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March 4, 2022 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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A Triumph for Nick Fuentes
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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance and with me is what will be referred to shortly as the indomitable co-host Paul Kersey.
I'd like to start with a few comments as we so often do on this third day of March, Anno Domini 2022.
Here's a message that refers to a movie that we talked about two episodes ago.
That was Fort Apache, the Bronx, a movie starring, let's see, that was Paul Newman.
Old Blue Eyes.
And Mr. Kersey, you said that it was an excellent movie, difficult to find, hard to get a hold of.
Well, listen to this.
This message starts off, Konnichiwa, Jared Taylor-san.
So this person knows a little Japanese.
And the indomitable Paul Kersey.
That's you, in case you were wondering.
My friend and I enjoy your podcasts every week, and we have managed to find not only the Paul Newman film, but as a bonus, the 1948 John Wayne movie, also titled Fort Apache.
You're going to say if the DVD doesn't work for some reason, both films are on the flash drive.
Cheers!
Well, this is really very sweet, very kind.
I appreciate that very much, listener, and we are humbled by your generosity.
Now, I all too often say that whenever we make a mistake, we crave correction.
Well, people seem to take us seriously out there, and I believe it was just the last episode, I asked you, were you familiar with the origin of the phrase, as the twig is bent, so grows the tree?
Oh yes, yes.
I thought it was the Bible.
Well, I think you said you didn't know, or maybe you thought it was, but I said it is the Bible.
But that is not correct.
It is not the Bible.
One of our listeners says, I was surprised when you attributed it to the Bible.
I know the Bible pretty well.
This gentleman happens to be a Mormon.
He says it is not known where it came from, but it could very well be Alexander Pope who first came up with this.
So let's see yet another, yet another correction.
Apparently, in our last episode, at about the 54-minute mark, I referred to someone as an African-American British citizen.
Did you notice that?
I did.
I remember that.
I didn't want to say anything because I was like, hey, you know.
All right.
Yes, Slater, let Taylor make a fool of himself.
Oh, dear.
Well, this guy says, is he suddenly become a dual national?
Oh, dear.
Well, no, no.
He was just a black British citizen.
Now, this reminds me of a time when Nelson Mandela was in the United States and was just being gushed and fawned over by everyone in sight and someone referred to him as an African-American politician.
So, you see, the common thing is just think that African-American means black.
And I fear I stumbled into that state of ignorance myself.
And the race realist cat is chastising me for this.
Taylor, says she, don't make that mistake ever again.
And I will not.
Now, the first thing I'd like to talk about is Afpac.
This was that remarkably successful meeting that Nick Fuentes put on, American First, in Orlando last weekend.
It was really, without a doubt, the most impressive, large-scale, dissident meeting I've ever been to.
And I'm guessing it was probably the biggest and most impressive meeting of that kind in decades.
Absolute decades.
It was really a well-organized, beautifully put-together event.
There were over a thousand people there.
And the speakers were up on a podium and they were so far from the back of the ballroom that you had to have these great big screens that people could watch on, just like CPAC, with which it was competing.
For those who weren't there, would you say, how big was this ballroom?
Was it 50 yards?
60 yards?
100 yards?
I'm not good at estimating things like that, but maybe, I don't know, 40 yards from 50 yards.
Huge!
I mean, there was a thousand people, not seated, theater style.
They were around rounds, tables, for dinner.
So it was a big place.
Very nicely catered meal.
It was really a first-rate event.
And Nick Fuentes had nine current and former elected officials speaking there.
That included Lieutenant Governor Janice McGeachin of Idaho.
And serving member of Congress Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar, among others.
Really a splendid event and Nick was extremely generous in acknowledging me from the podium as one of his role models and heroes.
Alas, by the time he got up, it was so late that I had run off for my geyser sleep.
So I wasn't there to accept the accolades, but Mr. Fuentes, if you are listening, I salute you and congratulate you.
It was really, really a first rate and extremely impressive event.
Now, I would say that this was held at a private venue, and American Renaissance Conferences have frequently been, have been so frequently kicked out of private venues that we don't even try anymore.
And the America First group had put this together in a way to try to conceal the event until the right at the last minute, but The mere fact of a couple of people posting selfies in the lobby was enough so that the snoops who wanted to find it out and try to track it down and disrupt it identified the hotel from just a few little features in the lobby.
Really?
Yes.
The snoops on the other side were absolutely determined to shut this down and they eventually did call in a bomb threat.
And hopefully the people who called in that bomb threat are found and persecuted.
We certainly hope so.
Because that's illegal.
Of course it's illegal.
But now it's impressive to me that of the thousand people who must have gotten the notice to where it was, there apparently was no leak.
They had this only because of an innocent selfie or two shot in the lobby before the event began.
That's the only way the other side is going to do it.
I think now we've learned a lesson.
Don't take innocent selfies and post them online, pal.
Yes, yes.
Don't take innocent selfies.
Now, although this is something that grieves me to talk about it all, The war in Ukraine cannot be passed over completely in silence.
I will say only on my own behalf that I do not wish to take sides, but I find it absolutely grievous and horrible that two white armies are clashing, young white men are killing each other.
The Russians just admitted the other day that they had already lost about 500 men.
That's probably a low figure.
I'm sure the Ukrainians have lost more.
These are both countries that have way, way below sub-replacement fertility, and for their young men to be slaughtering each other is a matter that is exceedingly, exceedingly grievous to me.
And we all talk about No More Brothers Wars, the idea that two white nations side by side, speaking almost the same language, cannot work their problems out without going to war, is to me a horrible tragedy.
Now, it's not a matter simply of these two white nations.
They live in a world that is stirred up in all kinds of provocative ways by people that live around them and people who live far away from them, like the United States of America.
Even so, this is something that I find If I could add one thing the one thing that we haven't seen yet is the ramifications of this colossal effort to isolate and ostracize Russia from the European banking system because those assets that Russia has and they're considerable
They're going to go somewhere.
And China has not said anything negative about them at the moment.
And guess what?
Those banks are going to be open for business.
Those assets are going to go there.
And I believe because of the whole green nonsense we've seen in Europe, Russia's got the monopoly on energy.
And it's funny, as we say this, I know that a lot of our listeners out there are probably thinking, How much is gas right now?
Why aren't they opening the Keystone Pipelines?
I mean, there's so many interesting things that are beyond the subject of what we talk about on this weekly podcast that are going to have huge ramifications.
Mr. Taylor, I saw that Saudi Arabia is looking to divest from the United States a lot of their assets.
What you mentioned is so important about how Brothers Wars, but we are seeing a realignment now in real time of the global world paradigm.
And I believe you have found that there are people who are criticizing us for paying attention to this war.
Well, yes!
We're not supposed to pay attention to this.
They're too white.
Who cares about these white people killing each other?
There have been a lot of wars since the dawn of the 21st century, but this one in particular pissed off the wrong people.
The Los Angeles Times, this was an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, under the title of In Ukraine Reporting, Western Press Reveals Grim Bias Toward People Like Us.
Oh my gosh!
We care about people like us!
How dare we!
So I'll read a couple of the paragraphs from this op-ed.
The scenes are gravely familiar to anyone familiar with the 21st century news cycle.
Families fleeing on foot, swarming border crossings, and searching through rubble for loved ones.
Journalists reporting on Russia's invasion of Ukraine could not help but compare the military strikes and resulting humanitarian crisis to recent conflicts in the Middle East and Afghanistan.
But a painful double standard quickly emerged inside of those comparisons.
Quote, this isn't a place with all due respect, like Iraq or Afghanistan, that has seen conflict raging for decades, said CBS News correspondent Charlie Degate on Sunday.
This is a relatively civilized, relatively European, I have to choose those words carefully too, city.
One where you wouldn't expect that or hope that it's going to happen, end quote.
Now his troubling language, which seemed to catch himself mid-segment, pinpointed much of the emerging bias.
In the heat of war, as the International Press Corps scrambled in real time to wrap their arms around a fast-moving military campaign, a number of correspondents, consciously or not, framed suffering and displacement as acceptable for Arabs, Afghans, and others over there, but not here in Europe.
They're not saying it's acceptable, but it matters that people like us, our kinfolk, are suffering, yes.
Isn't that horrible?
Well, and then this op-ed would go on to say, but not here in Europe, where the people, quote, have blue eyes and blonde hair, end quote, and where they, quote, look like us, end quote, parentheses.
And yes, those are actual quotations from news clips.
The sentiment has been laid bare again and again in numerous American and European press outlets since the beginning of the invasion last week.
Quote, we're not talking here about Syrians fleeing the bombings of Syrian regime backed by Putin.
We're talking about Europeans leaving in cars that look like ours to save their lives.
Philip Corbet of the France-based, should be the French-based 24-hour news channel BFM TV said, Telling the Europe's own history of brutal warfare from one end of the 20th century to the other tended to receive far less attention.
Here's one more quote and then we can move on from this story.
Political commentator Mehdi Hassan made sure the omission didn't go unnoticed.
Quote, Europe has been home to some of the worst wars and worst war crimes in human history.
I mean, the Holocaust, he said on his MSNBC show Sunday.
So why this surprise that bad things were happening in Europe?
And second, when they say, oh, civilized cities, and another clip, well-dressed people, and this is not the third world, they really mean white people, don't they?
Of course!
Of course they do, Matty!
You know, there's a great essay by Mr. Taylor about the 2005 hurricane that hit New Orleans, Africa in our midst, and what we saw was uncivilized people, disheveled, standing in front of the former Superdome, I believe it's the Caesar Superdome.
The gambling organization has now bought the rights to that, but No, I mean, this is a city and, you know, you see all these stories about these glorious monuments that they're worried might be destroyed.
But from what I can tell, it looks like the Russian military is being very careful in targeting the infrastructure.
This isn't like Baltimore, where infrastructure is allowed to crumble for decades.
And row houses become, what we call in St.
Louis, dollhouses, where you see the building in front of you, but if you go behind, it looks like a dollhouse because the back is rotted out.
I mean, Ukraine looks like a pretty civilized place.
Well, apparently the black people trying to get out of Ukraine, and who would have thought that there are 4,000 Nigerians in Ukraine?
Those trying to get out have apparently run into, guess what, racism.
Racism.
A Nigerian man trying to get into Poland said border staff told him that they were not tending to Africans.
There have been reports of Ukrainian security officials preventing Africans from catching buses and trains going to the border, only for Ukrainians.
A man named Usaman from Nigeria told BBC he tried to get on a train in Lviv to take him to the Polish border but was told only Ukrainians on board.
And Nigeria's president, Mohammed Buhari, says that one group has reportedly refused entry to Poland, so they traveled back into Ukraine and head for Hungary instead.
And a university student from Nigeria, arriving at a crossing with Poland, he says, when I came here, there were black people sleeping on the street.
Hotels would not take them.
And after waiting for many hours, this person was finally allowed to cross, made her way to Warsaw, and flew back to Nigeria.
But then Aisia, a medical student from Somalia, had a similar account.
When she finally reached Poland, she was told that accommodations at the hotel are only for Ukrainians.
So, there you go.
Those wicked, wicked East Europeans.
Now, another interesting thing about this war has been the resulting censorship.
The major social media companies, including YouTube, Facebook, and TikTok, have banned Russian state media outlets in Europe, blocking Moscow's biggest megaphone, to curtail what they call the Kremlin's ability to spread misinformation and propaganda about its invasion.
RT and Sputnik, those are the two big Russian state institutions, have relied on American social networks and on Chinese-owned TikTok to gain a massive following and reach audiences outside Russia.
Would you have known that RT's Facebook channel has more than 7 million followers?
And Facebook and YouTube, before they banned them outright, they banned advertising.
RT's YouTube account has 4.65 million followers in English and 5.95 million in Spanish.
That's 10 million, 10 million.
That is a big following.
And they also have prominent television channels, radio stations in several countries.
So, here we have the American big tech people deciding, okay, We just want one point of view.
On a whim, shut them off.
Snuff them out, snuff them out.
This is astonishing to me.
I'm sure the Russians have their point of view.
I think we deserve to hear their point of view.
But no, no, no, we're not going to get their point of view.
Just like we dissidents have a point of view, the world at large isn't going to get that either.
Just the astonishing arrogance of these people deciding.
We decide, and here in the midst of a war, a significant war, they're saying, Only one side is gonna get to talk.
Yeah, today DirecTV basically said, hey, Russia Today, you're gone.
So Russia Today America has been taken off the air.
They've got, they have, they had offices in Miami, Washington DC, New York, and one other United States City.
They let off all employees, said probably not coming back.
Roku was the other channel, the other service that carried Russia Today.
They've said we're not doing the same.
So that revenue source is cut off?
I mean, okay, sure.
I mean, the level of hostility that we're seeing to Russians, I think I just read where one of the opera singers at the Met, a Russian, has been laid off.
Alex Ovechkin, probably the most prominent living Hockey player who plays currently.
I'm not talking about a retired player like Wayne Gretzky but the most prominent current player in the NHL is Russian.
He's the face of one of the big suppliers to the NHL for apparel.
They've said we no longer want you to be the face.
Of the NHL.
In a lot of states where the alcohol sales are controlled by the Alcohol Beverage Commission, the ABC, they basically said, hey, let's cut off.
Let's cut off Russian vodka.
No Russian vodka.
Sorry, they gotta cut it off.
I mean, this is beyond the hysteria we saw with the Freedom Fries nonsense back in 2003 with the, oh, the French aren't gonna help us.
It's similar.
It's similar.
No, we certainly have this Manichean view.
The good people are spotless and the bad people are just black as coal.
But on the subject of censorship, of which the Russians have become victims, Vicki Hartzler is a U.S.
Congresswoman representing Missouri's 4th District.
And as it turns out, the Missouri incumbent Senator Roy Blunt is not going to be running for re-election.
So there's going to be an open seat.
And Mrs. Hartzler is one of the people who is going to go for that site, go for that seat, I mean to say.
And in a tweet as part of her campaign, she posted mid-February, it said, women's sports are for women, not men pretending to be women.
And this included her TV ad targeting the whole question of transgenders in sports, and mentions University of Pennsylvania swimmer Leah Thomas, who has just been winning every race in sight.
She was a pretty good swimmer when she was a man, and she continues to be a pretty good swimmer, believe it or not.
Well, this violated Twitter's rules of hateful conduct.
And the social media platform said that she will not be able to tweet, retweet, follow, or like posts until she takes down this vile and offensive sentiment.
Hartzler's campaign said the suspension was shameful, ridiculous, horrible abuse of censorship by big tech giants to stifle free speech, but she is not backing down and so she has been suspended.
There you go.
Now this is what happens when people refuse to do as they're told.
Now, there are other things that happen when people refuse to do what they're told, and this has to do with bicycle helmets.
As long as black people refuse to do what they're told, then anybody can do it.
It does have to do with bicycle helmets.
Give me one moment while I locate that story.
Yes.
Yeah, this is out of Seattle, one of our favorite places in the country to take a look at.
King County.
King County.
Black History Month is over, but history being made, At the advancement of black people's interests at the expense of everyone else, never ceases to amaze us here at Radio Renaissance.
By the way, quick plug here, make sure you get in contact with us.
Mr. Taylor put out a few stories and a few really nice correspondence we got to start off this program.
Shoot us an email, anything you want to talk about, anything you want us to talk about, any suggestions, any corrections, because we live here at ProtonMail.com.
Once again, all one word, because we live here at ProtonMail.com or You can go to amren.com, A-M-R-E-N.com, and hit the Contact Us tab, and the message will get to me, assuming it's not gibberish.
And I know he doesn't like to do this, but I'm going to, because it's tax season, and a lot of you out there probably have some refunds coming along.
Why don't you go ahead and make a tax-deductible donation towards your 2022 taxes?
What is that P.O.
to American Renaissance.
You can even say, hey, this is for Radio Renaissance, so we can expand, get some new equipment.
And you can do that to a P.O. box, you can send cash, check to the P.O. box.
What is that P.O. box?
Five, two, seven, Mr. Carzine.
Box 5-2-7, Oakton, Virginia.
And the postal code, when's the last time you heard the word postal code?
It's been a while.
It's 2-2-1-2-4.
I'm old-fashioned.
2-2-1-2-4.
Anyways, let's get back to the story.
We have to do that every show.
So in Seattle, officials Overturned a decades old mandatory law for bicycle riders to wear helmets after a study commissioned by the city showed there was discriminatory enforcement of the rule against people of color.
I would be astonished if the enforcement is discriminatory.
It also found homeless people and found that black cyclists Or four times as likely to be stopped as white cyclists.
I guess that just means white people abide by the law and wear the helmets.
Have you ridden a bike recently?
Yes, I have.
Do you ride with a helmet?
I do wear it with a helmet.
When I was a kid, nobody ever dreamed of such a thing, but apparently that's the thing to do.
And you can lose brain cells, and my brain is declining as it is.
We would make fun of kids who wore helmets, I must say.
We would use words that nowadays you can't use anymore.
And hope to stay on air, so I won't use them too loud.
Sissy's was one of them, but yeah, we'll stop there.
So the King County Board of Health, made up of elected officials and medical experts from cities across the county, voiced its support on Thursday for the voluntary use of helmets passed in a resolution encouraging riders to don the protective gear.
So Seattle is the largest city in the country to enforce a bike helmet requirement, the New York Times reported, and is in what, as aforementioned, King County.
Which has made racial justice reform a priority and declared racism a public health crisis in 2020.
So that means that white people abiding by the law and wearing their helmets, that's racism if it's disproportionately going to impact people of color who don't abide by the law.
That's the upside down world we live in when it comes to protecting one's health.
If a disproportionate amount of black people don't protect their own health, Mr. Taylor, that's racism.
Am I getting it correctly?
I'm not quite sure I'd phrase it that way.
I would say simply that it is racism to enforce a regulation or a law if that means black people are more likely than white people to suffer.
In any case.
At the expense of said law being enforced.
Yes.
Correct, yeah.
So the board began to scrutinize.
This is where it gets funny.
The board began to scrutinize the helmet rule after the local news site Crosscut released an analysis showing the rule was rarely enforced, but enforced disproportionately when it was.
The analysis showed that since 2017, Seattle police had given 117 helmet citations.
That's not that many.
No.
No, that's not that many.
More than 40% of which went to people who were homeless.
Since 2019, 60% of citations went to people who are homeless.
A separate analysis from... But they're homeless, but they're not bike-less.
They're homeless and helmet-less, but not bike-less.
Maybe they sleep on the bike.
I don't know.
Mobile home.
A separate analysis from Ethan Campbell with the Central Seattle Greenways, a Safe Streets advocacy group, found that black cyclists were almost four times as likely to receive a citation for violating the helmet requirement as white cyclists.
Native American cyclists were just more than twice as likely to receive one as white cyclists.
Like I said, it was a law that really just allowed the police department, this is what someone says, it's a law that the police department, the Seattle Police Department, to harass black and brown community members.
KL Shannon, an organizer for the Seattle Neighborhood Greenways and Police Accountability Chair, said, he's also the He's also a high-ranking guy with the King County chapter of the NAACP.
He said that his eight-year-old nephew and friends were stopped by an officer for wearing helmets and accused of stealing the bikes.
Quote, until this day my nephew doesn't ride a bike.
He's never forgotten that, Shannon said.
And then they go on to list two more anecdotes of where our African-American brethren had run-ins with the police, and that compelled them to never ride a bike again.
So yeah, again, this is one of those silly stories where a law is put in place to benefit everyone's health who actually is a participant in that activity, i.e., wearing a helmet.
Especially if you're in an urban area, the last thing you want to do is be riding and crossing a street, someone's on their cell phone not paying attention, smash into you.
If you go flying, it's probably good to have a helmet on.
I did a video about regulations of this kind that have had to be rescinded.
I think a couple of other cities have done this too.
If, I believe, some are mentioned in that article.
But the video was mainly about racist traffic lights.
Or, I'm sorry, these traffic ticket lights, when there's an automatic thing that goes off.
That was in Chicago, that hilarious study.
It was a Chicago study.
But in any case, this is once again, and in that case, no one can be accused of any sort of bias.
No one.
Impossible.
The cameras are not biased.
The cameras can't tell black people from white people.
Well, you've talked about Minneapolis.
That's a city where they had to get rid of, what, minor infractions on your car because people kept getting ticketed, not having their plates up to date, not having fender benders fixed, or lights, the rear lights, which can cause major accidents.
Unfortunately, the majority of the people who were taking it, by box.
It was, what do they call that?
Disproportionate impact.
There's a different word for it.
Disparate impact.
Disparate impact, or as we learned last week, what was it?
Invidious discrimination, which I actually like.
Well, abiding, you know, applying, enforcing any law is going to have a disparate impact on criminals.
Correct.
Now, let's see.
Moving on to the State of the Union Address, which I did not watch.
I just find these things profoundly boring.
But, according to certain news accounts, Mr. Biden said, of all things, the following.
We should all agree, the answer is not to defund the police.
The answer is to fund the police.
Fund them with resources and training they need to protect our communities.
What do you know?
Now, he also said that his American Rescue Plan Has 350 billion dollars in it for local governments to hire more police and to invest in, quote, proven strategies like community violence interruption.
If there's ever been a unproven strategy, that's it.
In any case, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has also said the slogan, defund the police, has no place in the Democratic position.
It is not there, so they're really backpedaling.
They've decided that defund the police is not going to be a winning slogan in the midterms coming up.
Well, not everyone was happy with this idea of funding the police.
Representative Byron Donalds, a Republican of Florida, called Joe Biden desperate and accused him of using President Donald Trump's old lines.
Now would Byron Donalds be African-American by any chance, Mr. Kersey?
This person who's accusing him of using Donald Trump's old lines?
I have a feeling that the individual from Florida probably is.
He is.
He is.
I confirm this.
And Representative Cori Bush, Democrat of Missouri, now we know just how African-American she is, criticized Joe Biden for failing to mention Black Lives Matter in her speech.
How did he fail to do that?
She said defund the police, invest in our communities.
Okay, now Black Lives Matter itself did not release a statement after Joe Biden's speech, but did tweet a photo of California Representative Maxine Waters.
Seemingly, well she has a very, very prune face on, Apparently this is the moment when Joe Biden is talking about defunding the police and so they said clearly she's reacting to his proposal.
Now, it's true he spent pretty much, oh, he spent more time, as I've said many times, in his inaugural address talking about systemic racism and white supremacy, more than about foreign policy, more than about COVID, more than about the economy, more than about anything at all.
So, I was hoping he was going to give us a full report on all the systemic racism he's rooted out.
But apparently he failed.
I got this route, I hoped him to say, but no.
So I think I sympathize entirely with these people who are very upset.
Now, apparently, he also said he wants Congress to pass amnesty for illegal aliens.
As I say, I didn't hear, but this comes from reliable sources.
Revise our laws so businesses have the workers they need and families don't wait decades to reunite.
As I always say, if you want to reunite, you can reunite on the other side of the border.
That's very easy.
He says it's not only the right thing to do, it's an economically smart thing to do.
That's why immigration reform, by which he means amnesty, is supported by everyone, from labor unions to religious leaders to U.S.
Chamber of Commerce.
Let's get it done once and for all!
Except it's never done once and for all.
No, no.
Amnesty is not only forever.
Amnesty is the gift that keeps giving.
It's the gift that will always give.
Yes, that's even better.
It's the gift that will always give.
What fools they are.
Now, in January, the Chamber of Commerce had lobbied our president to double legal immigration.
That would mean about $2.5 million a year, double, and to amnesty all the illegals.
Well, as it turns out, as of January, 6.5 million Americans were unemployed, an additional 5.7 million were out of the workforce entirely, and another 3.7 million were underemployed, which is to say that they were holding part-time jobs while really wanting full-time work.
But the Chamber of Commerce wants more wage slaves, and Joe Biden is prepared to give them to him.
Ah, sad day.
Now, moving from Washington, D.C., where that speech took place, to New York City.
We talked the other day about Mayor Eric Adams and New York Governor Kathy Hochul, who had unveiled a nifty new plan to combat violence on public transit.
They had this 17-page plan, the Subway Safety Plan.
It'll crack down on anyone sleeping across multiple seats, exhibiting excessive behavior to passengers, or creating an unsanitary environment.
And we wondered just what that might be.
Well, as it turns out, February 21st, 5.15 p.m.
on the southbound platform at the East 241st Street Station, that's way up north of Manhattan, A certain Frank Abroqua approached a young lady and said, Hey, Mammy, how come you don't want to talk to me?
And she rather brushed him off.
She was having none of it.
Well, he walked into a nearby idling subway car and created an unsanitary environment by defecating into a bag.
He then walked back to the young lady and repeatedly smashed the bag and left the feces on her face,
neck, head, shoulders, and all of her back. She had feces in her eyes and hair. And as he attacked,
he said, in effect, you like this, bitch? Well, he was busted on Monday in his homeless shelter.
Okay. And upon arrest, he made light of the attack, joking, shit happens. Ha ha. Clever lad,
clever lad. And then while he was waiting to appear before Judge Wanda Licitra, he could be heard in
the holding area grumbling, why am I still here? I'm I'm fucking tired of it.
I'm hungry.
And when this whole question of who the lady was came, he said, I don't know the bitch.
Then he lashed out at the judge, speaking to her.
Fuck you, bitch.
He's got quite a mouth, this fellow.
Now, as it turns out, he's also been charged with a hate crime.
In this case, Mr. Abroqua approached a 46-year-old man in Utica Avenue in Crown Heights in Brooklyn and snarled, fucking Jew, I'm going to kill you.
Furthermore, on February 22nd, this is the day after the feces attack, before he got himself arrested, he menaced an employee with a screwdriver that he'd snatched from a sales rack at a hardware store.
He has 22 prior unsealed arrests, that means they're open for inspection, dating back to 1999, and dozens of sealed arrests.
Now, I guess these are juvenile offenses?
In any case, that dozens, dozens, Mr. Kersey, in addition to 22 open offenses.
So, how did this latest courtroom appearance end up?
Well, ladies and gentlemen, don't hold your breath, he was freed without bail.
Because the charges against him are not bail eligible under New York State's bail reform laws.
And the judge will probably say, you know, shit happens.
And more shit's gonna happen.
Exactly.
Shittier shit's gonna happen.
With this guy walking loose.
Pardon the epithets, everyone.
Good grief.
What a country, what a world, what a city, what a judge.
Wow.
The DA said they wanted him held on a $15,000 bond or $5,000 cash, which we presume he has not.
But nope, nope, he is out walking the streets all over again.
Well, as it happened, there were other things that followed the announcement of the subway safety plan.
Just a few days after the announcement, a certain Dr. Nina Rothschild, a New York City Department of Health scientist, was kicked down a flight of stairs and bashed repeatedly with a hammer at the Queens Plaza subway station, leaving her on life support.
I saw a video of this.
It's really quite bluish.
You walk in and she comes up and gives you a hug.
And then, well, it was William Blunt, 57, another African-American homeless person.
They're all homeless these days, despite the fact that they live in these homeless shelters.
Now, and so far this year, within the transit system, there have been, and the year is not all that old, there have been 320 crimes, violent crimes, a 60% increase compared to the same period last year.
Now, I believe moving from New York City to Boston, you have a report on what's going on in that fair city.
Yeah, I just want to say one thing about the videos that you just mentioned.
These are so hard to watch.
I think it's because we spent a decade seeing the affable Colin Flaherty try and bring light to these stories at the same time, create a sense of, you know, this isn't right, this shouldn't be happening.
And of course, we know from San Francisco, they blocked the BART videos from being shown because they didn't want to create They didn't want to reinforce racial stigmas and stereotypes.
That's right.
They used to broadcast the surveillance videos in the hope of catching the perps.
But, catching the perps is less important than feeding negative stereotypes.
So the perps walk.
We don't want to fuel racial stigmas, exactly.
Speaking of fueling racial stigmas about Boston, In 2021, there were 40 homicides in Boston, close to historic low, which is interesting because Boston is one of those cities that now is a plurality.
There is no majority race.
You have this view of cheers, Boston being this white, you know, 40 homicides in Boston, close to historic low, occurred in
a context where homicide rates nationally rose by 30% in 2020, the largest single-year
increase ever, and have continued to rise through 2021, with many cities reaching a
historically high number of homicides.
Might Boston be doing something right?
On an annual basis, gang violence generates about half of the homicides in Boston and gang members are involved in roughly two-thirds of non-fatal shootings.
Their aim is bad.
Trauma surgeons' ability to patch up these individuals are just better, actually.
They get shot and taken to the emergency room.
In Boston and other cities, most of the violence is due to a small number of individuals.
Typically gang members.
In the last five years, all gang-related homicides in Boston have involved individuals of color.
Everyone?
Everyone, it says.
I thought there were a bunch of Irish gangs and bikers and white descendants of Irish immigrants running around Boston harassing Harvard students.
That's what that movie with Ben Affleck and Matt Damon taught me.
Have you ever seen Good Will Hunting?
No.
Okay, don't worry about it.
Ladies and gentlemen, no one send us that movie.
No one send us a link, please.
It's not a good one.
But gang violence is clearly an ongoing problem that needs to be addressed by the city.
Well, I think we need to address the fact that all homicides have involved individuals of color, if it's gang-related.
And I would imagine, going out on a limb here, going out on a racial limb, and I'm going to say that all non-fatal gang-related, non-fatal shootings probably involved BIPOCs as well.
Gang databases are a critical element of policing strategy known as focused deterrence, and suggestions that the database be eliminated are misguided.
The goal of focused deterrence is to focus on high-risk individuals and stop further violence through a strategic blend of law enforcement, social services, and community-based action.
Now is this an op-ed or is this a news article?
This is a op-ed that's arguing that unlike places like Chicago, unlike places like New York, we need the gang database.
And that's what's so fascinating about this.
And they admit that at a time where these other cities, Mr. Taylor, are saying the gang database is racist, they admit, well wait a second, all gang-related homicides, they've involved people of color.
And, astonishingly enough, their homicides are hitting a new low!
Correct!
It's going down!
Racism works!
And then they talk about this.
This is a great line.
Focus deterrent.
And this goes back to what you talked about with not defunding the police.
Because if you're going to defund the police, one of the first things you do is you take away their tools that they've built decades building upon, and that is That's right, and the special illegal arms, illegal weapons cops.
Yeah, which of course in Portland they got rid of because there were too many blacks who were being arrested.
Then they brought it back because there were too many blacks shooting each other in 6% black Portland.
So here's a great line where they admit the effectiveness of this program.
The Boston Police Department's Youth Violence Strike Force, supported by the Boston Regional Intelligence Center and its Focused Deterrence Strategy in particular, represents a central part of the city's efforts to prevent gang-involved gun violence.
The gang database is a key component of this effort.
Analysts at the Boston Regional Intelligence Center support the database on a part-time basis at a cost of about $150,000 per year.
Focused deterrence programs have been shown to be highly effective in many cities.
Two vigorous evaluations of focused deterrence in Boston, one conducted during the mid-1990s and the other during the mid-2000s, show this approach resulted in significant reductions in gang-related gun violence.
Two-thirds of non-fatal shootings involve gang members.
So, okay, wait a second.
That basically shows that law-abiding people are not really responsible for the non-fatal shootings or the homicides.
So, this program is important.
Now, here's where it gets a little goofy.
They talk about how people living in high-crime neighborhoods, particularly young men of color, bear a disproportionate policing burden.
Well, that's because they commit a disproportionate amount of the crime, which In our society run by the 1619 Project, we have to blame black criminality, high rates of black criminality, on what, Mr. Taylor?
You and me.
White people.
Exactly.
So, that's where they get a little goofy here.
Still, most youth living in these neighborhoods are innocent of any crime.
They, however, are more likely to be stopped in question by police than youth living in more affluent neighborhoods, certainly an infringement of their civil liberties, as well as, more generally, a detriment to police-community relations.
A key question is whether ending the gang database would lessen the undeserved burden or increase it.
Well, they've already answered the question.
They then talk about the fact that 10-11% of black males ages 18-34 in the gang database suggest that it's casting far too wide a net.
Well, if they're the ones responsible for the crime, is it casting far enough of a net?
And I think that's ultimately the question of the 21st century as we move forward.
What we've seen in the past two years was police Basically handcuffed from doing their jobs.
We know what saved New York under Mayor Bloomberg and Mayor Giuliani, and that was stop-and-frisk.
We know that this works.
We talked last week, Mr. Taylor, about a very important story out of Washington, D.C., a city now that is about 40% white, and yet they pointed out in this study by one of these national crime institutes that something like 98% of fatal and non-fatal shootings Well, white people play by the rules.
You're not supposed to have a gun in Washington, D.C.
They wear bike helmets in Seattle.
Yes, and if you have a gun in Washington, D.C., you're not supposed to shoot somebody with it.
You're not supposed to have a gun in Washington, D.C.
They wear bike helmets in Seattle.
And if you have a gun in Washington, D.C., you're not supposed to shoot somebody with it.
You're not supposed to shoot somebody with it in any city in America unless they're...
Yeah.
Well, dear me, the truth comes out and the truth hurts, so we have to hide the truth.
But, The Washington Post, in this city where white people don't shoot each other, it recently ran a piece titled, Why I Don't Complain About Racism to White People.
It's by, needless to say, one of our African American fellow citizens, a post columnist by the name of Brian Broom.
He says, I'm here to tell you These killers, and he's talking about the Arbery people, who were just convicted, I think, completely wrongly of a hate crime in their encounter with Ahmaud Arbery.
He says these killers are exceptions to any rule.
White people just kill folks all the time, obviously.
He says, they stand in for millions of Americans in their belief that the color of my skin makes me less of a human being, less intelligent, less trustworthy, less worthy in general.
These Americans exist from sea to shining sea and they're not always white or male, he added.
You can be non-white and female and still be a white supremacist.
They are everywhere in every occupation.
He goes on to claim that even the other white people, I mean the not explicitly murderous, snaggletooth, troglodyte white people like those arbitrary killers, would disregard or downplay his encounters with racism.
They are so common and their actions are unavoidable.
I learned long ago not to share my encounters with them, with these other white people.
Most told me I was being too sensitive or that I was overreacting, anything to minimize my experience, he says.
Yeah, I'm sure every time he turns around he's facing tolerance of racism.
Well, I looked up this Brian Broome.
Who says that people who kill black joggers are not the exception?
Well, he was the Kay Leroy Irvis Fellow and an instructor in the writing program at University of Pittsburgh, so he has battled racism at least to achieve that position.
He has also published, just last year, a memoir called Punch Me Up to the Gods.
Interesting title.
And this is the way it's described in its blurb.
the book introduces a powerful new talent in Brian Broom, whose early years were spent growing up in
Ohio as a dark-skinned black boy harboring crushes on other boys. Sounds like a riveting read.
Well, different strokes for different folks, Mr. Goode.
Easy with that one, babe.
His experiences and all their cringeworthy hilarious and heartbreaking glory reveal a perpetual outsider awkwardly squirming to find his way in.
Indiscriminate sex and escalating drug use help to soothe his hurt young psyche.
A no-nonsense mother and a broken father play crucial roles in our misfits' origin story.
Now, this is the guy who's accusing white people of being racist.
So, there you go.
Just a little bit of background on Brian Broome.
Who tells us that murderers are typical of white people, and wherever he goes, he's suffering, suffering, suffering.
This guy appears to have suffered, suffered, suffered all his life.
Well, he keeps falling upward, so it's funny.
I'm sure that book will be... Oh, it'll be on the required reading list.
For AP English classes nationwide.
Punch me up to the gods.
Mark that one down, ladies and gentlemen.
All you have to do is blame white people, and you can punch yourself up, too, on Olympia.
Oh, you can be a god.
Exactly.
So, now, believe it.
You know, back to crime.
I mean, we don't want to overdo this question, but New Jersey's got a crime story for us here.
You know, I hope we can get to the one story from Netflix, but yeah, let's just briefly go New Jersey.
I saw this story, and it just made me laugh, because it's like, wow, okay, I wonder what cities are talking about.
Quickly.
Five New Jersey cities that account for 10% of the population had 62% of the shooting victims in 2021.
I bet, let's see, I bet Newark has won.
I bet, let's see, is Jersey City won?
Okay.
Yes.
That's as far as I get.
Okay.
Camden.
Oh, Camden.
Yes.
Patterson.
Trenton.
Oh, I should have known.
Yeah.
And so, again, it's one of these stories.
New Jersey shooting statistics highlight a stark disparity in the way gun violence affects the people of the state with five major cities enduring a significantly disproportionate share of the pain.
See, I would point out that, you know, Five cities, five New Jersey cities with majority non-white populations are responsible for 62% of the shooting victims.
Those are overwhelmingly black places.
Oh my goodness!
I want to say Newark is under 10% white.
Is Newark one of the cities that Gregory Hood is documented in the Great Replacement series?
I'm not sure.
Yes, Trenton.
Trenton is a hair-raising place.
I remember driving through that one day Yeah, Trenton makes, the world takes.
That's what's on that bridge.
I've only flown into Newark once, unfortunately, because LaGuardia and JFK were overbooked.
I've never been to Camden.
I've heard some interesting things about that place.
What was the corporation that was based there?
Because again, a lot of Americans who are listening to this are people around the world.
Probably don't understand that these were once some of America's most important cities.
Camden, I believe, was at Eastman Kodak?
No, that was Rochester.
No, that was Rochester.
Camden was the DuPont family?
Were they based there?
I don't believe so, but it used to be a real industrial mighty city.
And Trenton, the same thing.
And then, of course, White Flight.
Well, Trenton was the capital.
I'm not sure it was always so industrial, but it was the capital.
It is still the capital of New Jersey.
It's a port city, though, so it obviously has... because it's on the river, I want to say.
But forget our geography about New Jersey.
The only thing I know about New Jersey is it's the beat capital of the world.
But we also now know that Camden, New Jersey City, Newark, Paterson, and Trenton account for 10% of the state's population, but add 62% of New Jersey's 1,412 fatal and non-fatal shooting victims in 2021.
If we move right along, we can get to your Netflix story.
I'll just leave it with this.
Divestment of community resources to blame.
Quote, Black and brown communities have experienced a significant divestment of community resources, and that has compounded over the decades, said Brooke Lewis, Associate Counsel for Newark-based New Jersey Institute for Social Justice.
And she finishes with this, quote, if you don't have access to quality education, if you don't have access to quality housing, if you don't have access to quality health care, all of that impacts public safety.
End quote.
If that doesn't happen, you just gotta go out and shoot somebody.
And they also then, Reverend Alan Boyer, a longtime clergyman in Patterson's Fourth Ward, said this.
Racism contributes to the social problems that result in shootings.
Quote, they try to keep us in a certain place where we end up turning on each other.
Black-on-black crime is too high.
I just don't understand it.
White people to blame.
That's right.
Anything you don't understand, blame white people.
One in doubt?
One in doubt?
It's those systemic white roots you can't see underneath the city streets.
Well, the Wall Street Journal has taken up yet another crisis.
Yet another crisis.
And the story starts like this.
Asha Jenkins started thinking about having a baby.
She used a leading sperm bank whose catalog contained hundreds of potential donors.
Asia, who is black, narrowed the search down to black donors, but there were only six.
And out of hundreds, there were only six.
I knew there were other colors in the spectrum that would give me a brown child, which is exactly what she wanted.
And she now has two daughters, age seven and two and a half, using different donors.
One who was Egyptian, the other was subcontinental Indian.
So, she figured she can't have a genuine African-American, she can at least have black skin because melanin is very important.
As it turns out, fertility clinics and doctors, sperm banks, and other industry experts have struggled to figure out why the shortage of donors is especially acute among black donors.
And they cite mistrust of the medical system makes it difficult to recruit them.
There is a fear many people have about what's going to be done with their sperm.
Well, you get 75 to 100 bucks a shot.
I think a lot of donors don't much care.
I mean, as long as you get paid for that sperm, but I guess they're going to be subject to medical experimentation.
What are black people worried about?
Actually, we come to the awful truth.
What's the awful truth?
The awful truth is this, Mr. Kersey.
Only one in every 1,000 applicants Makes it through the screening process.
Okay.
Which includes genetic and infectious disease testing, a criminal background check, ding ding ding ding ding ding, alarm bells go off, and a semen analysis to ensure sperm quality.
Oh dear.
I'm afraid that's the answer to all their questions.
Or at least an awful lot of them, Mr. Kersey.
No, okay.
One last little story here, and this is on black homeownership, and then we can talk about Netflix.
In 1960, this was eight years before the Fair Housing Act, which prohibited property owners and financial institutions from discrimination on the basis of race, There was a gap of 27 points between white and black rates of homeownership.
65% of whites owned homes, only 38%.
But that gap has widened.
Uh-oh.
Yeah.
In 2018, 72% of white households owned a home, while only 42% of blacks.
Uh oh.
Yeah.
In 2018, 72% of white home householders, households owned a home, while only 42% of blacks.
So the gap had gone from 27% to 30%.
Black home ownership peaked in 2004 at 49%.
Before the housing crisis, it is projected to fall to 41%.
That we had banks under George W. Bush, a Republican president, say, let's loosen lending requirements for homeowners.
I believe you said black homeownership, 49% in 2004, correct?
Yes, that was my period.
Four years later, you had credit fault swaps, collateralized debt obligations, all these confounded mechanisms of economic growth basically bring down the entire world economy.
I've got a quick few minutes to talk about this.
this desire to put BIPOCs into homes when they couldn't afford down payments,
they couldn't afford to make monthly payments.
They went 49% to 42% today.
Wow.
So there you go.
So now let's talk about Netflix.
I've got a quick few minutes to talk about this.
So did you ever see, I know a couple of your employees, they love the show Vikings.
Henry Wolf swears by it.
I don't know about Vikings.
Okay, well.
Netflix's Vikings Valhalla has turned white ruler of Norway in 750 AD into a black viking female warrior.
A black viking princess?
Vikings Valhalla, the spinoff to Amazon Prime and History's Vikings, is streaming on Netflix now.
The sequel is set in the 11th century, approximately 100 years after the original, wildly popular, almost all-white series.
It was historically accurate.
I mean, were there some non-whites anyway?
No, well, not in that case.
Okay.
So, Danish-Swedish singer Caroline Henderson makes her debut acting role in the series as Jarl Hakon, the leader of Kattegat.
Now, forgive me, anybody out there who's like, God, you've got to learn to pronounce Viking words correctly.
Sorry.
Not a Viking, but was the Black Viking leader based on a real person?
Caroline Henderson is melanin enhanced.
She spoke to Newsweek about the inspiration behind her character.
Was the Black Viking leader Jarl Haakon based on a real person?
So she stars as this female warrior, this black respected leader.
And the Vikings of Valhalla showrunner Jeb Stewart, interestingly named, simply created a female powerful mental figure, mentor figure, and then they realized that, well, the real Hakon Sigurdsson is a white man.
That's who this character is based on.
So she's had a sex change and a race change.
Yes!
But in Vikings of Valhalla, Hakon is a black woman.
The real Haakon Sigurdsson was a powerful earl and pagan leader who became the de facto ruler of Norway from 975 AD to 995 and coined the term Haakon the Powerful.
However, in Vikings Valhalla, Haakon is the ruler of the fictional land of Kattegat and she's a He, the white male, becomes a black female.
Henderson explained in Newsweek her character was inspired by both male and female characters from the Viking era.
And she also said that it's the current year, basically, a little bit maybe relatable to what's happened in 2022.
You need to have characters who reflect the times, blah, blah, blah.
I mean, it's just usual stuff.
Gregory Hood wrote a great feature article for American Renaissance in which he talked about even our myths, even our heritage is being taken from us.
Norse gods can be black.
Yeah.
Kings and queens of Britain or France can be Asian.
It is just absurd.
Why can't they have their own myths?
The most absurd, and this is a really good show otherwise.
You've seen the 2004 Wolfgang Peterson Troy, correct?
With Brad Pitt as Achilles.
I have seen it.
Well, Achilles, Homer, in his epic.
He talks about, as passed on, Achilles had blonde hair.
Floating blonde hair.
Correct.
Agamemnon, I think, had red hair.
Correct.
Well, in the Netflix The Fall of Troy, Achilles is about as Nubian as he gets.
About as black as he gets.
Achilles.
And Zeus himself.
Zeus is black.
So Netflix is one of... I'm sure somebody out there... Here's a challenge.
Somebody out there, help us put together the definitive glossary of... What would you call it?
De-whitening?
De-whitening?
The whitening?
The blackening?
No, de-whitening.
Oh, the de-whitening.
The de-whitening of our myths.
It would be really great to put together because how many kids out there, Mr. Taylor, are watching these Netflix shows for the first time?
They have no idea that diversity didn't exist.
They're probably thinking, Helen of Troy will be black next.
Maybe a Troy was like a homely.
Maybe a pygmy.
Okay, well we have come as we always do.
Alas and alack to the end of our time and ladies and gentlemen we thank you for your attention.
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