targeting Asian Americans have reached unprecedented levels.
The compilation of hate crimes published by the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism.
Boy, I bet that's a really balanced and thoughtful, even-handed outfit.
Revealed that anti-Asian hate crime increased by 339% last year.
That's a substantial leap.
The surge in reported such hate crimes is significantly higher than it was in 2020 when they increased by 124%.
by 124%.
So 2020 up 124%, more than doubled.
And then just last year up threefold.
This is remarkable.
New York City had a particularly dramatic rise from 30 to 133 anti-Asian hate crimes.
Now, this goes to show you the number is actually pretty small.
Exactly.
So, if you start really small, if you start from 3 and you go to 30, that's a tenfold increase.
Well, from 30 to 133, a 343% increase.
a 343% increase.
San Francisco also experienced an alarming jump from nine to 60, and expressed as a percentage,
that is a 567% increase.
But as you said, I mean, put this into perspective.
Remember that story you talked about a couple weeks ago where it was the deliberate killing of police?
I believe in 2019 it was two.
And then for 2021, it was something like 26, 27.
These ambush killings?
Yeah.
Yes, yes.
Quite striking.
Again, with small numbers, you can have quite dramatic leaps.
Now, in this entire article, the only time it mentions a specific killing was when it says, concern peaked around March of last year.
Oh, yes.
You can see it coming.
After eight people, six of them Asian women were killed in shootings at Atlanta area spas.
So the implication this is all wicked white men doing all this killing.
But then the article goes on to say something interesting.
More dramatic surges may be reported in cities.
These areas may have more racially conscious Asian Americans and journalists who report on the subject.
That suggests that the numbers aren't really up, but the reports are really up.
We don't know.
Then they go on to say, and I thought this was really very interesting, people may not report as much if you haven't taken ethnic studies and live in Kansas.
All those poor Kansans who have not taken ethnic studies, I guess they just don't recognize anti-Asian hate when they see it.
There was a great story I believe we talked about out of San Francisco where there was a It was a crew, a coterie of brothers, who had been targeting Asians.
Remember this?
I think that was San Jose.
It was San Jose?
It was somewhere in California.
Yes.
But they were targeting, and again, we know, we've seen the videos on social media of the Asians who were attacked in New York City.
I mean, I keep waiting for the hate crime report to come out in New York to actually show the perps.
Pretty unambiguous when you look into the details.
Exactly.
Half a dozen guys they specifically targeted, in what struck me as a very intelligent way, older Asians who worked in stores and who were likely to be leaving with a till full of cash in their pockets and they knocked them off.
Yep.
Yep.
Anyway, I believe you have a story on King County.
What would Black History Month be if we didn't talk about King County, Washington?
As we've said many times, when you look at the history of this great county, this is where Seattle is located.
They renamed the county, thinking, very forward-thinking, hey, let's just find, you know, we want to rename this for Martin Luther King.
It's already called King County for a white guy.
Let's just, hey, not much rebranding.
We can still call it King County.
It won't cost that much.
That's right.
Very clever.
Exactly.
Very clever.
I was reading, why I say that is I was reading an article about how much it's costing the Washington Redskins to go from the Redskins to the Washington football team to the Washington Commanders.
Yeah, anyway, it's really goofy.
So here's the story.
Along that line, I guess when we finally decide that the capital city is named for a horrible, horrible white guy, we can just decide we don't have to change the name, but now it's named for George Washington Carver!
Wouldn't that be the solution?
But the problem is, wasn't Christopher Columbus known as Commander Columbus?
Uh oh.
No, he was an Admiral.
He was an Admiral.
That's right.
Admiral of the Seeds.
There's a great book called Admiral of the Seeds.
I guess maybe I shouldn't say another commander who wants to live right outside of Washington, D.C.?
No, you must not.
Anyways.
So, back to King County.
Carry on.
Okay, the racial breakdown before we get started.
It's 66% white, 7% black, 1% American Indian, 19% Asian.
We know Seattle's got a big Asian population.
And then it's 9.9% Hispanic.
So that's the population in King County.
Well, here's the story.
After record-breaking 2020, gun violence continues to increase in King County.
This is about 2021.
And they write about the 2021 shots fired report from the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office showed another record-breaking year.
The 460 total victims of shootings during 2021 represents an increase of 70% Compared to the four-year average between 2017 and 2020.
King County Prosecuting Attorney Dan Satterberg said the data is disturbing.
In 2021, the county recorded 88 total people who were victimized by a fatal shooting, which is up 54% from the previous four-year average, along with 372 total non-fatal shooting victims, 102 more victims than the prior year of 2020, which was the deadliest year and the most non-fatal shootings in the history of King County.
So great job, Black Lives Matter.
There were 1,405 shots fired incidents in King County, which is a 26% increase.
1,400?
1,405.
That's, gosh, that's three or four a day.
Correct.
So the report also identified, though regrettably, the report didn't break out gun violence by perps.
They used to do this.
King County used to do this, but I guess they realized, wait a second, We're giving too much fodder to those who engage in pattern recognition.
So, we'll bury that.
We won't publicize this data, but we'll at least say that gun violence continues to disproportionately impact people of color, particularly young black men.
Now, recall what I said about King County's demographics.
The black population, merely 7%.
7%?
7%.
So, here we go.
7% 7% so here we go of 460 shooting victims in 2021 81% of the shooting victims or 379 of those people
were people of color BIPOCs Now recall, 19% of those shooting victims, logically, were white.
However, the county is 66% white.
So, we now learn that nearly half of the shooting victims were black, so of those BIPOCs.
Blacks were the ones just like in St.
Louis.
I mean, this story basically is like, hey, white people, you're okay.
You're safe.
Don't be too worried about going to a Mariners game or a Seahawks game.
That's right.
You can defund the police and it won't matter to you.
Yeah, exactly.
You know, the story goes on and they keep trying to talk about a relationship between poverty and violence, but I'm sure you and I could look up the poverty rate for whites in Seattle.
It would be quite high, but it would still be disproportionately black.
Very sad.
Very sad.
Well, here's a story from the Atlantic of all places.
And it's just good to show you that good sense can trickle up to even the media elite.
Listen to this.
It's about race rationing in medicine.
And let me quote from it.
What happens when, in the name of racial equity, membership in a particular ethnic group can make the difference between getting and not getting potentially life-saving medical care?
Good question.
Hospitals in Minnesota, Utah, New York, Illinois, Missouri, and Wisconsin have been using race as a factor in which COVID patients receive scarce monoclonal antibody treatments first.
Last year, SSM Health, a network of 23 hospitals, began using a point system to ration access to something called Regeneron.
The drug would be given to patients only if they netted 20 points or higher and being non-white or Hispanic, counted for 7 out of 20 points.
Wow, almost half!
Well, obesity got you only one point.
Even though, according to the CDC, obesity may triple the risk of hospitalization due to infection.
Now, based on this scoring system, this is pretty good.
A 40-year-old Hispanic male, in perfect health, would get priority over an obese, diabetic, 40-year-old white woman, same age, with asthma and hypertension.
Just being Hispanic gets you in the door ahead of, once again, same age but obese, diabetic, white woman with asthma and hypertension.
Meanwhile, Minnesota's Department of Health issued a scoring calculator that counted BIPOC status as the equivalent to being 65 years or older in its risk assessment.
New York, they had a point system, but they did away with it entirely.
People of color were just automatically deemed to be at elevated risk and therefore given higher priority.
Incredible.
Well, just being BIPOC.
Now, this guy, this author, goes on to say, and once again, this is The Atlantic.
Atlantic has been just one of the most blinkeredly woke magazines.
It's not quite as bad as Vanity Fair, but it's pretty bad.
This guy goes on to say, the racial disparities in COVID outcomes are a matter of record, but to suggest that race causes these negative outcomes is a classic case of mistaking correlation for causation.
Well, as a matter of fact, there could be genetic factors here, but this person ignores that possibility.
Rather than race itself, variables that are correlated with race, such as socioeconomic status, healthcare access, geography, and, underline this, higher rates of obesity or diabetes, yes, I think that's important to mention that, are what affect a patient's health.
And should all non-white people be lumped together as some sort of undifferentiated whole?
Then, this guy goes on to say, it's all quite remarkable.
I mean, you, Mr. Kersey, could have written an article like this.
He goes on to say, these controversies have received limited coverage from mainstream outlets.
It's very true.
As a matter of fact, the Associated Press published an article portraying claims of racial triage as right-wing propaganda.
Remarkable!
I'm sure that fact-checker website probably said, oh, this is fraud.
This is fake news.
This is just... This is a Russian hoax to try and sow discord among the population.
Yes!
What have they stopped smoking over at the Atlantic, Mr. Kersey?
I don't know.
The writer even goes on to say, standardized testing and entrance exams are being rolled back because of the intriguing notion, are you intrigued?
That doing well on tests is a form of white privilege.
Crime rates are rising across the country, yet prominent Democrats either dismiss the problem as hysteria, just like that lefty bunch that you quoted from.
White people, calm down!
Hey, white people, look at the numbers!
Come to the blues games.
You're fine.
You're safe.
Prominent Democrats either dismiss the problem as hysteria or avoid talking about it altogether.
This astonishes me.
This is the good old relentlessly liberal, relentlessly blinkered, relentlessly blind Atlantic Maxi.
But moving on to a different and another surprising story here.
This one, this one genuinely baffled me.
And it has to do with Whoopi Goldberg.
Oh, goodness gracious.
Whoopi Goldberg.
Well, she's been very bad.
Apparently.
And I'll tell you later just how bad and why bad.
But despite calls for the 66-year-old showbiz veteran to be fired, ABC has released a statement saying she's being taken off the air for only two weeks.
A two-week suspension.
ABC News President Kim Godwin has privately asked Goldberg to take the time to reflect and learn about the impact of her words.
Reflect and learn.
Okay.
Yes.
You know, nobody has ever told me to go reflect and learn.
Have you ever required your meals to be compensated in a cry room?
Never.
Never.
I just haven't lived.
I'm just not part of the current year.
Now, this came after reports of growing fury inside the network ABC over Goldberg's controversial claims with insiders demanding that her apology, of course she apologized, they all grovel, was enough and she should be fired.
The word is that Whoopi is in deep shit, one ABC insider told the New York Post.
Her agents are panicking that she may have ruined herself for good, says the source.
Plus, now she has to worry about potential death threats.
What's a potential death threat?
I mean, there's a death threat or not a death threat.
Either you get one or you don't.
I don't think there's really any gray area.
I think we all have potential death threats, don't we?
In any case, her remarks sparked international backlash.
Where fire whoopee started trending, plus wide condemnation from the Israeli Consul General in New York and the Auschwitz Memorial Anti-Defamation League.
Okay, wait a second.
Good grief.
So what could she have possibly said?
What did she say?
What did she say to prompt all this?
Well, I'm quoting her word for word.
She says, she's talking about the Holocaust.
She says, it's about the Holocaust, the killing of six million people.
The Holocaust isn't about race.
It's not about race.
It's about man's inhumanity to man.
That's what it's about.
That's what she said.
It's not about race.
Now, apparently, that was her deep-dyed, absolutely blood-red crime because actor Michael Rapoport, whoever he is, he posted a video condemning her and saying that it fucking was about race.
It was only about race.
It was about kill the Jews, exterminate the Jews.
They're not white.
They're Jewish.
Well, so I'm really trying to puzzle through this.
I guess he's saying it was race because Jews aren't white.
So it was racist.
And I thought anti-Semitism was its own thing, different from racism.
But apparently, racism must be much, much, much, much worse.
And if you say it wasn't racism, then you are minimizing the victim status.
Okay.
Is that possible?
I mean, I'm just fumbling my way through this.
But, of course, all of this is even more piquant than it would be otherwise, because Whoopi Goldberg herself is, and I quote, Oh, no, I'm sorry.
This is somebody else who is certain by the name of Han Mazig, a fellow at the Tel Aviv Institute, says, my Jewish family was put in concentration camps.
How could she be so dismissive of the murder of six million Jews solely because they were Jewish?
Well, she wasn't being dismissive.
She's just saying it was, yes, because they were Jewish, but not because it was racism.
I mean, Whoopi Goldberg, the Holocaust was a bunch of white people called Germans killing other white people called Jews.
But as I say, it's added sort of another dimension because she considers herself Jewish.
She says, my mother did not name me Whoopi, but Goldberg is my name.
It's part of my family, part of my heritage, just like being black.
I know I'm Jewish, she says.
So you can be Jewish and black.
She also says, I have a pretty good relationship with God.
We talk.
Now I wonder what they say to each other.
I guess God never said to her, whoopie my child, Jews are not white.
But now I really am trying to understand this.
If she had simply said, I think Jews are white, would she have gotten into this kind of trouble?
I just don't get it.
She says it wasn't racism because it's a bunch of white people.
This is the same network that fired Roseanne Barr for some interview that she did.
She was on the TV show that came out, the reboot of the Roseanne program.
I don't remember exactly what Roseanne said.
I don't either.
But she was she was fired.
You know, she was had to go.
She was unpersoned.
In fact, I think they even killed her off on the sitcom, which which bared, you know, it was, you know, You would eat after her?
Surely what she deserved.
Now, I guess if this guy's saying Jews are not white, is that like saying if you say, oh, you have white privilege, then you're allowed to say, no, I don't have white privilege.
I'm Jewish.
Is that how it works?
I guess in Michael Rappaport, who is a Jewish actor?
I assume so.
He looks, as you've said.
I guess he doesn't have white privilege.
I guess not, no.
I'm just more and more baffled.
The ADL continues to baffle me.
The Anti-Defamation League.
They have been dancing around their definition of racism.
Yes, they have.
And this is one that I think most ordinary Americans who don't think very much about this stuff would probably say, well, yeah, sounds about right.
But the definition used to be, racism is the belief that a particular race is superior or inferior to another, that a person's social and moral traits are predetermined by his or her inborn biological characteristics.
Now, I don't think anybody thinks that your inborn moral traits are, I mean, your moral traits are strictly based on biological characteristics.
But some people might pretend that racists would think that.
However, and I'll just repeat that again.
The belief that a particular race is superior or inferior to another.
Let's just leave it at that.
Okay.
Then by late 2020, under the influence of Black Lives Matter, they changed it to the following.
Racism is the marginalization and or oppression of people of color based on a socially constructed racial hierarchy that privileges white people.
Okay, it's the marginalization or oppression of people of color.
Yeah, so basically what you're saying is according to this organization's definition of racism, it's only applicable to white people.
Not necessarily.
Because... Well, I mean, it's the oppression of people of color.
So what if the Chinese put blacks to the back of the bus?
They're oppressing people of color, aren't they?
Isn't that racism?
Or maybe not.
Are they doing it based on a socially constructed racial hierarchy that privileges white people?
Pretty murky stuff!
What if a black man kills the first white man he finds?
I guess that's just not racism.
In any case, because it is oppression of people of color.
No matter who, no matter how.
In any case, now on Wednesday, the definition changed again to now what they call an interim definition.
Interim, okay.
Interim, yes.
This is like a cat on a hot tin roof.
They are dancing.
Now, it's racism occurs when individuals or institutions show more favorable evaluation or treatment of an individual or group based on race or ethnicity.
Okay.
Okay.
An individual or institution shows more favorable evaluation or treatment of an individual or group based on race or ethnicity.
So, Sounds like blacks are on the hook now.
If blacks call each other brother or sister, aren't they showing a favor?
Isn't that favorable treatment?
And I guess synagogues can't treat non-Jews any different from Jews.
And Israel can't prefer making it easier for Jews and Arabs to immigrate.
I think this interim definition is probably not going to be lasting very long.
No, no, no.
It's insufficiently casting the blame on white people.
That's right.
It's insufficiently anti-white.
You're absolutely right about that.
They can't figure out what the word means.
They are obviously in a terrible swivet about this, and I think, just my idea, it's because the word is meaningless.
It is meaningless, and here's what Roseanne said.
I think we should tie a bow around this.
All right.
Make sure we get back.
Please.
She had one of the top shows, and if she had come out and she was She was saying some positive things about Trump, actually, because the show is about a white working-class family.
Oh, that's why she got Trump.
And she said she posted what is called a racist tweet about Valerie Jarrett, an African-American woman who had been a senior advisor to Obama.
She wrote this, quote, Muslim Brotherhood and Planet of the Apes had a baby equals VJ.
Huh.
She apologized.
She said, yeah, but it was too late.
Too late.
Too late.
Too little, too late.
Always.
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, now Valerie Jarrett, she is so, isn't she so light-skinned you wouldn't necessarily even know that she was black?
Or does she look flatter to the AP?
She's very, very light-skinned.
Very light-skinned.
Huh.
Yeah.
Oh, well.
Okay.
That's all it took.
Well, out she goes.
And she's really an odd person.
I haven't heard of her since.
Okay.
Well, the ADL is confused, but the government is not.
Jen Psaki, speaking on behalf of the government, said the White House wants more done by big tech companies to suppress misinformation.
That's you and me.
We are misinformation personified.
Correct.
I would consider myself Mr. Information Personified, but you can be Miss Information.
Where was our feline friend to help us out here?
Sorry, sorry.
Spotify announced Monday that it would now be including advisories on content that the company believes is pushing Miss Information.
Now, I wish YouTube had taken that policy rather than ditch us entirely.
If they just tagged a little note on all of our YouTubes and said, or our podcast, and said, we consider this misinformation, go to, and they'd give a little website saying, for the straight dope, go to splc.org.
That would have increased our viewership and our listenership.
Well, if a free market existed without corporate tampering.
Yeah, but at least not, you know, hang any kind of label they want on us.
That's fine with me.
But we're happy to compete even with one arm tied behind her back.
But if we are shut up completely, oh well.
But they didn't do that.
Now, Jen Psaki said that the new warnings of this kind are a positive step.
But the administration would like increased efforts from tech companies to suppress false information and elevate facts.
Elevate those facts.
She assured reporters the Biden administration is pro-freedom of speech and freedom of expression.
Nothing dotted with no sense of irony.
I can tell you as an administration, we believe in the freedom of speech and expression.
It's like he said, while at the same time saying, snuff these people out.
It's it is it is, you know, imagine if Trump had said something like this.
The howls from the press for collusion between the federal government to try and stifle the free speech of Americans.
Yes, can you imagine?
In a weird way, and I know we don't want to talk about Joe Rogan and these guys like Dave Portnoy or Clay Travis, these people who emerged because The country became so outrageously left and and and and centrist and just so against the idea of having a contrarian view that automatically if you are how many times have you heard Dave Portnoy the guy who does barstool sports called you know oh he's a he's racist or or or um
Well, never, because I pay no attention.
You pay no attention.
But Joe Rogan has been called alt-right.
And he's actually did a whole podcast where he goes, they'll call you alt-right if they don't like what you're saying.
And that's an attempt to not only stifle debate, but make anybody who engages in debate with you an icky person beyond approach.
I like that.
Icky.
Icky.
Yes, we're icky.
No, that's the way they think.
I know that's an excellent word.
But moving on to what absolutely has to be stamped out because white supremacy has reared its ugly white head in Tennessee.
Were you aware of that?
Stickers promoting white supremacy were found posted in Collierville.
Collierville.
The stickers said, love white children.
That's all they said.
That's it.
And they had a QR code linked to a group for White Lives Matter.
On Telegram, White Lives Matter describes itself as a worldwide legal, peaceful, and anonymous initiative that furthers the interests of white children through real-life action.
Sounds pretty menacing to me.
That sounds icky.
There you go.
Icky!
The Southern Poverty Law Center describes White Lives Matter as a neo-Nazi group.
That's all it takes.
And therefore, town administrator James Llewellyn said, there were a couple of these posters that showed up.
We took them down.
We're watching to see if they reappear.
This is another one of those racial issues that's not acceptable in Collierville.
He added.
Not acceptable.
You can't say love white children in Collierville.
And the Collierville Community Justice, a group of activists challenging systemic racism in town, said Monday afternoon, the lie of white supremacy is wrong and must be confronted and condemned.
Love white children.
That's just too much for them.
That sent them into a complete tailspin.
But in any case, while we are worrying about posters that say love white children, what is it they're doing in Cincinnati to stop a real problem?
Well, this is a real problem, and I just want to preface this with a story that was published mid-year 2021.
It was talking about how violent Cincinnati was.
I believe Cincinnati is a plurality.
I want to say it's less than 50% white, but it's still whites are the majority of the plurality.
You mean the largest?
The largest racial group.
Yeah, even though there's not a majority.
This article pointed out the shocking number of lives have been taken and an activist said, You know, each of those lives matter.
The majority of those who lost their lives this year, last year, before that, are African-American in Cincinnati due to violence.
It's unfortunate to say that, to say it is at the hands of other African-Americans.
Would it be better if it were at the hand of white people?
I don't know.
I guess, yeah.
In any case.
So, that's the lead-in to this story.
This is published in the Cincinnati newspaper.
mom who lost son to gun violence puts quote teach your son excuse me quote
teach your son not to kill my son quote sign in yard and then it talks about how
Jackie Randolph's son had been shot in front of her two months prior
He was a 16 year old shot in October while he was walking to a store.
Shot right in front of her?
Right in front of her.
Good grief.
The article points out that she's cried a lot since that day, but the overwhelming emotion she has is anger.
She's anger that life was taken from her and she's angry that so many other black moms lost their sons to gun violence this year alone.
And of course, the article doesn't point out who is perpetrating this gun violence.
Well, she knows.
She knows.
It's devastating.
It's something as a mom you'll never ever get over, Randolph said.
Inside her home, there are many pictures of Javier.
She wants his memory to live on and people to remember him as a bright, funny kid who had a beautiful smile.
Outside of her home sits a yellow sign.
That reads, as stated, teach your son not to kill my son.
I already taught mine not to kill yours.
I get your reaction.
Think about it.
It's Black History Month.
We've been basically hitting over the head with a ball-peen pen that Black Lives Matter ad nauseum since Memorial Day 2020.
I'm sorry, yeah, since 2020.
And you have a story like this.
It's heartbreaking, really, that people are reduced to putting signs in their yards saying, teach your son not to shoot my son, not to kill my son.
These are people who really have human tragedies.
They are related to people who are dead.
And what's BLM doing for them?
Absolutely nothing.
They're hoarding the money to a point where blue states are actually threatening to investigate and saying they can't raise money anymore because they're just And what's the Biden administration doing for them?
Nothing, nothing, nothing.
It's just, it's absolutely tragic.
The Biden administration, everybody else is blaming the police.
Well, they're blaming white rural gun owners.
I just want to finish off with this one quote to really put an exclamation point on what you just said.
the mother were featuring Jackie Randolph, her heart skipped a beat when she first saw the message on
the sign.
She immediately wanted one in her yard because the bold words
weren't something that could easily be ignored.
Quote, I want people to see it, really see it.
So many black kids, they were just kids.
They've died. It has to stop.
I don't think that'll stop it, but they're trying everything they can think of.
And again, for you and I to even notice that it's largely black suspects
who are doing all the killing, we're icky for saying there has to be a solution.
There is a solution, but it's not blaming law-abiding gun owners.
It's not blaming redlining.
It's not blaming any of this.
It's, let's just talk about honestly what's happening.
Well, a different story here.
Getter.
G-E-T-T-E-R, as I recall.
This new social media website launched by Donald Trump And somebody, an aide of his, Justin, Justin Miller, not Steve Miller, Justin Miller, and a Chinese millionaire.
Well, this Miller guy has capitalized on his former position to get hundreds of thousands of Trump supporters and conservatives to set up accounts on this getter site.
And it was originally promoted as a free speech and cancel-free alternative to Twitter.
Well, this Justin Miller publicly celebrated the creation of an account by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Senior researcher Hannah Gais, G-A-I-S, not sure how you pronounce that, he posted, More SPLC!
Welcome, Hannah!
Unlike the big ticky social media companies, your voice and your opinion will actually be protected here!
Hopefully you'll find Getter much more inviting than that cesspool over at Twitter!
Now what is going on?
Has the SPLC ever been unwelcome at Twitter?
This guy is nuts!
Also he posted How big is Getter?
Even the Southern Poverty Law Center is now here!
Exclamation mark.
Welcome to freedom!
Exclamation mark.
Because they want to de-platform this site.
I mean, we already know that I think Nick Fuentes had his account canceled.
I believe so.
I've not even attempted to start an account there.
And they're saying that the SPLC might be booted off of Twitter, so welcome, welcome, welcome.
This is just nuts.
Anyway, we're running out of time, but a story about the Nebraska Cornhuskers.
Now, you know about Cornhuskers.
I don't.
I eat corn.
I don't watch Cornhuskers.
University of Nebraska's Herbie Husker mascot.
He made his first appearance in 1974.
That's for 47 years.
He's been on the go.
But they've changed the mascot's hand gesture.
The university said the traditional one became associated with racist groups.
Uh-oh, wait a second.
The Herbie Husker mascot no longer makes what appears to be the okay hand gesture.
Oh my goodness.
By forming a thumb and forefinger O.
Because it's now listed on the ADL.
Good old ADL, who is confused, doesn't know what racism is, but it sure knows what a racist hand gesture is.
They says it's co-opted.
And so, but then the ADL website, if you actually go, it says, in 2017, the OK hand gesture acquired a new and different significance thanks to a hoax by members of the website 4chan to falsely promote the gesture as a hate symbol, claiming that the gesture represented the letters WP for white power.
So the ADL says it was a hoax to begin with.
Yeah, yeah.
But still, the damage has been set in, and I'm shocked they still allow the mascot No, it's not.
They're going to have to give him different features, you know, make him one of these inexplicable people.
I guess, no, it's not.
They're gonna have to give him different features, you know, make him one of these inexplicable people.
Okay, now, one last little story here.
And this has to do with cervical cancer.
There's an NBC News article, Black women are twice as likely to die from cervical cancer than white women.
But it's not because of biology.
It's because of healthcare disparities, systemic racism, long-held inequities.
No evidence for this, of course.
It's just stated.
Now, the article goes on to say, it's time for us to champion a new narrative, one driven by confidence and strength.
And we can all begin to rewrite the narrative by making sure that self-care includes cervical care.
Testing should be done as part of your well-woman exam.
It's that easy.
And that is all it takes apparently to get rid of systemic racism and long-held inequities.
And they say, we have it within us to help protect ourselves from cervical cancer.
And when we do, we can embrace the fullness of who we are.
But, but wait, wait, wait.
They just told us all systemic racism, but then they can get tests and they'll be okay.
Now, of course, race has nothing to do with it.
Behavior has nothing to do with it.
I mean, they have far higher STDs, but that has nothing to do with it.
Oh boy.
It's just interesting that this is good advice for people, I suppose.
They need to look after and get themselves tested and self-care and all that, but that's not going to solve systemic racism.
Or maybe it will for all I know.
In any case, we didn't mention this, but we'd love to hear from our readers.
And we have heard nothing from the Brace Realist cat.
I was going to mention that.
So boy, we're going to have some very disappointed listeners out there.
But we hope to be seeing you next week.
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