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May 13, 2022 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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‘Decolonize the Ear’
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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance.
It is May 12th, Anno Domini 2022, and with me is my indispensable and irreplaceable co-host, Paul Kersey.
And as usual, we'll begin with listener comments.
Here's a man writes in, in your last podcast, you seem to bemoan BLM graft.
I think we should applaud it and discourage any nosy government efforts to police it.
If the funds are used in a manner to further BLM goals, that's bad.
Far better it be used on fancy houses, cars, and bling!
What if American Renaissance pocketed all its donations instead of putting them to good use?
I imagine the SPLC would be happy, happy, happy!
Well, that is a point of view.
At the same time, I think it's good for this stuff to come to light.
For people to realize just how idiotic they are to give money to these people.
So, I think this thing should be reported.
How much money did corporations give to BLM?
Or whatever they did during... Because it's almost two years now removed from the May 25th incident.
Well, I saw reports that it was in the billions.
Yeah.
But then when you actually look through the finances of Black Lives Matter, World, whatever it is, the umbrella organization, I don't think they got anything near that amount of money.
They talk about maybe a hundred million at most.
But some of this money went to other different kinds of black empowerment organizations.
So I don't know.
But yes, all out of that money is going to be Gucci handbags for the girls and beefsteaks for the boys.
But I think the better it comes to light, the better.
You recall there was a BLM leader, a light-skinned BLM leader in Atlanta, I believe, who spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on new suits, on silk ties, I believe a car.
I don't remember the name of the guy, but it was a... We talked about it!
Yes, well, his black life certainly mattered, and he made it matter even more.
Let's see, another comment here.
Mr. Taylor could not remember the other popular brand of menthol cigarettes that colored people typically smoke.
That's true, I could think of Kuhls.
Now this man writes in, being an ex-ironworker from southern Virginia, smoking was common in construction work.
The whites always smoked Marlboros and the blacks would normally smoke Newports.
That's the brand I could not remember.
He also includes a rather insulting name for Newports, which I will not repeat in this family-oriented podcast.
Finally, another comment.
I have information about the Lafayette shooting you mentioned on your May 5th podcast that may be of interest to you.
I know you intended to highlight the ridiculous decision not to classify the shooting as a mass shooting.
You will remember this, of course, Mr. Kurz.
This was your story.
I mean, what is it, 11 people shot, 2 dead?
Not a mass shooting, not a mass shooting.
Nothing to see here.
But there is another interesting aspect, says our listener.
The shooting occurred the week of Festival Internationale, the city's most popular annual event, where downtown Lafayette is transformed into a large music festival for nearly five straight nights.
Sounds like a very jolly time.
There was no significant violence until the shooting which occurred on the night of Saturday, April 30th.
Well, technically speaking, Sunday morning.
And that happened to be the night of a rap concert featuring an apparently well-known rapper by the name of Kevin Gates.
It's likely that the dangerous elements of the crowd were drawn to the city that night by the Gates concert.
The city should never have allowed a rap concert the same night as the festival.
This little coincidence will surely not be discussed or investigated.
No, I mean, Lafayette, for our listeners around the world, that's one of the largest cities in Louisiana.
And as we mentioned, the week prior, in Jackson, Mississippi, which is near 90% black, the capital of Jackson, there was a mass shooting at the Mudbug Festival, which forced the cancellation of that festival the day after the mass shooting.
I mean, these were two mass shooting incidents, back-to-back weekends, and not that far apart, Lafayette and Jackson.
Well, there seems to be an iron demographic law.
You get enough black people together in one place, and the chances of a mass shooting go up, up, up.
We're going to talk about the CDC data a little bit later.
That's called a tease.
I fear so.
Now, abortions are in the news.
Certainly people who want them, certainly people who oppose them due to this unprecedented leak.
Now, I just looked up the racial statistics on this.
Whites account for 33% of abortions, Blacks for 38%, Hispanics 21%, and everybody else 7%.
Well, this means that Blacks are five times more likely than Whites to have abortions.
Five times more likely.
And I understand there have been about 65 million abortions since 1973 and Roe v. Wade was passed.
Imagine, gosh, another 65 million people out of the population and their children and their grandchildren by now.
In any case, as I say, blacks are five times more likely than whites to get an abortion.
And in a place like Mississippi, for example, 74% of abortions are of blacks.
In Georgia, the figure is 65%.
Now, as we all know, The people who are opposed to abortion are constantly being accused of being racist because this is going to inconvenience blacks and Hispanics who are more likely to get abortions.
On the other hand, wouldn't the racists, if that's what's motivating them, prefer that blacks and Hispanics abort their children?
Just pointing out some of the inconsistencies.
The people who want to ban abortion have to realize that the number of blacks and Hispanics is probably going to increase even more rapidly than it would otherwise.
You know, I think yesterday the, um, uh, who's the head of the Fed right now?
What's her name?
It's not Yellen, is it?
Yeah.
She got in trouble for pointing out that this is bad because the people who typically get abortions are low income blacks.
And you know, that's, this is bad that we're even considering doing this.
You mean considering banning abortion?
Yeah, because the people who get are low-income blacks.
A lot of people attacked her.
On that thought real quick, I do want to point out some statistics for you.
Like you said, Alabama, 62% of abortions are black.
In Arkansas, 47% are black.
In Delaware, 42% are black.
In Connecticut, 33% are black.
In Georgia, as you said, 65% are black.
percent are black. In Connecticut, 33 percent are black. In Georgia, as you said, 65 percent
are black. In Idaho, 3 percent are black and 25 percent are Hispanic.
Well, I wonder who's counting American Indians, but be that as it may.
Yeah, and again, and there's another thought, and we talked about this offline, you know, what percent of whites are aborting a child that was fathered by a non-white?
I mean, this is... I suspect no one is keeping those statistics, but I could be wrong.
You could be wrong.
And then Tennessee, 51% of abortions are black.
And again, Mr. Taylor, it's not our issue, this Roe v. Wade.
But again, if it goes back to the states, there are going to be a lot of states where abortion is legal.
Of course.
This isn't a federal mandate that it's illegal everywhere.
It allows the states to make the decision.
It's extraordinary to me the way the abortion fans are acting as if the Supreme Court is preparing to make it impossible to get an abortion.
Correct.
They're simply saying it's not a federal matter.
There is not a part of the Constitution that gives you an absolute right to an abortion.
That's all they're saying.
That's it.
But wow, you see, the lefties are so used to getting their way that they just go into frenzies when they don't.
Now, you and I are used to this.
They have their little temper tantrums all the time whenever people like us get together.
But I think it's quite interesting that normies are going to see just the way lefties really blow a gasket if things don't go their way.
This will be edifying for certain people.
Well, there have been two things that have been edified.
That's the abortion stuff, and that's Elon Musk's commitment to free speech.
We've seen exactly why they don't want to have this actual town hall-esque platform, which, you know, he already came out and said, I'd let Trump back on.
I think the great question is, Elon, would you allow Jared Taylor back on?
I think he probably would if he's ever heard of me.
Yeah, he was asked point-blank during a Future of the Car event.
And he said yes, he would bring Trump back on.
He said the ban was morally wrong and flat-out stupid.
He was talking about Jarrett Taylor's band.
Your band, right?
I wish he had been.
He says, I would reverse the permaband.
I've never heard of a permaband.
I guess it's like the permafrost.
You know, you go into the deep freeze.
It's the prime and permafrost, you know.
I think that's just short for permanent band.
Yes, of course it is.
Permanent bans should be extremely rare and reserved for accounts that are bots, scam, and spam, he says.
I don't think it was correct to ban Donald Trump.
It was a mistake.
It alienated a large part of the country and did not ultimately result in Donald Trump not having a voice, he said.
Now that's a stupid argument.
He said maybe it would have been good if it had been effective.
If it had really been able to shut him up, then maybe there should have been a ban.
Come on, Elon.
Then he says, permanent suspensions undermine trust in Twitter.
If there are tweets that are wrong and bad, although who's going to figure that out?
Who's going to decide?
Those should be either deleted or made invisible, and a suspension, a temporary suspension, may be appropriate, but not a permanent ban.
Well, I've been banned since January 2017.
It feels pretty permanent to me, but Elon, baby, I'd love to be let back in.
And just for those who are listening who might not remember this, what was the reason you were being... Well, the official reason was that I and American Renaissance were, to quote them precisely, affiliated with violent terrorist organizations.
Now, I'd have no idea what they are thinking, what they were smoking, what they were dreaming, but that was their official excuse.
Since then, I don't think I've had a single conviction for aggravated assault.
Neither has American Renaissance.
In any case, Twitter has also permanently banned not just your servant, but Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, her personal account.
And COVID-19 vaccine critic Dr. Robert Malone, MyPillow CE Mike Lindell, former White House advisor Peter Navarro, retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn.
I'd forgotten he'd been banned.
And many more, including, of course, Milo Yiannopoulos.
He was one of the first.
He had over a million, I think close to a million.
He got knocked off before Gavin McInnes.
Before I got knocked off?
He got knocked off for the election, even.
That's when I began to realize, wow, this could happen.
And it makes no difference how popular you are.
Laura Loomer's been knocked off, of course.
And she even went to Twitter's headquarters and, I believe, what, changed herself?
She handcuffed herself to the headquarters and said, let me back on.
And they said no.
But in the meantime, This is interesting and provocative news.
An Ohio House committee passed legislation prohibiting social media companies like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube from censoring users.
It would block the companies from removing posts or expelling people based on the viewpoint of the users or the ideas expressed.
It would allow private citizens to sue social media companies and collect damages.
It would not apply, of course, to speech that's already illegal under federal law, such as harassment or inciting violence.
Now, I didn't realize this.
Lawmakers in 16 other Republican states have introduced similar legislation.
Is Florida one of those?
Yes, Florida.
In fact, in the last six months, federal judges in Florida and Texas have temporarily halted the only two bans that were actually enacted.
I didn't even hear about that either.
Did you know that?
No, how did I know that?
Yes!
Florida and Texas apparently passed laws that would stop viewpoint censorship, but the judges stopped those laws from going into effect.
Ruling that they violate the First Amendment of the Constitution.
In other words, forcing social media platforms to host content against their rules infringes their free speech rights.
They are private companies.
However, The Ohio law, and this seems to be a new and interesting approach, would expressly declare that the social media companies are common carriers, and therefore, in effect, utilities, which do not get the same free speech protections as publishers, the way newspapers do.
I think, in many respects, that's a realistic approach.
It's like the telephone company.
The telephone company may hate what you say over their wires, but they can't ban you because they're common carriers.
It's like the electric company.
They may not like what you type on your computer using their electricity, but that makes no difference.
They've got to give you electricity if you're prepared to pay for it.
You know, seeing the individual states like this fight back, I'm reminded of a podcast I did with Henry Wolff a few years ago.
Where he said, you know, if Trump loses, we're going to have to look at this anti-federalist mindset of fighting this ever-growing leviathan in D.C., which, as we all know, you know, the global American empire, whatever you want to call it, it is exciting to see states doing creative legislation like this.
My family has been states' rights enthusiasts for five generations.
Certainly, all the way back to 1861.
We were prepared to pick up the gun in the name of states' rights.
And that is a tradition that continues even unto this day.
But now, Mr. Kersey, I think you have a report on something that's deeply and vitally important.
I've not even looked into this.
Yeah, you know, I don't recall the site that I picked this up from, but it documented the 90 plus equity plans taxpayers are now funding across that same federal government.
We were just bemoaning.
Oh, that lovely federal government.
Yeah, the global American empire.
Under the Biden administration, more than 90 federal agencies have pledged their commitment to equity by adopting action plans that put gender, race, And are there such factors at the center of their governmental mission?
They sound like Blackrock with the ESG.
Well, and who was the guy who was head of NASA who said something about respect for Muslims is going to be the number one... It was Charles Bolden.
He was the first black head of NASA under Obama.
And furthering the interests of Muslims is going to be its number one job.
Well, luckily a guy named Elon Musk came around and privatized space travel.
The Equity Action Plans, which have received little notice since they were posted online last month following a document request from Real Clear Investigations.
They represent a whole A whole-of-government fight against entrenched disparities and the unbearable human costs of systemic racism.
Are they quoting somebody?
The unbearable human costs?
Yeah.
The equity blueprints show that the State Department is keen on exporting American-style gender and race consciousness.
Uh, and not the kind that we would want to see exported into foreign diplomacy and across the globe, citing identity and intersections of marginalization.
Forgive me.
As focal point, State Department officials acknowledge that promoting these Western concepts in foreign lands, they may clash with societal norms and elicit, quote, an unwillingness to cede power by dominant groups, end quote.
To cede power?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, that's probably true.
If you're spreading homosexuality in a Muslim nation, you know.
Yeah.
They might not care for that.
The EPA plans to tap into community science from tribal nations and other interest groups.
Does that mean rain dances?
I don't know.
Is that community science?
I like that.
Rain dances.
Yeah.
In addition to relying on academic peer-reviewed research.
I'm sure that's top-notch.
As the agency shifts its enforcement focus from responding to complaints to proactively initiating its own investigations.
Of what?
Environmental racism, presumably.
Oh, you've read all the articles on environmental racism that because of the building of the interstate system, black communities are more likely to be near agents of pollution, etc, etc.
And that, of course, explains the lower And didn't we have a problem with heat islands once?
Heat islands, yes!
Too much asphalt, yeah.
Non-whites live where there are not enough trees, and that's some sort of environmental pollution, too, I suppose.
So, the Smithsonian Institution is embedding diversity and equity in, quote, everything we do, end quote, across the labs and collections that make up the world's largest museum complex.
The Smithsonian has, like other agencies, Enthroned.
I like the way they use that word.
Enthroned.
A head diversity officer position to coordinate these efforts.
They use that word?
Enthroned?
Well, these people got the right idea.
Exactly.
To coordinate these efforts and will refocus its energies to explore, quote, how race has informed all our lives and affirm the centrality of race in America.
And of course, they're going to try and make that be bad that we've That we've done everything we can to hold down non-white people, whereas you really could show that whiteness was once the centrality of America.
Quite easily, actually.
In fact, I believe at the end of the month we're celebrating the anniversary of the Naturalization Act of 1789.
1790, I'm sorry.
1789? 1790. I'm sorry. Yeah, 1790. Couple more just for you real quick.
The Equity Action Plans are a response to an executive order Biden signed on the first day of office back in January of 2021, committing his administration to pursuing, and I quote, a comprehensive approach to advancing equity for all, including people of color and others who have been historically underserved, marginalized, and adversely affected by persistent poverty and inequality.
I don't think that the non-white populations have been underserved by the prison system or the police department.
I think in some respects they're over-served.
But anyway, it's called underserved.
And then just to put a bow on this story, a more comprehensive picture did not emerge about what this plan was going to be until just a few weeks ago, when RealClearPolitics investigated this.
And the equity action plans describe The incorporation of race and gender concepts that, until several years ago, largely lived in academic journals as esoteric and niche interests.
I love the way they describe that because it's true.
This stuff is so incomprehensibly dumb that it now has invaded every aspect of the federal government.
It just shows why your ancestors, back in 1861, had the right idea.
It's like COVID-19.
It leaked out of the lab and now it's everywhere.
The plans, ranging from 2 to 26 pages, contain marching orders for all cabinet-level federal agencies, as well as dozens of smaller independent agencies.
They are sprinkled throughout with trendy terms like BIPOC, LGBTQI+, queer power structures, marginalization, intersectional, and gender binary.
I mean, again, this is an article that I highly recommend all of our listeners, whether you're in the United States or abroad, because guess what?
It's coming your way.
It's coming your way, whether you like it or not.
The Biden administration, you know, we're no longer energy dependent, but I'll tell you what, you're going to be dependent on this BIPOC and LGBTQI plus worldview.
Didn't you say the State Department is making a job, number one, to shovel this stuff out the door of every embassy?
Go back and think about the State Department.
You know, it's not illegal to burn an American flag, Mr. Taylor, but you can get in a hell of a lot of trouble if you burn down a BLM flag or if you drive your car over a rainbow flag that's been painted in one of these cities where we have our new marching orders.
Well, you know, I guess Lisa Cook has been following the marching orders ever since she's had an academic career.
Do you know who she is?
I don't.
Oh, yes, but go ahead.
Yes, she was confirmed on Tuesday as the first black woman to serve on the Federal Reserve Board.
So, we have an African-Americaness who is our governor.
She has completed vast research throughout her career to show the impact of racism on the economy.
In a report published in 2020, Dr. Cook said discrimination not only impacts those who are victims, but also reduces the wealth and income of everyone else.
All of us.
Aggregate economic impact would have been $16 trillion higher since 2000 if racial gaps had been closed, says she.
The gross domestic product of the United States in 2019 was $21.4 trillion.
And economic activity could be $5 trillion higher over the next five years if equal opportunity is achieved.
Now, do you realize, Mr. Kersey, your stock portfolio is withering because the full power of black productivity and creativity has been shackled by racism?
The economy and your portfolio could have been growing except for wicked white people like you.
You know, it's funny they're all these, you know, the NASDAQ and BlackRock and all these hedge funds and all these equity, you know, they're all mandating environmental societal governance as the mandating or as the as the governing principle behind equities.
And once these buzzwords started to come in, it's fascinating to see we've actually seen the market
go the opposite direction as they said it would, because, you know, the mandating of BIPOCs on boards and...
Well, of course, the way Dr. Governor Lisa Cook calculates these things,
all she does is take the gap in income or productivity of blacks and whites on average,
multiply it by the number of blacks and say, if it weren't for racism,
those black people would be just as productive as white people.
That's obviously true!
Gosh, gosh, I guess I've been wrong.
Well, you know, it's like saying, well, women aren't as good at football as men only because of sexism.
And if you eliminated sexism, think how many more great football players we'd have.
Just imagine, imagine the quality.
Will the mind even consider such a proposition?
Yes, imagine that.
And she goes on.
At corporate and government levels, as well in university labs, diversity helps create a more productive team.
It's necessary, quote, to diversify corporate boards so that senior leadership will be held accountable for diversity and workplace climate.
Held accountable?
I guess taken out and shot at dawn if it's not diverse enough.
Where's the evidence for any of this stuff?
I mean, where's the evidence?
And you know, if diversity of the kind these people are constantly whooping about really raised the stock price, Do you think the people who calculate these things with very sharp pencils wouldn't have figured that out on their own?
What do you think, Mr. Kersey?
I mean, again, she's only in 2022.
Could someone like this even be considered, you know, in year, near year two, post George Floyd era, whatever you want to call this.
Yes.
We'll call it AG.
I don't know.
Let's see.
I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't George or something.
Yes.
Year two of the George Floyd era.
Well, she was confirmed with a 51 to 50 straight party line vote.
Vice President Kamala Harris, I'm sure very proudly broke the tie with her vote for her fellow black African-American.
This kind of nutty stuff is obviously not going to be represented within the Fed.
Any, any, any difference in achievement is going to be put down as discrimination.
It's got to be rooted out.
That is the way Americans are required to think.
Now, let's see.
Now, this is a little quiz for you, Mr. Kersey, so I want you to pay careful attention.
Okay.
And the readers, listeners, viewers, and readers, and I get them all confused.
Listen to this story and pay careful attention.
It's the story of Lavelle Jordan, 27, African American.
White officers saw young African-American Lavelle Jordan enter a Porsche, which he appeared to be stealing.
And when they tried to remove him from the car, he vigorously resisted arrest.
All of this was caught on body cam.
You can see them wrestling with Jordan.
One police officer is completely on top of them as they worked to cuff him.
When Jordan starts screaming, That he's got a phone in his pocket and he curled up his legs, claiming it was because he got scared.
I suppose he thought he was going to crunch the phone or it was going to poke him or something.
And as officers attempted to roll him onto his left side, Jordan can be seen trying to keep his stomach flat on the ground.
He then convinced officers to put the handcuffs on in front because he said he had a medical condition and had insulin in the car, which turned out not to be true.
Oh, so the Porsche is not his car?
Oh, the Porsche is not his car.
I'm hoping for a catch or something here.
No, no, no.
It's good for you to establish that fact.
The Porsche is not his car.
Maybe he's breaking in to get insulin.
I don't know.
In any case, Uh, he put, they put the handcuffs on in front, and when he arrived at the Grand Central District Station, this is in Chicago, a certain Officer Clarity tried to remove him from the back seat, but...
Young Lovell Jordan produced a semi-automatic handgun that he had hidden in his crotch.
Oh my goodness!
Yes, he shot the officer in the neck.
The officer can be seen on body cam footage falling backwards and making a choking sound.
The officer can be seen rolling towards the rear of the vehicle to protect himself from further gunshots as blood drips heavily on the pavement and he struggles to breathe.
He was eventually able to stand up and begin firing back at Jordan.
Jordan managed to shoot two other police officers.
Before he was shot in the arm.
However, all three officers survived.
In April of this year, Jordan was sentenced to 31 years in prison.
The reason this is news, the body cam video has just been made public.
Now, question for you, Mr. Kersey, and for all our listeners.
Did race play a role in this incident?
And if so, what?
I bet all of the police in the incident were black?
No, no.
All the police were white.
I should have made that clear.
I should have made that clear.
All the police were white.
Wow.
I mean, I haven't heard this story at all, so... Well, it's pretty interesting, isn't it?
See, my answer to that question would be, I bet if this had been a white guy, they would never have let him conceal.
Oh, again, that's the strangest part of the story, is they were able to negotiate.
This guy was able to negotiate how he was going to be cuffed.
So he's got this weapon concealed in his crotch.
He's handcuffed with his hands in front.
That's how he manages to get this thing out and start shooting police officers.
I bet if he had been white, they wouldn't have negotiated.
They would have probably searched him more thoroughly.
That is my assumption as to the role race played in this little saga.
But moving on to the Certified Insanity Department.
There's a lot of certified insanity we've already talked about.
There is, there is.
This is a weekly feature.
I think we should make it an official weekly feature.
Today's certified insanity story is Cambridge University.
The music students are being instructed to decolonize the ear and to consider the classical music canon as an imperial phenomenon.
The works of composers such as Mozart, Verdi, and Brahms are being taught in relation to European imperialism and Orientalism.
Do you know what Orientalism is?
No.
It's not the study of Chinese and Japanese.
Okay.
See, Asian studies is okay, but Oriental studies, that is an insulting term.
That's a pejorative.
I didn't know that.
Yes, an Oriental gentleman.
That's like talking about colored people.
So, this is imperialism and orientalism.
The orientalism, see the exotic orient, that suggests that they're really different from us and kind of interesting, but that is to look down upon them.
Does that mean we have to rename the Orient Express in the Monopoly game?
Of course, it's not in the Monopoly game, it's a movie.
I thought there was an Oriental Avenue?
Maybe, but there is the Reading Railroad.
But not the Orient Express.
Oh, for some reason I thought there was that in the Monopoly game.
I don't think so.
I don't think so.
But, in any case, undergraduates studying for the course, titled Decolonizing the Ear.
My poor ears have been colonized.
Are taught to consider listening to sound in a post-colonial way.
Where do they even come up with this stuff?
This is and it's all part of decolonizing the curriculum.
The music faculty has agreed to offer content warnings ahead of teaching potentially disturbing topics.
So I guess if you're told that Mozart was a white supremacist, that might disturb you.
So there you've got trigger warnings here.
And they will study topics about how musical repertoire could be complicit in projects of empire and neoliberal systems of power.
Did you know that Mozart was supporting neoliberal systems of power when he wrote those sonatas?
I didn't.
These guys have finally figured it out.
Students will also learn how empire affected our understanding of what constitutes music.
Well, I mean, not the fact that this was the music they heard all their lives.
It was all empire had to do it, and how genres like opera are particularly susceptible to racialized representations.
Cambridge's approach follows a reappraisal of music across institutions in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests.
Yes, Anno floored year two, with the Royal College of Music pledging to examine instruments made from colonialism materials.
Now, what the heck is this?
Clarinets and oboes are made from grenadilla wood.
Grenadilla wood, grenadilla trees, are most commonly grown in Brazil.
Don't you play the clarinet?
I know how to play the clarinet, yes.
Now, the point is, I suppose the fact that clarinets are made of grenadilla wood, this is part of the colonial undertaking.
And they are going to, let's see, they're going to, yes, examine instruments made from colonialism materials.
I guess we've got to stop making them out of grenadilla wood, because that comes from a colonized territory.
And a professor of the University of Oxford also suggested musical notation is colonist.
I don't know how it could be, but apparently it is.
Amongst internal discussion over the question of the curriculum's complicity in white supremacy.
Boy, oh boy.
I mean, how did it even come up with this stuff?
That, I don't know.
By the way, there is an Oriental Avenue in Monopoly.
Oh, the Oriental Avenue.
So, at some point, Parker Brothers needs to be accused of racism.
You're right.
Perpetuating it in the game of real estate.
Which subdivision is it in?
What are its fellow orientals?
You know what's funny?
I was actually trying to figure that out.
Is it Baltic?
Baltic Avenue?
It's the light blue one.
I think that's Baltic.
No, what is it?
Anyway.
Oriental Avenue.
Okay, but no, it's the Reading Railroad, and I think the Pennsylvania Railroad, too.
But I haven't been a monopolist for many, many years.
Now, Mr. Kersey, if you can tear yourself away from the vastly deeps of the internet, I'd love for you to tell me about Nkuti Gatwa.
I will, but I would like to answer your question.
It's part of Vermont Avenue, Oriental Avenue, and Connecticut Avenue.
So interesting.
All right.
Don't, uh, I guess those were names of Atlantic City streets because that's where this game was, uh, was created.
All right.
So yeah, you know, I've never watched this show.
Doctor Who?
I never have either.
I don't know much about it.
I know nothing about it.
It's a very, very popular show dating back decades.
It's a British show?
It's a British show.
It's one of the more popular British exports.
The Great Replacement has finally come to Doctor Who.
Natui Gatwa, he's revealed as the new Doctor Who.
And how do you spell his name?
N-E-U-T-I.
Nettie Gatwa.
Nettie Gatwa.
He's Rwandan-born, Scotland-raised.
I don't think he's exactly akin to William Wallace, but he's 29.
He's going to be the first black actor to helm the quintessential British sci-fi show.
That's what USA Today describes it as, the quintessential.
But he won't be the first black doctor.
A couple years ago, Joe Martin actually played a fugitive doctor in several episodes.
Oh, but this is the doctor.
This is the doctor.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I don't know anything.
I believe that they change the appearance of the doctor in every, every few years.
Um, okay.
BBC announced the sex, sex education stars, new position as the 14th doctor.
What did you say?
Yeah, he was in some show called Sex Education, I don't know.
He said this, he's deeply honored, beyond excited, and of course a little bit scared.
This role and show means so much to so many around the world, including myself, and each one of my incredibly talented predecessors has handled that unique responsibility and privilege with the utmost care.
I will endeavor my utmost to do the same.
Again, he's the first This is the first one, first black guy who's going to be the doctor.
Now, of course, Has there ever been a lady Doctor Who?
Great question.
A few years ago, a blind haired blue eyed woman by the name of Jodi Whittaker was very controversially named the first female Doctor Who.
And, you know, she, Took a lot of heat for that.
I believe I've read that the show dropped a little bit in ratings there for the BBC.
Is that so?
Yeah.
And of course, in 2020, the aforementioned Jo Martin became the series' first black Doctor.
Her incarnation, the Doctor, a shape-shifting, time-traveling alien, appeared in a January episode but wasn't meant to replace the white female who was, of course, the first Female but then again genders fluid. So why do we celebrate
something if you know genders fluid?
But the point is you go from I believe 12
Yeah, you go from 12 white men Okay, I'm sorry.
Prior to Whitaker and Gatwa, 13 leads had been white men.
Now this dates back, Mr. Taylor, to 1963 was the first incarnation of Doctor Who.
Some pretty famous guys have played Doctor Who.
David Tennant, pretty famous actor.
Colin Baker.
Christopher Eccleston and Paul McGann, these are some pretty famous names in British acting.
Well, UT Gotwell is on his road to fame.
And it looks like the last white male who, white British male, who will play Doctor Who will have been Peter Capaldi, who played the Doctor from 2014 to 2017.
So again, the great replacement comes for even something as iconic as Doctor Who.
How long, Mr. Taylor?
Until 007.
Well, when's it going to be a transgender, one-legged African?
That's what I'm waiting for.
I like true diversity.
If we need diversity, really mix it up.
Well, speaking of diversity... Diversity's final boss.
Speaking of diversity...
There was an editorial, not an editorial, because an op-ed.
It was not signed by the newspaper itself, in the Washington Post, by a certain Caleb Francois, who is a senior at George Washington University.
Let me read a few, a few trenchant sentences.
Before you do, where was this published?
In the Washington Post.
The Washington Post.
I'm going to get that across before you start.
It's about George Washington University.
So this is a double whammy Washington story.
And Caleb says this, at the university's founding in 1821, enrollment was restricted to white men.
Today, with black enrollment at about 10%, black students on campus continue to struggle for community.
Despite alleged efforts by administrations to enhance diversity, the admissions office continues to fail to ensure a student body with adequate minority representation.
I wonder what adequate would be in his book.
90%.
Probably.
Black professorship also remains low, especially in the international affairs program.
Well, you know, I just suspect there are not that many blacks who are experts in international affairs.
Sorry, just a suspicion on my part.
No African languages are taught.
No Twi.
No Bambara.
No Wolof.
My God, they're not taught there.
These problems are rooted in systemic racism, institutional inequality, and white supremacy.
He's got it all figured out.
There are at least four ways the university could achieve progress.
Decolonize university curriculum.
Increase black enrollment.
And rename the university.
And the selection of an African American president.
Boot Washington's name off the university and get themselves a black president.
Just blocks from the main campus is the Mount Vernon campus, named for George Washington's slave plantation.
Every day, hundreds of black students walk on a campus named after an enslaver of men.
Well, don't they walk every minute of the day in a city named after the same horrible man?
Seems so to me, but this guy doesn't mention that.
He adds, the controversial Winston Churchill Library must go.
Well, Winston Churchill did have some old-fashioned views about colonization.
Yes, he did.
The university's contentious colonial moniker?
That's George.
Must go.
So then the university's name, mascot, and motto?
The motto is, Hail thee, George Washington.
Had you heard that?
I had not.
Hail thee.
Hail thee, George Washington.
That must be replaced.
Well, I guess if you change the name, that goes too.
The hypocrisy.
of GW in not addressing these issues is an example of how black voices and black grievances go ignored.
Publishing this in one of the world's most prestigious universities, prestigious newspapers, of course, is yet another example of ignoring black voices, I suppose.
Yeah!
Now, who do you think he proposes as a name to replace George Washington?
I won't let you guess, because you might get it right.
Frederick Douglass, a statesman, political scientist, diplomat, feminist, and abolitionist is a perfect example of a possible name to replace George Washington.
A new name would cement the university's dedication to racial justice.
When I first read this, I thought, is this a joke?
I really did.
I think a lot of people thought the same thing.
They must have.
Well, and it's of course written, published in a paper called the Washington Post.
I guess they're gonna have to change its name to the Frederick Douglass Post.
But the commenters, I skipped about in the comment section, they are uniformly appalled.
Even the post readers think this is just a bit of a stretch.
And one of them says, By publishing articles like this, the Post, like the New York Times, almost makes me suspect that it wants to see Donald Trump re-elected in 2024.
Their revenues will probably go up because they'll have more readers than the New York Times.
No, I mean, this is one of those moments where you sit back and you realize that there is no longer satire.
Well, you know, the Babylon Bee still does some satire.
Their satire is pretty trenchant, pretty cutting.
It is still possible.
It is brilliant.
No, it is brilliant.
But unfortunately, their satire that they do a few months later becomes reality.
You actually see it many times.
They've been like, oh, they were ahead of the curve.
And it is true.
But they managed to stay ahead of the curve.
Those are clever boys.
Those Babylon Bee boys.
Now, while we're at it, let's see, what have we got on too?
Oh, this is from the That'll Solve the Problem department.
We gotta have one of those.
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Okay.
A Chicago area, Oakton Community College has started an academic academy exclusively for black men.
The Emory Williams Academy for Black Men.
That's its name.
Okay.
It will launch this fall.
Emory Williams Academy for Black Men.
It will provide two-year academic programs that culminate in an associate's degree.
The program will be free for black male-identifying locals.
Male-identifying.
Now, you can't be black-identifying, but you can be male-identifying.
So that's one of those lines that are fluid, and another line that is not fluid.
There can be no such thing as race fluidity.
There's gender this, that, and the other.
Now, they can study computer science, marketing, engineering, accounting, law enforcement, criminal justice, business, and cannabis studies.
Cannabis studies?
Cannabis studies.
That's going to be a boom in business.
Our spokesman says, we advance equity by acknowledging the harm perpetrated against black men by systemic racism in all levels of education.
We're specifically enrolling black men into a cohort program, which means they will be together and have high touch points all dedicated toward helping them succeed.
High touch points.
I guess that's, I don't know, the end of your nose would be a high touch point.
I just don't know.
The top of your head says Elio Lott, Vice President for Academic Affairs.
Well, a listener who sent in this article, he says, Just doing something, no matter how pointless, is the new norm.
I saw this mentality years back when I was a professor.
Millions spent on projects guaranteed to fail.
The whole progressive norm of engineering society into something better has vanished.
Well, you know, who knows?
Maybe it'll work, maybe it won't, but it's going to be all blacks.
Now, meanwhile, I thought this was interesting.
There has been a reversal of similar programs at the University of Louisville and Howard.
They have now agreed to open their MBA program to people of all races and both sexes, following a federal investigation.
What did that federal investigation show?
Well, it showed that the two universities had originally had their Yum!
Franchise Accelerator Fellowship.
That's a yum with an exclamation mark.
Okay.
The Yum Brands.
The Yum folks own Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, KFC.
There was a Yum Franchise Accelerator Fellowship.
It's now open to all eligible students regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age.
Because, you see, they had this deal that was gonna funnel people rapido rapido into a franchise program for various yum brands, and it had advertised an MBA exclusively for underrepresented people of color and women.
Underrepresented people of color and women.
I'm surprised you can even do that for women.
Like you said, race is not fluid.
Race is finite.
That's right.
But when you use that word, you know, very sexist and very... Well, see, the other thing I don't understand.
Underrepresented people of color.
I mean, you can claim to be a person of color.
Now, do you have to then prove, well, I'm black and I'm underrepresented.
I'm black and I'm proud and I'm underrepresented.
And what percentage do you have to be to qualify to be underrepresented?
And how badly underrepresented, but be that as it may.
So this got nixed, but as I say, the Emory Williams Academy for Black Men at Chicago Area Oakton Community College is going to launch.
Apparently without any obstacles.
Now apparently there's a recent federal complaint was filed against Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota for hosting a lunch open only to racial minorities.
But as soon as the filing was made, the university opened the luncheon to all people.
So activism helps.
Activism helps.
Now Mr. Kersey, I believe you have a story about baby formula.
It's going to the people who need it most.
Yes.
Thank goodness.
People who are more American than you, me, and those ancestors of yours five generations ago.
More deserving.
Maybe not more American, but more deserving.
Before I do this story, I went to a grocery store, a very, very nice grocery store in a very upscale area.
Shopping for baby formula?
I just wanted to see.
No, no, no.
I was walking down, getting some milk, some eggs, high-protein stuff, and I was like, I've got to see this with my own eyes.
I walked down the aisle and Almost empty.
And they had signs that said, due to shortages, only two per person.
I see.
And it reminded me of the early, before even the lockdowns, when the rumors of a shortage hit for toilet paper.
And you would go to a grocery store and you'd be shocked by that.
It is shocking when you see this.
I'm sure some of our listeners across the country, hopefully have young children, and I hope you guys are okay.
Only two cans per customer.
What if you can prove you've got quintuplets?
You know what you do?
You go to your car, you change shirts, you put a mask on, and you put a hat on, and since we still live in an era where people are wearing masks, you can get away with it.
But sure enough, you couldn't find them on the shelves.
It was almost empty, and this was at a very nice grocery store.
So I encourage, you know, people should be out there using social media.
I wish you could.
You could go to a grocery store, take a picture, and be like, wow.
Illegal migrants are the first to get pallets of hard-to-find baby formula.
This is a story that I looked at and I'm like, wow, okay.
Nationwide shortage of baby formula has sent mothers desperately rushing from store to store, has evaded one lucky group.
Mr. Taylor?
Oh, the shortage has spared one lucky group.
It's spared one lucky group, and that's illegal immigrants detained by Border Patrol.
According to videos posted by a Florida lawmaker, the Biden admin has been shipping pallets of baby formula to migrant holding facilities.
Quote, they're sending pallets, pallets of baby formula to the border, said Republican Rep.
Kat Kamek in one of two online postings yesterday.
Meanwhile, in our own district at home, we cannot find baby formula, she added, holding a photo of empty shelves where the formula would be.
Kamek said that a border agent sent her photographs of the deliveries and she posted one online.
Quote, they're receiving pallets and pallets of baby formula at the border.
Showing both Advantage brand formula and Go Go Squeeze applesauce.
Quote, this was taken at Ursula Processing Facility in McAllen, Texas, where thousands are being housed and processed and then released.
What?
You know.
She said the agent told her, quote, Cat, you would not believe the shipment I just brought in.
End quote.
He's been a border agent for 30 years and has never seen anything quite like this.
I don't think anyone's seen anything like what's going on at the border.
He has a grandfather and he is saying that his own children can't get baby formula, the rep said.
Shortage was sparked by a manufacturing issue and then a rush on stores.
The shortage has been one of the issues coloring the concerns about growing inflation and economic troubles under President Joe Biden.
New York Times, for example, reported on the troubles of Texas parents having trouble finding the formula that is being shipped by their homes to the migrant holding centers.
In a story headlined this, a baby formula shortage leaves desperate parents searching for food.
The New York Times said, quote, some parents are driving hours at a time in search of supplies.
Others are watering down formula or rationing it, hoping for an end to the shortage.
Wow.
Kimmick said this.
I thought this was really great.
Again, this is the rep from Florida.
She said this, quote, I don't know about you, but I'm a mother.
Anywhere, anytime in America, and I go to my local Walmart or Target or Publix or Safeway or Kroger or whatever it may be that you shop and you are seeing their shelves and you are seeing signs that you're not able to get baby formula.
And then you see the American government sending by the pallet thousands and thousands of containers of baby formula to the border.
That would make my blood boil.
Good for her.
I mean, again, we're at a point, Mr. Taylor, where the country is, there are so many people who are fed up with what's happening.
We were talking about what's happening with, you know, Disney a few weeks ago.
Do you know how much their market cap has dropped since Chris Ruffo did his massive expose?
How much have they done?
It's close to $70 billion.
Well, what percentage is that?
It went down from, I believe, 150 down to about 106.
It closed that today.
Well, the whole market's been down too.
But let's hope, let's hope that their attitudes and their proselytizing have made a difference.
Let's hope so.
I believe we're seeing a lot of very exciting things right now.
Oh, I agree, I agree.
But in the meantime, DNA is racist.
Of course!
Well, we know James Watson, the discoverer of DNA, is racist.
Oh boy, is he.
Now a New York court halted the use of a DNA crime-fighting tool that has helped crack cold cases.
Known as familial DNA searching, the technique allows law enforcement agencies to search the state's DNA databank for close biological relatives of people who have left traces of genetic material at a crime scene.
See, the way it works, we pick up some hair, we pick up some skin, and we do a DNA analysis.
It does not match the state's databank, but You might find that, hmm, this guy is close enough to be a brother of somebody we know.
Okay.
And so what you then do is you track down the brother, and then from that's your point of departure to figure out, okay, who might this guy be?
So it's not a perfect match, but it is a real clear signpost.
As I say, familial DNA testing is used when there isn't an exact match.
It looks instead for people similar enough to be closely related to whoever left that crime scene DNA.
And from there, investigators can look for family members who fit, likely to be suspects.
They find one, then they look for enough other evidence to bring charges.
Now, these matches are made only with the New York State's crime DNA database.
They don't do it through private ones like 23andMe.
I don't know why not, but they might as well.
Now, New York, you have to get a step-by-step approval for this.
They've approved just 30 applications from law enforcement to connect familial DNA since they adopted the technique.
It disclosed the names of matches to police in 10 cases, and two resulted in arrests.
So, it's worked.
However, this went up between a five-member panel of judges.
Three of them voted to suspend the searches, which were challenged by a group of black men who worried that they could be targeted for investigation because their biological brothers were convicted of crimes and had genetic information stored in the state's DNA databank.
Well, That's probably true.
The suit raised concerns that innocent people could be ensnared in a criminal investigation based solely on their genetic kinship with convicted individuals.
That is true, but you'd have to have other evidence to arrest them, obviously.
Now the lawsuit was filed in conjecture of the law firm Gibson Dunn contended that people of color faced a higher risk of being investigated through familial DNA because Believe it or not, the majority of DNA information in the state's data bank is from people of color.
And this is the state of, you said, it's not just New York City, it's all of New York?
All of New York State.
All of New York State, yes.
So, you know, it's a tool that works, but it will have disparate impact, and so, nope, nope, nope.
Can't do it.
Again, the idea is you find DNA.
You don't get a perfect match in the database, but you find somebody that might be close, maybe a brother.
So then you go looking for possible brothers, the guys you know, but no, no, no, no, you might, you might arrest people of color.
It's got to stop.
That can't be done in America.
No, no.
That just can't be done in the world.
I pray George Floyd le deluge.
Is that the French?
Okay.
I pray Monsieur Floyd le deluge.
Yes, yes.
Okay, well gosh, we've got, boy, we've got so much material.
Mr. Kersey, we talk too much.
I do want to talk about something else though, a little scientific matter.
Artificial intelligence.
Last month, And this is, I was reminded of this by the DNA story.
OpenAI introduced a second generation version of DALL-E.
D-A-L-L hyphen E. Pronounce DALL-E.
Okay.
It's an AI model trained on 650 million images and text captions.
And what you can do, you can take text and it'll turn it into images.
And it can be quite exotic text like, great wave off Kanagawa, that's from a Hiroshige woodblock print, as Godzilla eats Tokyo.
And that's what you'll get.
You'll get The Great Wave and Godzilla Eating Tokyo.
It can even create variations based on the style of a particular artist, such as Salvador Dali.
No, imagine, you give it just any phrase.
I don't know, Paul Kersey eating nachos on the moon.
And out pops a picture of Paul Kersey eating nachos on the moon.
I actually one day look forward to eating nachos on the moon.
Well, nachos, really?
Now, these photorealistic depictions have given the impression the model can create images of almost anything, but among the promotional depictions spreading on social media, there is a notable absence of people's faces.
Do you know why?
Because as part of OpenAI's Red Team process, that's external experts who look for ways that things can go wrong, they found that Dolly 2's depictions of people can be biased.
Early tests by Red Team members and OpenAI have shown that Dolly 2 leans towards generating images of white men by default, and it overly sexualizes images of women.
I guess it gives women nice curves, symmetrical faces.
Guys want it.
That's what guys want.
That's what AI gives.
Yes, it meets the market.
Can't have that.
So from conversations with roughly half of the 23-member Red Team, we found that a number of them recommended OpenAI release DALI without the ability to generate faces at all.
One Red Team member said that 8 out of 8 attempts to generate images with words like a man sitting in a prison cell Returned images of men of color.
It's too realistic.
Too realistic.
And there were a lot of non-white people whenever there was a negative adjective associated with the person.
It just seems there is so much room for harm.
I'm not seeing enough room for good to justify being used.
And so, for example, a healthy plate of food or a clean street will return results with Western cultural biases.
You might find German kids in a classroom.
If you want a healthy learning environment.
Oh boy.
And Hannah Rose Kirk, a data scientist at Oxford, says that dolly to not do faces.
You get a loss of accuracy, but we think a loss of accuracy is worth it for the decrease in bias.
That's the usual way.
It's too accurate.
And then they go on to say that this is going to make it really easy for people to create disinformation.
Well, if they want to get to the bottom of that problem, just make it impossible for the bad people to buy Photoshop.
Technology in the wrong hands.
So, Mr. Kersey, we're out of time.
This is really a distressing thing.
It happens every hour.
We run out of time.
I don't understand it.
Our cup runneth over.
And in the meantime, we haven't even told you how to get in touch with us.
We'll save that for next time.
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