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Feb. 24, 2022 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to Radio Renaissance.
I am Jared Taylor with American Renaissance.
The date is February 23rd, anno domini, 2022.
With me is my indispensable co-host, Paul Kersey.
Always delighted to have you with me.
Now, we will begin with comments.
A comment from a listener in Winchester, Virginia, who says that his city has sadly become a refugee resettlement city.
Over 60 Afghans and Central Americans have enrolled in just one elementary school since September.
I'm working part-time as an interpreter with the ESL program, he says.
He does not indicate what language.
And I had the misfortune of attending a training workshop at a local high school.
They discussed in detail strategies teachers and administrators can put in place to embrace and welcome the Afghans.
G-A-N-X.
This is the new way of referring to them, I suppose.
They addressed how to support these new arrivals who speak not one word of English, how to adjust school lunches for their Muslim tastes, set rooms aside for washing and praying, make arrangements for Ramadan, buy translation software, etc, etc.
This despite the fact that the schools are facing terrible financial deficits and are facing ruin.
But everything for the Afghans.
Another comment.
Mr. Kersey, you had mentioned Fort Apache, the Bronx.
The movie, the 1981 movie, that's different from Fort Apache, 1948, with John Wayne.
And you had pointed out that it was hard to find.
Well, our listeners have found it all, right?
It can be bought on Amazon as a DVD.
Also, it can be found for free on YouTube.
Yeah, I really want to thank the outpouring of support we got from From our listeners, this is reminding me when we were still on YouTube, and the channel was growing by leaps and bounds each week.
This was very encouraging, because again, there was a book called Fort Apache, The Bronx, and that's what Paul Newman based this, or that's what the movie with Paul Newman was based on.
I haven't had a chance to watch it yet, but I want to think The many people.
Yes, many people explain this to it.
Now, I took a look at the YouTube version.
On a small handheld screen, it looks okay, but it is somewhat low-res.
So, if you watch it on a big screen, it seems a little bit foggy.
Now, there's also a version of the video on something called OK Video.
I'd never heard of that.
It, too, is low-resolution, but you can watch it for free.
Now, Mr. Kersey assures us that it's a classic worthy of your attention.
Now, another listener sent us a screenshot from his cell phone from Uber Eats, and it says, Black Restaurant Now.
See what local black-owned restaurants are cooking up this weekend.
So if you are an Uber Eats eater, you can eat black.
Well, it's funny.
That has the adverse effect of telling you which restaurants not to eat at.
If you go into Uber Eats and it says, hey, this restaurant is black owned.
Well, you know, if we're going to have to select based on that, I'm going to go and not choose to eat there.
Mr. Kersey, I suspect that it probably drives a certain number of orders their way.
It would be interesting to see the data on that, wouldn't it?
But in any case, this was something that popped up on his cell phone.
I suppose it's a celebration of Black History Month.
Maybe not.
Maybe this is just a constant reminder how to eat black.
Another comment, another comment.
We had talked about how green was my valley.
We did.
And apparently we passed along a mistake from the person who'd recommended it.
The author is not Thomas Llewellyn.
The author is Richard Llewellyn.
Even in small matters, we wish to get things right.
So thank you for that correction.
And now yet another.
This is a skeptical comment.
We had talked about Patterson High School in Baltimore, where a very substantial number of students were reading at the kindergarten and early elementary level.
This man writes and says, the Patterson High School kids can't read at a kindergarten level?
I doubt that.
I have worked in Baltimore schools.
I have never met a Baltimore teenager who could not read no matter what his race.
So, there you go.
That's one man's opinion.
Now, the source for that story, as I recall, wanted to remain anonymous because the source feared for his or her job.
But in any case, I think it's interesting to get that perspective.
Perhaps the source was wrong.
And another question.
This is a bit of a goofy question, frankly.
During the Beijing Olympics, I couldn't help but notice the majority of white, let's see, the majority of winter Olympians are white people.
Why are white people attracted to extreme sports?
Well, I suspect the answer is they're attracted to sports in the snow because they're more likely to live in places where there is snow.
That is just my suspicion.
Seems like an obvious answer to me.
Seems clear to me.
Now, it is true that white people tend to be quite adventuresome.
I would bet on a per capita basis they're more likely to do parachuting and bungee jumping than blacks or Hispanics, but that may be a function of wealth also.
Did you watch any of the Beijing Olympics?
Only a few very tiny highlights.
Okay.
No, I'm not much of an Olympics watcher.
But as we continue our special coverage of Black History Month, this will be our last this year of special coverage of Black History Month.
We will regret it.
We will have to move on.
We just won't talk about black people at all for the rest of the year.
Right, Mr. Kersey?
You might be right.
In any case, over 30 House Democrats have signed onto a bill that would declare war on racism.
Had you heard about this?
The key sponsors include Congressman Ilhan Omar, Maxine Waters, Rashida Tlaib, and the January 6th Committee Chairman Benny Thompson, all BIPOCs.
It's now been referred to the Committee on the Judiciary for deliberation.
Now, let me quote from this bill.
Declaring unconditional war on racism and invidious discrimination and providing for the establishment of a cabinet level department of reconciliation charged with eliminating racism and invidious discrimination.
A cabinet level department?
A brand new department.
Department of Reconciliation.
This word is used far too often, Mr. Taylor, but I think the right word is Orwellian term.
Well, it's all reconciliation and feel-goodness.
Now, it claims that systemic and institutionalized racism and invidious discrimination, invidious discrimination seems to be the new buzzword.
I hadn't heard that before.
Not just discrimination, it's invidious discrimination, exists in virtually all areas of American life.
And the House of Representatives also, quote, declare unconditional war on racism and invidious discrimination in America and provide the resources and funding for their defeat.
Unconditional war.
Unconditional war means take no prisoners, offer no terms.
Black flag's up, pal.
Black flag is up in their eyes.
That's right.
Take no prisoners.
The bill calls for this cabinet level department charged with ending racism and invidious discrimination.
Developing and coordinating the implementation of a comprehensive national strategy to eliminate racism and, guess what, invidious discrimination.
So there you go.
And the agency's budget would be set at at least 10% of the Defense Department budget.
Which currently stands at $715 billion.
So, it would be splashing out at least $71.5 billion in its unconditional war on racism.
Well, invidious discrimination and racism is a one-way street flowing directly from white people to all BIPOCs.
So, I guess the only way, shape, and form is for all white people to volunteer for the glorious American empire and go sacrifice themselves for the cause of Ukrainian nationalism in the face of Now that is a non-sequitur, for heaven's sake.
Is that an example of invidious discrimination?
No, no.
Clearly, clearly in this declaration of war, we are the enemy, Mr. Percy.
We are the one and only enemy.
Oh boy, they spent $71.5 billion in their war to the knife against you and me.
Boy, oh boy.
Now, as we continue with our celebration of Black History Month, there was an unusual celebration in Midvale, Utah, when Sadat Johnson, age 27, of Salt Lake City, with both his 4-year-old child and 3-year-old child in the backseat of his car, drove up to McDonald's.
He was annoyed when the order he had placed in the drive-thru line turned out to be wrong, and he brandished a gun and said, get it right.
Employees promised to get it right, but in the meantime, they called the police.
Okay.
Yes.
Now, Mr. Johnson had pulled up in front of the restaurant and was waiting for his order.
But officers, when they showed up, they said the man was non-compliant.
And after they issued several commands asking him to get out of his car, they opened the door and hauled him out.
And as they were getting the man out of the car, witnesses at the scene say they heard the father tell a child in the backseat to shoot.
And an officer turned around and back toward the car and saw a gun pointing out the back window.
The officer swiped the gun to the side as it was fired.
And it turns out the person firing the gun was the four-year-old.
The four-year-old fired a gun because his dad said to.
His dad said to.
Yes.
Now, as it turns out, they tried very hard to conceal the race of the perps here, but I tracked them down.
And alas, they are our African-American fellow citizens.
Was he trying to get a McRib, which is a little seasonal?
Well, I don't know what the order was.
Apparently they just got it wrong and he decided he would make them hop two and pulled out a gun to encourage them.
But a four-year-old, yes, as the twig is bent so groweth the tree.
Do you recognize that line?
A vague recollection of it.
It's not the Bible, but it is the Bible.
It is the Bible.
I can't remember what book.
It could be Psalms, it could be Proverbs, it could be any number of places.
I'm sure a lot of our listeners around the world want to know an answer to this question.
When was the last time you went to the Golden Arches?
I?
Gosh.
I don't know.
Oh, you know, let's see.
I do remember.
I was with a French friend and he had made a point of traveling the United States and he said the Wi-Fi is great at McDonald's.
So he pulled over at McDonald's and we Wi-Fi'd for a while.
So that was, oh, probably five or six years ago.
Okay.
But I went through the golden arches, yep.
Now, the fact is, Black History Month was celebrated in a very vigorous way at McDonald's.
I will just read, don't want to go into the details here, I will just read the headlines of a number of Black History Month celebrations at McDonald's.
Here's one.
Furious woman rams mother-of-two's car outside California McDonald's drive-thru for cutting her off Before running her over.
Oh, yes.
Yes, a black perp.
Afraid so.
Now, here's another one.
Terica Clay, drive-thru customer.
30.
Shoots McDonald's worker over French fry order.
This was in St.
Louis, Missouri.
St.
Louis.
Yes, another.
You know, got the order on.
Kabam!
This time, you know, they didn't just wave the gun around.
She just opened fire.
This is a black lady.
Here's another one.
18-year-old charged in York Street murder at McDonald's in Aiken.
That was in South Carolina.
This time, this was an actual outright murder.
Two young black gentlemen.
And here's another one.
Convicted teen murderer caught at a Kent McDonald's parking lot.
That was in Washington State.
Another celebration of Black History Month.
And here, three suspects sought in McDonald's shooting.
This is in Gainesville, Texas.
And did you know they even get black history, whether they want it or not, in Britain?
Go ahead.
Here's one.
McDonald's defends security guard after videos appear online of trouble with teenagers outside Maidstone McDonald's.
So the variable in all these cases is McDonald's, that's the real estate, but black people are the participants in these incidents.
That's right.
All of these were gathered and collected and curated, to use the fashionable term, by one of our listeners.
Sounds like invidious discrimination.
It sounds like invidious detection.
In any case, as we regretfully, with tears in our eyes, leave behind Black History Month, do, do, Mr. Kersey, tell us about big doings, big doings with V-Dare.
Well, there are big doings with V-Dare.
Thank you for asking, because this is a story that Ann Coulter utilized her column, which consequently, I believe, That cannot be carried at AR, but we shouldn't talk about that, I guess.
But what we will talk about is the fact that she did write about a pretty important case that hopefully will go to the Supreme Court.
Well, it's been accepted, is it not?
Oh, no, the certain has not been granted.
It's not yet.
That's right.
That could come imminently in the next few days.
So, of course, we all know what VDARE is named for, the first white child The first European born in US soil.
The first child was named Virginia Dare, not V-Dare.
Yes, V-Dare for short.
So what we have here, we have this amazing story where they were going to have a conference in the Cheyenne Mountain Resort in Colorado Springs.
A local mayor, John Suthers, issued a public announcement accusing VDARE of engaging in hate speech and urging the resort to cancel, but also vowing to deny any support or resources at this event if the resort honored the contract.
Basically meaning that if there was going to be a bunch of people who were going to protest, as American Renaissance had happened to them over the years, dating back into the mid-2000s, when a number of the conferences that you guys put on It was probably 2006, 2008 one in D.C.
where there was a significant Antifa presence.
Yes.
But basically this guy's saying the cops aren't going to help you out if anything happens.
You're on your own.
And, I mean, doesn't... That does strike me as illegal.
That would, yeah.
So, what ends up happening the next day, the resort cancelled the contract and per agreement, they did pay a significant kill fee.
So, good job, Lydia, negotiating that.
Viet Air sued the mayor alleging a violation of First Amendment rights.
So, here's the frightening part.
The U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, one Barack Obama-appointed judge and two George W. Bush-appointed judges, One did dissent.
They found for the mayor on the grounds that it's possible that the resort canceled not because the mayor announced that there would be no police or fire protection, but because of Charlottesville.
What?
What's that got to do with it?
Charlottesville had just happened, if you recall.
Oh, you mean so the argument is they shut down the conference, not because the mayor had threatened to withhold police protection, but on their own initiative.
Correct.
So, as Ann Coulter writes, if the Supreme Court does not agree to take up this case and brutally slap down the 10th Circuit, Monitor?
free speech will be officially limited to speech acceptable to Antifa, working hand-in-hand
Hmm.
with liberal mayors and governors." And then, of course, Ann Coulter goes on to explain
that as the 10th Court explained, conservative speakers should have no expectation of police
and fire protection. Specifically, the majority opinion declared, quote, what VDARE wanted
it had no right to demand, municipal resources to monitor a private entity's private event.
Monitor? Hmm. Correct. Well, they just wanted the municipality to enforce the law, presumably.
Correct.
And then, as Anne points out, this is the most significant part of her column on this, VDARE versus Colorado Springs.
Quote, henceforth, blue states and cities will be free to shut down conservative speakers, MAGA meetings, Daughters of the American Revolution gatherings, or anti-mask protests.
Some jackass mayor will claim that conservatives are threatening to engage in hate speech and deny them police and fire protection.
And then, as she writes, then sit back and wait for the accolades from the media.
Wow.
Well, you know, that's a little bit like the police announcing, OK, this Jared Taylor, he is a bad, bad guy.
And if you break into his house, we are just going to look the other way.
Correct.
Wow.
Well, it may come to that.
It's not that way yet.
I don't think.
I think they're going to come if I call.
America is not Canada yet.
We know about how crazy things are getting there in Canada, but this is an important case.
Well, Godspeed, V. Dare, and let's hope that the court accepts this case, grants cert, and that justice is done.
Yeah, I agree.
I totally agree.
Well, moving on to Louisville, our listeners aware of the assassination attempt made on the Louisville mayoral candidate, Craig Greenberg, Quintez Brown, one of our African American fellow citizens, walked into his office, blazed away, tried to kill him, unsuccessfully, and police have yet provided details about the possible motive.
Now, some facts have come out about young Quintez.
He worked for the Louisville Courier Journal as an intern and as an editorial columnist.
He was an MLK scholar at UofL.
I suspect that one for qualifications is heavy pigmentation to be an MLK scholar, but I could be mistaken.
He also appeared on MSNBC alongside Joy Reid during the coverage of March for Our Lives, which had to do with a movement for black liberation.
He was also nominated and selected to attend the launch of the Obama Foundation's My Brother's Keeper.
So he's quite the big bug in the young black civil rights movement.
This in 2014.
In 2020, he was honored by the same foundation's rising MBK, My Brother's Keeper, rising initiative, which seeks to combat America's widespread persistent social inequities, which are rooted in structural institutional racism.
They just take that for granted.
And he's busy fighting it.
Well, maybe he thought by blowing away Craig Greenberg, he was fighting institutional racism.
Do you think his acts of trying to assassinate this Democratic candidate for mayor of Louisville, is that what the Department of Reconciliation has in mind when they're going after invidious discrimination?
Who knows?
Who knows?
Just a queer.
It could be.
It could be.
You know, that's one way to fight racism is to just murder every racist in sight.
And we know all whites are racist.
So there you go.
And at the time when he won this award, he said, I better my community for the boys that look just like me by changing the narrative around violence, masculinity, and professionalism.
Well, it seems to me he confirms the narrative.
In any case, with an exclamation point, as you know, he was bailed out for $100,000.
The BLM folks just write, oh, who do we write the check out to?
Those guys are swimming in money.
And so he walked free two days later, much to the chagrin and astonishment of Craig Greenberg, the target who appears not to have been reading the newspapers.
This stuff happens all over the country, Craig, darling.
So don't be surprised if it happened to you.
Now, all of this is really a wind-up for a Las Vegas Sun editorial about this little incident.
The newspaper wrote about, quote, a rise in threats against politicians fueled by increasingly violent rhetoric coming from extremist Republicans.
I read the editorial.
It was shocking.
Blame it on extremist Republicans.
The far right, yeah.
Wow.
Following a flurry of criticism, the Las Vegas Sun updated the editorial to say that the lad was involved in Black Lives Matter and gun safety movements, but it by no means led it to withdraw its condemnation of the idea, or promotion of the idea, that all this came from the violent rhetoric coming from extremist Republicans.
As they wrote, given that the GOP has largely fueled this problem, it holds the lion's share of the responsibility for addressing it.
You broke it, you buy it, baby.
So, the Las Vegas Sun is run by idiots.
Pretty much every newspaper is run by, well, Sorry, I probably shouldn't have said that, but let us just put it gently.
They are mistaken.
They are mistaken.
Moving on to Kim Potter.
Kim Potter, of course.
She was a 26-year-old veteran police officer.
In, uh, I believe the town was Brooklyn something.
It was, uh, Brooklyn Center.
It was a suburb of Minneapolis.
It's a 26-year veteran.
Yes, 26-year veteran of the Brooklyn Center.
In any case, the police forced this Minneapolis suburb.
Of course, she was trying to arrest Duante Wright.
He had an outstanding warrant for a weapons possession charge.
They tried to arrest him when he pulled away, and she reached for her taser, or she thought she reached for her taser.
She said, I'm going to taser you, I'm going to taser you, but mistakenly grabbed a gun, shot him, and he died.
She was absolutely heartbroken.
She was, it was clearly, clearly a mistake.
Now, Duante Wright was really a fellow whose death we should not mourn.
With too many tears, he was involved in the shooting of two of his school friends, a home burglary, and had previously assaulted and robbed a young woman at gunpoint.
Jennifer LeMay, another African-American fellow citizen, told the media, he's an evil human being, worse than a monster, a waste of space on earth.
So she certainly shed no tears for young Dewante.
Judged him by the content of his character, right?
She judged him by the content of his character.
She said that her son, Caleb, Now 18, was left permanently disabled after young Duante shot him in the head at a gas station.
Jesus.
In any case, Kim Potter was convicted of manslaughter.
At the sentencing, members of the New Black Panthers held up signs with Potter's photo reading, Shameless.
Maximum Sentence.
On the other hand, there were counter-demonstrators.
When's the last time, when's the last time in a black-white case you've heard of demonstrators demonstrating in favor of the white person?
This, to me, is a remarkable breakthrough.
Maybe Darren Wilson?
I don't know.
He never went to trial.
That's right.
He wasn't indicted.
But were there white people or white Hispanics out in front of the courtroom?
For Darren Wilson, there definitely were because people wore the rubber bands that said, I am Darren Wilson.
Like the Livestrong Well, but did they actually go to court?
I don't remember.
I'm talking about some demonstration in front of a courtroom.
Oh, there definitely were for Darren Wilson.
It never went that far, but there were people out there.
I would say Darren Wilson did, yes.
And then why is his name slipping my mind?
The Trayvon Martin case, the white Hispanic.
George Zimmerman.
George Zimmerman.
When that trial was going on, I don't recall any white Hispanics out there saying, justice for George.
But in any case, there were people out there saying, justice for Kim Potter.
They held up signs that said, free Kim Potter.
We love you, Kim.
Support the police.
What do you know?
White people are in action.
On the other hand, when time came for the victim's statements, the victim's mother, Katie, She looked Kim Potter in the face and said, I will never forgive you for what you have stolen from us.
And then addressing the dear departed Duonte, she said, Duonte, I will continue to fight in your name until driving while black is no longer a death sentence.
driving while black. So she believes, or at least she pretends to believe,
that Kim Potter shot him just because he was black and deliberately shot him.
How many black people do you think in the United States have driver's license?
Oh, millions.
Okay, so every day millions of black people drive home from work.
Yes, and they're risking death sentence.
Oh, they're risking, okay.
Now, Duante's brother, he says, his name is Damiq, D-A-M-I.
Damiq and Duante.
D-A-U-N-T-E.
I guess it's Dante.
He said, we know the charge was manslaughter, but we believe what happened to Dante was murder.
Murder.
Do they really believe this stuff?
Yes, they do.
Yes, they do.
Good grief.
I mean, who could possibly believe that this woman set out to kill that guy?
It's just incredible.
Because they believe that all cops, when they wake up in the morning, they brush their teeth.
Before they even brush their teeth, before they have a cup of coffee, before they put
on their uniform, they're thinking, gosh, how many black people can I shoot today?
How many black people am I going to make sure confirm the stereotype of driving while black
is actually a truism?
Yeah, driving while black is a death sentence.
Exactly.
Wow.
Wow.
Well, in this case, the judge, she was an Asian judge, Judge Chu.
She really, I think, took a remarkably brave stand.
She did not appease the mama bear who thought that this was murder.
She said a custodial sentence was necessary.
But then she gave a speech that was very sympathetic to the police and to Potter in particular.
She drew her taser legitimately to protect a fellow officer on the other side of the vehicle who could have been run over.
And in other words, tasering the guy was a legitimate decision.
There is no question that Ms.
Potter is extremely remorseful.
Officer Potter's conduct was significantly less serious than your typical manslaughter case.
This is a cop who made a tragic mistake.
Her conduct cries out for a sentence significantly below the guidelines.
Imagine Judge Walmsley in the Armory case having a sensible reaction of that kind.
But no, but no.
Now, so, she sentenced Potter for 24 months behind bars, less than the maximum of 7 years, but she'll serve only 14 months thanks to an 8-month good behavior concession from Judge Regina Chu and also 2 months time served.
So, she's going to spend 14 months behind bars.
And, you know, this is obviously a terrible, this is a mistake.
People use the word tragedy all the time when really it's just a massacre or some utter act of brutality.
This is a tragedy.
This is a mistake, a terrible mistake.
Well, you mentioned her reaction immediately.
It was remorseful from the moment she realized the mistake that was made.
She burst into tears.
It was, oh gosh.
This was one of those stories that came about, what was it, the first few months after the George Floyd revolution.
And this was during the trial of Derek Chauvin.
Yeah, that's right.
They came at a terrible time.
If memory serves, they had to put a fence around her home because people threatened to break it.
I think she had to move home.
They put this massive fence structure that looked like something that the Biden administration would put up around the Capitol.
Exactly.
But anyway, now this is really quite sickening.
The Attorney General, the Prosecutor, Matthew Franks, said that a longer sentence was necessary to heal the community.
In other words, it's not a question of what Potter did.
It's what restive blacks require in order to be healed.
That's what he's saying.
At least he was honest about it.
Now, there was a bit of excitement in the courtroom.
Diamond Wright, Duante's sister, ended up in fisticuffs with Chena Whitaker, the mother of Duante's two-year-old son.
And so, Diamond Wright was put in handcuffs.
And let away.
I'm not sure.
Maybe the one stepped on the other's shoe or somebody insulted somebody's weave.
In any case, Aubrey Wright, the dead man's father, walked out of the courtroom saying, I feel we was tricked.
People are laughing at us because this lady got a slap on the wrist.
And we still every night sitting around crying, waiting for my son to come home.
Do you think they sit around every night crying, waiting for Dante, who was this absolute slug of a human being?
I don't think they ever spent one night crying over the fact that Dante was late coming home.
I suspect not often.
When he was alive.
Yes, yes.
But now, oh boy, those tears, those tears are really worth shedding now.
Well, yes, Judge Chu.
A hundred protesters gathered outside her house in Minneapolis and yelled and screamed at this very sensible sentence.
And, just as an afterthought, a beauty supply store in Brooklyn Center, yes, here's the name of the suburb, I did get that right, lucky me, they decided to loot that.
It's probably a wig store in the neighborhood.
Probably because Diamond got her weave taken off.
They were trying to get a new one, but she was let out of the slammer.
Yes, and other stores may have been struck as well.
But just, you know, strike while the iron is hot.
In any case, I believe you have some news about Ahmaud Arbery for us.
Yeah, you know, two years ago we are broadcasting this podcast on February 23rd, 2022.
Of course, February 23rd will now be known in Georgia as Ahmaud Arbery Day.
State Rep Sandra Scott, a black Democrat who represents Clayton County, Introduced a resolution designating February 23rd, quote, annually in the state of Georgia as the Ahmaud Arbery Day, end quote.
The date was chosen because that was the day in 2020 that 25-year-old Arbery was shot and killed, as this story from Fox 5 Atlanta says, while jogging in Glynn County, Georgia.
On that day, father and son Greg and Travis McMichael armed themselves and used a pickup truck to chase Aubrey after spotting him running in their coastal Georgia neighborhood.
A neighbor, Roddy Bryan, William Roddy Bryan, joined the chase in his own truck and recorded cell phone video of Travis McMichael blasting Aubrey with his shotgun.
Is that what happened?
Well, there's nothing absolutely wrong there, but it leaves out so much that is in effect wrong.
No arrests were made until the video leaked online two months later.
We know all this.
Yeah, I know. I know. I know.
So of course, we know that they were just convicted of murder last fall at the end of 2021,
and they were just convicted of hate crimes, I believe, earlier this week.
So the resolution which passed, you know, Republicans actually controlled the state legislature.
Do you know if there are any votes against?
I didn't see a record of the vote.
I didn't see, I did not see that either.
It probably passed on voice vote or something.
Probably.
But the resolution describes Aubrey as a loving son, brother, uncle, grandson, nephew, cousin, and friend.
How do they even know that?
And is that even true?
Who left an impact on countless Georgians and Americans, Mr. Taylor.
The resolution called Aubrey's Ready for this?
The resolution called Aubrey one of the state's most distinguished citizens.
I saw that in black and white.
I couldn't believe it.
And declared that he suffered a senseless loss of his life because of the color of his skin.
They called him a compassionate, generous man.
The resolution also encourages The resolution also encourages members of the Georgia community to run 2.23 miles every February 23rd to advocate for racial equality.
And in the memory of one of Georgia's most distinguished citizens.
Ahmed Aubrey.
Put him on Stone Mountain, Mr. Taylor.
I guess so.
This guy was a petty criminal, a shoplifter.
He was known as the jogger among people that ran convenience stores.
He'd come jogging out, do a little stretching exercises, hop inside, and then make off full tilt with whatever he wanted.
He's got an arrest record.
He was arrested for carrying a gun at a high school sporting event, resisted arrest, ran away from the police.
His mother had to call the cops on him.
He was so violent with her.
Oh boy.
And this guy is one of Georgia's most distinguished citizens.
This will warm your heart.
The bill was co-sponsored by three Democrats and one Republican.
That's reconciliation for you, just like they want it in Congress.
Truth, justice, it's the new American way.
Well, tell you what, by contrast, let me tell you about a vote that took place in the Mississippi State Senate 100 years ago.
It's quite edifying.
The Senate voted on February 20th, 1922.
Almost exactly 100 years ago, the vote was 25 to 9 to ask the federal government to trade some of the World War I debt owed by European countries.
They were going to forgive some of the European countries' World War I debt in exchange for a piece of colonial Africa.
Any part would do.
And then the government would ship all of Mississippi's black people to a final home for the American Negro.
This was the idea, and the proposal had some black supporters.
Black separatists who preferred to move to Africa.
And as you know, World War I devastated Europe, and it left many of the European allies deeply in debt to Washington.
A total of $10.35 billion at that time.
It was equivalent to $174 billion today.
And although those countries were short on cash, they had plenty of land in Africa.
And so, as the Bill put it, Bill said, it's our most earnest desire to reach a just, fair, amicable, and fair settlement to the Negro question.
And it included a request that President Warren Harding, who was present at the time, acquire by treaty, negotiation, or otherwise from our late war allies sufficient territory on the continent of Africa to make a suitable, proper, and final home for the American Negro, where under the tutelage of the American government, he can develop for himself a great republic to become in time a free and sovereign state and take its place at the Council Board of the Nations of the World.
It's a very noble gesture.
Yes, a noble gesture.
And Mississippi's black residents actually made up 52% of the state population, so that would have cut the state's population in half.
Negro World, the newspaper published by Marcus Garvey of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, embraced the proposal.
Hurrah for Senator McCollum, it said.
He was the man who proposed the bill.
It went on to say, work of Universal Negro Improvement Association bearing fruit.
It had been their idea all along.
Now, what happened to this bill?
The Senate passed it, but the House voted it down.
40 to 32.
The reason was the people in the House argued that this would deprive the state of useful manpower.
So, there you go.
It was voted down.
It never It never emerged as an official message to President Harding.
Now, interestingly enough, in 1939, that was only 17 years later, no, 17 years later, Senator Thomas Bilbo of Mississippi, he carried a colonization forward on a new generation proposing what he called the Greater Liberia Act.
It was modeled on Senator McCollum's 1922 resolution offering France and Britain relief for their war debts in exchange for 400,000 square miles adjoining Liberia.
And Greater Liberia was to be run by a youth military general after blacks were sent there.
So that sort of thing that they were doing a hundred years ago, but now we have Ahmaud Arbery Day in perpetuity.
Things have indeed changed.
Things have indeed changed.
I'd say so.
Oh dear, oh dear.
Now let's see, what's our next story?
Now I thought we had, well okay, Well, you know, we have the issue... Have you heard, by the way, of that?
I was just looking up some of the facts about that.
Did you know about that?
No, I didn't know about that.
I wonder if other state legislatures and maybe Georgia a hundred years ago had the same thing.
I bet you could loo around and find all kinds of ideas.
Who wrote the book, You and Segregation?
Was that Talmadge?
No, You and Segregation?
I don't know that book.
Okay.
But let's see, you know, more racism.
Racism is on the march.
On February 11th, The news frantically publicized yet another racist incident that has rocked the Sacramento City Unified School District as hateful graffiti was found at C.K.
McClatchy High School.
And at that time, it was unclear what the graffiti said and where exactly it was found, but the administrator said it had been removed and the police had launched an investigation.
Well, unfortunately, you see, back in November, racist graffiti had included the n-word and was spray-painted near the parking spot of a black vice-principal.
Police are still investigating, have not found the perp.
I wonder how many hours and hours of manpower they've developed, they've poured into that.
Well, Then, as it turned out, Superintendent Jorge Aguilar spoke out at a meeting saying this offensive incident serves as another reminder that we need to have a reckoning on race at all levels in our district.
He said the district will take appropriate action with anyone found involved.
And activists marched and bellowed and roared and pranced and they waved signs that read, end anti-black hatred, no room for hate in front of the high school.
That was on February 11th.
Well, guess what happened on February 17th?
I've got an idea.
You've got a small idea.
Keep it to yourself.
Our listeners are all on the edges of their seats wondering what happened on February 17th.
Well, it turns out it was a black female student who wrote the words colored and white over two water fountains at McClatchy High School.
Now, the girl could not be identified for legal reasons, but she was caught on surveillance cameras and she confessed.
So, what sent people roaring into the street was the word colored over one fountain and white over another.
Mark Harris, the school district's race and equity monitor.
It has a race and equity monitor.
He is one of our African American fellow citizens.
He then told reporters at a press conference, it was a prank.
that went sideways. I don't believe those words on those water fountains were racist, he declared.
I do not believe they were hate crime or hate speech. Part of it, quite honestly,
is because the admitted perpetrator is a young African-American woman. So there you go. It
wasn't racist. It wasn't hate crime. It wasn't speech. It was a prank that went sideways.
She's absolved from any hoax at all, from any of the consequences of her actions.
Well, I doubt he would have said that if it had been a white, or an Asian, or a Hispanic.
But if you're black, you know, you cannot be racist by definition.
Especially during Black History Month.
Oh, that's true.
That's true.
Yes, yes, yes.
Well, apparently the district's race and equity monitor was flanked by local black leaders as he spoke at a press conference, urging the community to have patience and understanding.
And he said, it should be a moment for our community to come together and make sure this doesn't destroy this person's life.
Why isn't that, isn't that considerate of him?
This was not an overt, deliberate move to do something racist, destructive, negative, etc.
It was a prank, but it went sideways.
Now, school district authorities, however, said last week that the child will be disciplined.
They will remain focused on supporting the healing of students and staff who have been impacted.
And this I thought was very interesting.
Some black leaders said they didn't even trust the school district's investigation.
Voice of Youth CEO Barry Asius said, Officials are attempting to sweep this incident under the rug.
He called on the district authorities to release the video to prove that it was in fact a black student.
This guy doesn't believe it.
Well, in a statement, the district said, it's working with law enforcement and hired a lawyer focusing on social justice issues, implementing anti-racism training and promoting social emotional learning in the hope of preventing future similar incidents.
We don't want any more pranks that go sideways.
So we've got to hire lawyers, got to do anti-racism training all up and down the whole school.
So, there you go.
Well, Brother Kersey, tell me about Knoxville.
I'll be brief.
This is just one of those stories.
We all know, again, here we are two years after Ahmaud Arbery was apparently gunned down mercilessly by three ravenous whites in Georgia.
That's what we're going to learn every day moving forward at Ahmaud Arbery Day.
That's right.
And they have been convicted of a hate crime.
Correct.
Their motives have been plumbed.
Oh, by the way, if I may interject something here.
We hadn't had this on the agenda for tonight, but it is apparently true that they use the n-word from time to time on their social media.
Now, this, as you and I and our listeners probably know, this certainly by no means is proof beyond a reasonable doubt that they were motivated by race when he ran by.
They knew that this guy had been cited repeatedly, they had good reason to think that he was a trespasser and therefore a criminal, that he might be armed, but Watch out there, folks, if you are ever involved in anything at all.
If you have left the n-word anywhere in your social media or surrounding trail, Watch out.
We live in dangerous and, in fact, insane times, and a word or two like that can come back to cause you great harm.
They've not yet been sentenced, but they could get life sentences for this alleged hate crime that they are now officially guilty of.
Well, two of them have basically life sentences.
Oh yeah, they have them already.
Yes, but they can get more life sentences.
You know, be the first time you're black to have three life sentences.
Yeah, collect them.
At what point is uttering that word not just a death sentence put on death row?
Pretty nearly, pretty nearly.
So really, I'm serious, but no, I beg your pardon.
No, you don't need to apologize.
The main thing to point out is, here was the headline, we need justice, public health solutions being urged by black Knoxvillians for gun deaths.
They buried the lead here.
Past couple years have been just incredibly violent all across the country.
We know that at a macro level, this is one of those micro stories about what's happening in an area where black residents make up just 17% of Knoxville's population.
For our listeners who don't know, Knoxville is the capital of Tennessee.
It is the home of the University of Tennessee.
So, 17% of Knoxville's population is Black.
However, as they say, 75% of gun homicide victims in 2021 were Black.
Though, as stated, Blacks make up just 17% of the population.
Of course, they don't get into the details of Suspects, but they do point out, Mr. Taylor, that there is a low clearance rate.
So you can only imagine.
And this is one of the things that a prominent conservator and I were actually talking about the other day.
We were like, you know, how bad is the black gun crime problem in the country when so many of our major cities have clearance rates under 40-30%?
Nationwide for blacks, nationwide for blacks, it's about 40 percent.
So your chances are better than 50-50 shooting a black person.
You're going to get off with it.
Yeah, I mean, you're talking about places like New York and Chicago, you're talking about Atlanta.
These clearance rates are just abysmal.
You know, one of the stories we're going to talk about here in a second is Washington, D.C.
and maybe I should just go in, I'll just segue to this real quick because it's a very interesting story.
The National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform actually looked at the numbers for homicide and non-fatal shooting in D.C.
in 2019 and 2020.
They haven't done for 2021 yet, which was one of the most violent years on record.
And what they found is that the gun violence is tightly concentrated on a small number of high-risk black males, black adults, that share a common set of risk factors.
Buried in this article is the fact that DC now is about 39% white.
About 46% black, and yet they point out in this piece more than 90% of victims and suspects in 2019 and 2020 were black.
and suspects in 2019 and 2020 were black.
96% of suspects.
They actually have a chart that shows the breakdown of the demographics
and there's no white gun crime attributed for either the year 2020.
Not one white person?
No, there's not one suspect.
There are people who've been gunned down that are victims.
There are suspects that are Hispanic.
There are even suspects that are Asian.
Not one white?
You look at this chart, and it's like this anomaly, like, wait a second.
The city's 39% white and yet suspects, there's not a white suspect.
There must be something wrong.
This is a statistical error.
This can't be.
This is systemic racism.
If America really were a country that suffered from invidious discrimination, you would think that we would have the wherewithal to have the National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform Look at every major city's homicide and non-fatal shooting statistics.
And if a similar pattern emerged, perhaps...
We're not engaging in enough invidious discrimination.
But in Knoxville, I gather, they're going to declare a public health emergency?
This is just sort of magical thinking.
By declaring it a public health emergency, somehow that's going to make a difference?
Yeah, yeah.
You've got a rep who is, in what it's called, Mr. Taylor's, recognizing gun violence as a public health act.
This is happening all across the country.
They're pouring so much money into these problems, and as I think we talked about a couple weeks ago in Little Rock, Arkansas, one of the white representatives or white council members got in trouble because he said, listen, we've tried all this before.
We pour all this money in this, and it's basically hug-a-thug.
It doesn't work.
That's right.
And that's kind of where we are now.
Yes, I'm afraid that's exactly where we are.
Now, moving to New York City...
Mayor Eric Adams, the brand new black mayor.
He teamed up with New York Governor Kathy Hochul, the brand new lady governor of New York State, and they unveiled a new plan to combat violence on public transit.
They have a 17-page subway safety plan.
There will be more police and more mental health teams sweeping through the subway.
That's going to solve the problem.
Now apparently they will support people experiencing homelessness and serious mental illness on New York City subways.
Apparently they've become homeless shacks and mental hospitals because nobody's gonna stop you and make you pay your fare so anybody can wander on and it works and runs all night long.
They're also cracking down on anyone sleeping across multiple seats, exhibiting aggressive behavior to passengers or Creating an unsanitary environment in the subway system.
Public urination.
Or other things.
Now, as Adam said, it's cruel and inhumane to allow unhoused people to live on the subway.
Now, what an idea.
It's cruel and inhumane to let them live there.
They're unhoused people.
They're not bummers.
They're not whiners.
They're not loonies.
They're not layabouts.
They're not druggies.
They're unhoused.
I just love this development of euphemisms.
And, of course, if you had to pay a fare to get into the subway, it would keep them out.
Now, just as a sidelight, I looked up the latest report on people who don't pay fares.
And 8% of subway riders don't pay fares, and 30% of bus riders.
And this costs the New York City metropolitan transit system.
In 2019, it cost $300 million.
And in the most recent six months, they were losing money at an annual rate of $360 million.
These are people who are fair beaters.
I think they could use the money for something.
But in any case, 1 in 10 subway riders just don't bother to pay.
Jeez.
It's a surprise it's not a higher number.
But This announcement was made on Friday about this new plan, the subway safety plan, to stop people from creating an unsanitary environment in the subway system, sleeping, and generally making themselves pests.
Well, within just over 24 hours after that announcement, five people were stabbed on the subway system.
Just five, okay.
Just five.
And the very next day, a sixth was stabbed, but no shootings apparently.
And so I guess people are getting their knifings in before the mental health teams swarm the place and stop them.
Mental health, mental health people roaming the subway, solving the problem.
But there you go.
This is the country we live in today.
Now, moving on to England, if I can find my notes.
Let's see.
Am I confused?
Yes, in England, a certain Dr. Adam Towler, he struck me as something of a contrast to the attitude of the people in the DeWante Wright case, who wanted vengeance, vengeance, vengeance.
Adam Taller was a former trauma specialist, a medical doctor from Bristol.
He was attacked in 2019 by a 17-year-old African-American British citizen by Chance Maximin.
This fellow knocked on Dr. Taller's door and shone a light through his letterbox, leading the doctor to think that a prank was being played.
Well, when he opened the door, Maximin pulled him out into the road and stabbed him.
Nine times.
Including a blow that missed his heart by just two centimeters.
That's about an inch.
Now, Maximin was jailed for life for the minimum term of 12 years, just this last Wednesday.
The motive for his attack is still not fully understood.
I bet people aren't really looking very hard for it.
No, I don't think so.
No, that's just a matter of very little interest when a white person is stabbed seven times by a completely stranger black person.
Now, as it turns out, he stabbed two more people in random attacks carried out in Bristol in the following weeks.
He sliced Wojtek Razmirek across the face as the warehouse worker walked home from a night shift.
In another random knife attack, he too was a white man.
He had just sat down on a bench when Maximum approached from behind and sliced him across the face he had meant to slit his throat.
And then the night after attacking Mr. Rozmirak, the same black man followed a student, Annabel Everett, likewise melanin-deprived, knocked on her door and tried to force his way in with a knife, but was disturbed by the victim's housemate.
In any case, Maximum, he's not one of these people who has lived on the streets.
He had a supportive home life.
His mother has been a constant presence throughout his life.
And the judge who sentenced him said there's no logical explanation for his offending and it was not due to any recognized mental illness or diagnosed personality disorder.
So that should make his motives a matter of great curiosity.
It should.
And my suspicion is he hates white people.
All these people that he randomly attacked were white.
Now, as is customary, a victim impact statement was read at the sentencing, and Dr. Towler let me quote.
To begin, I want to say that I am not upset or angry with you.
I don't think you owe me an apology or anything, but I do want you to know what it's like for me.
I got lucky.
I'm living a quite normal, comfortable life.
What happened, happened.
Neither of us can unwind the clock on those events.
I don't know why, but sometimes I feel bad that I have this great freedom, but you don't.
I wonder if you just made a mistake, although a big one, or just been unlucky.
When I compare my position with what I imagine yours to be, it just doesn't seem fair.
This is the white guy who was randomly, nearly killed by this fellow who had attacked two other white dudes.
He was cinnamon-ing from his heart, as you said.
Yes!
Here's a white... Now, is it possible to imagine a person of any other race reacting in that way?
Maybe?
I don't know.
I don't know.
This is just extraordinary.
And the other question... Some of the credulous have believed that's the case now.
The other question I have is, would he have taken this attitude If the attacker had not been black, if the attacker had been a fellow white man, that's another interesting question, isn't it?
Would he have taken this high and mighty, I'm a saint attitude?
Well, Judge William Hart described Towler's statement as extraordinary, saying, If it is the consequence of intellect, I admire it.
If it's the consequence of faith, I envy it.
So the judge thought this was all wonderful, too.
So there you go.
That is the world we live in.
White obsequiousness to the black criminals who tried to take their lives.
Yes, yes.
Just extraordinary.
Now, as usual, we're running out of time.
We're running out of time.
That always seems to happen.
I wonder if we've got time for this last story here about Kadesha Bishop.
She pushed Serge Fournier, age 74, off a public bus, causing him to hit his head on the sidewalk and die.
I remember that story.
You remember that story?
Yeah.
Another African-Americaness and this poor white guy.
Well, she was sentenced to 8 to 20 years for killing this guy.
And she goes on to say, I'm sorry for the way that I was portrayed in my lowest and weakest moment.
The way that I've been portrayed, it's just not fair for somebody who's never been in trouble before.
That, in fact, is a lie.
She had been booked with grand larceny of a vehicle, embezzlement, and also failing to return a rental car.
But she says she's never been in trouble in her life, this is the only thing she ever did wrong.
You know, it's astonishing the things blacks convince themselves of.
These are like the Duante Wright relatives who are absolutely convinced that their boy, their fair-haired lad, was killed because he was black by a white woman who deliberately set out to murder a black man.
Failure to return a rental car.
That's a new one, actually.
There you go.
Anyway, that brings our special coverage of Black History Month to an end.
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