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Feb. 8, 2022 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Afrofuturism Is Here!
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Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to Radio Renaissance.
I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance, and with me is my co-host, Paul Kersey.
And as has become customary, we begin with questions and comments from listeners.
And a question Someone writes to say, I have to thank Mr. Taylor for recommending Beaugest as part of the Amaran reading list.
I'm halfway through reading it and enjoying every page.
Well, I hope you enjoy every page for the second half of it.
The listener also says, Mr. Kersey's recommendation of Starship Troopers was likewise thrilling.
So that's Starship Troopers and Beau Geste.
Could each of you recommend another work of fiction?
P.S.
Love the Cat.
So here's someone also almost giving the cat top billing here.
I don't believe we'll be hearing the cat on this occasion, but you never know.
You never know.
She just can sneak in through very narrow spaces.
Well, I do have a recommendation.
One of my favorite novels is Captain Blood by Raphael Sabatini.
And I first encountered that book when I must have been maybe 12 years old.
And our entire family, when I was a boy, We took turns reading it out loud to each other and I fell in love with the book and I read it out loud to each of my children.
I've probably read that book four or five times and I rarely read a book more than once.
It's a great wonderful swashbuckling tale and it was made into a movie.
Many years ago, starring Errol Flynn.
I don't really care for the movie very much, but the book is wonderful.
Captain Blood by Raphael Sabatini.
Now, Mr. Kersey, you have been asked to supply another work of fiction yourself.
Something that's just as good or almost as good as Starship Troopers.
It's not just as good, and I have seen the Errol Flynn movie, which I do like a lot.
The Captain Blood film that you just mentioned.
based on the novel.
I'm gonna go with something that is also a movie, came out in the early 90s.
It's been adapted a number of times.
Last of the Mohicans.
It's a fine book.
There's actually sometime along, it wasn't that long ago,
but a friend gave me a copy of How to Rear White Children.
And the top book that he recommended was Last of the Mohicans within this little monograph,
which is impossible to find now.
I think I might have a copy somewhere.
But, and he's right.
It's quite a good book.
So, yes, real heroism.
I remember the Natty Bumpo is the name of the hero, as I recall.
Very strange name for a white man.
But yes, it's a tale of adventure and honor.
I guess that Captain Blood is not only adventure and honor, but also romance.
And even as a 10 or 12 year old boy, I enjoyed the romance, I must say.
Now, we also had a comment.
This is a comment, a bit of verse, having to do with the fact that, I believe it was Mr. Kersey, who described the way our opponents view our views as icky.
Icky.
We have icky ideas.
Oh, these icky ideas these horrible racists have.
And so the listener sends us this.
If the truth hurts, mightily, whitely, Kersey and Taylor, by podcasting weekly, are raising the bar, quoting statistics which incontrovertibly prove how unbeatably icky they are.
Not too bad, not too bad.
And I think we would like to continue with our special coverage of Black History Month, formerly known as February.
Still known as February in these parts.
Oh, only to white supremacists.
Now, Mr. Kersey, you'll be delighted to know that Afrofuturism has arrived.
It's not just something out there waiting for us.
It's here.
And it's going to be in Carnegie Hall this February.
Yes, indeed.
And let me read from the website.
This is the Carnegie Hall website talking about Afrofuturism.
Our citywide festival is officially underway!
Enjoy a vast array of performances, film screenings, discussions, parties, workshops, and more as we journey into the vast possibilities of Afrofuturism.
Imagine alternate realities and a liberated future viewed through the lens of black cultures.
I lie awake at night doing that.
Imagine, no, immerse yourself in Afrofuturism.
This trek across space and time will enrich and revitalize our relationship to new futures and futures past.
Afrofuturism.
I don't think I have a relationship with futures past that can be revitalized, but maybe I just didn't realize it.
Futures past.
This is very poetic.
Epiphanies will abound in this experiential saga through the realm of astro-blackness.
Astro-blackness?
Is that black holes?
Astro-blackness, I mean, yeah.
I guess astro-futurism?
You can have astro-blackness?
Boy, oh boy.
Now, it goes on.
Experience African and African diasporic philosophies, speculative fiction, mythology, comics, quantum physics, cosmology, technology, and more.
What more can there be after all that?
Oh my goodness, ebony cosmology.
Don't they have to throw in some sort of term to describe blackness and the effect of space?
Well, Milano cosmology, I suppose.
But I'm actually, I'm actually cribbing from one of the items.
Now, one event is called, and I have to wrap my tongue carefully around this word, AfriFutrinity Speakeasy.
AfriFutrinity Speakeasy.
Now, this is going to be with sister friend, Marie McConnell.
And it's called, An Intimate Virtual Rite of Passage with a Living Oracle.
Join in astral travel with an esteemed and experienced wisdom keeper and real life hidden figure.
Sister Friend Marie McConnell.
Well, I think Sister Friend Marie McConnell, after all that, she's an esteemed and experienced wisdom keeper and a living oracle.
I mean, how can such a person have a name like Marie McConnell?
That's pretty dull, don't you think?
I think maybe Hakuna Matata would be good.
Or maybe Sister Shake-a-Booty.
But in any case, you can have an intimate virtual rite of passage with a living oracle.
This is at the Carnegie Hall, by the way.
I'm just reminding our listeners.
Carnegie Hall, you've come a long way, baby.
And here's another event.
This one is called Afrocosmic Melanin and Utopia.
And it is derived from the words Afrocosmic Melanin and Utopia.
Creators imagine a future world of infinite possibilities for liberation, inclusion, and empowerment.
Boy, oh boy.
You know, I wonder if there's going to be a celebratory mass shooting, programmed or unprogrammed.
But there you go.
It's Afrofuturism Is Here!
And the venue, again, was one of the most esteemed in the country, correct?
Used to be.
Have you ever been to an event?
Yes, I have.
Yes, I have.
What event did you attend, if you recall?
It was a classical music performance, but I'm racking my brains trying to remember exactly what it was.
I don't really remember, but I remember marveling at the place and being glad I was there.
But no, it was not Afrofuturism.
I never imagined that we'd play host to Afrofuturism in 2022.
I'd never heard of Afrofuturism.
I suspect very few people had.
But now, you know, we hear about it all the time, and you can immerse yourself in a month-long celebration of it.
Now, today, no, yesterday, February 7th, I believe, was Black HIV AIDS Awareness Day.
More black history!
Do tell, do tell.
If you ever want to, quick little tip to everyone out there, if you ever want to amuse yourself to see what the professional journalist corporate media is doing, just type in this in news.google.com, disproportionately black or disproportionately African-American.
Just see what latest drudgery you can pull up.
This is what I found today.
National Black HIV-AIDS Awareness Day.
How Black People Are Disproportionately Affected with the Virus and Antiquated Messaging.
Alright, let's find out what this article has to say.
Even with all the advances in the treatment of HIV, African Americans, especially Black women, have the highest numbers of new diagnoses compared to other racial and ethnic groups in the United States.
Although HIV has been in the United States since at least the mid to late 1970s, studies show that the virus may have existed in humans since the 1800s.
Well, it may have come from Africa, actually.
It may have.
They don't go into that.
No, they will not.
No, they will not.
The Immunodeficiency Syndrome AIDS was documented in previously healthy gay men in LA and New York in 1980 and 1981.
Initial reports made it seem that the virus only affected gay men.
It soon became apparent that wasn't the case.
Although treatment has changed and has become more effective at controlling HIV so that it doesn't develop into AIDS, The black community is disproportionately affected compared with other races and ethnicities.
In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2019, they came out and noted that black African American people make up 13% of the U.S.
13% of the US population but 42% of the of the new HIV diagnoses
More It's, you know, it is white privilege that's keeping you from getting AIDS.
Well, with all the advances HIV, as with many other illnesses, the black community continues to bear the brunt of the burden.
So in honor of National Black HIV-AIDS Awareness Day, I didn't even know there was such a thing.
Now we know.
Now we know.
Do you think there is a White HIV-AIDS Awareness Day?
Or an Asian HIV-AIDS Awareness Day?
I don't think there's even a Latin... Hispanic.
Latinx Asian, or I'm sorry, Black HIV, whatever it is.
But so the BET.com asked Grazil Howard, board chair of the Black AIDS Institute, to offer some insights into how we can turn around these numbers.
Just briefly.
BET asked, despite all the progress made in reducing cases of AIDS, HIV, it seems surprising that black Americans are still disproportionately affected by the virus.
Can you help us better understand what that looks like in the community?
Grisel Howard replied with this, quote, at the top of the heap in terms of populations that are black, it's young men who have sex with men with the highest number.
Second to that would be transgender women and then black heterosexual women.
BET then asks, why are black women more susceptible than others?
That's a dangerous question.
Question.
So Howard asks, he answers with this quote, at Black AIDS Institute, we are radically partnering and shifting how we engage and inform the community.
Oh, he doesn't answer the question.
So though it's about education, it's also about messaging.
The conversations have almost become like mantras rather than informative.
We talk about lived experience in MSN, men who have sex with other men, and access to health care.
But it needs to be access to quality and culturally competent health care within black communities.
I guess.
We're not a monolith.
I guess culturally competent messaging too.
Well that actually is, he's then asked about how do we get the education of the black community so it's understood and relatable.
And he replies with this.
The education, the message, And the packaging has not been directed to us for us.
I guess my radical theory in partnering is to ask, quote, how dare you think in the black community you're daring to educate the MSM, and MSM in that case is men who have sex with men, about something if his mom, auntie, or big mama doesn't know about it.
In our community, black women drive education.
Wait, wait, wait.
So these are men who have sex with men.
And the way they learn about everything in their lives is asking mom or auntie Or Big Mama.
Or Big Mama.
Big Mama!
Because black women drive education.
Alright, alright.
So we need to educate Big Mama.
And then we can educate the men who have sex with men.
That's apparently the case.
This is the Black AIDS Institute.
Black AIDS Institute.
This must be the cultural, what was the word that he used, culturally competent health care within black communities.
Well, you know, I would never have guessed that we have to get to Big Mama first.
Big Mama is the zenith of the cultural, competent health care queen.
All right.
We be kings, right?
Wow, we'd be big mamas, I guess.
Okay, well, more black history.
There you go.
Well, as we continue in our special coverage, the Biden administration has just announced that it's going to fund the distribution of crack pipes to drug addicts as part of its plan to advance racial equity.
Yep, a $30 million grant program will provide funds to nonprofits and local governments to help make drug use safe.
For addicts.
Make drug use safe again.
For addicts, anyway.
Included in the grant are funds for smoking kits and supplies.
A spokesman for HHS told the Washington Free Beacon, who was reporting on this, these kits will provide pipes for users to smoke crack cocaine, crystal methamphetamine, and any illicit substance.
You can smoke anything you like in there.
Banana peels.
HHS said the kits aim to reduce the risk of infection, which can lead glass pipes can infect through cuts and sores.
Applicants for the group grants are prioritized if they treat a majority of underserved communities including African Americans.
So this is special for African Americans.
That's again, you know, Black History Month.
There we go.
As established under President Joe Biden's Executive Order on Advancing Racial Equity.
So they get free crackpipes.
Advancing Racial Equity means free crackpipes.
Free crackpipes to underserved communities with the priority of blacks.
And LGBTQ+++.
Now, equipment that qualifies for funding includes not just crack pipes, but syringes, condoms, fentanyl strips, as well as vaccinations and disease screenings.
So, free syringes and condoms for blacks.
That's all part of the Black History Month thing.
Wait, no.
This?
No, never mind.
That won't go there.
No, never mind.
All right.
Very good.
Now, San Francisco has already tried this.
This is an essay by a fellow named Michael Schellenberger, who is the author of a book called San Francisco.
And it's brought out by HarperCollins, so it's not just some hole-in-corner press.
He says the city is running a supervised drug consumption site in United Nations Plaza, just blocks away from City Hall.
City-funded service providers supervise people smoking fentanyl and meth that they buy from drug dealers just across the street.
The police do nothing.
The city is carrying out a bizarre medical experiment whereby addicts are given everything they need to maintain their addiction.
Cash, hot meals, and shelter.
Voters have found themselves in a strange position of paying for fentanyl meth and crack use on public property.
That's San Francisco for you.
You can go and witness all of this if you just walk down Market Street and peek your head over a newly erected fence on the southwest corner of U.N.
Plaza.
The city is letting people openly use and even deal drugs in a cordoned off area of this public square.
There is a city-sponsored homeless tent village.
The city calls it a safe sleeping site, an SSS.
I think I have a safe sleeping site.
It's right upstairs.
But just one block away from this open-air drug market, there, late-stage addicts living in tents spend their days smoking fentanyl and meth.
Meanwhile, private contractors hired by the city bring them three hot meals a day, provide them with clean clothes, and even clean their toilets.
Well, my safe sleeping site does not come with services like that.
No three free meals?
No, nobody cleans my toilet.
No one brings you fresh attire to wear?
Nope, nope.
I guess no.
I could even scream and bawl for meth and a clean syringe.
Nobody'd bring it.
Now, the Safe Sleeping Site, I have a hard time pronouncing that really, was created in 2020.
It's one of six similar sites throughout the city with about 250 tents.
All told, the city's taxpayers spend, guess how much per tent per person?
This is per year?
Yes, per year.
Per person per tent.
No, per tent.
I don't know if there are any zoning restrictions on how many people can stuff into a tent.
I'm going to go 24,000.
$57,000.
My goodness.
$57,000 per tent, or twice the median cost of one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco.
According to this fellow Schellenberger's investigations, the city spends roughly $100,000 a year per homeless person, or over $1 billion annually.
Now, I don't know how much of that goes into drug paraphernalia and drugs, but probably the hot meals and all of this stuff probably takes a big bite out of it.
But in a way, this just sounds like assisted suicide to me.
Let them give them the drugs, give them a nice place to stay, and all they do is nod out, and some of them probably nod right off.
I suppose you could call it a form of retrospective abortion.
In any case, Mr. Kersey, continuing, maybe this doesn't have anything to do with Black History, but it's still Black History Month, and you have a story about black ETFs.
I do, but I have one more question for you.
I asked about Carnegie Hall in New York City.
When was the last time you went to San Francisco?
San Francisco?
Well, probably it's been four or five years since I was there.
It was not as bad as it is now.
Yes, maybe five or six years ago.
Okay.
It is a beautiful city.
Oh, the setting of it, the topography, the water, the hills, and the architecture.
It's a beautiful place.
So it's always sad to hear these type of stories.
But now, as you mentioned, this was a city where this was already implemented.
And now we see with Biden's Crackpite planned to advance racial equity among safe crackpite users.
The jokes write themselves.
Yes.
They really do.
It's hard to imagine it.
It's hard to imagine this, isn't it?
Well, of course, maybe, I don't know, maybe Hunter Biden will go to this safe sleeping site.
That sounds like paradise for him.
Odds are he's been there.
You're right.
Odds are he's been there.
He's been through there already.
Let's move on.
Today, February 7th, something extraordinary happened.
The NAACP and members of IMPACT, they ring in the New York Stock Exchange.
It's a very, very big event to celebrate Black History Month.
This happened on February 7th?
February 7th, 2022.
That's Black HIV-AIDS Awareness Day.
It is!
It's also the date that we learned about... It's Black EFT Awareness Day.
Yes, the Electronic Transfer Fund, NACP.
What does this mean?
So, we learned quickly that the Black community remains systemically underrepresented across all bands of society, according to this press release, primarily in the financial area.
Where there are very few Fortune 500 CEOs that are black.
Only four, actually, of 500.
So there are, however, distinct black voices within the finance world that are working to empower and change the narrative for minorities and black communities.
So anyone out there listening, neither Mr. Taylor or myself are registered financial advisors, but it is interesting.
we're going to give our thoughts on this ETF. The NAACP Minority Empowerment ETF,
the stock symbol NACP.
Oh boy.
And the Adesina Social Justice All Cap Global ETF.
But there's a black empowerment, a black empowerment ETF?
Yes.
Can white people buy it?
I believe that they'll be able to buy it.
It should be available.
JSTC is the Social Justice All Cap Global ETF.
So just real quick about the NACP, which tracks the Morningstar Minority Empowerment
Index that provides exposure to US companies that exhibit diversity policies both racially and ethnically.
The fund seeks to provide exposure to US large and mid-cap companies that
fall within the NAACP's value of good corporate citizens, i.e.
these companies donate to us.
Oh, that's an interpolation by you.
Just real quick, the underlying index is constructed with rules-based methodology and pulls from the Morningstar U.S.
Large Mid-Cap Index, selecting companies with strong minority empowerment practices.
These companies are excluded that derive more than 5% of their revenues from predatory lending activities, tobacco products, involvement in the production of riot control weapons.
What?
Really?
The operation of correctional facilities or providing security services.
But wait, that provides safe sleeping spaces to many blacks.
It provides a disproportionate amount of safe sleeping.
They get special treatment!
Also, the production of oil and gas and coal, as well as companies that are non-compliant with the UN Global Compact, or that have a detrimental score for applicable controversies.
Yeah!
Carries an expense ratio of 49%.
And real quick, this Social Justice All Cap Global ETF, stock symbol JSTC, it's going to be a global all-cap fund utilizing community source impact data to set standards for How Companies Engage in Gender, Economic, Racial, and Climate Justice.
Climate justice.
This ETF allows clients to invest in alignment with their social justice values.
This is all part of that, what is it, ESG?
Yeah, I forget what that stands for though.
Yeah, I do too, but sustainable investments.
Man, you know, it's been cold these last, I could do with some global warming, man.
I think it's time we got a little bit more sunshine.
I guess I don't qualify as being backed by one of these ETFs.
No, no, no.
I mean, again, I don't think that you're going to have a category including racial justice, gender justice, economic justice, climate justice, and movement-aligned measures that seek to advance social equity and the general welfare of the planet and people.
Ambiguous the word people because I don't really think that that really means white people, especially when you think about how this NAACP ETF, I mean, again, security services, tobacco products, involvement of riot control weapons, I wonder if they consider ShotSpotter, which is not a bad stock, that, you know, that's the company that police departments across the country buy to determine geocentrically positioned where a shot was actually fired, so they can track it down.
They've got these microphones all over the city.
Exactly!
They triangulate.
Yeah, triangulate.
That's the corner of MLK and Malcolm X Boulevard.
Off you go.
So, yeah, very useful.
Next to the Freddie Gray Empowerment Center.
And that's publicly traded, is it?
It is.
Wow.
Now that's probably a growth industry.
Now, well, well.
Now, I don't know if you're aware of this, Mr. Kersey, but in the early hours of January 28th, this was just the day after Holocaust Remembrance Day, Union stations vandalized by someone who scrawled 160 swastikas on the outside walls of the stations.
Oh, I didn't know that happened.
160 swastikas.
So this is in Washington, D.C.?
January 28th.
Yes.
Yes, just down the street from World Headquarters of American Renaissance.
And Jeff Timmer of the Lincoln Project, that's the GOP people who absolutely cannot abide Donald Trump, he tweeted, This is what Trump has emboldened and what the craven GOP has allowed to fester.
Of course.
160 swastikas on Union Station.
And one of his followers agreed, tweeting, Nice.
Republican voters leaving their calling card.
Charming.
And another said that people who did this could just as well have scrawled G.O.P.
Well, they should have waited.
At least one day.
Because the very day all this stuff was discovered, an arrest was made.
And the arrest was of a certain Gerardo Pando.
He has a 35-page criminal record.
He is an illegal alien from Mexico.
And he's been deported twice.
If he did vote for the GOP, he did it illegally, I must say.
He had been detained by police earlier in January for vandalizing the U.S.
Capitol Police headquarters, but he was released because ICE did not ask for him to be held.
This is a guy, a 35-page criminal record, and already deported twice, but he's of no interest to ICE.
He does not face deportation under the Biden administration's standards for arrest or removal.
That's because the only illegal aliens to be detained are those considered national security threats.
And you can scrawl all the swastikas you want on Union Station.
You're not a national security threat.
Those who entered after November 1st, 2021.
I wonder why they care about that.
And those convicted of certain felonies who are gang members.
So there have to be certain felonies and also be a gang member in order to be deportable.
This guy... What if they get access to the crack pipes, though?
I guess they probably do.
I'm sure they're not going to ask for green cards.
When you walk up to a safe sleeping site and you roll out your bedroll and say, I'd like three hots and a side of meth.
I don't think they're going to ask for that.
Now, I noticed that there was a photograph of pieces of plastic taped over the swastikas.
I guess it takes some time to get the sandblasters or the chemical treatment to get them removed.
And so you couldn't see them.
They were taped over.
I wonder if it'd be a crime to remove those covers.
Just, you know, just my...
No one was punished for the graffiti that was so gratuitously left upon the now-destroyed Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond.
It was never removed with any chemicals.
It was left up as the spoils of war.
Yes, yes.
No one ever considered arresting those people, but this guy with his swastikas.
Well, he's been arrested, but I don't think he's going anywhere.
If he were a natural-born U.S.
citizen and he wore a MAGA hat, he'd go to the slammer for a long time, I'm quite sure.
Now, Eric Zemmour, our favorite presidential candidate.
Unfortunately, he's running in France and not in the United States.
He has a different approach to all of this.
He was in a debate and the host of the debate asked Eric Zemmour what his criteria would be for immigrants and refugees if they wanted to obtain asylum in France.
He replied by saying that they should make the appeal in their own countries and if they came to France before doing so they should be arrested and deported.
He was asked what type of person France should accept as an asylum seeker.
He says, the right of asylum is for freedom fighters like Victor Hugo, Solzhenitsyn, etc.
Ha!
That's not a lot, said the host.
Exactly, said Zebulor.
We stop there.
Then he also pointed out the example of Japan, which accepts only a tiny number of refugees every year.
He said, Zemmour said he'd go back to the 1950s.
At that time, France accepted only about 300 refugees a year.
The host then asked Zemmour, would he take in persecuted Afghan women fleeing the Taliban?
Afghan women are not freedom fighters.
We do not accept them.
He said, I am not the Santa Claus of mankind.
Individuals belong to peoples.
They have histories, cultures.
I am neither here to give moral lessons to seven billion men.
I think that's a good point.
Nor to welcome all the misery and all the misfortunes of the world.
I close up shop.
It's over."
Said Zemmour.
He goes on to say, I have a duty to the French people.
I have no duty towards the whole world.
Why can't we have a candidate like that?
Well, we did.
He actually, there was a candidate we had who said, he didn't say similar things, similar themes, let's put it that way, back in 2015, 2016.
That's what separated him from the pack of usual misfit toys that the Republican Party throws out.
Unfortunately, that's why so many people had such a dissatisfaction once that man was elected president.
However, when you see this type of just I've watched some of these debates or some of these interviews he has.
Obviously, I don't speak French as you do.
I can read the subtitles.
It's amazing what's being discussed right now in France.
He's very good.
He's very good.
He's talking about preserving France.
And to preserve France, you have to preserve the French.
That's my job.
To preserve France.
I have a duty to the French people, he says.
Remarkable.
As you said, it looks like every Every Western nation needs their Algerian Jew.
I'll say, I'll say.
Boy!
Anyway, Mr. Kersey, I believe you have one of these stories that astonishes me almost by its naivety.
And it has to do with the racial distribution of murder victims, I gave the Game Boy.
Another Black History Month story for you about the contributions of individual black people collectively across the country.
Headline was this.
Most homicide victims in many U.S.
cities are black.
Key data shows.
Key data?
At least 16 U.S.
cities witnessed record high homicide rates in 2021, while Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles saw notable homicide spikes.
Who were the victims in these American cities?
I want to know who the suspects are, but we don't get that.
No.
So new data provided by FOIA requests and analyzed by Fox News shows black males were overwhelmingly the number one demographic killer in those cities.
I don't understand.
Why did it take a FOIA request?
Is Fox News suddenly tumbling to this?
Anyway, continue.
All right, so Chicago tallied most homicides since 1996.
648 of the city's 797 homicide victims were black.
I put that in perspective.
You're talking about a city that's about 33, 33, 33 percent white, black, Hispanic.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 105 of the city's 133 homicides were black males.
I wonder what number were black females.
Then we'd actually probably get closer to 133.
True.
In Columbus, Ohio, one of the whiter big cities in the United States, 135 of the city's 204 homicides were black males.
Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, 133 of the city's 197 homicide victims were black males.
Again, why leave out black females?
And in St.
Paul, Minnesota, 17 of the city's 38 homicides were black males.
Now, we've learned about LA.
They had 397 people were killed in 2021, most since 2007.
Hispanic males were the top demographic killed last year, even, of course, in a city that has a much larger Hispanic than black population.
Well, blacks need to step up their game.
Well, and here we learn what's actually happening.
They interview, they talk about how the, just some random murder, some, I mean, this is the type of stuff that just, it makes you feel really sad.
Some little girl was shot and an individual who works with George Gascon, that's the district attorney, the Soros-funded district attorney who replaced the black female in 2021.
An individual who works in his office, Eric Seidel, he's a prosecutor and vice president of the Association for Deputy District Attorneys.
He's a registered Democrat and calls himself socially liberal, but he blames Gascon's policies for the homicide and crime spike.
He said this, Right now, certainly certain types of district attorneys
are siding with criminals over the victim."
End quote. And I think we know that. I think we know that a lot of these policies, a lot of these
cities, cops are just so terrified of being railroaded and they're just not intervening.
And if they arrest a guy with a gun, the guy with the gun's gonna be right back out on the street.
Correct.
Remember the new DA in New York City?
Correct.
He announced that, you know, you can carry a gun to robbery, but if you don't actually shoot anybody with it, you know, we're gonna consider that a misdemeanor.
You know, you're talking about the Manhattan Deal.
He has actually reversed that policy.
He did reverse it.
So, he has reversed it.
Yes.
But on his first day in office, he says, this is the way we're going to do it now.
Yes.
So, you wave a gun around as long as you don't shoot anybody.
You know, it's funny.
You could write a heck of a fun story about what black leaders have done in their first day of office.
And I still think my favorite one is the police commissioner outlaw in Philadelphia.
It was in Philadelphia.
She was the first black female police chief.
And what was it?
The fingernails.
She said, you can have black fingernail polish.
Real long fingernails.
She has really long fingernails and she wanted to be able to have that.
Danielle Outlaw, I think is her name.
Epic making decision making.
Well, you know, it has now been discovered that the problem in football is...
Obviously.
You probably know all about this because you follow sports, but Brian Flores, apparently he was a head coach.
He worked for the Dolphins football team, and he was fired after the 2021 season, and he was interviewed for a couple of jobs as a head coach.
He didn't get one.
Now he's claiming racism because he was given phony interviews.
Apparently this Rooney rule says if you're going to hire a coach you've got to interview at least one or maybe is it two now black candidates for the job?
And apparently, this is what he's claiming, they're just going through the motions in some case.
They'd already decided to give it to the white guy but they interviewed him anyway and he says it was all phony baloney and so now he's suing.
Well, An ESPN and HBO personality by the name of Beaumont E. Jones.
He is African American, needless to say.
He was asked to identify the problem.
And this guy has a razor sharp mind.
He said, what's the problem?
White people.
Who are the ones that are making these decisions?
White people!
Who are the ones that won't change their decision-making?
White people!
Who are the ones that only do anything in a different way at the threat of litigation?
White people!
Well, that's all it takes.
Now, will he remain an ESPN and HBO personality?
Of course.
Of course.
White people are the problem.
There you go.
Now, it turns out in Great Britain, white people are the problem in soccer.
In football.
Yes, what they call football.
You're right.
A fellow by the name of Robert Whipp, age 54, a white British citizen, has admitted racial abuse of a former England defender Rio Ferdinand, who of course is black, after the Euro 2020 final.
So this goes back some time.
That was a Soccer World Cup.
No, I beg your pardon.
Euro 2020 is not, that's the European Cup, is it not?
He used racist and derogatory emoji to describe Mr. Ferdinand's commentary on the match.
What were these racist emoji?
Can you guess?
Ah, racist emoji.
Yes.
Oh, I'm not going to venture a guess, but I'll let you go and tell me.
Well, the light bulb will go off in your mind when I tell you the racist emoji were a banana and a monkey.
He simply tweeted a banana and a monkey to this guy.
I was worried that was it.
Yes, and last Friday he pleaded guilty in magistrate's court on two counts of sending a grossly offensive message.
Two?
In which court there?
This is 2020, in magistrate's court in St.
Albans.
When interviewed by Herefordshire Police, he admitted posting the tweets but initially denied any racist motive.
He will be sentenced in March for sending a banana and a gorilla emoji to this black guy.
Well, the Crown Prosecutor, he said, I would like to thank Rio Ferdinand for his cooperation and support for this prosecution in what must have been a distressing time for him.
This is not, of course, a distressing time for this whip guy who sent these emojis.
Who knows what the sentence is going to be?
And Mr. Ferdinand says he can't understand why Twitter and Facebook aren't protecting him from people sending him banana emojis.
He says the social media companies and the senders should both be punished.
Well, I think there's only one solution.
We've got to get rid of banana and monkey emojis.
How do you pronounce it?
I mean, the fact is, it's a Japanese word, but how do you pronounce it in English?
Emoji.
Emoji.
Okay.
Because in Japanese... Oh, you have to have texted people with emojis before?
Well, I have, I have.
No, no, no, I know what they are.
It's just they're a Japanese word.
Emoji is what you would say in Japanese.
Emoji, with an accent more on the E. But literally, it means an emotional character.
That's where it comes from.
But just this week, Manchester United's 19-year-old winger, that's a position on the soccer field, Anthony Elanga, missed a penalty kick, resulting in his team's elimination from the FA Cup.
Media users commented hateful slurs and used monkey emojis on his page.
Meta, the company that owns Instagram, revealed that an investigation is ongoing.
Okay.
See, this is Britain for you.
You send a banana emoji to the wrong guy and you are a criminal.
They don't have the First Amendment.
I don't think they have any amendments.
Now, the lack of regulation by social media companies has become a hot topic in Britain with many players and fans wanting accountability for those who send evil messages and the companies that permit it.
Now, while we're still overseas, let us leap the Atlantic Ocean to Canada.
I don't know how carefully you've been following this Freedom Convoy, these truckers.
Well, then you'll probably know all about this.
They're demonstrating, of course, against COVID mandates.
It started a week ago.
They don't want, these are truckers, who don't want to be obliged to be vaccinated.
And this weekend, first of all, it just started all the way across Canada, from the west coast of Canada to Ottawa.
But this weekend, thousands of people gathered on Parliament Hill, that's their version of Capitol Hill, in Canada's capital of Ottawa, to protest these vaccine requirements.
And trucks blocked streets downtown.
Now this was an ominous note from a Canadian publication.
It said, Republican politicians in the U.S., including Donald Trump, have emerged as some of their strongest backers.
And GOP members of Congress threatened to investigate GoFundMe for halting a page that raised $10 million for the convoy's operational costs.
I thought that was quite outrageous.
I'm sure you followed that.
They had $10 million in a GoFundMe to fund their costs.
And GoFundMe just said, oh, this could be violent.
This could be misspent.
Bad, bad, bad.
And they took away the money.
Never with that, but I've heard that they're going to redistribute it to leftist causes in Canada.
I have heard that.
I'm not sure.
That's a rumor so far, but I don't think they have the right to do that.
Do they have the right to shut the page down?
Well, so far as I know, the only thing they're able to do is give the money back to the donors.
They can't decide that we're going to give it to BLM.
I don't think they can do that.
A group representing, now this is the aspect of the story that I thought most interesting.
A group representing Black Canadian MPs and Senators.
They have their Black Legislative Caucus too, did you know that?
I didn't know that.
The Canadians, they're coming up in the world.
They are calling the protest convoy a venue for...
White supremacy!
Oh my goodness.
White supremacy.
The Freedom Convoy protest became an opportunity for white supremacists and others with extreme and disturbing views to parade their odious views in public, the parliamentary caucus said.
It added that the money raised to support the protest could be used to bankroll domestic white supremacist terrorism.
Well, I guess it could be used to bankroll absolutely anything.
Maybe they actually plan to use it to fund sex change surgery for truckers who want to become women.
I don't know.
But they say it could be used to bankroll domestic white supremacists on no evidence.
Where do they come up with this stuff?
But here's the smoking gun, Mr. Kersey, and let me answer my own question.
They are obviously eminently justified and worried about this because at least one confederate flag was spotted among the protesters.
One confederate flag among the maple flags.
One confederate flag was found, so that means this is all white supremacist.
The caucus also called, just coincidentally, for a ban.
On displays of hate symbols such as the confederate flag.
I mean, it has nothing to do with Canadian history.
And the co-chair of the Federal Black Caucus, Liberal MP, Greg Fergus, got a standing ovation in the House of Commons Wednesday after giving an emotional speech about the harm such symbols cause.
Just one look at a Confederate flag and a black boy is going to fail math the rest of his life.
You know that, don't you?
The harm these symbols cause.
I've heard that.
That's a theory.
No, it's a scientifically proven fact.
Okay.
Even racist Western science has proven it.
And you know, the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau slammed the Freedom Convoy.
He says that it is spewing hateful rhetoric.
And at the same time, he spoke fondly of Black Lives Matter protests.
That's okay.
That's okay.
Burning down the Third Precinct or tearing down, what was it?
The first Prime Minister of Canada's statue was torn down.
John McDonnell.
John McDonnell tore it down.
Yep.
Yep.
And they came in with a buzz saw and carved its nose off.
I thought that was...
Charming little touch.
Covered it with red paint.
Stomped on it with your feet.
John McDonnell, bad white man.
Gotta go.
Now, while we're in medical school, we will hop across the country to the University of British Columbia.
And to address the under-representation of Black medical students at UBC, the Faculty of Medicine will roll out a Black MD student admissions stream.
Just for them, a little backdoor, just for black applicants.
They will have the option to write an essay about their lived experiences.
What about their imagined experiences?
That might be more interesting.
Maybe not.
I don't know.
But their lived experiences.
There's a merger of them both as long as they're combating white supremacy, right?
That's right.
Imagined or dreamed or I don't know, somebody else's experiences.
And have their applications reviewed by a subcommittee largely composed of blacks.
So they can write about their lived experiences and their Admissions process is going to be handled by a committee composed largely of Blacks.
Now, will they have to take any tests or any transcripts?
I don't know the details on that.
Kimberly Thomas, a second year student at UBC, also the Western Regional Director of the Black Medical Students Association of Canada, didn't know there was such a thing, but God bless him, believes that this admission stream will make it fairer for Black applicants.
She says, We are missing brilliance out there with our current application system.
How does she know that?
I don't know.
But all those brilliant black people who would have made brilliant doctors are being excluded.
She says it's really about equity and ensuring everyone's on the same playing field.
By opening the back door just for them.
The back door, just for them.
That is going to make sure that everybody's on the same playing system.
Same playing field, I mean to say.
Now, and Aike Okafor, a senior office of service learning and diversity says, having black community members in the admissions process provides applicants with cultural safety.
Otherwise, they would be in intense cultural danger.
People can now bring their full selves to the table.
You know, we've been hearing a lot about full selves these days.
A little too much, you know.
I guess, you know, you can't go into an interview on an empty stomach.
Bring your full selves to the table.
So, black medical trainees and physicians face marginalization and institutionalized racism, making it challenging for them to succeed.
And so, when you see underrepresentation, it's not an accident that there aren't as many black people.
It's not an accident.
So, we have to create more accidents and make sure they show up.
All you listeners out there, don't get sick in Canada.
So, Mr. Kersey, it's not just in Canada, but science in America needs affirmative action.
No, no, no, no.
Science, this was published on February 3rd, 2022, just in time for Black History Month.
Let me just make sure I have the author of the piece.
H. Holden Thorpe.
This was published at Science.org under the title of Science Needs Affirmative Action.
I'll just read bits and pieces, a couple paragraphs real quick, of where we are.
As science struggles to correct systemic racism in the laboratory and throughout academia in the United States, external forces press on, making it even more difficult to achieve equity on all fronts, including among scientists.
The latest example is the decision by the U.S.
Supreme Court to hear cases brought against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Let's do it!
It is sometimes easy for scientists to let colleagues in other disciplines engage in a debate like this, but the dismantling of race-conscious admissions would deal another blow to equity in science.
Well, equity, of course, means equal outcomes, not equal opportunity.
Correct.
So, he's right.
Correct.
The SCOTUS has protected affirmative action in the past, but the Court's current majority of conservative justices could mean the end of the program.
This is no time for the scientific community to stay silent.
It is a crucial moment for science to mobilize against this latest assault on diversity.
He then goes on to talk about how Affirmative action corrects a market failure.
A market failure?
A market failure.
You mean what we would ordinarily see as a supply and demand failure?
Yeah, this is from Patrick Henry, the W.R.
Berkeley Professor of Economics and Finance at New York University.
He said, quote, as I said, affirmative action corrects a market failure.
Talent is broadly distributed across the U.S.
population, but opportunity is not.
This process gives deserving students a chance that they might not otherwise have, adding excellence to the higher education system.
It also acknowledges that all students have an equal opportunity to excel at objective measures like standardized tests and And grades.
But not all students.
Not all students, correct.
Not all students.
And it levels the playing field by giving students and universities the chance to spotlight other important attributes and factors in the admissions process.
You know, when they are radically tilting the playing field, inevitably they say they are leveling the playing field.
Correct.
Oh dear.
Okay.
Yes.
Yes, this black door, back door.
You know, that means everybody's on the same playing field.
Okay.
No, and I mean, again, the rest of the piece is just, it seems so misplaced to have it on science.org that you have this push for diversity, inclusion, and equity as the highest priority of science.
That's right.
But that's where we are here in 2022 in America.
That's right.
If airplanes fall out of the sky, if surgeons kill you rather than cure you, it can all boil down to this, my friend.
And you say, stay out of Canada.
Don't get sick in Canada.
Yes.
Well, but see, that's the United States.
I know.
That's what I'm implying.
Well, here's a sickening story about Virginia Military Institute.
It will make changes to its student-run honor court to make the system fairer to cadets accused of lying, cheating, stealing, or other transgressions that can lead to expulsion.
Got to make it fairer.
VMA VMI detailed the reforms in a progress report on Friday in response to a state-ordered investigation into racism and sexism at the nation's oldest state-supported military college.
There was a 70-page report.
It would be edifying, I'm sure, to drag myself through this, but I'm not sure I could stand it.
It describes initiatives approved, enacted, or begun last year, including mandatory diversity, equity, inclusion training for administrators, And members of VMI's Board of Visitors.
That's the Board of Directors.
I think that's a quaint southern expression for the term, Board of Visitors.
And there will be changes to the Lexington School One Strike and You're Out Honor Court system.
What was the problem?
I bet you can guess because you have a definitely race-realist turn of mind, Mr. Kersey, but the problem was Between the fall of 2017 and the spring of 2020, although black cadets made up only 6% of the student body, they accounted for 43% of those expelled for honor code violations.
Six.
Forty-three percent.
Holy cow.
Six versus 43.
Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh.
The bells began to ring.
You know, alarm, alarm.
And so that just clearly means it's all unfair.
So the law firm hired by the state, the state hires a law firm.
I'm sure it's a law firm full of very fair-minded, absolutely un-woke, sleepy white shoe lawyers.
No, not at all.
A lot of BIPOCs, I bet.
Hired by the state to investigate the sexism and racism recommended in its final report that the college consider changing its policy of allowing convictions without unanimous verdicts by student juries.
And another key honor system change will allow cadets to use pro bono lawyers during their trials.
VMI will drop a list of pro bono lawyers willing to work with cadet defendants.
I wonder if they'll work only with BIPOC defendants.
We'll see.
I bet that's possible.
The college also said And this I find curdling.
That it will begin retaining key demographic data to monitor the fairness of the system.
Key demographic data.
Demographic data does not monitor the fairness of the system.
Key demographic data, if you tried to monitor the fairness of laws against murder, for example, and you thought you were going to figure that out by monitoring demographic data, what would you come up with?
You'd think the law was unfair.
In any case, VMI's chief diversity officer.
VMA has a chief diversity officer.
They don't have a statue of Stonewall Jackson anymore.
But they've got Jameika Love.
Jameika Love.
Jameika, who knows how she pronounces her name.
She is an African-Americaness.
But she says the report will help facilitate annual reviews of the honor system.
Make sure that black people are not out on their ear the way they should be.
Demographic data will determine the fairness.
That's like saying, yes, the racial mix, oh boy.
The report went on to note the school's decision to remove many of the tributes to Stonewall Jackson.
Well, that will solve the problem of cheating, won't it?
Including his 108-year-old statue that stood at the campus' center, plus his name emblazoned on student barracks.
Gone!
I wonder if they're going to have, I don't know, Tubman Barracks instead.
But VMI is still deciding whether to preserve other Confederate tributes, including an award and another monument partially named after and honoring Jackson, and a bronze statue of its first superintendent, Francis H. Smith.
Now, do you know what he did bad?
I'm afraid to ask.
He was the commander at John Brown's execution.
I'm being a little unfair.
He also enslaved nine people.
What you said first, the former is probably a greater transgressor than the latter, considering John Brown is such a saint now.
But you know, the way they describe it, he enslaved nine, it's as if he voyaged all the way to Africa, and he ventured into the jungles, and he enslaved, personally enslaved nine people.
Personally procured.
The school also detailed many trainings for cadets meant to crack down on racist jokes, slurs, misogyny, and sexual violence.
And the law firm Barnes and Thornburg, that's the one that the state hired.
Now this was hired, of course, under the previous administration.
I wonder if the current administration will say, uh, we're going to retract this whole thing.
I bet not.
I don't think that Mr. Junkin has that kind of balls.
In the final investigative report released in June, the law firm said the school suffered from overall racist and sexist culture.
It will likely follow through on its promised reforms only if forced to do so.
Oh boy.
Now, unbeknownst to me, I was looking through the VMI website.
The superintendent of VMI is a black man.
Really?
Yes.
Cedric Wims is his name.
So I guess he's contributing to this racist and sexist environment.
Oh dear.
My, how VMI has fallen.
It's just, it's revolting.
I'll run out of time.
Well, just a British story here.
There's a light-skinned British actress by the name of Tandiwi Newton.
And she's going to be in a new film called God's Country.
God's Country.
God's Country.
It's been adapted from a short story by James Lee Burke, of whom I've never heard, but the lead has been swapped.
In the short story, it's an older white man, now it's a young black woman.
Of course.
The great replacement in film.
Gotta be, yes.
But, not content with the old white man being erased in the movie, Newton, Miss Newton, is seriously upset that she's not black enough.
She's light-skinned.
Have you actually watched the video where she apologized profusely?
I did watch.
Yes, yes.
She says, I'm sorry that I'm the one chosen.
My mama looks like you.
My mama looks like you.
Because she's had a white father, you see.
Correct.
Yes.
My mama looks like you.
Apparently devastated that daddy was a honky.
It's been very painful to have women Who look like my mom feel I'm not representing them.
That I'm taking something from them.
Now what is she taking from the old white man who's supposed to have that character?
Are we supposed to worry about that?
He's irrelevant in this discussion.
He is irrelevant.
That I'm taking their men, taking their work, taking their truth.
I didn't mean to!
In the movie, her character confronts two white hunters that she catches on her property.
Yes, this black woman, I don't know where this is set, but probably in England, and she's got a property with game on it, and two white hunters show up.
I'm sure they will be sufficiently demonized and monsterized.
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