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March 31, 2022 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance, and with me, of course, is my indispensable co-host Paul Kersey.
It is March 30th, Year of Our Lord 2020, and as usual, our cup runneth over when it comes to news and observation about things that matter to us and to you, our beloved listeners.
We'll begin with some comments.
On the idea that Fort Benning would be renamed Fort Felix Hood, we have a listener who points out that it's all very well to get rid of Confederate names, but Felix Hall, Felix Hall, he was a man lynched on base in 1941.
And there's a long, loving Washington Post article about this in 2016.
As it turns out, it's not entirely proven that he was lynched.
No one saw it happen.
No arrests were ever made.
But let us assume the worst, that a black private, totally innocent, was killed in cold blood by a mob of baying racist white people.
Why is it, asks our listener, that black victims, often hapless, are memorialized like George Floyd, and not blacks who may have contributed to society in some exemplary way?
These victims are nobodies other than having been a victim, and they are elevated to hero status.
This only reinforces the idea that blacks are incapable of anything other than being victims.
And I certainly agree that naming a military fort for a lynching victim certainly is a strange way to instill fighting spirit into our fighting men.
And one, as the letter writer aptly notes, there's an asterisk even by the so-called lynching.
That's right.
Was it a lynching?
I mean, he was found dead under strange circumstances.
You can read all about it.
Felix Hall, you'll find all about this strange case.
Yet another comment.
This is a very brief one.
I had to confess that I had misspelled Jocky Smollett's name.
And someone pointed out, after having listened to our broadcast, he found that he works for a tech company called Snowflake.
Snowflake!
How charming.
And he's also 5 foot 5.
So he's a bit of a snowflake himself.
A black snowflake.
Now, a more to the point comment perhaps.
I was listening to your excellent podcast again and every time I hear of the Ahmaud Arbery 223 thing, that is the 2.23 miles that everyone is supposed to run in remembrance of the sainted jogger.
Well, because of course Georgia honored him with the day.
We have to always make sure people remember that.
That's right.
The great state of Georgia.
Henceforth, forever after, into the next Innumerable millennia.
Doesn't that go, maybe to deviate, that goes back to the very first point, the first letter, or letter writer, the first comment, the first email we got.
That's exactly right.
That's exactly right.
Where are the great achievements we celebrate?
All we celebrate is victimhood.
As I say, well, they should consider fetting George Floyd.
They should be fetting Derek Chauvin instead of fetting Aubrey.
They should be fetting the guys who shot him if he's such a great thing.
In any case, the 2.23 miles, that's the estimated distance he ran while he was being chased by these fellows.
And our listener says, when I hear this .223 thing, I think of the caliber of the AR-15.
.223.
How funny it would be if the NRA had everyone run 2.23 miles in honor of our freedom to carry this gun, since most of NRA members are virulent racists, don't you know?
He says, I can guarantee there are more NRA members than people who give even one you-know-what about a departed jogger friend, and you would have to call the respective sets of people to see who is capable of running two and a quarter miles.
Probably a lot more in the NRA camp.
Let's reclaim that number for ourselves, says this listener.
And then the same listener goes on to talk about the Harriet Tubman being on the $20 bill.
He says, I think one of the delays, which I find delicious, was from wokeness itself.
Harriet Tubman was originally slated to be on the $10 bill.
I'd forgotten that if that's the case.
Alexander Hamilton is on that bill, but with the success of the woke history rewrite Hamilton, the Broadway music, Which has a group of blacks rapping about good ol' Alexander.
Lefties decided that Hamilton couldn't be cancelled, and so they switched gears and went after Jackson, who is, of course, on the 20.
Now, I imagine that changing course like this must have cost them a few years, and they're probably too embarrassed to admit it.
Well, I haven't checked into this, but if true, it is amusing.
I don't know if that's true or not, but... No.
Somebody can remember this?
I didn't remember that.
I didn't remember she was supposed to be on the 10, but I think she should be on every bill, you know?
Why limit our great black hero?
That's, in fact, a black person who actually accomplished something, so she should be on every bill.
Yet another comment, and this is delving into the area of sports.
You are vastly better informed of these matters than I, but it has to do with the Afro-headed fellow who invented the take the knee, and our listeners.
First of all, it's Kaepernick, not Kaepernick.
Apparently, that's the way I've been pronouncing it.
Kaepernick.
Kaepernick.
Yes.
And second, Kaepernick probably has no interest in rejoining the NFL.
We talked about the fact that despite having called him, like, working on a slave plantation, he wants another job as a quarterback.
Do you know where he did that?
That was on one of the streaming services, too.
He was paid, he was able to do this show about his life, all the trials and tribulations he's faced.
I want to say he was paid seven figures to do that?
To make this announcement?
No, no, no, no, no.
To do the streaming show.
That's what I mean.
Yeah, yeah.
And then to compare the NFL to a plantation.
Oh, the poor boy.
The poor boy.
Well, he's off the plantation now if he's making that kind of money.
It's just to denounce the NFL.
But our listener points out he has no interest in rejoining the NFL, but is seeking publicity, probably to improve his marketability for endorsements and continue his saga of being blackballed.
If he's offered a contract, He will have to prove himself.
Everyone who's been absent from the league for a while must do that.
This puts his value at between $1 to $3 million a year.
He will then say, once he gets an offer of this kind, that this is an insulting slave wage for an elite quarterback such as himself.
It is not, says our listener.
Football contracts are pretty standardized.
Kaepernick was never illy and certainly wouldn't be expected to improve in his six years out of the game.
He will demand 40 or 50 million dollars a year for his services, not get a contract, and then thereby play victim of racism.
Interesting observation.
I don't know much about football, but this person seems very knowledgeable.
If Kaepernick had ever expressed willingness to work himself up from the bottom, as would any other third or fourth string quarterback, he would have been hired by just about any team in the league.
He will not accept those terms, so he will not get an offer.
He is no more looking for a job at the NFL than you or me.
I saw you from the football the other day.
You've got a good arm.
You'll be the first septuagenarian in the NFL.
Yeah, yeah, I'd make a great quarterback.
Great quarterback.
And then finally, yet another comment.
This has to do with football.
More into waters with which I am unfamiliar.
But this had to do with the announcement that all 32 teams now will be required.
No more sort of window dressing Rooney Rule.
This is a Rooney Law.
They are required to hire a minority or a woman in an assistant offensive coaching position.
Our listener says this.
Well, no concern at all for hiring any of the other gender categories.
What's this?
At inclusive schools such as Duke University, the number is now 11 and properly represented as LGBTQQIP2SAA.
Why only women?
Why not the L's or the G's or the Q's or the I's?
That's a good question.
Second point.
Are Jews and or Chinese?
Are they minorities?
Do they count?
And why not?
Much hate must lie behind this blindness to Orientals or Hebrews.
Point number three.
Why no quotas for believers in the Prophet Muhammad, followers of Santeria, etc.?
And why just offensive coaches?
That means the defense and special teams can remain nests of white supremacy.
Yes, they're overly... And then, fifth point, let's get to the heart of the matter.
Why shouldn't the NFL's players be really gender equal?
Half can be women.
And the final point, if the NFL is to address inequality, what about the league's clear bias against whites?
Blacks are 13% of the population and 71% of the players.
So there you go.
So, uh, no, it, it does seem astonishing to me that they've made an official commitment.
They're going to hire, they are absolutely going to hire one woman and, or, and, or, uh, one, uh, one minority on this offensive.
I'd be, it'd be hard pressed in my opinion to believe that there's one NFL franchise, 32 teams that has an all white coaching staff already.
Well, no, no, this is apparently an offensive coaching position.
Now, are there 32 women or are there 32 non-whites who can do these jobs?
Well, I mean, you've got, again, you have a lot of coaches on the offensive staff.
You've got, you know, position coaches, all kinds of blind, tight-end, non-white receivers.
This is an assistant offensive coaching position.
I don't know how many there are.
Now, maybe there are enough so that you can hire a certain amount of deadwood and it wouldn't make any difference.
Oh, again, you just have them coach one of the positions.
Again, a special teams coach.
It's absolutely asinine to believe that an NFL franchise right now has an all-white staff.
That's insane.
It's insane.
Well, but from what I read, only a few teams meet this requirement already.
But be that as it may, again, I'm wading into waters over my head.
I'm up to my knees and I'm already over my head.
So, you have some bad news stories about what this country is becoming.
Yeah, you know, this past weekend, there was these, we're not talking about Florida, I don't believe you've got that on your agenda, but it is interesting to talk about, we talked about Miami last week, and Panama City also had problems.
It's actually largely people that were arrested were blacks from Alabama, who weren't even spring breakers, they just went there to party, and they went, well, They probably went to meet Spring Bakers.
The late, great Colin Flaherty, we've had a very fun time detailing some of these videos
of the fellas.
But, I saw a tweet where someone pointed out three Florida cities overwhelmed with violence
have to have curfews for spring break.
Then they said this.
They said, as carjackings arise in D.C., the police are telling you how to protect yourself.
And they said, what do these two stories have in common?
What's the common denominator between the two stories?
I think we all know.
If you're listening to this podcast, I think you know who's behind the need for curfews in Miami, Panama City, and other cities, and then who's participating in the carjackings in D.C.
Well, here's the story.
As carjacking cases rise in Washington, D.C., here's how to protect yourself and your vehicle.
This was a news story.
This came out at the end of this very first part of 2022.
We missed it.
Again, there's so many stories, Mr. Taylor.
We can't get them all.
We can't read them all.
But this one, particularly interesting.
We've seen a rash of car thefts recently in the DC area.
Just last week, Greenbelt police responded to a violent carjacking.
On Bree's word court, three men shot and wounded a man and carjacked another person at gunpoint in the middle of the night.
7 News on your side has decided to discuss what you should do if you are ever the victim of a carjacking and tips on how to try and prevent one.
I think you don't want to live in a city where they have to give tips on how to not be a victim of a carjacking.
You don't want to have to live in a country where in any part of it you have to have tips of this kind.
But do proceed.
I do live not too far from Washington, D.C., so how should I protect myself?
Well, across the Potomac.
They're telling you this.
Carjacking is a crime of opportunity, a criminal search of the most vulnerable potential victim.
Sometimes it is the first step in another crime.
Up until 1993, carjacking was reported as either armed robbery or auto theft in D.C.
In response to several highly publicized incidents, the D.C.
Council passed laws providing stiffer penalties for individuals arrested and convicted of carjacking.
Stiffer penalties appear to have had no effect.
No, obviously not.
They then talk about how carjackings take place at ATMs, gas stations, car washes.
Well, you better not go to any of those places.
And Washington, DC.
I think you're going to be safe in Oakton.
These tips are directly from DC police.
The most important thing to remember is that your car is replaceable, but you're not.
Carjacking is a crime of violence that can be particularly scary.
Knowing how to respond in a situation may mean the difference between serious injury or death and walking away unscathed.
Did that recommend 40 Cal?
No, definitely maybe an AR-15 pistol.
You can do the Ahmet Aubrey 223 celebration.
No, I mean, that last paragraph sounded like a high school video of, you know, first time, you know, teaching you about sex or something.
You know, this is silly.
Paul Delpont, Executive Director of the National Crime Prevention Council, says there are a number of preventive measures the public can take. Quote, for example, when you go to a
mall or shopping center, park in a busy area. Don't park behind a large truck. Park
where you can be seen.
One thing criminals don't like, they don't like to be seen.
So if you're in an area where there are a lot of other people and you will be seen,
so will the criminals. But then he actually does something wrong here. Does something wrong.
He then says this.
Try to remember what the carjacker looked like.
Sex.
Race.
Age.
Hair and eye color.
Race?
Special features.
Clothes.
Heresy.
Again, I'm surprised this guy still has a job in there.
Race?
Oh my gosh.
Yeah.
So then, just a couple more tips, and this is for all you listeners out there.
As Mr. Taylor noted, when we live in a country where you have to warn people about how to be safe from a carjacking, you know that you're in a declining country.
So some more tips.
If the carjacker threatens you with a gun or other weapon, give up your car!
Don't argue!
Get away from the area as quickly as possible.
Always keep your doors locked and windows rolled up.
If it's hot and you don't have air conditioning, roll them up at least partway, no matter how short the distance you're traveling or how safe the neighborhood is.
Drive in the center lane to make it harder for potential carjackers to approach the car.
What?
In the center lane?
I mean, in a city like D.C., there's a lot of just two-lane streets.
Center lane.
I mean, in case you stop, they have to cross a lane of traffic to get there.
Yeah, at a stop sign, I guess, yeah.
Try to park at a garage with an attendant.
Leave only the ignition key with no identification.
I mean, again, this is just one of those stories.
Alright, well, you know, right in my county there was a news item just the other day.
A driver was assaulted in an armed carjacking Saturday, just last Saturday, involving four suspects driving a brown Nissan Altima.
Police believe the suspects were 18 to 20 year old men in dark clothing.
So, somebody didn't follow the advice.
Wait a second, where's some more description?
That's it.
That's not enough.
That's it.
They got the color of the Nissan Altima, and they got the color of the clothes, but the men are colorless.
Well, okay.
Well, tell me about what's going on in Los Angeles.
It seems we really are approaching South Africa status.
This was the trifecta in this phenomenal tweet.
The last one was also.
And in Los Angeles, the police are telling people not to wear expensive jewelry amid armed robberies as
people are just walking around the streets of LA.
Real quick, did you see the story that Los Angeles lost, I think, 187,000 people in population in just one year?
No.
It's one of those cities that, you know, unfortunately, the people who live there,
they're going to take their politics that helped create the conditions that forced them to leave to wherever they go.
Primarily, you know, places like Austin, Texas, Dallas.
Well, Austin is already lost to Western civilization anyway.
Well, as is LA.
At the Los Angeles Police Commission meeting, Chief Michael Moore said there's an increase in armed robberies throughout the area and warned about wearing expensive jewelry.
He said you need to be vigilant.
Quote, what we're asking the public to do with these crime increases is if they're going to
wear expensive jewelry or drive high-end cars when leaving restaurants, taverns, and other locations,
they need to be mindful of their surroundings and be in well-lit areas.
We ask that they recognize there are opportunists that are willing to take advantage of them, and in many times, these individuals are armed with firearms.
Moore said that the LAPD is tracking the increase in armed robberies, which are up 44% since last year.
Forty-four percent.
Yeah, we're tracking the increase in armed robberies, including looking at various suspect and vehicle description of those responsible.
I wonder who those are?
Well, you know, none of the advice seems to be get a concealed carry permit and do the world a favor.
No, no, no, no.
I guess the police don't feel as though they can say that.
Yeah, occasionally you'll get somebody like Sheriff Joe Arpaio who might say something like that.
But all of these big city people, they say, oh no, no, no, no, no, just say yes sir, no sir, and give them the keys and the hell will end well.
Well, some of us don't feel that way about it.
Did you meet Sheriff Joe when you were?
I did not meet Sheriff Joe.
Okay.
He was sitting at a different table.
But moving on from Los Angeles all the way to Africa, there's a huge New York Times article about something that has been intriguing me ever since the coronavirus appeared on the screen, on the scene, and that has to do with the low rate of coronavirus infections and deaths in West and Central Africa.
This has been the focus of a debate that has divided scientists.
Have the sick or dead simply not been counted?
Or have there really been fewer such cases?
As it turns out, the first months of the pandemic, there was fear that COVID was really practically going to depopulate Africa.
Remember that?
Everyone was terrified.
And part of it was the high prevalence of malaria, HIV, tuberculosis, malnutrition.
This was seen as absolute kindling for a bonfire.
As it turns out, by the third quarter of 2021, according to antibody tests, 65% of Africans had been infected, higher than the rate in most of the world, but just 4% of Africans had been vaccinated.
So, practically all these antibodies, they were overwhelmingly from infection, not from vaccination.
Now, why have so few Africans apparently died?
You said, by the way, only 4% of Africans have been vaccinated.
Yes, that's right.
And that 65% of people believe they...
No, according to sampling, 65% have antibodies.
Wow!
Yes, so they've, so COVID has been running wild through the country.
So herd immunity is actually working there.
It seems to be working, unless, unless the theory is there have been millions dying that we don't know about.
But if there are not millions dying, some speculation is focused on the relative youth of Africans.
The median age, the median age of Africans, guess what it is?
I believe I saw the number in the story, but it was well below the median age of Europeans and Americans.
Is it under 18?
It is 19.
The median age is 19.
Wow!
Half below and half above.
Wow!
Wow is right.
Compared to 43 in Europe.
Europeans, the median age is more than twice what it is in Africa.
It's 38 in the United States.
And of course, young people infected by the coronavirus are often asymptomatic, and that could account for the low number of reported cases and the low number of hospitalizations and deaths.
Now, Perhaps also exposure to other pathogens, such as other coronaviruses and infections like Lassa fever and Ebola.
Maybe that somehow offers protection because your body gets used to fighting off these bugs.
However, since COVID tore through South and Southeast Asia last year, it's become harder to accept these theories.
They are likewise young, younger than we.
The population of India has a median age of 28, but that's still a whole lot older than 19 for the Africans.
And the temperatures in those countries are relatively high, and there is a fair amount of ambient disease, which if that has been fortifying people against the coronavirus, that should have happened with the Indians as well.
But researchers have found that the Delta variant caused millions of deaths in India, or so they say.
And malaria and other coronaviruses are higher in those places too.
So, what's going on?
And, as it turns out, South Africa is the only country in Sub-Saharan Africa to record high COVID infection and death rates.
So, one theory is that the Africans have, in fact, been dying lickety-split, but their deaths aren't recorded because these countries just don't have their acts together.
Now, others say it's just not possible that hundreds of thousands or even millions of people are dying of COVID and it's just gone unnoticed.
As one researcher says, we've not seen massive burials in Africa.
If that had happened, we would know about it.
So, researchers are actually using fairly novel methods, such as looking for any increase in revenue from radio stations that advertise obituaries.
Apparently that's common in Sierra Leone.
They haven't got the results on that yet to try to see if these deaths have been going on, but nobody noticed.
But it's clear there's been no sign of desperately sick people coming to the hospitals.
Now, unlike Central Africa, however, the South African health care system, developed by those wicked white apartheid engineers, keeps people alive longer.
And it could be that if nearly everyone typically killed by COVID is already dead in some of these other countries, people who are old and have diabetes and other morbidities, that would dramatically lower the COVID mortality rate in a place like Lesotho or a place like Somaliland or these places where apparently nobody's dying, but then nobody's old enough to get COVID and die.
So in any case, there are still questions about this.
And another point is there is a huge amount of consumption of hydroxychloroquine to fight malaria.
Okay.
And it might just be that chloroquine has been protecting them despite all the hooting about that possibility among our medical establishment.
Furthermore, Africans are on the one hand young and they are very rarely fat.
Obesity is a real comorbidity on these things, so that could all be part of it.
Now, are there genetic differences?
That's possible too.
The WAPO, of course, has never heard... Now, I'm sorry, this is the New York Times.
The New York Times has never heard of the word gene.
That's a four-letter word to them, so they didn't bring this up.
But that, too, is a possibility.
In any case, I thought this was one of the few articles that has actually looked into something that has been intriguing to me ever since this disease became known to man.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, because you can read articles, you can go online right now, go to news.google.com, type in disproportionately black COVID, and you can find So many stories about how COVID has, apparently, disproportionately impacted blacks in a lot of urban areas.
That's right, that's right.
But not in Africa.
And of course we know, in the United States, blacks actually have a higher rate of obesity.
Indeed.
A higher rate of everything that's not good.
Yeah, of course.
So, you want to escape COVID?
Go back to Africa.
That's my message.
Now, we're moving on to a Washington Post story about gun laws in Georgia.
I thought this was really quite hilarious.
Let me quote from it.
As violent crime jumps in the state, residents are arming themselves at record levels, which is leading to more crime and spurring new efforts by GOP lawmakers to loosen permitting requirements for carrying concealed weapons.
How do they know that arming themselves at record levels is leading to more crime?
In any case, that just goes without saying for WAPO.
Firearm purchases have soared since the epidemic, particularly among first-time gun buyers, and state legislatures are moving to make it easier to carry a gun in public.
Oh boy, oh boy, how horrible.
At the urging of Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, similar measures have passed in Georgia Senate and House, and they're expected to agree on a final version of the legislation in just a few coming days.
So, good for Georgia.
Now, one of the concerns I have with this legislation is more people leaving their guns in cars.
People leaving their guns in other places because now there's more freedom to have a gun with them.
This is one of the complainers.
Well, very simple.
If you can take your gun anywhere, you don't have to leave it in the car.
Now, a person by the name of David Warwick is the manager of the Alpine Pawn and Sporting Goods Store in Columbus, Georgia.
He says business has increased by at least 30% over the past two years.
The increase in business is being driven by black women.
In a place like Columbus.
He says, it's a lot of older church ladies.
I thought this was interesting.
They have called the police and the police were not there to help.
As the old slogan goes, when seconds matter, the police are minutes away.
Or as we found out with carjackings in DC, police are just like, yeah, well, we're not going to help
you. You know, you're going to get just sit back and take it. So, and so here's 32 year old
Starlet Harris. I like that name Starlet.
Yeah. She is black and a single mother. And she wants to carry a concealed weapon because
as she says, youth do not respect older people.
Today, the youth are wicked who drives home each night with her cash tips.
They don't care how old you are.
They don't care if you're a woman.
Somehow, she has tumbled to the fact that the problem is not white supremacists.
This bigoted church lady, for heaven's sake, she recognized that it is the youth who are the problem.
In any case, Columbus, Georgia.
She's arming up.
But on the subject of gun safety, this is a really rather sad and surprising, bewildering story.
I don't know if you follow this, but in St.
Louis, two young cousins were found dead following what cops called a murder-suicide that was live-streamed.
It had to do with Cuaron Harvey and Paris Harvey.
Cuaron is age 14, Paris age 12.
They were live on Instagram about 2 a.m.
Friday.
That sees me past their bedtime.
When a gun that the younger child, that is Paris, was playing with went off and killed her cousin and prompted her to shoot herself.
Family members said that after Cuaron was shot, the video showed Paris reaching for the gun.
It may have accidentally gone off again.
Well, they say they think the gun belonged to Cuaron, the 14-year-old, but both children, as it turns out, were shot in the head, for heaven's sake.
Now, Paris' distraught mother Shanice Harvey says, it was no murder.
It was no suicide.
It was a freak accident.
No matter how good we raise our kids, they still are going to venture off.
Well, I guess they sure did venture off, said Shanice.
And Susan Dyson, the dead girl's grandmother, said, I think it just went off.
It went off by mistake.
Well, here you have two people are dead, both shot in the head, Mr. Kersey.
It is impossible for this gun to have gone off by itself or somehow a mistake.
Well, it was live streaming and you said it was some sort of viral game they're playing?
I don't know what they were doing.
They were playing with a gun.
A dangerous thing.
But if this is the level of gun awareness in the African-American community, they think the gun went off by itself.
They really do need to look a little more carefully into the kind of toys that their children are playing with.
Remember a few weeks ago we talked about the NPR article where they lamented the fact that the rise in gun ownership by blacks.
Will it lead to Well, if you distribute guns among 12 year olds, then there is a possibility that that will be the case.
Did they say what caliber the weapon was?
They said nothing about the caliber, but if you get shot in the head, just about anything will do the job.
It's true.
So, Mr. Kersey, you have got a story about State Farm that is one of those dilemmas of multiracialism.
Yeah, this is a very interesting one, because State Farm has actually pushed back some of these claims.
These audacious racial claims.
Where State Farm sees a lot of fraud, black customers see discrimination.
It took years for Darrell Williams to build up a small real estate portfolio that became Connectors Realty, his business on the south side of Chicago.
In early 2017, when a pipe burst in his prized property, a building containing six apartments, William turned to his insurer, State Farm, to help repair the damage.
He said that a State Farm Claims Adjuster told him that she did not believe his version of events.
We have a lot of fraud in your area.
He said the adjuster told him, like the majority of people in the neighborhood, he's black.
Well, they probably do have a lot of fraud in the area, but I would think this would be a case by case.
If you've got a burst pipe, I mean, unless it's got signs of being whacked open with an axe or a hammer, I don't know.
William said the State Farm claims adjuster told him that she did not believe his version of the events as stated, so they paid him a small fraction of his claim.
By then, his expenses had snowballed.
He sold his building just to pay the bills.
Insurers have a strong incentive to pay as little as possible in customer claims, since their business consists mainly of inflows of money from policy premiums and outflows from claims payouts, which they call losses.
recently and something that wasn't my fault. It is amazing how insurers do this to somebody again
when you have a police report, a documented car accident, the person who hit me, the insurance,
they were trying to do everything they could to pay as little as possible.
What do you think? You've been diddled by your insurance company?
Sorry, it's been a while since I've heard that word.
No, no, not my insurance company, the insurance company of the individual who hit my parked vehicle.
It was not a fun ordeal to deal with insurance companies.
Well, it can take time, but I've never felt as though I've been mistreated by an insurance company.
They've always paid what they were supposed to pay.
I've been quite impressed by their generosity.
Yeah, no, sometimes, no, I would agree.
Sometimes, yes, I very much agree.
But I guess I'm, you know, I'm one of these white privileged people who are part of the patriarchy, who are treated like fair-haired children.
Well, not like, well, no, everything was taken care of, but it was just, you know, there was a little bit of pushback, and you just have to push back, too.
Unfortunately, it sounds like Williams, maybe, maybe there's, who knows, but he felt he was treated especially poor because of his race.
He sued State Farm in 2019, accusing it of discrimination.
His attorney asked the judge in the case to certify the lawsuit as class action.
After analyzing claims done in Illinois, where State Farm is the largest insurer, the judge said that the analysis alone was not enough to justify forming a class.
That's really a gun to your head.
If a judge recognizes a class, then you're probably going to have to settle.
Well, Carla Campbell Jackson reached out.
She's a black woman who worked for State Farm for 28 years in Illinois and Michigan.
In 2016, she was fired on the grounds that she had shared confidential information outside the company, a claim she denied.
She said her firing had been the final act in a campaign by State Farm to discredit her after she raised concerns That the insurer was using fraud as a pretext to deny the insurance claims of black customers.
Okay, so she is a black lady on the inside saying, yep, yep, this guy is right.
We use this as an excuse to deny black people's claims.
Yeah, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission agreed with her, saying that State Farm discriminated against her, so she also sued State Farm, accusing it of discrimination and retaliation.
Uh-oh.
Sell State Farm short, Mr. Kersey.
This sounds bad.
This sounds very bad.
There are a lot of good insurance equities out there that pay a good little dividend.
Have a look at State Farm.
But after she came across Williams' lawsuit, she agreed to testify on his behalf.
Williams is hoping that this testimony will strengthen his request for class certification by offering a view from inside State Farm of the treatment of black Well, that's just it.
She's been there for 28 years.
She says black customers are mistreated in exactly the way he claims.
Boy, well, good luck to State Farm on this.
This is going to be a very interesting one to watch because Now we're starting to see people coming out of the woodwork to accuse this organization of, as you can imagine, the exact same thing that these other two have.
Discrimination and racism.
Once the word's out, they smell money.
They smell money.
Oh dear.
Just to put a bow around the story, there's an attorney for the 28 year employee and he said that he represents more than 150 current and former State Farm employees of color Who intend to bring their own racial discrimination cases against the company?
I believe I even read where Tesla's under fire.
Remember we talked about that one black employee of Tesla, the temp employee?
Yeah, wasn't he an elevator operator or something?
It was something obscure.
He did absolutely nothing for Tesla, but he heard, I believe he had heard actual black employees saying the N-word and stuff.
That hurt his feelings.
Yeah, and he was awarded some incredible payout.
Now, you keep seeing stories that Tesla has this culture of racism and bigotry against blacks and, you know, Tesla... It's run by white men, so, you know, what do you expect?
Well, you know, this question of, you know, they smell money.
This reminds me of Georgetown.
Georgetown has really put its foot into it.
Now, this is going to take a little bit of time, but I think this is a significant and worthy story.
It turns out, April of 2017, the American leader of the Society of Jesus, that's the Jesuits, and Georgetown was a Jesuit university, he officially apologized for the sale of 272 slaves that the Jesuits owned.
They sold them off to three Louisiana plantations in 1838.
We have greatly sinned, said Reverend Timothy Katsiki.
Well, as a result, Georgetown renamed a campus dormitory once named for the long-ago school president who was presiding at the time, the Salem.
So they named it, instead of this guy, they named it Isaac Hawkins Hall, after the oldest male of the group of 272.
So now they're living in a dormitory named after a slave that was There you go.
Again, this goes back to that first email we got.
Now, Georgetown belongs to a consortium of 50 schools, including Harvard and UVA and Brown, that have pledged to study and confront the role slave ownership played in their histories.
Well, They are confronting it all right, but as the Washington Post points out, the drive for racial reconciliation and reparations that has broken out at U.S.
institutions was meant to settle long-standing tensions, but it often stokes new ones.
Now, what might they be?
In the Jesuits' case, the debate has cleaved the community along generational lines.
Older priests say, no way to reparations, while the younger ones say, yes, yes, yes.
And likewise, the descendants of the slaves have also fractured into feuding camps.
So we've got all sorts of feuding going on, despite the fact this is supposed to be truth and reconciliation, and we're all going to hold hands, sing Kumbaya.
It isn't working out that way.
As it turns out, one of the famous and fabled Isaac Hawkins' fifth granddaughters, Mary Wagner, represents a group of nearly 100 relatives pushing for money from the Jesuits.
Out and out money.
They want cash.
Whereas another descendant of Isaac Hawkins, his name is Joseph Stewart.
He has recently retired from Kellogg, where he was a vice president of corporate affairs.
He was quite a big bug at Kellogg.
He has started a new group.
It envisions a $1 billion fund.
You know, boy, they just have dollar signs in their eyes.
A $1 billion fund that could disburse $50 million a year.
Mmm, not bad.
This would include distributions of $50,000 a year to 150 families in perpetuity.
Jeez.
Not bad.
Not bad.
That's a nice little racial pension.
A nice little annuity.
Now, you know, this is like when they talk about compensation.
They start, they're just calculating in the trillions.
Boy, they just, you turn them loose with the calculator and there's just no end to the dollars they expect.
Other suggestions emerged from the approximately 5,000 living descendants.
They've tracked down 5,000 living descendants from these 272.
One group proposed a one-time payment of $2.5 million per person.
That's several billion right there.
And shortly after the 2017 apology, they sent a letter to the Jesuits, top leaders in Rome, going over the head of the Americans and complained they'd been ignored.
So, the American Jesuits.
I wonder if they're being interwoven, if they just hadn't put their foot in their mouth by now.
They arranged a meeting with a handful of dissent delegates and Father Robert Hussey, then the head of the Maryland Jesuits, who holds a PhD in economics, left the descendants with the definite impression that he was against reparations.
Now, one of the descendants, Sherilyn Branch, a retired principal of a Catholic high school.
Doesn't sound like she's been picking cotton all her life.
She says, it took all the strength I could possibly muster not to get up, reach across the table, and punch Father Hussey in the nose.
Down girl, down girl!
That doesn't sound very Catholic to me.
But if he says no deal on reparations, she wants to punch him in the nose.
Wow.
Well, now, one of the guys, the fellow Joseph Stewart, the guy who was at Kellogg, he's now talking about a moral path that would lead the country towards racial reconciliation while also helping to set aside money for scholarships for future generations.
And the Jesuits have all sorts of plans, you know, raise a hundred million for a new foundation, do this, do that, set aside, oh, they're going to announce that all the descendants would be legacies.
So they get special admission possibilities.
None of this is good enough.
None of this is good enough.
The Sherilyn Branch, the lady who had to restrain herself from punching him out, they're not interested in this moral path stuff.
They want money.
They want money now.
And she says 80 to 90% of the descendants don't like this flimsy stuff about the moral path.
She says, we all know that racism is not a disease of the African American community.
It's a disease of the white community.
So what they want, she continues to sell, what they want is to raise money to cure white people of their racism but use us as a fundraising tool.
Hey, none of this moral path nonsense.
They want cold hard cash and just for them.
Yeah.
And now about 400 descendants have hired a Maryland lawyer to continue to pursue direct gimme gimme gimme money Reparations.
This is just incredible to me.
On what basis are they even going to sue these people?
If they have a reason to sue, it can only be because the Jesuits have even brought this up at all.
There is no trouble finding out who owned a certain person and who the descendants of that slave were.
You can't just find that person and say, okay, I want the money.
This is such a can of worms, and this is the nonsense people get into when they even start talking about this.
No, I think the moral of the story is...
Ladies and gentlemen listening, keep your kids and your grandkids the heck away from Georgetown.
And if you're given any money, if that's your alma mater, cease and desist.
Well, if you ever are tempted to talk about what you owe to the descendants, the distant descendants of your long time, just going back in the past and making it right, this is the can of worms that you're going to open.
Now, In this woke world, it's always good news when some institution goes back to sleep.
And I have good news for you, Mr. Kersey.
I will read from a press release from MIT.
We have decided to reinstate our SAT-ACT requirement for future admission cycles.
Can you believe that?
Our research shows standardized tests help us better assess the academic preparedness of all applicants.
Our ability accurately to predict student academic success at MIT is significantly improved by considering standardized testing.
Heresy!
Heresy most foul!
The press release goes on to say, we can never be fully certain how any given applicant will do.
However, our research does help us establish bands of confidence that hold true in the aggregate, while allowing us as admission officers to exercise individual contextual discretion in each case.
So, don't worry BIPOCs, what individual discretion, contextual discretion means, we can still exercise individual contextual discretion your way.
Yeah.
In fact, there's quite a long explanation as to why MIT is reinstituting standardized testing.
They're clearly defensive about it, but it's come back.
It's come back.
Boy, retrogression!
Meanwhile, there was a story by the National Educational Association, which is still wide awake.
I think they suffer from perpetual insomnia.
All the usual baloney on standardized tests.
It was just last week.
And one of the, to me, the most hilarious line was, there is a clear correlation between test scores and property value.
I just won't even begin to go into how upscores and property values.
That's right.
If you live in a million dollar house, your test scores are probably going to be better than if you live in a tar paper shack.
And the reason has to do with the house, not with you, not with your parents, not with anything at all.
But good for MIT.
We take good news when we can get it, is what I say.
Unlike MIT, says moving forward, the focus should be on promoting authentic assessments
that reflect the broad range of student learning and skills, including creativity, leadership,
collaboration, and critical thinking.
But good for MIT.
We take good news when we can get it, is what I say.
Well, speak to me of Walt Disney.
Oh, or at least the Disney organization.
Yeah, this is what the Disney, this is the carcass of the Disney organization.
This is the festering, unfortunately, this is not the legacy of Walt Disney, but this is what happens when wokeness takes over.
Disney exec wants half its characters to be, gosh, how many more letters have been added?
I, A, minorities by the end of the year.
I don't even know.
Let's see.
Lesbian, gay, bi, trans, queer.
I don't know what the I or the A stands for.
Asexual?
I is, I think, inquiring or something like that.
No, A is allies maybe.
He has allies?
I think so.
I forget what that is.
I think I is, uh, yes, inquiry.
Anyway, sorry.
I am uninterested in inquiring about any of this anymore.
Disney executives have vowed drastic to drastically increase inclusivity And it's productions promising that at least 50% of its characters will be LGBTQ or racial minorities by the end of the year.
That might be a stock to short.
If you see, you know, half of America's parents turn off, that's a sizable portion of your audience there.
So anyways, Carrie Burke, the president of Disney's general entertainment content, Said the company must do more to make its content more inclusive in a company-wide Zoom call Monday that was later posted to Twitter.
I'm here as a mother of two queer children, actually, Burke said on the call, one transgender child and one pansexual child.
Pansexual?
And also as a leader.
Pansexual.
Pansexual?
What's that?
Again, I'm not inquiring as to what these letters mean, what they, what they, what they, not, Okay.
I've heard of polyamorous, too.
I've heard of polyamorous, yeah.
But this is pansexual.
A pansexual child.
Boy, that's every father's dream.
Burke said she supports featuring many, many characters who are LGBTQIA.
Oh, well, here we go.
Wait a second.
Okay.
Which stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or questioning.
Intersex and, ooh, I had this right, asexual or allies, yeah.
Oh, asexual or allies.
Yeah, it's got dual meanings.
It is confusing.
Intersex, though.
Intersex?
What is that?
No, I'm not sure what that is either.
There's an old county in Britain, Middlesex, but intersex?
Isn't there a Middlesex, Virginia?
Could be.
No, well, could be.
I don't know.
I bet they'll change that name.
Or maybe, I don't know, they'll make it a capital of Amazon.
Who knows?
By the end of the year, Burke said she wants at least half of the entertainment giant's characters to, as stated, be some form of queerness or racial minorities.
The Disney honcho said she has been dismayed to learn from a colleague.
That the company had only a handful of queer lead characters in its content.
You'd think she'd know.
Again, she's the president of Disney's general entertainment content.
This is what they're talking about.
God, we need more.
How many of the dwarfs do we have to make gay in Snow White?
Well, there's seven, right?
Seven.
Well, they'll be all happier if all seven are gay, right?
Well, L-G-B-2-T-Q-I-A.
That's seven.
Each one represent one of those.
Well, you'd have to do some intersexing to make that work.
Dopey can be asexual.
Okay, who's going to be the lesbian?
Oh, Snow White, of course!
Because that leaves one of the dwarfs.
They can try and groom, I guess.
I don't know.
Again, this is just...
Let's see here.
The call was part of Disney's Reimagine Tomorrow campaign, according to the video posted on Twitter.
The new diversity push comes as Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has signed Florida HB 1557, Mr. Taylor, into law despite claims it's discriminatory.
The legislation bans Florida teachers from discussing LGBTQ topics like sexual orientation or gender identities with students unless they're in the fourth grade or higher.
Good grief.
So they've been telling 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd graders about how to be intersex or questioning or whatever it all is.
You know what?
This is all sounding just really gay to me.
Disney has denounced the new law and vowed to fight to repeal it.
I'm sorry, to repel it.
That's right.
Fair play for kindergartners.
They need to be taught about queerness too.
Yeah, I mean, and it ends with this ridiculous quote.
I hope this is a moment where the tears, sorry, the tears are coming.
We just don't allow each other to go backwards.
Burke, this president of... Wait, wait, she was about to burst into tears?
She was tearing, she was tearing up.
Have you not seen the video?
No.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, again, this is, it's, it's... Well, I guess if you got one transsexual child and one pansexual child... That's actually, and you know what a pansexual is?
No.
That's when, like in Peter Pan and the Lost Boys, you don't want to grow up, so sexually you never grow up.
It's pansexual.
I just made that up.
I have no idea.
Because I believe Peter Pan, wasn't there... Disney made the Great Peter Pan cartoon back in the... Isn't Peter Pan traditionally played by a female on stage?
That is true.
That is true.
Well, you made me onto something.
Where are we going with that?
That's a pansexual.
You never grow up.
Well, that's very clever of you.
Hats off to you, Mr. Karzunia.
Wit on the spot!
Boy, you've come to the right place.
It's just, it's repulsive, you know, you and I both have, you know, this is stuff, you know, you just want to watch, you know, Toy Story or one of the great movies and not think about any of this stuff.
The boys will start kissing each other in Toy Story, you know.
I think they've promised that.
That puts a new definition of Woody, I guess.
He's a toy boy, or is he boy toy?
I don't know.
In any case, moving on, moving on.
Did you know that a company named Bell Equipment, founded in South Africa in 1954 in KwaZulu-Natal, plans to relocate more of its manufacturing away from South Africa?
Didn't know this.
Now, what does Bell Equipment do?
It produces the world's largest range of what are called articulated dump trucks.
Articulated dump trucks?
Yes.
These are those huge earth haulers with wheels as tall as a man.
In other words, their articulation means there's a kind of a cab and that turns on a swivel so the whole thing doesn't buck.
There are these enormous, enormous things to use in mines moving just tons of earth at a time.
And this is probably for the diamond industry.
All the mining, all the extraction industries.
In any case, its main factory is in Richards Bay in South Africa and it also has assembly locations in Germany.
As I say, they plan to relocate its manufacturing away from South Africa.
The company explained it wants to be, and I'm quoting from the press release, less exposed to the risks presented by the volatility of the South African landscape.
The landscape is volatile, Mr. Kersey.
Do you think the trees thrash about?
Maybe the mountains rear up.
It's a volatile landscape.
So they say, consequently over time, more aspects of ADT, these are the articulated dump trucks, manufacturing will shift to the northern hemisphere.
South Africa remains a tough environment with low business confidence.
Low business confidence?
Oh, on account of that volatile landscape.
What was the year you said this?
1954.
1954, wow.
I guess the landscape was somehow less volatile back in 1954.
The landscape was quite different back in 1954.
The trees weren't thrashing around.
No, earthquakes, you know.
But things have gotten mighty volatile, so they are buggering out.
Now, here's a story from Britain.
Oh gosh, the race realist cat doesn't like that story either.
What a volatile landscape.
What rubbish is that, says the cat.
This is a British story.
Did you know that in England's Euro 2020 final, this is soccer of course, in their final defeat against Italy, an African Englishman by the name of Marcus Rashford missed a penalty kick.
Well, at the time, Justin Lee Price, age 19, tweeted, you effing stupid n-word.
Missing a free kick.
My dead grandmother could have scored that.
Well, He was hauled before a judge, found guilty of racial intimidation, and he has been sentenced to six weeks in prison.
Six weeks in prison?
For a single tweet?
For saying that his grandmother could have made the kick?
Well, that's not what he's saying.
That's not what he's going to.
I think it's the F-ing and the N-word.
Oh, okay.
Yes.
Come on.
Yes.
Well, racial abuse.
Yes.
Six weeks in prison.
Six weeks.
He's 19 years old.
That'll be a blot on his record forever.
And as the spokesman for the court said, those who racially abuse footballers ruin the game for all.
I doubt they have any effect on the game for anybody else.
No.
But they ruined it for all.
I hope this case sends out the message we will not tolerate racism and offenders will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
Now.
Douglas MacKay, the Crown Prosecution Service Sports Lead Prosecutor.
Did you know there's such a thing in the Crown Prosecution Service?
A sports lead prosecutor.
They got a guy.
It's his job.
He's the lead prosecutor.
I suppose there are tail prosecutors.
There are whole subordinate prosecutors who do it for sports.
He said hate crimes relating to soccer have risen significantly.
And as it turns out, this poor guy, this 19-year-old, is not the only guy.
A number of arrests were made in the UK following that final.
The abuse was directed towards three blacks.
Now, I guess all of them flubbed in some manner, but Scott McCloskey, age 43, sentenced to 14 weeks imprisonment, suspended for 18 months.
What?
Yes.
Jonathan Best, 52, a forklift driver who livestreamed himself on Facebook using racial abuse when speaking about the three players in the wake of the loss, sentenced to 10 weeks in prison.
Father of three, Bradford Pretty, age 50, also embarked on a drunken tirade against the three players, sentenced to 50 days in prison in order to complete 200 hours of unpaid work.
Now, the racist abuse in the aftermath of the Euro 2020 final saw England label a racist country with an ingrained culture of intolerance.
However, a BBC investigation There was a BBC investigation.
Of course.
This stuff is natural.
Of course.
Later revealed the vast majority of those who sent racist abuse were not from the UK.
Researchers, furthermore aided by the Center for Countering Digital Hate.
Digital hate?
Digital hate, boy oh boy.
They found that of the 105 accounts flagged, apparently they discovered 105 whole accounts that heaped racial abuse, 79 of them were still neither deleted nor suspended six weeks later.
Oh my gosh.
It's a crisis, Mr. Kersey.
It is a crisis.
It's a crisis from which we are scarcely likely to survive.
Well, just think, if the guy had just made the kick that this dead guy's grandmother would have made, what would have happened?
We have reached another crisis.
Oh no, we're already done.
We're already done!
No, I can't believe it myself.
So, ladies and gentlemen, we are, as usual, honored and it fills us with joy to spend this hour with you.
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