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March 10, 2022 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Don’t You Know There’s a War On?
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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance, and it is already March 10th, Year of Our Lord 2022, and with me, of course, is my indispensable co-host, Paul Kersey.
Now we begin with comments.
Last week we talked about Seattle's decision to stop enforcing its helmet law for bicyclists because a disproportionate number of those arrested for violating it were the usual pets.
Now, there's always the possibility that you have racist police officers out there who are just looking the other way when white people go by, helmetless, and just, out of pure vicious racism, arrest non-whites.
Well, a reader sent in a study from the Journal of Surgical Research.
And it's called Race and Insurance Status as Predictors of Bicycle Trauma Outcome in Adults.
A rather highfalutin title for something that reported quite fascinating data.
What they found is that there are substantial racial differences in helmet use.
And when you find people who have had an accident of some kind, and you determine who is wearing a helmet and who is not, the odds ratio for a black person wearing a helmet was only one quarter as likely as a white person.
In other words, white people are four times more likely than Hispanics to be wearing a helmet, and they are, I'm sorry, four times more likely than blacks.
Whites are four times more likely than blacks, three times more likely than Hispanics to be wearing a bicycle helmet.
Now they also had a very interesting little bit of data here.
This is depending on what kind of insurance you have.
How likely are you to be wearing a bicycle helmet?
And what they found out was that Medicare versus private insurance company.
Medicare people, those are the folks who are older, they are only half as likely to be wearing helmets as privately insured people.
But even more important, Medicaid insurance people.
These are people who are usually poor.
These are indigents who have no private insurance.
They are only one-fifth as likely as privately insured people who are wearing a helmet.
Yes.
In other words, this just goes along with the disorganized and less forethought going into their lives.
They're only one-fifth as likely to be wearing a helmet as people who have private insurance.
Have you ever been in an accident with an individual who did not have insurance?
Never.
I hope never to never have that happen either.
No, I suppose it sounds as though you have and that sounds like a long time.
No, I haven't.
It's a great thing that I haven't because I have been in action before and it is a mind-numbingly horrible experience to have to deal with insurance agents for the offending party.
But it's stories like this, Yes, they're people without insurance at all and they're the ones that are most careless.
Correct.
I suspect it would be very interesting to see uninsured drivers, well they're not supposed to be on the road at all, but just what kind of driving records they have.
Another listener note.
Someone sent in an article with a headline that was just so rich and so wonderful that I had to repeat it even though this article is a year old.
And it is from USA Today and here is the headline.
Hate groups declined in 2020 from 2018's record high, SPLC reports, but amount of hate has not diminished.
That deserves to be read one more time.
Because I'm still not quite sure I understand it.
Well, I'll letter it one more time.
Hate groups declined in 2020.
The number of hate groups.
From 2018's record high, SPLC reports, but amount of hate has not diminished.
The amount of hate, I mean the number of haters, of hate groups out there, but hate, oh boy, boy, oh boy, that just goes from high to high.
It goes on to say, in the final year of former President Donald Trump's term in the White House, the number of active hate groups in the United States declined.
And the SPLC identified 838 active hate groups operating across the U.S.
in 2020, 838. That's a decrease from 940 in 2019 and a high of 1,020 in 2020.
in 2020, 838.
2018 was a vicious year, Mr. Kersey.
No fewer than 1,020 hate groups.
White nationalist organizations, a subset of the hate groups listed in this report, declined last year by more than 100.
Wow.
What were those groups?
I don't know.
We probably never saw them come or go.
But the war on white nationalist hate seems to be succeeding.
The number of anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, anti-LGBTQ hate groups remained largely stable.
But all those white people, they are in a corner now.
What's important is that we start to reckon with all the reasons why those groups have persisted for so long and been able to get so much influence in the last White House, says Margaret Huang, one of their experts.
Okay.
Do you realize hate groups had influence in the White House?
Well, I mean, again, we know that all Trump supporters have been deemed, you know, white nationalists.
Trump himself was called a white supremacist, white nationalist, a neo-Nazi, a Nazi, a fascist.
Every day, you know, since, as we joke, he came down that escalator and we know, you know, all of, yeah, it's... There's no news here.
But, as the SPLC explained, the decline in groups should not be interpreted as a reduction in bigoted beliefs and actions motivated by hate.
So, you know, they have hate detection satellites circling the globe.
They have drones.
Oh, yes.
There's an army of drones out there.
And they're all out there detecting hate.
And so the number of hate groups can go up and down.
They have this independent confirmation of hate on the loose all around the country and all around the
world.
I don't think we're going to talk about it, but last week we talked about some of the
stories.
How come so many white people care about what's happening in Ukraine?
Because it looks like...
We are going to talk about that.
Do we have an article about that?
Oh, yes.
Oh, good, good, good.
For example, there is an article from the Grio, that black site.
You know what a GRIOT is?
I do.
Well, good for you.
That's a West African word for a black shaman, magician, soothsayer.
The GRIOT.
It's spelled G-R-I-O-T, by the way.
And the title was...
What the war in Ukraine could really mean for black Americans.
That's a burning issue.
It's the only issue, isn't it?
It's the only question.
Yes, I had just been on the edge of my seat till I got this and I can finally find out.
Well, the author Nola Haynes is a black woman whose identity, quote, intersects with my professional identity as an international relations focused political scientist.
She says the domestic instability exhibited on January 6th, 2021, that was the riot at the Capitol, triggered global instability.
That riot triggered global instability.
Yes.
Now this is a political scientist whose black identity intersects with her professional identity.
I think it clouds her vision.
Yes, I think so.
She then says Russia therefore felt emboldened to invade Ukraine.
Because of the events of January 6th, 2020.
That triggered global instability.
The world is just shaking apart because of what happened on January 6th.
Now, she goes on to say, disinformation campaigns will increase and continue to target black communities on social media.
The Russians are going to go after black communities and disinformation campaigns are cost-effective methods Russia uses to its advantage.
The goal of disinformation campaigns, Mr. Kersey, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, is to sow doubt and convince black Americans not to vote.
Were you aware of that?
That's okay.
That's what they're doing.
The Russians are spitting on their hands, rolling up their sleeves, and beavering away every day, trying to convince black Americans not to vote.
This reality increases the likelihood that black Americans will continue to be fed disinformation, especially about the war in Ukraine.
And I guess that's going to make them just say, no voting for me.
Imagine a scenario, writes Nola Haynes.
In which black Americans, where black American voters decide it was a mistake for President Biden to support Ukraine.
That would be the end of the world.
If the Russians managed to trick black Americans into thinking that it was a mistake for President Biden to support Ukraine.
Imagine such a scenario.
I think the earth would potentially spit off its axis.
I think it would stop spinning.
Wow.
Now, I looked up this Nola Haynes.
Most recently, Nola, darling, published a paper With something called New America on anti-racism as foreign policy.
Now, anti-racism, of course, should be a way of life.
It's practically a religion.
It's a lifelong journey, as the lefties like to say.
And the Nirvana Statement to which all white people must aspire.
So there's no reason why it can't be a foreign policy.
In fact, I think anti-racism should be America's only foreign policy.
I thought it was.
I mean, again, you go back.
Even under the Trump administration, didn't our State Department have the rainbow flag and Black Lives Matter flags all across the world?
I fear it did.
And most famously, there was the one in Afghanistan, correct?
Well, that was later on.
Okay.
Later on.
Just, I think it was six weeks before the fall of the government.
Our embassy was touting the importance of respecting LGBTQ++ LSD rights.
And they were tweeting about that and waving the flag.
I guess they just couldn't see what was coming.
I mean, this professor has missed the boat.
This is our foreign policy.
This is our domestic policy.
This is our policy in professional sports.
And, you know, in Little League Baseball, it's the policy.
In the Boy Scouts of America, it's the policy.
In the math classroom, it's the policy.
Well, yes, and you'll be intrigued to know that Nola Haynes, this professor, also describes herself as vegan adjacent, a dog mom, yogi, and hiker.
So there you go.
She covers the waterfront, this girl.
Now, on this question of white refugees, this is an article in the Daily Beast by Wajahat Ali.
Do you recognize that name?
I think he's never written a pleasant thing about white people, ever in his life.
He did something pretty gruesome.
Everything he does is gruesome.
Everything he does is gruesome, but he's just, he's one of these cheerleaders for the Great Replacement.
Oh gosh, yeah.
And yet at the same time, Anybody who dares notice it's happening is, in his eyes, a conspiracy theorist.
Correct.
Yes.
Well, anyway, he wrote an article called, It's Good to Be a White Refugee.
He goes on to say, I would strongly recommend being white and European if you must flee your home as a refugee under the threat of violence, war, repression, or political instability.
It seems whiteness is what magically transforms you into a civilized human being worth saving, as opposed to inferior black and brown communities who are also seeking refuge from horrific ongoing catastrophes in places like Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, and Haiti.
Yes, there are lots of them, Wajahat.
Yes, there are such awful places.
Many media colleagues in the U.S.
and Europe suffer from what I refer to as white journalism.
He goes on to say, this is the most unfortunate byproduct of white supremacy.
Did you know that white journalism was the most unfortunate product of white supremacy?
I did not!
Well, Wajahat knows.
And he says, this colors and distorts the worldview in which white lives, white pain, and white anxiety are recognized, centered, and exalted above all others, especially above black lives.
Isn't this awful?
the right-wing anti-immigrant governments of Hungary and Poland, which have stoked dangerous
xenophobia and religious ethnonationalism, have found space to accommodate Ukrainian refugees.
Isn't this awful? White people care about white people. Wajihat Ali is incensed.
Boy, oh boy, oh boy.
Yes, that's right.
So, yes, white people are more concerned about what's happening to their racial cousins and their brothers and their sisters.
Yes, Wajahat, that is true, and I bet it's the same for you, baby.
Yeah, well, somebody at MSNBC also said that the only reason people care about Ukraine is because there are white people who are Christian.
That's right, they're blonde and they're blue-eyed and they look like us.
Yes, we do care about them.
Sorry!
Sorry!
I mean, just go fight with biology and nature if you think that's wrong.
Likewise, here's just an example.
Listen to this.
Listen to this horror.
Absolute horror, Mr. Kersey.
Immigration Minister in Canada, Sean Fraser, has created a new visa category that will allow a limitless number of Ukrainians to come to Canada.
Wait a second.
Limitless.
The Great White North can actually be white and great again.
And Ukrainian.
They can come to live, work or study for up to two years.
Employers will be free to hire as many Ukrainians as they want.
Waiving most of the typical visa requirements, Canada is also waiving application fees for Ukrainians.
Sean Fraser, Minister of Immigration, also announced the government is introducing an expedited path to permanent residency for Ukrainians who have family in Canada.
So look at that.
Wajah Ali is right.
Special privileges for white people.
It's a shame the United States of America has not decided to do something similar.
Well, we know better.
We know better.
We believe in diversity.
Well, you're right.
Yes, yes.
There's no TPS.
There's no, what is it, Temporary Protected Status, TPS?
No, no, no.
That's just the Ukrainians when they're being invaded by Russia.
Or South African white people.
Oh my gosh.
I actually think we should encourage Ukrainians.
uh... you know they're what forty four million ukrainians yes but i think this
is the really i think this is the in ukraine and build up ukraine is a
wonderful wonderful white haven not some of them are really desperate need to come
someplace that i'm happy for them to come here
but no i i wish you crained the wonderfully ukrainian and full of happy
patriotic ukrainians Well, I hope this whole crisis can end pretty quickly.
Oh, the sooner the better.
This is just horrible.
We've talked about this before, just how grievous it is that white people are slaughtering white people.
And our last piece about Ukraine.
Last what?
It has to do with the future King of England, Prince William.
Oh no.
Did you know Prince William and Kate Middleton were visiting the Ukrainian Cultural Center in London just day before yesterday to show support for Ukrainian refugees?
And, as the Prince was speaking to people at the center, he made a comment that has now gone viral.
I know what he said.
I'll let you say it, though.
For our generation, it's very alien to see this in Europe.
Which is no doubt true.
Which is 100% true.
100% true.
And then, guess what Martin Luther King Jr.' 's daughter, Bernice, said?
She retweeted his comments and added horrific comments.
European people ran roughshod over the continent of Africa, pillaging communities, raping women, enslaving human beings, colonizing for profit and power, stealing resources, causing generational devastation, and European countries continue to harm Africa.
Wow.
Is that a non-sequitur or what?
It's a very big non-sequitur.
Again, it's okay.
But what does it have to do with us?
What does the Ukrainian crisis have to do with the black diaspora?
Or with the pillaging Africa and colonizing for profit and power.
And then a commentator on Indian TV by the name of Priyanda Deojane.
She says, Prince William's racist remark is unfortunately not the only one made by the West.
Sections of Western media are covering Russia-Ukraine with deeply rooted discrimination.
Yes, they care more about white people.
White care people care more about white people.
Oh, the horror!
Oh, the horror!
I can't believe it!
And it's the current year, Mr. Kersey, and white people still care about white people.
Oh my gosh.
But now, you have got a story about somebody who doesn't care about white people.
I've got a story about someone who doesn't care about white people and the consequences of not caring about white people.
In this white supremacist country, it's dangerous not to care about white people.
It is.
So, we've got a Florida police chief who has been given the boot after an investigation found he engaged in discriminatory promotion practices and remarked, quote, that wall is too white, end quote, when looking at pictures of the department's command staff.
Larry Scarrato took over the Fort Lauderdale Police Department in August.
He was fired by the city manager last Thursday.
The report followed several discrimination complaints against the 48-year-old, stating that he made hiring and promotion decisions with an illegal race-based approach.
He's a former assistant chief in Pittsburgh.
I'm sure he got his job on merit, as opposed to the fact that he is a mulatto.
He's diverse.
He's half white, half something else, and half again something else again.
Correct, correct.
Mysterious.
But he also He also checked off another box, Mr. Taylor.
He became the first openly gay chief hired in Fort Lauderdale last year.
As stated, he is of mixed race.
So a 12-page investigation into the bias complaints concluded he created a A divisive atmosphere in the department.
And that, as stated earlier, he once pointed to a conference room wall of photos of the department's command staff and declared, God, that wall is too white.
And I'm going to change that.
Probably too straight, too.
Probably way too heterosexual.
We have to be wearing purple uniforms.
Exactly.
We don't need the badge of Fort Lauderdale.
We need the badge of the LGBTQ.
Is that Lambda?
LDS++.
I think that's what you said.
Yeah, movement.
Another incident took place... No, no, no.
Don't say LDS.
That's what you said, actually.
Actually, you said LSD.
Oh, LSD.
I think you said LSD.
One of our student listeners left a reminder of what Mr. Taylor said.
LDS is not very, very homosexual friendly.
Latter-day Saints.
There's attempts to unfortunately make it more friendly to all BIPOCs and whatnot.
Another incident found that he said, quote, which one is blacker when considering a promotion?
An incident that the former police chief denies took place.
Which one is Blacker?
Yes, I think the Blacker one got the nod, wasn't it?
That was the case.
He intended to make, quote, diversity at every opportunity his biggest priority as the head of the police department.
But again, that's what This is the type of story whenever you hear anybody saying that an entity, an organization is too white, what does diversity ultimately mean?
It means displacing and replacing a white individual who works for that organization with a non-white.
So this guy was only doing what diversity is all about!
I know!
It's amazing that he became a cropper!
So he told CNN that he promoted 15 people from August to November of 2021.
Just six were ethnic or gender minorities and said the report was vague on the facts.
Again, talking about his goal to diversify.
A laudable goal, he said.
He then talked about how these minority groups are now treated as if they were less deserving, and that's not the case.
It never was.
But again, all this stuff about how he was doing this and how, again, the firing came after two Fort Lauderdale cops alleged they had been passed over for promotion based on race, sexual orientation, and gender.
So somebody said, hey, listen, I'm a heterosexual.
I spurned this guy's advances to go to the happy hour down there at Pedro's Cocktails.
Oh dear.
Well, there you go.
This is Fort Lauderdale.
This is Fort Lauderdale.
This is a very interesting story because I think we've seen more and more of these start to pop up every now and then.
Remember the one story about the professor I think he criticized Black Lives Matter.
Was that at UCLA where he then lost out on a bunch of contracts and consulting?
That's right, consulting contracts.
And he's suing UCLA over this.
Because I think somebody said that they wanted to have tests made easier for blacks to have more time for them to study or prepare.
Because they had been traumatized by the news.
By the news of George Floyd.
And then you've seen this with I think a college football coach got fired for not For not kowtowing to BLM and he's suing.
I mean, this is the thing.
If it's against the law to hire people based on race, you know what?
Step up!
Sue like these two police officers did.
Ain't diversity grand?
Now, did you realize that Forbes has a list of African billionaires?
No surprise.
But, alas, of the 18 richest people in Africa, only five are black.
Oh, dear.
Wait a second.
Yes, yes.
Well, the trouble is, there's a whole bunch of them who are Afrikaners, you see.
Oh, okay.
That's the problem.
Is Elon Musk on this list?
No, not at all.
Because he's American now, I guess.
He's American now.
But the richest one of all, the very richest one of all, who is worth $14 billion, not bad, he is black.
His name is Aliko Dangote.
And he was up from $12 billion last year.
His assets increased by a cool $2 billion, following a 30% increase in the stock price of Dangote Cement, which is his most valuable asset.
Now, I would put an asterisk beside his qualification as a billionaire, insofar as this is Nigeria, my friend.
And in Nigeria, you can become a billionaire in ways that wouldn't necessarily work elsewhere.
In likeness with your financial acumen?
Well, I suspect that connections and being related to the big chief and things like that probably count for a whole lot.
I wonder also how many of his contracts that they've set up that are required to be majority African-Nigerian owned for the Chinese colonization of Africa.
I bet that actually plays a pivotal role.
But no, hats off to him.
He's worth $14 billion.
That's, you know, about $14 billion more than I'm worth.
But did you know the number of black billionaires in the United States?
Apparently, there are 724 billionaires in the United States.
Did you know that?
724?
724 billionaires.
Okay.
Yes.
Of that number, and I'm going to put you on the spot, how many do you think are black?
And there are black billionaires.
I would say it's under five.
Well, you are not too far off.
Seven.
Seven?
Can I try and name a couple real quick?
Well, I wouldn't know whether you're right or wrong.
Oprah.
Oh, it doesn't say.
Oh, okay.
I don't know.
Is Oprah a billionaire now?
I think she's a billionaire, yeah.
Well, you know, she made it on pure talent.
No, I'm serious in a way.
She's an entertainer.
You know, people love her.
I don't begrudge her her billions.
Now here, Pediatrics Magazine.
This is a serious medical magazine, peer-reviewed, etc, etc.
Volume 149, Issue 3, March 2022.
It points out that in 2019, firearm injuries surpassed motor vehicle collisions to become the leading cause of death for young Americans aged 0 to 19.
Leading form of death.
Yes.
More than vehicle accidents.
Homicide is the most common death of intent across all these age groups, but suicide represents a considerable proportion of firearm deaths as well in the 10 to 19 year old bracket.
In 2019, blacks had a firearm homicide rate 14 times that of white youth.
And this, as a consequence, brought their firearm mortality rate to 4.3 times higher than white youth.
But the white youth suicide rate is considerably higher.
Oh yeah.
Yes.
But because they knock each other off so frequently, their firearms mortality rate is four times higher than that of young whites.
And this has been getting worse.
For each additional year after 2013, The mortality rate for black youth increased by 0.55 deaths per 100,000 compared to whites.
Now, this is what Pediatrics Magazine, peer-reviewed, says about all this.
The public health crisis demands physician advocacy to reduce these preventable deaths among youth.
There is no biologic plausibility for these disparities, but they are a reflection of racist systems and policies that perpetuate inequities and violent injuries and death.
Thus saith Pediatrics Magazine.
Okay.
Biology counts for nothing, Mr. Kersey.
Nothing.
It's all a reflection of racist systems and policies that perpetuate inequities.
And that is why black people kill each other so frequently.
But apparently, it's very strange, white people kill themselves more frequently than blacks.
What accounts for that?
Perhaps there's some sort of time-space continuum they can talk about.
How?
The invasion of Russia, which happened because of January 6th, somehow is sending shockwaves across the universe, going back in time, and it's compelling blacks to shoot others.
Shoot themselves.
Yeah, shoot, exactly.
And others.
At higher rates than whites.
I think you're on to it.
I'm sure there's some physicist out there who's trying to come up with some racial string theory behind black, behind violent crime.
Now, overall suicide rates.
You know the group that kills itself most frequently in the United States is American Indians.
24 per 100,000.
That's pretty high.
I mean, the murder rate in the United States is about 5, 5.6.
That's very high.
But whites are pretty high too.
16 per 100,000.
That's suicide across the board.
Then come Hispanics, Blacks, and Asians all clustered together at about 7.
Isn't that interesting?
Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians.
Those are very disparate groups.
But they all commit suicide at approximately the same rate.
About 7 per 100,000.
That is to say, half the white rate and one quarter the American Indian rate.
Now, for ages 15 through 24, that's a high suicide rate age.
American Indians, 52 per 100,000.
That's really a tragically high figure.
Whites are 26.
That's pretty high.
And then Hispanics, Blacks, Asians, clustered at 18.
But they are all three catching up with whites.
Very interesting.
There was an Impure article that Lamented the fact that as black gun ownership has gone up, will that mean that black suicide rate also goes up?
I'm not sure if you saw that article.
I saw that.
You know, so, you know, NPR is just, they don't know what to think.
They think, well, of course, black people are being gunned down by vicious white police officers, so they have to be prepared to shoot back.
But, oh my gosh, they might shoot themselves.
They just don't know which way to flop on this one.
It's tough when you're in PR, you know?
You're so confused, so muddled.
Now, just out of curiosity, I looked up homicide rates by state.
Okay.
And I know you are a son of the South, a loyal son of the South, but the highest murder rates, the top 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 states are all in the South.
Okay.
Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
Not Georgia.
Not Georgia.
Not Tennessee.
Arkansas.
Arkansas is there.
It goes this way.
The worst is Mississippi.
20.5.
That means four times the national rate.
20.5 per 100,000.
Louisiana is next.
19.9.
Then Alabama, Missouri, Arkansas, South Carolina, 12.7.
Okay.
Now, the lowest.
The lowest.
The very, very lowest.
Hawaii.
Uh, it's close.
Nope, nope, nope.
Vermont, New Hampshire.
They had no, they had no, uh, last, last time we checked, which is in 2020, no homicides at all.
Come on.
No, in the whole state.
In the whole state of Vermont, New Hampshire, there are no homicides.
No homicides.
Come on!
They're too white.
You know, they're too nice to kill each other.
And then in Maine, Maine is 1.6 per 100,000, Idaho 2.5, Massachusetts 2.7, Utah 2.9, Rhode Island 3,
and Hawaii comes in at 3.3. So Hawaiians, despite living in paradise, all those swaying palms and
ukulele music and lovely surf rolling in, they're killing each other where the Vermonters and
New Hampshire's all huckered down in that cold are not.
So, no homicides in Vermont or New Hampshire in 2020.
Yep, and 2019, either no homicides.
Really?
They just don't believe in that.
No.
No violent crime at Montpellier.
Well, there's probably some violent crime.
That's fascinating.
Somebody stepped on somebody's shoe, probably.
That's about as violent as they get.
Now, this is a very interesting reflection of homicide rates.
Did you know?
I didn't.
I mean, I consider myself reasonably knowledgeable about this sort of thing, but I did not realize That of all the whites and Hispanics, because you can't separate them out because of the stupid FBI statistics.
Correct.
Of all the whites and Hispanics who are killed, murdered, homicided, 10% are killed by cops.
10%.
No, I didn't.
Yes.
Is this in that same study or is this a different study?
This is a different study.
I dug this up someplace else.
Now, guess what percentage of blacks, of black homicides, are committed by police officers?
I bet it's under, it's probably half of what?
Your instincts are good.
Three percent.
Okay.
Yeah.
I was going to say less than.
Wow.
And knowing how many more homicide victims there are because of the high rates of black, that is mind blowing.
Isn't that interesting?
No, I just stumbled onto that.
Fascinating.
Yes.
So, if you're going to be killed, white people are three times more likely, well, including, you know, assuming that this Hispanic mix in there doesn't mix things up too much.
If you're going to be killed, chances are it's going to be a police officer that kills you rather than a fellow white person or anybody else, compared to a black.
That's worth a video.
Isn't that interesting?
That's worth a video.
Isn't that interesting?
Now, but you, you have the NAACP's reaction to some of these gruesome statistics.
Yeah, this is one, um, I don't know how we even came across this, but, uh, in many Dayton neighborhoods there have, uh, there's always been concerns about the interaction between police and young black males.
Oh boy.
But there are many signs that there's a growing concern about a rising tide of violence overall.
The overwhelming grief, anger, and frustration about violent and senseless deaths in Dayton.
Unlike in Vermont and the entire state of New Hampshire, in Dayton it's rising, and it's because of blacks.
Dr. Derek Forward, President of the Dayton Chapter of the NAACP, spoke at a news conference.
He was flanked by a mother and a wife who were mourning the loss of a 35-year-old Lyft driver, Brandon Cooper, who was shot and killed during an attempted carjacking while simply trying to drive people from point A to point B.
The teens arrested and accused of killing Cooper are also African-Americans.
So Cooper is a black guy, or was a black male, just trying to do his job.
Quote, law enforcement citizen, if you are wrong, you're wrong, Ford said.
He said the NAACP is not about to stop fighting for the civil rights of blacks involved in
any potential incidents and those abused or killed by police.
However, all four homicide victims in the city in 2022 have been African American.
And so are all six people arrested and accused of involvement in those crimes.
That statistic was concerning to Forward.
Quote, that's 10 more African Americans out of their families lives, said Forward.
News Center 7 requests the numbers and demographic information about homicide in Dayton from the Dayton Police Department.
The information confirmed the trend Forward pointed out.
I don't know the breakdown population demographics for the city, but In 2021, there were 32 homicide victims and 23 of them were African American.
19 of the 24 arrests made in those cases were African American.
When I think of 32 homicides in 2021, and 23 of them are African-American, that makes my heart ache."
End quote.
Ford said.
Well, does he care about the nine people that weren't black?
Well, don't press him too hard on that.
The point is, though, these people, there is something really rather touching about that.
The people who actually live in that community and know people who are murdered, probably know people who are murderers, And they, they really see this, they care about it, and as you can see, they are not, this guy's not just left-right blaming systemic racism.
No, he's, and you know, you've had several stories like this over the last several weeks of people in these black areas wondering what the hell can we do about it?
And they're not blaming white people.
No, they're not.
They're not.
Yes, and more power to them.
They really do think that black lives matter, unlike the people who yell that all the time.
No, it's a heartbreaking thing.
There are no good answers, no good solutions.
It does have this paragraph which I don't like.
Community leaders have pointed out that sometimes these types of statistics lead to minority neighborhoods receiving increased police patrols, but no increase in development funding.
Right, right.
Well, they need increased police patrols.
But just because people are shooting each other, that means you're supposed to pour money into the neighborhoods?
I mean, that is part of the thinking.
Are businesses supposed to stay open because of the violent crime?
Yes.
Are people supposed to want to invest there?
And if people do start investing there, Mr. Taylor, inevitably what happens?
Some white homosexuals move in.
They start to gentrify the area.
Property values go up.
And that's no good either.
Taxes go up.
That's not good.
Nope.
That's not good.
Well, and here's some examples of what the problems are.
There's a mix-up in Milwaukee last week.
23-year-old Marcellus Duckworth, an African-American fellow citizen, was in some kind of love triangle, and one of the ladies had had enough of this, and she phoned him up and said she was coming over.
So she drove over with a friend, armed with cans of soup, which she started throwing at Mr. Duckworth's car.
Do we know what kind of soup it was?
No, but what caliber do you reckon a can of soup is?
About 20 millimeters?
Probably Campbell's, yes.
In any case, she is chucking cans of soup at his car.
Now, don't mess with my car, sister.
They went up and down the street, roaring up and down, doing this, throwing cans of soup at his car.
So Mr. Duckworth comes out with a 9mm pistol, in his words, to defend his property.
Well, he says he had never fired a gun before.
And he aimed at the tire, hoping to disable the vehicle.
He appears to have shot high and killed a 15-year-old by the name of Gabby Landry.
Not certain whether she was part of the love triangle or was a passenger, because one was part of the love triangle, one was a passenger.
Now, usually there's a whole lot of shooting with few hits, but this is a rather tragic example of the reverse.
Trying not to hit and kill this poor girl.
But what's NAACP supposed to do about this?
Ration soup?
I mean, this is the kind of thing... What do you do about this?
Now, here's another case, Mr. Kersey.
A woman in Florida has been arrested and accused of using a $15,000 pandemic relief loan to pay a hitman to kill another woman.
What city was this in?
This was... Gosh, what city was... You know, I'm not certain.
Sorry, I thought you said... I'm assuming it's not Vermont or New Hampshire.
It's neither in Vermont nor in New Hampshire.
Jasmine Martinez used her PPP loan to pay someone to kill Lashante Jones.
Now, she was a Transportation Security Administration worker, TSA worker, shot and killed out, oh, it was in Miami, on May 3rd, 2021, and her three-year-old daughter was wounded.
Her three-year-old daughter, she's holding her arms, this guy comes up and shoots both of them.
At least the three-year-old daughter survived.
Now, Jasmine had gotten this $15,000 by PPP loan by asking for federal relief for her single employee beauty salon.
Her single employee being herself.
Now, as a result of this, police arrested two others.
They finally brought them to justice.
Javon Carter, the alleged hitman, and Romiel Robinson, who was a middleman who arranged the hit.
So, Robinson is reportedly Jasmine's current boyfriend.
So, I guess she went to him.
She went to him and said, look, look, we need to take this woman out.
Well, and hitman Javon Carter filmed himself counting a large amount of cash hours after Lashanti was shot dead, as he says on the video, just another day at the office.
Now, there's bad blood between the two of these.
It goes all the way back to 2016.
Jasmine attacked LaChante because LaChante was dating an ex-boyfriend of Jasmine's at the time.
So, Jasmine, she's the constant aggressor.
She was arrested in 2018 for once again attacking Lashante.
No soup involved in that one though.
No soup.
No soup.
Just ex-boyfriends, which are worse than soup if you ask me.
Lashante reportedly then showed up to testify against Jasmine in her assault trial, and when she walked out of the courtroom, She was robbed, held at gunpoint in the parking lot by two men, one of whom was Jasmine's ex-boyfriend, Kelly Nelson, now in jail.
I'm realizing this is getting too complicated to follow.
I'm trying to, but I just don't know what soup's involved.
I know, it's too, but so, but now after that happened, she was getting ready to testify against this boyfriend who held her up in the courthouse parking lot.
Okay.
And that's when Jasmine decided, well, this girl has just got to go.
And so she used her PPP loan, and poor Lashante is dead.
Now, I must say, if I'd been Jasmine, I might have a beef against Lashante, too, because judging from their photographs, judging from their photographs, Lashante is a real dish compared to Jasmine.
Really?
Oh, yes.
Okay.
And that's the way these things work.
But in any case, What does one do?
How's the NAACP going to stop this?
And where's the systemic racism that made this happen?
I'm sure there's a study that shows enough black proprietors didn't get PPP loans, so I'm sure they'd say that she didn't get enough.
Well, so when she got it, you know, she obviously didn't need to pay a salary.
She just, oh yeah, yeah, the race realist cat wants to know too.
What explains this?
Says race realist cat.
In any case, now I think you had quite an interesting story here about BLM Antifa arsonists.
Yeah, this is from Post Millennial.
I believe this is from and written by Andy Ngo.
Oh, yes.
Fantastic journalist.
One of the more courageous people out there.
I'd put him probably at the top.
You know, maybe the guy at Project Veritas.
He's up there too.
O'Keefe.
But Andy goes in and gets in the thick of things when the violence is starting.
He's targeted.
He's been assaulted many times.
He risks real physical danger.
He deserves a medal.
So here's the headline.
BLM Antifa activists convicted of arson after attempting to frame Proud Boys for their own crimes.
Now, a story that we didn't talk about, which it bears mentioning with this story, is in Seattle during the riots of 2020, the police actually pretended that there were Proud Boys coming to confront the Antifa and Black Lives Matter protesters.
They were on their radios putting up this chatter.
And those who did this, they actually got reprimanded and in trouble for that.
Well, in this case, it's the exact opposite of what happened.
A group of BLM and Antifa rioters were convicted on federal charges after attempting to frame the Proud Boys for a series of vandalism and arson attacks The far-left extremists carried out on Atlanta police vehicles and United States Postal Service property during the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election.
John Wesley Wade, Ellie Brett, and Vida Jones were arrested in late October on federal charges in connection to the string of incidents.
They tried to frame the Proud Boys by leaving notes near the sites of vandalism that read, quote, End quote.
A reference to when former President Trump told a right-wing group to, quote, stand back and stand by, end quote, after he was asked to condemn white supremacist militias during the first 2020 presidential debate.
I kind of forgot that that happened, but it did.
I think he meant to say stand down, but he said something like stand down and something.
Yeah, he definitely probably misspoke, but they attempted to use that to show that this was actually taking place.
At around 1250 a.m.
on October 2nd, 2020, several fires were set at the West End Post Office in Atlanta.
One fire was set within a bin of mail on the loading dock at the post office building itself, destroying much of the mail.
A bin of mail.
That's a federal offense.
Destroy much of the mail and damage another property in possession of the U.S.
Postal Service.
Other fires damaged five USPS vehicles that were parked in the secure, enclosed parking area.
The attack was one of at least seven related arson and vandalism incidents directed at law enforcement, a bank, And other government entities that occurred around the Atlanta metropolitan area between September 30th and October 2nd, 2020, which are all attributed to this three gangs of, this gang of BLM Antifa who are trying to pin it on the Proud Boys.
It sure took them a while to track them down then, didn't it, after all this crime?
Yeah!
Not like Jan 6th.
In a parking, exactly, in a parking lot on September 2nd, I'm sorry, on September 30th near MLK Drive, a Walmart, the window of an Atlanta Police Department vehicle was smashed with a brick with a note wrapped around it.
They were able to capture footage showing two males wearing dark clothing, masks, and hoods.
One male was wearing a somewhat distinctive jacket that was darker.
The second male was wearing all black.
So this is how they were able to figure it out.
They recovered the brick and note from the scene.
The note mentioned Election Day and the date the Electoral College was to meet.
Now, this is September 30th, so they have some foresight here doing this plan.
So they were the message was depicted on an Instagram account associated with one of the people who they were able to track down and then hit with these With these federal charges, the message said, quote, proud boys stand by, end quote.
So there you go.
So they've been convicted.
They have been.
Well, are they?
I don't know.
I don't know to what extent.
That's not mentioned in this.
What the sentencing is?
Yeah, exactly.
It'd be very interesting to know.
But they sound like pretty nasty characters, and I'm glad they're going to be behind bars.
Well, moving to New York State.
You've heard of social equity candidates for cannabis licenses?
I have.
Well, New York State will soon announce plans to usher in its first outlets for retail sales of recreational marijuana.
This is the getting high kind.
Okay.
Not the stuff that puts you to sleep or solves your mental problems.
No CBD oil?
No, not CBD.
This is Shona pot.
And to be one of the state's first licensed retailers, you or a member of your family must have been convicted of a marijuana-related offense.
Okay.
So, affirmative action for criminals.
Governor Hochul, the new governor, the lady governor, has also proposed and the legislature seems likely to pass a $200 million bill as part of the budget to support these fledgling businesses.
This is money that would be spent on finding, securing, and renovating storefronts for these pot dealers.
Now, that need for state assistance to get into the pot business is especially acute in New York City where retail space is expensive.
Now see, they tried the same thing in New Jersey.
They had these social equity candidates.
In other words, racial minorities.
And former pot offenders.
And they were supposed to take advantage of a loss similar to New York's, but they struggled to find capital.
And they struggled to secure leases.
They just did not have the kind of creditworthiness that makes people want to lease them a storefront.
And that's part of the impetus behind this New York $200 million deal.
So you walk in with a big check from New York, and you're going to get your storefront, you're going to get going.
Half of all marijuana-related licenses, including those for growers and other parts of the supply chain, are earmarked for women, minorities, distressed farmers, whatever they are, veterans, and individuals who have lived in communities disproportionately impacted by the drug war.
I.e.
BIPOCs.
BIPOCs.
Well, B and L POCs, primarily.
Black and Latino residents have been far more likely to be arrested on marijuana charges than whites by this vicious white supremacist legal system we have.
Now, this really caught my eye.
The state hopes They really hope this, that many current illegal dealers will go legal.
Oh!
Yes, they're going to go straight.
They're going to find these... Pay their taxes.
State Senator Liz Kreuger, she explains, we want them to be successful, which means we need to help some of them.
Adding that signing leases Could be a tricky proposition for dealers who have been selling illegally behind a building.
No, they're probably not used to signing leases.
But I guess, you know, they know their product.
They know their customers.
And with a little bit of this $200 million... A little bit of capital?
Yeah, they can go straight.
Now, at the same time, here is a lady quoted by this news article by the name of Lulu Cui.
Lulu plans to apply for a license to open a dispensary in Brooklyn.
They're called dispensaries, apparently.
Dispensaries?
That's a strong word.
Well, it makes it sound like it's medicine.
In any case, a dispensary.
Now, Ms.
Tsui expects to qualify as a social equity candidate because she's a woman and she's a Chinese-American, so she will come at the top of the list Now, why does that make sense, Mr. Kersey?
Why does that make sense?
She's a woman, and she's from China, or somebody's from China, and so she gets a pot seller's license before, I mean, does that make sense to you?
Well, it makes sense to New York.
In our world, it makes perfect sense.
I guess so.
In our world, she's not a white man, and that's her, you know, boy, go to the head of class, Lulu.
That's her front of the line pass.
Yeah.
In any case, did you know That February 26th was the 10th anniversary of the shooting of Trayvon Martin.
Has it been 10 years?
Yes, sir.
It has been 10 years.
Golly.
It has been 10 years.
Yep, yep.
It's been an eventful 10 years.
Well, Trayvon was 17 at the time.
He would be 27 now and probably the father of at least eight children, I would guess.
He, of course, was black and he died at the hands of George Zimmerman, the famous white Hispanic Who was, at the time, 28.
Now Zimmerman, and probably all of our listeners are familiar with this, but just to remind those who are not, he was a neighborhood watch volunteer.
And after the shooting, he was questioned by the Sanford, Florida Police Department, but not charged because they didn't have any evidence contradicting his claim of self-defense.
Now it was a decision not to charge him.
That provoked an enormous amount of coverage and it inspired then President Barack Obama to say that if he had had a son, he would look like Trayvon.
So Trayvon's son.
So that helped.
They got an indictment, of course.
And as we all now know, there was an acquittal because it was established pretty unequivocally that Trayvon Martin was preparing to beat him to a pulp.
And in desperation and self-defense, he drew his legal weapon and fired one nine millimeter round into Trayvon Martin's chest.
Now, At the time, there was a fascinating incident on NBC's Today Show that aired a segment that included Zimmerman's 9-1-1 call.
Yes.
And this is all quite well known.
And it made it sound as though Zimmerman was the one who brought up Martin's race.
The way the call went was Zimmerman, this guy, Zimmerman says to the 9-1-1 guy, he looks like he's up to no good.
He's on drugs or something.
It's raining.
He's just walking around, looking around.
And the 9-1-1 operator says, okay, is this guy white, black, Hispanic?
Zooms in and says, he looks black.
Well, the NBC Today show eliminated the 9-1-1 comment and says, oh, he's suspicious.
He looks black.
So, interestingly enough, the guy, the producer who put that show together was fired.
Beware of that.
I did know that, yeah.
Yes, yes.
Well, on the anniversary, the 10th anniversary was lovingly commemorated by Charles Blow, my favorite African-American fellow citizen commentator at the New York Times, and he sat down with none other than President Barack Obama, Reverend Al Sharpton, and Henry Louis Gates Jr., a professor at Harvard, who was a classmate of mine at Yale, by the way.
Isn't that quite a trio?
Barack Obama.
That's the trifecta right there.
Rev.
Al and Henry Louis Gates.
So they had a good, a good little jabber about the anniversary of Martin's death and how it was, in their view, the catalyst for the rebirth of modern-day civil rights movement.
And Charles Blow wrote an opinion piece on the interviews, included a nine-minute video clip about all of this, which included, this is what I was building up to, this edited clip.
So what got the NBC producer fired has passed unnoticed at the New York Times.
I looked at the New York Times page.
There's nothing at all that says, oh, this was an edited clip.
Go away.
Nope.
So there you go.
This is the way life works at... You know, they used to call it the Grey Lady.
I somebody... I heard somebody refer to it as the Grey Strumpet the other day.
The Grey Strumpet?
The Grey Strumpet.
You know, we might not have seen many listeners who've never encountered that word.
The word strumpet?
Yeah.
You could be right.
You could be right.
So what?
Well, that is an old English word for prostitute.
I guess you could call her the Gray Slut, but that would be beneath my dignity.
Hey, New York Times.
It's got an OnlyFans account at this point, Mr. Taylor.
It just about does.
In any case, we have very little time left, so tell us about this Guaranteed Income Program.
Oh, this is one... This is very interesting.
I wasn't aware of that, and it's a fascinating bit of news.
I knew about it, but what I did not know, and it's been very quiet, is this was announced earlier this year.
They said that people were going to have the opportunity to sign up.
This story has very little press so far.
Thousands apply for free monthly guaranteed income for single mothers in Birmingham, Alabama.
More than 8,000 single mothers completed applications for Birmingham's test pilot program that will offer free monthly income for a year.
Response to the opportunity to participate in the Embrace Mothers program was overwhelming.
In quote, Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin wrote in an update on the program.
Well, why don't they just embrace fathers?
Would this even be necessary?
They can't be found.
More than 19,000 women at least started an application during the one-week application period that ended February 7th.
So think about that.
What's that, 60% more?
Or no, I'm sorry, 110% more.
Couldn't manage to finish the application.
Couldn't finish it, yeah.
Well, there were probably at least four questions.
No, that's almost 140% more than actually finished it.
So, holy cow!
Who taught me math?
So, that's a figure equivalent to nearly 100% of the city's total population of single female heads of household.
Well, gosh!
Somebody offers them free money and they say, yes, I'll have some!
Yeah!
The Embrace Mothers pilot program will provide Here's when the number comes in.
Only 110 single female heads of families.
A guaranteed income of $375 per month for a 12-month period.
So you do the math.
110 divided by 8,000.
What's the percentage who's actually going to get this?
That's like getting into Harvard.
Single women had 56.8% of all Birmingham households with children in the city of Birmingham.
There are 34,407 families that include at least one child under 18 years of age.
Of those, 19,554 are headed by single women, and we know that the majority are Black, because Birmingham is, I want to say, about 73-74% Black.
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the economic fragility of most American households, with disproportionate impacts on Black and brown people, Mr. Taylor.
Most particularly women.
That vicious virus.
It's misogynist and racist.
Misogynist, racist, and sexist!
So, Woodfin wrote, quote, addressing these and other issues have contributed to the persistence of racial, gender, and income inequalities is a top priority of my administration, end quote.
So again, I mean... Well, free money.
You know, I think I will look into that.
That might be worth a video, actually.
Again, 19,000 people attempted to fill it out.
8,000 people successfully got through.
That's well less than 50% of the people who tried to fill it out.
And yet, there's only 110 spots.
Imagine if they had had this in person, not online.
Imagine the lines we would have seen.
I think back there was a famous incident.
There would have been live shootings.
No, no, couldn't do that.
But no, this was done online, because we've all seen the videos of what happened in Atlanta.
What was this, 2009, 2010, where they had applications for Section 8 subsidized housing.
And it was just to get on the list, the waiting list, and 30,000 people showed up and overwhelmed everything.
There is a great thirst out there for free housing and free money, believe it or not.
Well, Mr. Kersey, once again, our time has dribbled away.
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