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June 16, 2022 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Eric Adams Wants to Ban ‘Drill Rap’
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance, and with me is my irreplaceable, indispensable co-host Paul Kersey.
And we'd like to start, as we almost always do, with a comment from a listener.
Last week, We discussed a 16-year-old black man who stole a car and then deliberately ran down a white lady and her eight-month-old whom she was pushing in the stroller.
He had a criminal record and was out on probation.
And then he got five to seven months in juvenile camp thanks to Soros-backed DA George Gascon.
And I referred to her as a nice-looking young white lady.
Yes, deliberately run down by this black guy who'd stolen a car.
Our listener writes in to say this.
The nice-looking young white lady who was struck by the 16-year-old car thief in Venice, California, admitted on Tucker Carlson's program that she is a Democrat who voted for Gascon and supported his policies.
Now she's planning on moving out of California to another state.
I cannot find the words to express my vexation at this practice of liberals.
Virtue signaling and then turning their regions into hellholes, and then after literally getting every progressive policy for which they ever yearned, fleeing to a functional red state where they once again vote in progressive policies and turn the red state blue.
These people are like locusts, and we conservatives are the farmers.
We create, they consume.
There should be some mechanism to force liberals to live in the nightmarish societies they have created.
I agree.
Wall off these states so you can't have the U-Haul shortages going out of California.
That's right.
No one's moving in.
That's right.
You broke it, you bought it.
Illinois, Maryland, Washington D.C., New York, California.
Wall it off.
You've done it.
You've done it to yourselves.
Don't bring it to us.
And that's the thing.
So many of them, they will clear out of one of these crazy, awful places.
And then they say, oh, I miss diversity.
I miss being progressive.
I just miss all those wonderful times we had.
It's crazy.
It's insane.
Now, I have an eye-opening report about Africa.
According to something called the African Youth Survey of 15 African countries, 52% of Africans plan to move abroad in the next three years.
52%.
That's many millions.
An earlier poll from 2020 showed that only one-third were inclined to leave their home country.
So in the last two years, the figure's gone from 33% to 52%.
Boy, they want to clear out.
The survey does not specify where most Africans want to go, however, Matteo Salvini, one of your and my absolute favorite politicians, the leader of Italy's League party, the Lega, warned that over 20 million Africans may be headed for Europe.
20 million.
Just 20 million?
Just 20 million.
Yes, I mean, who knows, 20 million probably coming here.
Due to a looming food crisis sparked by the war in Ukraine.
These countries can't feed themselves, you know.
So these, what, several million tons, I think about, what is it, 20 million tons of grain locked up in Ukraine that they can't get out?
I believe so.
Something along those lines.
And so all these countries, you know, they can't feed themselves.
And so they're going to come here and feed off of us.
A Pew Research study in 2018 indicated that already a million Sub-Saharan Africans had moved to Europe in the eight years previous.
A million Sub-Saharan Africans.
Eight.
Okay.
Yep, a million.
But, you know, 20 million might more want to come.
And that does not include migration from North African countries.
Take your pick.
Muzzies or black Africans?
No?
Monkeypox.
Yes.
I know, I know.
We'll get the monkeypox.
Let's see.
These numbers are set only to accelerate over the coming years, but they will accelerate only under one condition.
That is, if the receiving countries permit them in.
Another survey.
Now, this will be heartwarming for you, Mr. Kersey.
Found that 90% of Africans who entered Europe illegally were happy they made the journey.
Just, wait, just 90?
90%.
I guess 10% have regrets.
10%, you know, they miss those sunny times.
Maybe they're very, very happy.
Maybe it's actually all... I don't know.
10% regret it, but I don't suppose they're going back.
No.
And this is another bit of good news for those who are worried about the population of the planet somehow withering away.
60% of Africa's population is under the age of 25.
All these youthful Africans.
What was the, what's the, for white Oh, I don't know.
I'd be surprised if it's even that many.
And then for Japan, gosh, it's got to be in the 50s at this point.
But 60% of Africa's population is under 25.
I don't know what percentage of white Americans, for example, is under 25, but I'm sure it's much, much smaller than that.
Now, in this connection, the BBC reports that there has been an uptick in channel crossings.
Yes.
More than 10,000 people have crossed the English Channel in small boats so far this year.
10,000.
And this year's total is more than double what it was during the same period last year.
And last year, 28,000 people row, row, rowed their boat.
Gently cross the channel so we can get maybe 60,000 this year.
Or the Brits will.
Yes, yes.
I think of the Brits as we.
But tell me, whatever happened to Brexit?
Wasn't the idea that they were going to control their own destiny?
They could have their own immigration policy?
The exact opposite happened.
The exact opposite happened?
No, come on.
Rural Britannia, Hearts of Oak, whatever happened to any of that?
And let's see.
Oh, just a side issue.
This is really not our usual beat, but it was one that caught my interest.
You know, Drag Queen Story Hour.
Oh, God.
It has made waves in New York City recently.
Now, it's further ruffling feathers as media have disclosed the hefty taxpayer price tag associated with these made-for-school presentations.
The organization running Drag Queen Story Hour has grown over the last decade and involves drag queen events inside schools to bring in the self-same drag queens to read stories to young children.
Warms your heart.
A few weeks ago, it was divulged that in New York City, taxpayer dollars were funding these events, but it was not known exactly how much.
The Washington Examiner looked into it.
And guess how many dollars in public funds have been allotted to these celebrations of drag queenry?
Is this just in New York?
Just in New York City.
It's going to be six figures.
Oh, you're right about that.
Okay.
I don't know the exact amount.
$207,000.
Drag queens don't come cheap.
I'm not that old.
This stuff has happened so fast and so quickly.
Like you said, it's not our beat, but in a lot of ways it really is.
It's our refusal to deal with nature as it is.
It all comes back to race, though.
It started with race.
It did.
The insanity started when we stopped believing what's in front of our nose.
Yes, and once we stop believing one thing, it appears to be infinitely easier to stop believing just about anything that's in front of our noses.
Exactly right!
Now, City Council members, listen to this, have shown sympathy for the program, alleging it is drawing long-standing negative stigma away from the drag community.
Now, I think we need Ku Klux Klan story hour.
Maybe a guy with a hood, or maybe a drag queen in a hood.
Don't we need to draw negative stigma away from the clutcher community?
What is going on?
What is going on?
Now, just this week I learned about a new form of so-called music.
It's a form of rap.
And a very smart British lady once described rap as poison distilled into sound.
Poison distilled into sound.
Isn't that good?
I 100% concur with that.
That's brilliant.
Poison distilled into sound.
Yes.
Well, there's a genre of rap called drill.
Drill rap songs.
And the genres sometimes trigger happy rappers who glorify killing in their songs and quick to reach for the gun.
Had you ever heard of drill rap?
I've not.
Well, you have now.
Drill rappers are surging in popularity, partly due to their flashy videos, in which young thugs wield handguns, splash around money, and smoke blunts.
And they have no problem blasting their rivals.
Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez says, we've had a number of shootings in Brooklyn recently that are directly related to drill rap.
What happens?
The rappers appear on Facebook Live, Instagram Live, and they taunt their rivals in rival gang territory, saying, we're here.
Come get us.
If we see us, we're going to shoot you.
And of course, the other side can't resist a challenge like that.
That's a red-ragged rebull.
Now, this is apparently an example of the genre's poetry.
We gonna pull up in that hooptie like we cops on them.
With M-16s, we gonna put some shots on them.
How do you like that?
Poison distilled into sound.
Yeah, that's what that is.
That's what that is.
That thus singeth drill rap pioneer Bobby Shmurda.
Who went to jail for seven years after he and members of his crew, known for firing randomly into nightclub crowds in New York and Miami, were indicted for murder.
Seven years for murder.
Now, I've known people who have gone in for longer for milder crimes, but they were melanin-deprived.
Drill rap began in Chicago about a dozen years ago, with performers such as Pac-Man, shot to death at age 25.
Rest in peace.
Yes, rest in peace.
Rest in pieces, probably.
And it's about calling out or disrespecting another neighborhood or crew.
Now, I thought this was innovative.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams Our African-American mayor of America's biggest city.
Correct.
Issued a call to ban drill rap videos from social media following the murder of rapper Jaquan McKinley.
Rest in peace, Jaquan.
Pieces, pieces, come on.
And he performed under the name of Chi Vitz and he was shot dead in an ambush last week.
Now, Adams says, we pulled Trump off of Twitter because what he was spewing.
That's an interesting parallel.
But now we're allowing music, displaying of guns, violence, we're allowing it to stay on these sites.
And he evokes the example, this shows a certain international sophistication on the part of the mayor, evokes the example of British rapper Diggity.
Who now must hand over transcripts of any of his proposed lyrics to UK authorities before he's allowed to release a new track.
Freedom of speech, you know.
There you go.
They just love that in England.
So he's got, apparently, he can't put out a new track unless he gets the okay.
Okay from Big Brother, I guess, right?
Yes, yes.
Now, Adams wants social media platforms to stop the music.
However, Rovan Manuel, formerly the chief manager of, no, I'm sorry, the manager of Chief Keef, who is the biggest name in drill.
Biggest name.
Biggest name in drill.
Yeah, yeah.
Mark that name.
The former manager of Chief Keef says, good luck with banning this.
Violence in drill videos is what sells.
It's what everyone wants to see.
I'm just not hip.
I've never heard a drill.
I read about all these expiring rappers, which I think there's one almost every week.
Seems so.
So I guess, yeah.
And a lot of aspiring rappers.
Just about everybody stops a bullet out there in the hood is an aspiring rapper.
That's the case.
But yeah, exactly.
Rest in pieces.
I like that.
But yeah, the way that the British female described rap music.
Poison distilled into sound.
Yes, pretty good.
Well, sometimes it seems to be death distilled into sound.
In any case, among the other problems that the community faces is environmental racism.
Environmental racism.
Yeah, you know, this piqued my interest because a couple weeks ago we were talking about Was it shade equity?
Shade equity.
Shade equity.
Yes, the California Commission that is going to propose compensation for slavery says we must plant trees in black neighborhoods because they suffer from shade inequity.
Shade inequity.
Yes, shade inequity.
And I believe we also learned about St.
Louis where there's, what was it?
Asphalt?
There was some word about how there's too much asphalt in black communities.
I don't remember exactly what it was.
Doesn't it cause heat islands?
Heat islands.
That's exactly it.
Yes.
I was thinking about that again yesterday because it was a very hot day yesterday.
I was thinking about all those poor beleaguered aspiring rappers.
That's right.
Who were in these heat islands.
They're marooned on heat islands.
Because of shade and equity.
But, well here we go.
So I decided to see if there's a new article about Environmental inequality, and sure enough, our friends at Nature.com have nothing better to do than, in the post-George Floyd era, write this.
Racism drives environmental inequality, but most Americans don't realize.
I didn't realize it.
I still don't realize it after I read the article.
It doesn't make any sense.
Survey finds that most people think poverty is why pollution disproportionately affects black people, despite evidence that racism is the major cause.
Most Americans do not think that black people are any more likely to be affected by pollution than whites, despite significant evidence that racism is the root cause of environmental injustice in the United States.
Numerous research papers over the years have shown that people of color and poor people are significantly more likely to live in areas of high pollution, a result of the deliberate construction of polluting industries In these communities.
That's what Dylan Bugden, that's a good name, Bugden, an environmental sociologist at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington.
He found that respondents to the survey were more than twice as likely to identify poverty as the main cause of environmental inequalities instead of blaming Structural racism, which of course it is.
That's what's behind spate.
So the theory is I'm going to build some sort of polluting industry, whatever that may be.
Maybe I'm going to build a coal fire generator.
And what am I going to do?
I'm going to look around the whole country and find the blackest part of town to build it in?
Is that what these guys are saying?
That's exactly it.
It's structural racism.
That's the only reason these facilities are built.
Good lord.
This is despite scientific evidence clearly demonstrating that race rather than poverty is the primary factor behind environmental inequality.
Again, that's that's bugged in in a study published in Social Problems.
I'm sure that's a fantastic read, Social Problems.
Additionally, many people suggested that a lack of hard work and poor personal choices were responsible for increased exposure to pollution.
That sounds Sounds more plausible than racism.
Quote, the evidence here is strong.
America is in a state of denial about its racism and the unequal impacts of environmental exposures, said Timmons Roberts, an environmental sociologist at Brown University.
To investigate how Americans view environmental justice, Bugden devised two sets of questions.
The National Opinion Research Center, which operates out of Chicago, distributed these through mail, telephone, and face-to-face interviews.
Okay, so the thousand people got this.
First set of questions explored whether Americans understand the causes of environmental inequality, whether they think it's fair, and whether they support policies that address it.
The results showed that only one-third of people felt that black people are more likely to experience pollution and that this inequality is unfair.
Only one third?
By contrast, another third of the respondents acknowledged that Black and Hispanic people and poor people experience environmental inequalities, but felt that it is fair.
I guess that's where that hard work and, you know, accountability comes into play.
Well, that's right.
If they worked hard and they earned more money, I guess they could move out.
If they're living in some place with bad air.
They could be the token minority in an all-white neighborhood where there's this thing as shade inequality.
Yep.
A lot of trees.
We all want to live in the shade.
Just to finish off, most respondents, however, generally supported policy measures to address these issues, such as compensating people affected by pollution.
Most people want that?
I guess so.
Wait, we're supposed to be walking around writing checks to people who live where there's bad air?
Hey, we'll see air quality here.
We got a kind of a check.
And it's due to slavery, you know, the air is bad.
Slavery is the cause.
Slavery, Confederacy, of course, you know, we're not going to talk about it, but a university not far from here towards Washington just got rid of the colonial mascot.
So Confederates, Colonials, how long till the New England Patriots are going to have to get rid of their white mascot?
So again, there's not much else to say.
I mean, these stories are, they're so ubiquitous now of just finding any way to blame problems that are primarily impacting non-whites on white people.
That's right.
It's always our fault.
Exactly.
Always, always, always, always, and forever will be.
Even after we're gone, it'll be our fault.
They'll find some way to blame us.
Now, Are you aware of a progressive Democratic congressman by the name of Jamal Bowman?
He'd slipped into Congress without my knowing about it, Mr. Kersey, but there he is.
And he has warned of a stark outcome if Republicans take power back in midterm elections.
What's your warning?
His warning is this.
It will embolden far-right extremists and white nationalists who he claims have been pushing for civil war.
They're pushing for civil war.
Congressman Bowman also claimed the GOP would impeach President Biden as quickly as possible and will continue to find ways to impeach him going forward.
He is a seer.
He's got a crystal ball.
Now, this is a line that I thought was pretty good.
If the Republicans take over the House, it would also embolden Republicans in the far right and white nationalists to begin to believe that it is their time.
Not to just take power in the House, but the Senate, the White House, and state houses across the country.
Imagine that!
You know, the Republicans are not going to say, okay, we got the House back.
That's, that's enough.
That's just fair.
We're satisfied now.
We'll let the Republican, we'll let the, oh, they might want more.
Good Lord.
They might want to cut the funding for drag queen story hours across the country.
I'm not sure they've got the backbone for that, Mr. Kersey.
That would be awful brave.
I'm afraid you're right.
He goes on to say, our democracy is hanging by a thread and black and brown people, our lives are in the balance.
If these people come back into power, their lives are in the balance.
He is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, and he's also the Squad's first male member.
How do you like that?
Introduce himself.
I'm the Squad's first male member.
And the Squad, for our listeners who might not know, that's Aox Posse, right?
That's Aox Posse, yes.
But he's the male member.
44% of Americans believe, on the other hand, that the U.S.
seems headed towards a civil war in the near future.
What was that number?
44%.
Really?
Yeah.
Wow.
According to an April survey conducted by none other than, drumroll please, the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Okay.
Yes.
They surveyed 1,500 people and found that Republicans, 53% of Republicans, but also 39% of Democrats, think that the country seems headed towards a civil war in the near future.
That's pretty sobering.
44%?
Yes, pretty sobering.
Now, moving on to a different crisis.
There's environmental racism, and then there are other kinds of racism.
Now, you'll be shocked to learn that in 1900, 1.3% of the doctors in America were black.
The share had grown by 2018, that is 118 years later, to only 5.4%.
A share had grown by 2018, that is 118 years later, to only 5.4%.
5.4%.
5.4, and I bet a lot of those are actually not American African-Americans.
Probably not.
They're Nigerian, they're people from Ghana, they're people from Barbados, etc, etc.
But they're black and that's not nearly enough because blacks are 13.5% of the population.
So this is a horrible scandal.
Well, I did look up U.S.
MCAT scores and the acceptance rates.
MCAT, that's the Medical College Aptitude Test.
Or it may be just like the SAT, it no longer stands for anything.
SAT officially stands for nothing.
I think it's in the medical college aptitude, or it may be just like the SAT,
it no longer stands for anything.
You know, SAT officially stands for nothing.
That's exactly right.
What a country, what a country.
In any case, if you have MCATs of 24 to 26, which is low, and you're black, your acceptance rate is 56.4%.
If you're white, it's 8%.
In other words, you are considerably more likely to swoop into medical school just because you're black with that MCAT score.
And then let's take a sort of midpoint MCAT score of 27 to 29.
If you're black, your chances of getting in are 81%.
If you're white, only 29%.
God.
So there's already... A lot of white privilege there.
A lot of white privilege.
There you go.
Yes, white privilege indeed.
And now, if we're talking about MCATs of 30 to 32, that's about as high as they get.
Astonishingly enough, 7% of blacks who get that score don't go in.
I wonder what their problem is.
Maybe they just got a felony conviction after the MCAT score came in.
But 94%, so it's only 6%, don't make it in.
94% make it in.
If you're white, 63%.
So if there's a problem, it's not that they are being discriminated against on the way in.
No, no, no.
Now, so look out for diverse doctors.
And I would say, after all, we're going to be flying to diverse skies soon.
You know, there have been a lot of articles in the lead up to the Top Gun Maverick movie that point out, you know, why there are so few.
Black Pilots.
It was actually a very long piece in New York Times, Mr. Taylor, in April, where it said, God, this, this, this industry, what is going on?
It's so white.
What is happening?
Well, there are standards.
There's a lot of, you have to go through a lot of instrument, instrument tests.
It's, it's not something you can just show up at airfield and be like, Hey, I want to fly today.
You have to be able to fly an airplane.
Yes.
You have to land an airplane.
Yes.
You have to be able to read the instruments.
You have to understand a lot goes into getting your pilot's license.
But don't worry.
Don't worry.
Blacks are on the way.
Yes, they are.
Yes, they are.
Because Southwest Airlines partners with Texas Historically Black College University, HBCU, to recruit future black pilots.
Quote, we do want to have a diverse work group.
We want to represent not only the customers, but the communities we fly to.
Why?
It makes no sense.
Represent the community.
Why?
It makes no sense. But anyway, because there's too many white people, too many white people in the
cockpit, but here's here's I'll just be brief. I mean, the title says it all. But ever since he
can remember, Anthony Pumphrey Jr. had wanted to be a pilot.
What I blame my dad for this one. I think I made the decision when I was two weeks old. My dad
worked for the airlines. The story goes, they threw me in an airplane and I never wanted to
get it back out since.
He flew his first plane at age 8, now has his commercial pilot's license as a college freshman at T.C.
at Texas Southern University. Quote, for me a lot of times even today I look out that window and I
look down and I'm like whoa! Anthony is just that kind of student that Southwest Airlines wants to
The Dallas-based airline recently announced a partnership with the HBCU to create a pipeline for new pilots.
I assume Anthony is black.
He is black.
And I suppose he faced one barrier after another, and he just fought exclusion and racism every step of the way into the cockpit, right?
You know what?
There's no indication of that at all, is there?
No, exactly.
In fact, he passed his test, got his license, he stays current with it.
He can, you know, he can read the instrumentation, understands what's going on.
You know, if a guy like that, right from the get-go, wanted to be a pilot, he's a great pilot, then fine.
But why go hunting for people who are not like him?
Yeah, and here's the details.
Nine HBCUs with aviation programs, only three of them own their own planes.
Texas Southern University owns our own plane, said Terrence Fountain.
He's a doctor, the director of aviation at TSU.
It's an HBCU, and like every airline Southwest is trying to diversify its pilot ranks.
I mean, again, they're deliberately seeking to lower the number of white participants in the vocation of pilot.
And it's an advocation, too.
I was blessed.
I grew up in an area where a lot of my friends' parents had their own little Cessna planes.
And we would jump in and we'd fly around.
It was breathtaking when you're that young and you're used to flying.
You know, a 7707, 737, 747, and then you fly in a little Cessna and you're flying over your own city.
You're like, wow!
It is.
I had the same opinion as this Pumphrey guy.
But again, what they're doing here is it's all about diversity.
Quote, well, we know we have work to do and need to do and really and truly want to do from the pilot perspective is add diversity because We want to represent not only the customers, but the communities we fly.
Diversing the flight deck is not just something Southwest is doing.
The majority of all commercial airline pilots today are GASP, white men.
They make up more than 90% of those in the field.
Now, white women, I believe, are about 5%.
So I believe it's like 95% of commercial airline pilots are white.
Black pilots, although making up 13% of the population, are scarce, as they only account for 2.5% of commercial pilots.
So they're less than the number of doctors.
And even rarer, the ultimate diversity points A minority, a black woman.
Yeah.
There are, there are, I, I won't say a handful, but I can say I've flown a lot.
I've never seen a black female pilot.
And I bet there are a handful in the cockpit.
Did I say that?
No, I didn't say that.
Well, okay.
Fly the diverse skies.
It'll be fun.
Now switching over to Sweden, Sweden has taken some Ukrainian refugees and two such children were playing soccer when a group of Middle Easterners consisting of approximately 12 people came on the scene.
They spoke Arabic, said one of the Ukrainians.
Ah, Sweden!
A lovely language in Sweden.
Well, they were speaking Arabic.
I speak a little bit too, said the young Ukrainian, so I understood what they said.
They started shouting, beat the Ukrainians, beat the Ukrainians.
And two brothers, aged 12 and 17, were beaten with belts, threatened with a knife, pushed over, punched, and the youngest boy suffered a broken nose.
So this is what it's like being a Ukrainian refugee in Sweden.
The Swedes are apparently just fine, but I guess these Middle Easterners don't want white people horning in on the refugee game.
No, no, no.
They were important for a reason.
They're the ones who are supposed to replace the Swedes, not Ukrainians who are going to bolster the European backbone of the country.
But a few weeks before that, Ukrainian refugee women were told to dress conservatively so as not to provoke Muslim men.
Oh, okay.
That's right.
These Muslim men are not used to seeing bare knees on women.
Or their face.
Yes, or even ankles for that matter.
And one of the women said, we came to Sweden to be safe and this happens?
We thought we were going to be okay here.
Now we want to move.
Another one said, should it be like this?
That you should dare not go out after seven in the evening because you're afraid of being beaten?
I wasn't even scared when I left Ukraine, but now I am.
I think it's time to go back to Ukraine, sweetheart.
I think it's time to go back.
You might want to take a lot of the Swedes with you, actually, because... Well, uh... I think a lot of them would like to leave, too.
Now, let's see.
Next story.
Our next story is a completely different one, and it happened in Kansas City, Missouri.
There is a certain Drake Murph, the owner of Drake's Barbershop.
Okay.
Well, a man came into a shop last week and asked for a discount haircut.
He's haggling over the price of a haircut.
And one of the barbers said, OK, all right, I'll get you a cut rate cut job.
But Draquet Murph said that after the trim, the man beefed.
And Draquet said it wasn't a bad cut.
He did a really good job.
The man just wanted it for free.
Wanted a free haircut.
Yes.
A cut rate haircut wasn't good enough.
Well, believe it or not, the next day, the man returned looking for the barber.
And when Drawkay Murph told him the barber wasn't there, the angry, unhappy customer pulled a gun on him.
I started running, said Drawkay, but then I got shot in the back.
What?
Yes, yes.
He says he kept running, but he fell when he tried to go over a fence.
He said the man stood over him with the gun.
It was a terrible situation, lying there with a gun in my head, Murph said.
I said one more prayer.
He pulled the trigger, and it just went click.
All over a haircut.
All over a haircut.
A haircut that was cut right to begin with.
The other barbers in the shop came running up and caught the guy and eventually got the gun away.
Police later arrested the alleged shooter, Vernie Dickens.
Now, needless to say, this was an all-black cast.
And I suppose the motto of this little drama is, Barber Beware.
Or at least barber beware if you have black customers.
But we can be sure.
We can be sure.
Just like shade inequity.
Just like environmental racism.
The cause, somewhere out there, is white supremacy.
Oh, of course.
It's all about black hair.
We all know that the... What's the act they just actually passed?
Oh, the... I can't remember.
A loving natural hair act.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, it's all about the most unnatural hair conceivable.
It really is.
But can you imagine this?
You give a guy a haircut and he comes back the next day with a gun trying to shoot you because he thought he got gypped?
Mr. Taylor, I can imagine pretty much anything.
Touche.
I can imagine pretty much anything.
You got me on that.
No, it's...
Well, one rolls one's eyes, but one can... I just think of Blake Masters.
Black people, frankly.
That's like... We joked about this.
That would have been Colin Flaherty's magnum opus.
He would have used that quote that Blake Masters said.
By the way, the attempt to cancel him?
Yeah.
I don't know if you've noticed this, but... It hasn't worked at all.
He's dominating the polls.
He looks fantastic.
Yeah.
Well, a little honesty about black crime seems to go a long way.
Now, here is a love story from the United Kingdom.
I really almost hesitate to mention this.
Now, read only the headlines.
It's a Daily Mail headline from yesterday.
Pregnant woman, 22, is decapitated as her family planned baby shower.
Horror as head is found in a dumpster outside house as police charge her savage monster ex-boyfriend, 22, with murdering her and unborn child.
That's as far as I'm going to go.
Now, I won't say anything about race.
In fact, I don't think I have to say anything about race.
But instead of a baby shower, this girl's family is planning a funeral.
Can you imagine?
Well, you can imagine anything.
Plenty of people for two people.
They're plenty of people for two people.
Yes.
And of course, I'll mention the race.
The girl is white.
She was very attractive, actually.
Yes, a very cute girl.
And the boyfriend is not white.
He's one of these people who wants to clear out of Africa and head our way, ladies and gentlemen.
In any case, I have a story about the Washington commander's defensive coordinator.
Jack Del Rio.
You're aware of this story, too.
I'm very aware of this one.
He is standing by a statement drawing comparisons between the racial justice protests, as it's called, of the summer of 2020 and the 2021 Capitol riot.
In an initial tweet, Defensive coordinator Del Rio was reacting to a news article about the congressional so-called hearings on the Jan 6 business, and he asked why the summer of riots, looting, burning, and the destruction of personal property isn't getting the same attention.
Fair question.
Well, on Friday, commander's head coach decided it was not a fair question.
So, Ron Rivera, head coach, said he'd met with Del Rio to express his disappointment, and he decided to fine his defensive coordinator $100,000 to be donated to the United States Capitol Police Memorial Fund, or at least it's not going to BLM.
$100,000 for expressing an opinion!
You're not supposed to have that opinion.
They're criminalizing people, vocalizing.
This is a private decision.
I suppose as a private employer, you know, if you tell me, I like red wine better than white wine, I can say, nope, nope, nope.
That's a hundred dollar fine.
That's an opinion you're not allowed to have in this company.
But come on, everyone knows red wine's better than white wine.
That's objective.
Objectively speaking.
It's subjective.
In any case, head coach says his comments do not reflect the organization's views.
Well, is every one of his comments supposed to reflect the organization's views?
And are extremely hurtful to our great community here in the DMV.
And for you listeners around the world, DMV stands for DC, Maryland, Virginia area.
He also added, As we saw last night in the hearings, what happened in the Capitol on January 6th was an act of domestic terrorism.
So that settles it.
That settles it.
Then he went on to say, he does have the right to voice his opinion as a citizen of the United States, and it most certainly is his constitutional right to do so.
However, words have consequences, and his words hurt a lot of people.
So if his words hurt people... $100,000 consequence.
$100,000.
Boy, that's a lot of pain.
He must have caused huge... The coach went on to say that the commander's organization would not tolerate anyone making comparisons between racial justice protests and the insurrection.
So there you go.
One was racial justice protest when they looted Macy's, they looted Rodeo.
That's racial justice.
Billions of dollars in damage.
Yeah, and the other was an insurrection, this leaderless unarmed mob that straggled into the Capitol.
Anyway, I feel strongly that after our conversation this morning, Del Rio, that's the defensive coordinator, will have a greater understanding for the impact of his language and the values that our team stands for, said Rivera.
Well, free speech certainly isn't one of those values.
But tell me, Mr. Kersey, you know all about football.
This guy was a defensive coordinator.
I assume that means there's such a thing as an offensive coordinator?
Is an offensive coordinator allowed to make offensive remarks?
Isn't that part of his job?
No!
I mean, think back to what happened earlier last year when...
The head coach for the Oakland or the Las Vegas Raiders, whatever they are now.
Did he say something defensive or offensive?
He said a number of things in the emails, remember?
And he was fired because of the emails.
I think he made fun of the black NFLPA head.
And he made fun of women.
We actually never actually had the release of the emails.
Oh, the one I remember was he was talking about some black player with lips like Michelin tires.
Yes.
That's the head of the NFLPA.
He was a head coach.
He's known as an offensive guru.
I can't believe I'm blinking on his name.
Anyways, the point is this.
Jack Del Rio has been a former head coach.
He's a very well-respected guy.
He groveled.
He apologized.
About, I suppose, $100,000 is probably pocket change to him, but nonetheless.
Well, Mr. Kersey, he is atoning, but how should big companies atone?
This was, I just for some reason was looking at Market Watch
today and I saw this headline with so many companies in the red.
We now know that a lot of companies are, if you're black, you're going to find a great way to be in the black in terms of some financial reward for past ties to slavery.
So in this story from Market Watch, we learn this.
While slavery in the US was abolished more than 150 years ago.
Was it really?
Gosh, it seems like only yesterday the way people talk about it.
That's an amazing lead, if you think about it.
Only 150 years ago, or more than, organizations that profited from it still operate today, and it's in their best interest to fully atone for the past, says Sarah Fetterman, an expert on the role of businesses in mass atrocities.
Mass atrocities?
Okay.
One financial services giant based in the UK has set a good example for how to make amends, according to Fetterman, who is a professor of conflict resolution at the University of San Diego's Kroc School of Peace Studies.
Kroc sounds like a croc to me.
And the author, I think that's actually named after Ray Kroc, the guy who founded McDonald's.
Yeah, probably so.
And author of, so Fetterman is the author of Last Train to Auschwitz, the French National Railways and the Journey to Accountability.
So the insurance and reinsurance market Lloyds of London researched its historical ties to slavery, made those findings available, and offered an unequivocal apology two years ago.
Lloyds also outlined its commitment to develop its talent pool of blacks and other people of color, increase its hiring of people of color, and prevent itself from participating in modern slavery through its suppliers or other means.
Modern slavery?
I guess that's not having majority-minority owned suppliers.
I don't know.
I guess it means they're not going to have any suppliers based in Mauritania or Upper Volton.
That's where slavery persists.
Yes.
So Federman discussed the atonement efforts by Lloyds and other organizations at a House Financial Services Committee hearing earlier this year.
Democratic lawmakers from that committee asked major banks and insurers In a June 7th letter to provide information about any involvement in the financing of slavery, as well as about any racial equity audits.
It's funny, I think Lehman Brothers actually, weren't they based in, they went under in 2008, 2009.
I think they were from Alabama, so I wonder if they're gonna have to pay reparations even though they went under.
Lehman Brothers?
No, they've always been a New York firm.
I would have sworn that they had roots in Alabama, yeah.
Gosh.
Yeah, because I remember reading the Birmingham News about when they collapsed.
My goodness, all right.
Well, yeah, they'll have to dig up the body and extract reparations from them.
So here we go.
Juneteenth is mere days away, I believe three days away from when we're filming this podcast, and I hope you have your cake and celebration and fireworks ready for that, by the way.
Oh, I will break my chains on Juneteenth.
They were only broken more than 150 years ago, but anyways.
I get to break them all over again.
Here's what he was asked, or she was asked this by Market Watch.
You praise how Lloyd's of London has addressed its involvement in the transatlantic slave trade
from insuring slave ships. God, how dare they insure slave ships?
I know, I know.
It's outrageous.
How would you describe what Lloyd's has done correctly?
And here's what Fetterman said.
What they've done well, and it may sound small to those looking at the bigger picture, but so few have done this part well, their website has a timeline of their history, and it's titled, The Transatlantic Slave Trade.
They don't hedge it.
They don't say, oh, there was just one little uncomfortable chapter.
We're sorry about that.
No, no, no.
They outline what they did.
They give credit to the anti-racist activism and allies following George Floyd's murder, although some of it, I think, was even employees in-house.
So they actually acknowledge those who brought the issue to their attention and say, hey, we've talked about it in the past, but we haven't really full-on dealt with it.
And then they have a section titled, A Full Apology.
And this was an issue that gets really contested because any company as much as possible likes to avoid full apologies because it suggests down the line that there could be some legal liability or someone that will have to pay.
Now, Lloyds might be confident that courts in England will not hold them liable.
However, in the U.S., most companies are going to be protected for the time being, though that might change when And that's kind of an ominous quote, Mr. Taylor, because with The Great Replacement, we know what happens.
We get people like the posse of AOC, the squad, who have one thing and one goal, and that is extort as much money from Whitey To end shade inequality.
I'll say.
I'll say.
So again, it's just one of these interesting stories because anywhere you look now, in any section of the newspaper, at any website, there's always going to be a way to have racial justice and combating implicit bias.
A couple things I don't understand.
If you had any business that was involved with slavery, say you were a clothing manufacturer and somebody bought your clothes to dress the slaves.
Was that illegitimate profits?
What if you made shoes?
What if you made agricultural implements?
Or what if you were a doctor and a slave owner hired you to come minister to a sick slave?
Are you supposed to be apologizing and groveling?
I mean, none of this makes sense.
But asking for it to make sense, I mean, what an outrageous idea.
Something else that doesn't make sense.
Did you know that the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, Metro, is afraid that the whole system is just wallowing in transgender hate?
Transgender hate.
And it, in May, launched a campaign to make Metro safer.
By reducing harassment of transgender passengers.
I didn't realize that was happening, but apparently it's a big thing.
One advertisement features a white man with a man bun, and he's got a beard, and he's yelling transphobic slurs at a gender ambiguous person sitting on the train.
There's this image, this poster.
It says, not in our house.
And it also encourages D.C.
area metro users to report such instances to the transit police.
And, in fact, there is a black lady who is busily dialing her phone as this white man berates this gender-ambiguous person.
And there's an Asian who's looking very worried, too.
So we have lots of diversity, including a gender-ambiguous person.
But who's the bad man?
Obviously, it's Hawaii.
Correct.
Now, the ad campaign comes as DC residents flee public transportation due to fears of acts of violence.
Oh, I wonder who's doing that.
And if I could do spoiler alert, what percentage of blacks were fare evaders of this?
Was it 90 something percent?
Oh, 90 percent were either black or brown.
That's right.
Blacks were the overwhelming majority.
Now, D.C.
authorities in 2021 recorded a five-year high of 183 assaults in public transportation.
That's about one every other day.
And metro ridership, this is an astonishing figure, has dropped 80% since the beginning of COVID-19.
80%!
Well, because a lot of the government is allowing people to work from home, a lot of the private companies, I mean, it's... And this also corresponded with a sharp uptick in violent crime.
And I guess of white men with man buns, transphobic slurs.
Boy, that's just really going to scare away the strap hangers.
In any case, as it turns out, anti-transgender hate crimes in 2020 accounted for less than 3% of all hate crimes recorded by the FBI.
And black people were the most common offenders, not white people.
Not white men with man buns?
No, and beards.
Man bun and beard, you know?
In the 28 anti-transgender hate crimes in D.C.
logged by the FBI in 2020, did you know there were that many?
I did not.
I don't know how you even know somebody is transgender.
They all look one way or the other to me, but my transgender radar must be pretty poor.
In any case, of the 28 anti-transgender hate crimes in D.C.
logged by the FBI, not one of the offenders was white.
Well, not one.
Say that one more time.
There were 28 anti-transgender hate crimes in DC recorded by the FBI in 2020.
Not one offender was white.
Yes, they were all black, all black, but the Metro, they've got a white man.
Some ad agency said, listen, in every one of the ads where we have a bigot, it has to be a white guy.
It's gotta be a white man.
Now the same FBI statistics show that in the last 10 years, There have been 217 recorded anti-transgender hate crimes in the entire city.
You said 10 years, okay.
10 years.
That's, you know, maybe 20 a year.
20 a year, roughly.
Do you know how many of the perps were white?
Out of the 217?
217?
I'm gonna go 2.
You're right!
Really?
Yes!
Two.
Okay.
So there was that man with a man bun.
.01%?
No, 2% out of 2.
That's half a percent.
Half a percent.
Yeah, you're right.
You're right.
Yes, half a percent.
So there you go.
So always, the advertising industry is always true to life.
Always true to life.
Now, I have a sad story.
A very sad story.
It is called, it's a title, the title of this article was, Unmarried Black Women Aren't the Problem.
Oh, they're not?
Well, I never said they weren't.
Unmarried Black Women Aren't the Problem.
Well, this is by Ekimini Uwan, and it is in a website called News One.
And let me read a few sentences.
A few poignant sentences.
In the early 2000s, there was a flood of exposés on all major U.S.
news outlets about the single black female, which often focused on the question, why can't successful black women find a man?
Seemingly intractable statistics revealed that 62% of black women, like myself, are more likely to be unpartnered and the convergence of my experience as a lifelong single black woman who desires to be married to a black man has stirred up within me a righteous discontent.
Okay.
I share my story of singleness merely as a vignette of what it's like to be a black woman ensnared by structural mechanisms of mass incarceration, colorism, and desirability mapped onto me.
It's all mapped onto her.
Exactly.
I am a 30-something single black woman, and I have never been in a dating relationship.
Don't laugh.
This is sad.
I've never had a boyfriend.
Neither have I. You haven't?
It's Pride Month, right?
You are old-fashioned.
She goes on, I've never brought anyone home to meet my family.
I've never even been pursued or sought after.
This is very sad.
I was on eHarmony, Match.com, BlackPeopleMeet.com, and BlackPlanet, but dating apps are a special kind of hell all their own.
These efforts have only ever resulted in situationships.
Have you ever heard of a situationship?
To explain.
Well, then she goes on to say, after enduring situationships in the typical four to six month installments, and in some cases even a year, heartbreak and sorrow, even without the girlfriend title, was what awaited me.
So she was just hooking up with some dudes?
Well, she had situationships.
Now, she says she never had a boyfriend, she's never been pursued or sought after, but she had situationships.
Now, I'd never heard of a situationship.
So, I'm square.
I'm old-fashioned.
So, I looked up online and it is, you and your partner have fun together and may even be intimate, but you haven't committed to each other or discussed a future together.
You're never quite sure what to say when someone asks whether you're seeing someone and it's complicated is the only response.
Now, this article was accompanied by a photo of a black couple Okay.
So maybe situationships are one of those black things that we honkies wouldn't understand.
No, no, no.
They happen to white people, too, I'm sure.
I imagine they do, but they just don't call them situationships.
They call it, you know... It's called hooking up, right?
At least that's what white people call it.
Or, you know, the... It's called TBD, you know?
You're kicking the can down the road, you know?
TBD?
To be determined in a relationship.
Oh, to be determined.
Okay.
But something's going on, but... Well, anyway.
So she's had situationships.
Now, Ms.
Uwan, Ms.
Ekimini Uwan, continues.
She talks about structural realities.
There are approximately 100 unimprisoned black women to 91 unimprisoned black men.
Well, that's a negative ratio for the black women, but it's not absolutely impossible.
Then she goes on to say, colorism is an intraracial dynamic that has played a role in my singleness.
So I haven't seen a picture of this woman.
I haven't seen a picture of her either.
I was curious how black.
Well, I'm judging from her name, probably fairly.
She says, researchers have found that dark-skinned black women, like me, are less likely to be married than our light-skinned counterparts.
55% of light-skinned black women have been married, compared to only 23% of their dark-skinned counterparts.
Sounds like a pretty bad ratio for the dark-skinned.
The far-reaching tentacles of oppression via the transatlantic slave trade.
Ah, it always goes back to that.
Chattel slavery and mass incarceration have depleted the black male marriage market.
But how do we blame this on Lloyds of London?
Well, because it financed it all.
Without Lloyds of London, they couldn't have extracted a single slave.
Those boats were insured, right?
God, they never would have set forth on those voyages without Lloyds.
No?
Meanwhile, what's left of the market is further complicated by colorism and beauty hierarchies.
Poor Ekamini Uwan.
Well, you know, there is a solution.
There is a solution.
What's the solution?
The solution is go to one of those places where all the ladies are dark-skinned.
Ah!
There are such places.
Where there's no hierarchy based on the paper bag test, which deprives darker skin.
There's still a hierarchy.
Let's face it.
But it's not quite as blatant.
And, you know, the numbers are in your favor.
In any case, I think you have a story about some guy named James Patterson, of whom I had never heard.
You've never heard of James Patterson?
I haven't.
I'm an ignorant man.
Wow!
So, a 75-year-old best-selling novelist, he's facing a backlash from critics and writers.
Spoiler alert, he also apologized after a couple days of groveling and being attacked.
James Patterson reflected on the state of the writing world.
The best-selling thriller novelist, with an estimated net worth of roughly $800 million, lamented how one group in particular is having a hard time finding work, white men.
In fact, America's Richest Author noted to the Sunday Times how white males, specifically older white males, are experiencing what he described as another form of racism when it came to trying to break through as writers in TV, film, theater, or publishing.
What's that all about?
Can you get a job?
Yes.
Is it harder?
Yes, Patterson, 75, told the British newspaper.
It's even harder for older writers.
You don't meet many 52-year-old white males in that vocation.
Now, Patterson is facing a backlash from critics who say the author is blatantly ignoring data showing how the publishing industry ...has been and remains a business that is owned by white men.
Now, you've had trouble having books published, right?
But ownership's got nothing to do with what he was talking about.
He was talking about getting a job as a writer, not as an owner.
Exactly.
Like a showrunner or writer in Hollywood, a writer for streaming services.
In a diversity self-audit from the Penguin Random House, the publisher found that 75% of contributors during the period were white, just 6% black, 5% Hispanic.
A 2019 survey from children's publisher Lee and Low Books found 85% of the publishing staffers who acquire and edit books are white people.
A 2020 report from the New York Times found a similar result across the publishing industry, with 89% of the books written in 2018 penned by white writers.
But they don't break it down by sex.
It just says white.
So what percent?
How does it correspond with what he's saying?
Now on Tuesday, Patterson tweeted out an apology, saying, I absolutely... It's almost as if there was a gun to his head when he's doing this.
Tweeting, I absolutely do not believe that racism is practiced against white writers.
And 800 million dollars in the bank and he's still a coward.
Pathetic.
Just pathetic.
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