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June 29, 2022 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance, and with me is my indispensable co-host, Paul Kersey.
The date is June 29th, Year of Our Lord, 2022, and we must begin with a very sad announcement.
As some of you know, our comrade and fellow employee at American Renaissance, Chris Roberts, who is our Director of Special Projects, died very suddenly last Friday.
The cause is as yet unknown.
It is a shocking development.
As you can all imagine, he was not yet 30 years old, a man of great energy, talent, and commitment.
And we're still none.
He wrote more than 400 articles under various pen names for American Renaissance, and probably several hundred more.
And I don't even know all of his pen names.
But he is a great loss to our movement, a tremendous loss.
As I say, we are still reeling from this incredible shock.
Again, he had so much promise.
He was so committed right up to the very end.
The day before, he was part of the staff in his usual energetic way, telling us where we were wrong.
Where we were right, and I'm just utterly baffled and shocked by this, but I think the best tribute we can make to him is to redouble our efforts and try to preserve the things that he so clearly loved and of which he had committed his life.
You know, he had an infectious curiosity, I think is a great way to describe him, and he would take an idea that he would hear and it would germinate in his mind.
He did a great essay, a photo essay, about Minneapolis before George Floyd to show the transformation.
And then he went back and showed what had transpired after the George Floyd riots of late May 2020, all throughout that summer.
And just a committed, really great guy.
He really was interested in every aspect of racial consciousness, white advocacy.
And he also had an astonishing knowledge of leftist politics.
He'd been something of a leftist in his youth, and after he abandoned leftism himself, he was still interested in the ideas.
Was always looking for potential allies, no matter what the political orientation.
He was a really invaluable asset to our cause, and it is a terrible shame that we will have to struggle on without him.
We'll do our best.
As is usual in our podcasts, we will start with comments from listeners.
One is on the irony of Juneteenth, which was one of the subjects of our previous podcast.
He writes, it's supposed to be about emancipation and yet blacks just won't stop talking about slavery.
How do you free yourself from something with which you are obsessed?
Excellent question.
I'm somehow convinced it's not freedom they want.
Yes, they want to dine out on this forever.
Another comment.
In states with particularly restrictive abortion laws, perhaps the semi-sovereign Indian reservations could make legal abortion venues.
That's an interesting observation about the various powers that Indian reservations have.
You could probably have an Indian reservation that could have legal abortion, despite the fact that it's in a state that bans it.
Well, you've heard Democrats calling for federal lands to be opened up, and red states have already banned it, saying, hey, let the federal government get these abortion clinics rolling.
Yes.
Well, why not Indian reservations?
And our listener goes on to say, much like gambling casinos, you know, I designed a prefab gyno facility using standard shipping containers.
The participating Indian reservation could build a cement slab foundation, hook up utilities and sewers, docs and nurses on call and contract.
And he goes on to say, fencing optional, but advised.
Given that it would be in an anti-abortion state.
That's what you got when you've got autonomous nations.
Correct.
In their autonomous zones.
A lot of places in Oklahoma you can go to.
Yes, indeed.
And yet another comment.
Just a note on John James Ottoman, whom Mr. Kersey mentioned in the previous podcast.
Our listener notes that he's now under attack and some local groups of birders are eliminating his name from the names of their clubs.
And one, of course, is the Audubon Naturalist Society in suburban Washington, D.C.
Why?
Well, of course, he was a slaveholder.
And that's all it takes.
Everything he did for birds and about birds means nothing to these people.
And then finally, our last comment, which will lead up to our first news item on this occasion.
We were talking about shade equity, Mr. Kersey.
We were!
And we were talking about these heat islands, which apparently are more likely to be found in the neighborhoods in which our African-American fellow citizens live.
And that was one of the California demands.
The California Commission has got all of this laundry list, an extensive list.
I mean, if it's a laundry list, somebody had many dirty clothes for a long time.
In any case, there's no tie there.
Yes.
No tie.
It's the high tide, the high tide of demands.
And one of the demands was shade and shade trees to be planted in black neighborhoods because we need shade equity.
Well, our listener says, there was a missed opportunity in your recent podcast talking about shade inequity.
You should have said, because of environmental racism, the heat islands are turning aspiring rappers into perspiring rappers.
Well, I'm very sorry, Mr. Kersey, but you have to follow that.
That is your intro.
Well, here's the intro.
Last week, we talked about a website conversation.
If you recall, we discussed how 95% of citizen scientists Are white.
Thus, because something is too white, regardless of what it does to advance humanity's knowledge, it's illegitimate because there's not enough non-white, particularly black, participation.
Well, I happened to check that site out again today, and there's an article about heat islands!
So this is apparently, just like shade inequity... This is the latest injustice.
Exactly.
Satellites zoom in on cities' hottest neighborhoods to help combat the urban heat island effect.
Spend time in a city in the summer and you can feel the urban heat rising from the pavement and radiating from buildings.
Cities are generally hotter than surrounding rural areas, but even within cities, some residential areas get dangerously warmer than others just a few miles away.
Within these micro-urban heat islands, communities can experience heatwave conditions well before officials declare a heat emergency.
This individual, again a white citizen scientist, writing at the conversation said, I use earth-observing satellites and population data to map these hotspots, often on projects with NASA.
Satellites like the Landsat program have become crucial for pinpointing urban risks so cities can prepare for and respond to extreme heat.
A top weather-related killer, among the many things we've been able to track with increasingly detailed satellite data, Again, citizen scientists, Mr. Taylor, they're 95% white.
And this is a white one.
I know.
I'm finding, I bet, how come there are no black citizen scientists who are tracking this down for the community?
Exactly.
Here it goes on to say, detailed satellite data shows that the hottest neighborhoods are typically low income and often have predominantly black and Hispanic residents.
So I guess, I don't know, is the sun somehow able to... Well, no, no.
The fact is, people with money are likely to live in places surrounded by trees with green and parks.
That's just the breaks.
I guess nature is cruel.
Nature is cruel.
Well, I guess I need to go out in my backyard and cut down all my trees in the names of shade equity.
Yeah, well, just to finish off, the article goes on for a little bit longer, but I'll just finish off with this.
One recent study found the poorest areas were significantly hotter than the richest in 76% of urban U.S.
counties.
It also found that neighborhoods with large Black, Hispanic, and even Asian populations were in significantly hotter areas in 71% of the counties, and that the difference remained even when adjusted for income.
These areas tend to have less vegetation and a higher density of homes.
Hence, The California bill for reparations has to address shade inequities.
Shade equity.
Shade equity.
White boy in the shade that he doesn't deserve.
It's white privilege.
Just another version of white privilege.
Well, in the meantime, in the meantime, those who are seeking shade equity, beware.
There's been a significant voter shift.
More than a million voters across 43 states have switched to the Republican Party over the last year.
How many?
Say that again.
One million.
Wow.
One million.
In virtually every region of the country, Democratic and Republican states, along with cities and small towns, in the period since President Joe Biden replaced Donald Trump.
Nowhere has the shift been more pronounced and dangerous for Democrats than in the suburbs, where well-educated swing voters who turned against Trump's Republican Party in recent years appear to be swinging back.
Ben Smith, apparently he lives in suburban Larimer County in Colorado, North Denver, said he reluctantly registered Republican after becoming increasingly concerned about the Democrats' support in some localities for mandatory COVID-19 vaccines, the party's inability to call violent crime, and its incessant focus on racial justice.
Yes, as I've said, they're driving people into our arms.
I mean, the Republican Party is a way station, a way station, but it's a first step for Ben Smith.
He says it's more a rejection of the left than embracing the right.
Well, we'll see, Mr. Smith.
This is a definite reversal from the period while Donald Trump was in office when Democrats enjoyed a slight edge in the number of party switchers nationwide.
In total over the last year, about two-thirds of the 1.7 million voters who changed parties shifted Republican.
That means more than 1 million people became Republicans compared to about 630,000 who became Democrats.
In Iowa, Democrats used to have the advantage in party changes by 2-1 margin, but that's flipped this year with Republicans ahead 2-1.
A 39-year-old homemaker named Jessica Krohl says there's not a single aha moment that convinced her, but by 2020 she said the Democrat Party had left her behind.
She says it's no longer Democrat, it's progressive socialist.
And she specifically condemned Biden's plan to eliminate billions of dollars in student debt.
She probably had student debt of her own, which she worked hard to pay off.
I think if I had student debt I'd worked off, I'd think what a chump I was.
If everybody else who's been a layabout, never worked in school, they get a fat check in the mail.
Another is Democrats are hoping that the Supreme Court's decision on Friday to overrule Roe v. Wade will energize supporters.
We'll see.
In the meantime, I thought this was interesting.
The Republican National Committee has been hosting voter registration events at, believe it or not, Gas stations.
Gas stations?
Yes.
Gas stations.
I don't suppose you've seen one of those stickers.
Some people are putting them on pumps, and it points to the price, and there's a little sticker with a photo of Jump and Joe that says, Joe Biden bought you that.
Tell us about what it was like to be in America in the late 1970s with the oil crisis and the gas crisis.
Well, I tell you, when I first came to the United States in 1968, after having lived in Japan, gas was 30 cents a gallon.
30 cents a gallon, yes.
And it was not uncommon for people to drive up to a gas station.
There were gas station attendants in those days.
And you'd say, give me a dollar's worth.
That was not at all unusual.
Give me a dollar's worth.
And somebody would pump the gas, wipe your windshield, and you'd walk off with your three gallons of gas for a single dollar bill.
Now, the real gas prices, that was a real, that was a terrible thing.
People were hoarding gas, long, long lines.
When it actually got up to a dollar a gallon, that was just quite the nightmare.
Now, as we know, I don't have to tell you what's going on, but things have changed.
Things have certainly changed.
I think it's a little unfair to blame Joe Biden single-handedly, but that Keystone pipeline would have been an awfully good thing.
Yes, it would have.
Where is Keystone when we really need it?
Now, On the subject of voter change affiliation, a lot of attention has been paid to the problems Jump and Joe and the other Democrats are going to have with their core constituencies, so-called, of young and Hispanic voters, and there's a lot of data to back that up, but less attention has been paid to the Asians.
But election results and other data reveal that they are still likely to vote Majority Democrat, but the party has seen a real decline in support.
Just as an example, Biden won Asian voters in 2020 by 44 points.
2020 by 44 points.
That means it was 72 Biden, 28 Trump.
I mean, that was even more than Hispanics.
I never understood why they voted for Joe Biden.
Since then though, he has averaged a 53% approval rate, this is Joe Biden, and a 47% disapproval rating for a net 7 approval rating.
That is a whole lot less than winning by 44 points.
The margin among Asians has dropped from 44 to 7.
Now, they're only about, what, 5% of the voter population, but they're growing rapidly.
And for the electorate overall, his net approval rating of about 19 points is lower than his margin over Trump in 2020.
Pew's March poll gave Democrats a 28-point advantage among Asians on the ballot test.
Which asks voters which party they would support in Congress, in their districts.
And that's 16 points.
This is 16 points lower than the margin Biden won them by in 2020, which was 44.
In other words, a margin of 44% has slipped to 16 for Asians.
That's big!
And the same generic ballot had Democrats and Republicans tied among all voters.
Which is only a five-point drop for Democrats overall compared to Biden's 2020 margin.
So instead of 55-45, it's a full, full split.
So the dip in Democratic support among Asian voters seems to be about three times as large as it is overall.
And this also is significant.
In the June 7 recall, we talked about this, of this maniac, Chesa Boudin, or Boudin, I don't know how they pronounce his name.
It's a deep blue city, San Francisco, but they give him the heave-ho.
And there was a clear positive correlation between how many Asians were in a precinct and how many voters voted to recall Boudin.
This is remarkable.
There was no such correlation for any other racial or ethnic group apparently.
Only among Asians.
The more the Asians, the greater the concentration of Asians, the more the no vote on Chessa.
So they really, I mean, it did appear that way.
They were the groups that were spearheading it.
Nobody had really accurate figures on how the votes were counted, but everything seems to point to Asians having been a very serious force to help get that just insane prosecutor who failed to prosecute Out of a job.
Yeah.
No, it's going to get quite interesting here as I don't think, I think we're going to segue into Roe v. Wade here, but I don't think the Republicans are going to see that much of a problem with that impacting the favorability.
No, we will see.
One more thing about Asians, though.
A superintendent, an African-Americaness named Cheryl James Ward, Had been the superintendent of San Dieguito Union High School District.
San Dieguito is just north of San Diego.
Okay.
It's a very wealthy area.
And why an outfit like this hired a black?
Blacks are rare on the ground in this area.
But they wanted to be woke, woke, woke.
Just absolutely insomniac woke.
And so they hired this black lady.
And it's ranked number one public school district in the country.
Really?
Yes, that's what they say.
Well, in April 2020, this year, she was asked during a school board training session on diversity, equity, and inclusion, and one of the board members asked why Asian students do so well.
An innocent question.
It's a very innocent question.
Innocent question.
Now, what did Superintendent Cheryl James Ward say?
She said, well, here in San Diego, we have an influx of Asians from China.
The people who are able to make that are wealthy.
You know, come to America and buy a house for two million dollars.
Unless you have money, says she.
Well, her comments received criticism from many Asian Americans, just for having said that they were wealthy.
Many Asian American parents then attended the next school board meeting after those comments, claiming she had mischaracterized many Asian parents.
I'm sure a lot of them don't buy $2 million houses.
No, no.
And Ms.
James Ward said her comments were taken out of context and she apologized, but On just this last Sunday, June 26, the San Diego Union High School district unanimously decided to give her the heave-ho.
Now she is entitled to a year's salary, $288,000.
Okay.
Yes, yes.
Nice little severance package.
Yes, a little comfort money.
I'm sure there's plenty of majority white districts across the country that are salivating, that also have that woke insomnia that has to be cured.
However, they might pay attention.
Because in response to the decision, Ms.
James Ward, one of these double-barreled hyphenated names that our African-Americanists so love, she said the firing was in retaliation for a gender discrimination complaint she filed earlier this year against one of the school board members.
So she's got a gender discrimination complaint.
Her lawyer reiterated her previous plan to sue the school district anyway.
So, she sounds like a very hot potato.
You're right.
Some woke, woke, woke, white school district is probably going to want her, but I suspect they will live to regret it.
Now, let us move on to Roe v. Wade and the horrible effect it will have on our poor, suffering African-American fellow citizens.
Yeah, we actually mentioned this.
You know, the leak in, what was it?
Mid-April, early May, that this was coming, so there were a lot of articles and there was a fantastic breakdown of the percentages of abortions by race in most of the states.
And apparently Reuters read that and they decided to do a whole article on it.
Roe v. Wade ruling disproportionately hurts black women, experts say.
I also saw a CNN headline, Mr. Taylor.
Black households disproportionately impacted by inflation.
Oh, I don't doubt it.
I don't doubt it.
Well, you know, there's that great Joe Sobran headline.
Nuclear war, world destroyed, women and minorities hurt worse.
The hardest, yeah.
Well, you know, SCOTUS's decision to overturn a constitutional right to an abortion is expected to have a disproportionate impact on black women and other women of color who have traditionally faced overwhelming cost and logistical obstacles in obtaining reproductive health care.
It's interesting because if they're still at the highest rates, then I don't think they've really had that many obstacles.
They're still, as we discussed in some states, what, Alabama?
70% of the abortions, something like that?
75?
It's an astonishing number.
But no, they've got terrible obstacles for health.
I guess that's how they get pregnant, those terrible obstacles.
By osmosis.
That great wall in the bed, somehow they had to hop over.
Terrible obstacles.
So, 26 states are likely or certain to ban abortion in most or all circumstances after the ruling.
More black women live in states that will likely ban abortion, and those living in southern states with the most restrictive laws will bear the brunt.
For example, blacks make up about 38% of Mississippi's population, compared to about 13% of the overall U.S.
population.
Black women in the United States are nearly four times more likely to have abortions than white women, while Latino women are twice as likely.
That's from the 2019 data from the CDC.
Those Hispanic family values.
There you go.
Health experts, they definitely don't stop at the Rio Grande, do they?
Uh, health experts trace relatively high rates of abortion among black women to disparities in healthcare access, including lack of health insurance and contraceptives in undeserved and underserved communities.
Excuse me.
That explains it all.
Yeah.
Yep.
That explains it all.
Abstain and you won't have the problem or, you know?
Well, I can't expect that.
No, you can't.
Look at the STD rates that the CDC also publishes.
Of course, if you notice them, you're the real germ.
You're the real virus.
That's right.
In Mississippi, black women accounted for 74% of abortions in 2019.
of abortions in 2019. And that's that Kaiser Family Foundation study that we cited about a month ago
in a podcast. Quote, there's no denying the fact that this is a direct attack on all women and
black women stand to be disproportionately impacted by the court's egregious assault on
basic human rights.
That was from Jeanette McCarthy Wallace, one of those beautiful two-surname Africaness.
She's the general counsel for the NAACP.
If more black women are forced to carry pregnancies to term, there will be a disproportionate increase in deaths of black women in childbirth.
That's from a study published by Duke University More American women overall die of childbirth every year compared to any other developed country, according to the White House, and black women are more than three times as likely to die from pregnancy-related complications as white women.
The Supreme Court ruling marks the beginning of a new public health crisis for Black women.
abortion ban could further increase black maternal deaths by 33% compared to just 21%
increase for the overall population. That's from that same Duke study. The Supreme Court
ruling quote marks the beginning of a new public health crisis for black women. End
quote. That's Michelle Webb, the chief communications officer of the black women's health imperative.
You know, where are the blacks who are saying, well, gosh, this will mean more black people,
Jose, Jorge, Hosanna.
No one seems to be saying that.
No, it's the exact opposite.
We want fewer Black people.
Exactly.
Think about it.
If 74% of abortions in 2019 were Black, I mean, you do the math, Well, we don't know.
That's a number of abortions.
they come anymore? What does that, will that increase the black population?
We don't know. That's a number of abortions. That doesn't tell us how many black babies
were thwarted, but it means a very large number unquestionably.
Oh, exactly. Exactly.
U.S.
Rep.
Cori Bush spoke about getting an abortion at 18.
Lewis spoke about getting an abortion at 18.
And she said this, quote, the attack on reproductive rights and abortion care is a public health emergency.
Without action, it will further endanger the lives of our most marginalized communities,
end quote.
Well, she had an abortion.
So she not only endangered the life of her fetus that she was carrying, she killed it off.
And again, if black, again, why even make that stupid and hard a Black Lives Matter?
I mean, you're right.
You think that.
You think that they would approve of more blacks being born.
But they apparently do not.
In the meantime, there has been a rather surprising decision
by the Massachusetts, no, I'm sorry, this is the, yes, the Massachusetts Supreme Court about a woman
who lives in Connecticut.
She says that she is descended from slaves who are portrayed in a widely published historical set of photos owned by Harvard University.
And she can sue the school for emotional distress because these photographs are published.
The Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled on this decision just last Thursday.
Her name is Tamara Lanier and she filed her suit in 2019 and it deals with two 1850 daguerreotype photos depicting a South Carolina man identified as Renty Taylor and his daughter Delia Taylor.
I've seen the photograph.
Did he release it?
Well, not that I know of.
Not that I know of.
I suspect not.
Both were posed shirtless.
They are shirtless from the waist up, yes indeed, and they are photographed full face and in profile.
The images were commissioned by Harvard biologist Louis Agassiz.
He is a famous name.
He was an anthropologist and biologist, cut really quite a high profile in the profession at the time.
And according to the article that I read, the slaves were forced to be photographed.
Now, I don't know.
It probably just has to be photographed.
Who knows?
In any case, for a study by the professor who was reportedly trying to prove the inferiority of black people.
Well, was he or wasn't he?
We don't know.
The images are considered some of the earliest that show slaves in the United States.
Now, this Norwalk, Connecticut resident, Ms.
Lanier, and her family, according to the court, can plausibly make a case for suffering, quote, negligent and indeed reckless infliction of emotional distress.
Because these photographs have been published.
Harvard did so, and used one, of course it's the man, on the image of a book cover, and prominently featured it in materials for campus conference.
The images of the young lady are much more difficult to find because she is bare-breasted.
And Harvard has not, obviously didn't put that on the cover of the book.
But Harvard did these unspeakable acts even after Ms.
Lanier had reached out about her ancestral ties.
The court says, despite its duty of care to her, Harvard had a duty of care to her.
Harvard cavalierly dismissed her ancestral claims, disregarded her requests, despite her own representations that it would keep her informed on further developments.
In other words, Harvard had a duty to look after her and let her know whether and how these photographs are going to be used.
Now, the high court did uphold the lower court's ruling in which the photos are the property of the photographer and of Harvard and not of the subject themselves.
That's at least something.
However, Tamara Lanier's lawyer said Thursday's ruling was a historic win that marks one of the first times a court has ruled that descendants of slaves can seek accountability for what their ancestors endured.
And that's a very interesting precedent.
It is.
Yes.
But did that set the stage for legally reparations?
Perpetual?
Probably, probably.
Now presumably that would restrict, well who knows, but that is a very disturbing precedent if this continues.
Now guess who her lawyer is?
Who's her lawyer?
Ben Crump!
Benjamin Crump!
That great champion of civil rights, humanity, goodness, truth, and beauty for all mankind.
He was, oh my gosh, He's everywhere.
You name it, he was there.
The situation down in Sanford, Florida.
Oh, Trayvon Martin.
Trayvon Martin, yeah.
How come I forget Trayvon Martin's name?
Oh my goodness.
I know, I know.
Trayvon and George Zimmerman.
That's like forgetting Jesus Christ's name.
No, that's George Floyd.
Oh, you're right.
Now, the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that Harvard's, quote, horrific historic role in taking the photographs, a horrific historic role in taking these photographs meant it had a duty to respond carefully to Tamra Lanier's requests for information about them, which the university failed to do.
Justice Scott Kafka wrote that Harvard had cavalierly dismissed Lanier's claims of an ancestral link, disregarded her request for information about how it was used in photographs, and it said, the judge said, Harvard's conduct amid a jury could reasonably determine it recklessly caused her to suffer emotional distress through its extreme and outrageous conduct.
Out?
They had these photographs.
She says, hey, that's my great, great, great, great, great granddaddy.
You can't do whatever you like with him.
And they said, well, I think we can.
That is extreme and outrageous.
Now, here's another quotation of this extraordinary ruling, which, as the one that I think, deserves the term outrageous.
Harvard's past complicity in the repugnant actions by which the daguerreotypes were produced informs its present responsibilities to the descendants of the individuals coerced into having their half-naked images captured in the daguerreotypes.
Wow.
In any case, Harvard seems to be ready for this.
It released a report in April pledging to spend $100 million to study and atone for its ties to slavery, including plans to identify and support the descendants of slaves who worked at the Ivy League campus.
Now, this is interesting.
They've already set aside the amount.
Okay, $100 million.
Don't care what we find.
We're going to spend it.
We're going to spend $100 million no matter what.
Well, they've got a pretty big endowment so they can dip into that quite easily.
My question is, what the heck?
Can I sue if some ancestor of mine was photographed in some compromising or embarrassing pose?
I mean, what about, you know, you have these horrific pictures of Jews, many of them naked or semi-naked in concentration camps.
Also, these guys in Civil War POW camps, you've seen them, just horrible skin on both sides.
I mean, can their descendants sue for the fact that those are visible on the internet, or is it just black people?
I think that's a rhetorical question, right?
No, no.
I'd like an answer.
I'd like an answer.
All my rhetorical questions really deserve an answer.
In any case, you have good news for people who are considering viewing fireworks in Detroit.
There's good news!
You know, 4th of July is coming up on this Monday.
Yeah, so happy Independence Day to everyone out there.
I hope you have a wonderful time with your family, with friends.
Throw a steak on the grill, have an adult beverage and enjoy the fireworks.
But if you're going to be in 89% non-white Detroit, 77% black Detroit, Good news for you.
There are new weapon scanners being deployed as the fireworks are returning to downtown for the first time since COVID hit, since 2019.
The 64th Ford Fireworks theme this year is, Hey Detroit, the sky shines for you!
The sky shines for you.
Now, of course, the fireworks were launched off in Harrison Township without spectators because of the pandemic in 2020 and 2021.
But what does this mean for safety of those going to the former Paris of the West?
The Detroit Police Department is deploying state-of-the-art metal detectors that can pinpoint a weapon, like a knife or a gun, visible or under clothes.
They're using smart weapon scanners at this year's fireworks downtown to hopefully help curb violence.
In 2015, nine people were injured by gunfire at the July 4th celebration in Detroit, and Three people were hurt in two separate shootings.
Deputy Chief Franklin Hayes says these smart weapon scanners have already been deployed multiple times at events in Detroit.
You might have seen them at the Grand Prix, Movement, and several other community events.
Quote, with this technology, we'll be able to help deploy and make an environment safe and weapon-free.
End quote.
now, will these machines, will they be accused of racism if in a post-mortem report on this,
it turns out that the majority of people that were stopped and who were detected to have
weapons and they had to be actually taken and procured by the police if they happen
Will these machines be called racist?
I think that is a rhetorical question.
I think that is too.
March, the Detroit City Council approved for a four-year $1.3 million contract with a company called Evolve for 10 weapons detection systems.
The city used bond money to purchase these weapon detection systems, and in every event they've used them at, they've proven successful.
Quote, this technology has done exactly what it's designed to do.
The time we have had, the hits they were, in fact, firearms for those events, and with this technology deployed, we had no incidents of violence.
Congratulations.
What's the name of this company?
I think I'm going to look them up, see what these devices are like.
Are they handheld?
Do I have to walk through a gate?
You have to walk through it.
It's EVOLV.
Interestingly enough, I wonder, you know, ShotSpotter went public a couple years ago and their stock shot up quite nice because so many police departments were buying ShotSpotter.
This is one of those companies that adds, again, we know that from CDC data just how bad gun violence is getting.
Why would more and more people not have these for a walk into a bar?
Yeah, again, also for those wondering, the fireworks There's going to be an 8 p.m.
curfew for minors and the fireworks will go off as soon as it gets dark.
So if you're there in Detroit, I don't expect to be, but you never know.
Well, you know too bad they didn't have this EVOLV equipment in Oslo last weekend.
We won't spend much time on this, but an Islamic terrorist shot up a gay bar, killed two, and injured 21.
So a lot of people stopped bullets.
Is that the monkey pox?
That's just gay bar.
Gay bar, come on.
No, it's Viking Pox.
In the early hours of Saturday morning, Oslo was celebrating LGBT Pride Month.
And this was carried out, this slaughter was carried out by a Norwegian citizen of Iranian origin who arrived in Norway as a child.
Suspending growing up in Norway did not cure him of his Islamic tendencies.
He shot indiscriminately at something called the London Pub, a well-known LGBT-friendly venue right in the center of downtown Oslo.
Now, despite the fact that Prime Minister Johannes Garstor acknowledged, everything indicates this has been an attack by an Islamic extremist, he refused to acknowledge that the queer community was the intended target, curiously enough.
That seems to be rather obvious to me.
And King Harald V of Norway, what a nice name, Harald, H-A-R-A-L-D V. I think I could do being King Harald V. He says, We must stand together to defend our values, freedom, diversity, and respect.
That's what he said in the wake of this shooting.
So he is defending Swedish diversity.
In the meantime, in France, President Emmanuel Macron, who was re-elected, as we all know, he decided to appoint a historian named Pap Indaye.
That's P-A-P.
That's not a nickname for Pappy.
As education minister, he is of Senegalese origin and is a specialist in U.S.
history and minority issues.
Now, France has long cherished its universalist tradition, which in principle is blind to color.
France's political class has traditionally been wary of what it calls le wokisme, being woke.
But this is a complete U-turn from Emmanuel Macron after he sacked Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquet Who was a leading light against wokeism and went as far as creating a think tank to fight woke ideas.
Now, since his nomination, Mr. Ndiaye has come under attack from France's far right, as it's called, with the National Rally's Marine Le Pen, accusing him of planning the deconstruction of our country, its values, and its future.
Now, defenders of this Paris-born Senegalese say accusations against him are overblown, and they are an expression of French racism, obviously.
Indaia is in favor of positive discrimination, that's what we call affirmative action, and of allowing safe spaces for people of color, and he said France suffers from structural racism, but he refuses to use the terms white privilege.
Now, I don't know why there's much of a distinction.
Structural racism, but no white privilege.
He is in favor of, as I say, discrimination, etc.
And he has also distanced himself from some woke activists.
He says, I share most of their causes, but I don't approve of their moralizing or sectarian discourse.
He says, I feel more cool than woke.
Okay.
Black people are cool.
He's a professor at Science Po, where I was once upon a time a student.
And he specializes in African-American history.
He advises government bodies on diversity.
And in February of last year, Emmanuel Macron named him the head of France's Immigration Museum with the aim of calming tensions around this highly inflammatory subject, namely of colonial history.
I doubt he calmed tensions.
I don't think so.
Based on what just happened in the elections, I don't think he did.
I bet he stoked tensions.
He studied at UVA for several years.
So he's had his head poured full of American patent medicine poisons.
And let's see.
Such things as affirmative action, ethnic statistics, which are justified in the U.S.
to deal with the legacy of slavery and segregation are thought to reduce citizens of color to their skin color in France.
Sociologist and vocal critic of wokeism, Matthew Bocquete said his nomination legitimizes the imposition of US woke concepts in France.
And instead of organizing the resistance to colonization of French universities by the American left, I thought that's pretty good.
If he's fighting colonization, that's the colonization that matters.
The colonization of French ideas with American leftist ideas.
He says both the U.S.
and France lay claim to universalism, but the French have an aspiration to define citizens beyond ethnicity and not assign them to communities.
He says this has a greater potential for emancipation.
So the objection is really coming from people who want a kind of non-racial nationalism.
I looked up this Blanquier guy.
And he has started a think tank called the Laboratory of the Republic.
The Laboratory of the Republic?
The Laboratory of the Republic.
Yes, kind of an interesting name, isn't it?
And he says, this is one of the statement of purposes is, identitarian demands of any kind go against the universalist heritage of the Enlightenment,
and they dangerously break apart the body politic.
So, he, well, but he's opposing, he's opposing, of course, any kind of a dictatorian expression,
I'm sure, white included.
Oh, that's the primary concern.
Excuse me?
That's the primary concern.
I'm sure.
I'm sure.
Everybody else, I mean, but, you know, they're fiercer about it when others do it, too.
Now, just one little last thing about racist AI, and then we can get to one of these heartbreaking stories that you don't like, but we have to do some from time to time.
From a Johns Hopkins website, an article called, Flawed AI Makes Robots Racist, Sexist.
Oh, boy.
Flawed AI.
A robot operating with a popular internet-based artificial intelligence system consistently gravitates to men over women and white people over people of color.
Here's a quotation.
The robot has learned toxic stereotypes through these flawed neural network models, said one of the researchers.
We're at risk of creating a generation of racist and sexist robots.
A generation of them.
I guess they reproduce.
How long is a robot generation?
Every 20 years?
I don't know.
But generations of these sexist, racist... The robot was asked to put objects in a box.
Specifically, They were to sort blocks with various human faces on them.
I mean, these are similar to those printed on book covers, just various.
And there were 62 commands to the robots, including pack the person in the brown box, or pack the doctor in the brown box, pack the criminal in the brown box, and pack the homemaker in the brown box.
Now apparently you can tell which box is brown.
And these are just various pictures, photographs of faces.
And the team tracked how often the robot selected each sex and race.
The robot was incapable of performing without bias.
It acted out significant and disturbing stereotypes.
Once the robot sees people's faces, it tends to identify women as homemakers.
Amazing.
And identify black men as criminals fully 10% more often than it identifies white men as criminals.
Can you imagine that?
Cybernetic bigotry.
Wow, this is really underplaying the reality.
It identifies Latino men as janitors 10% more often than white men.
Can you imagine that?
What outrageous bigotry.
Again, this is underplaying the differences.
And women of all ethnicities were less likely than men to be picked when the robot was searching for a doctor.
Shocking.
Now, to prevent future machines from adopting and re-enacting these human stereotypes, the team says systematic changes to research and business practices must be required.
While many marginalized groups are not included in our study, the assumption should be that any such robotic system will be unsafe for marginalized groups until proven otherwise.
Now, I bet if some of them were identified as Jews, Do you think they'd be more likely to be selected as doctors?
Do you think poor, marginalized Jews are going to be suffering from this bigotry as well?
In other words, these guys want AI to get it wrong.
What does this have to do with combating heat islands?
That's my main question.
You're right.
You're right.
We're off the main subject.
The AI, I mean, again, it's... You're right.
No, I'm joking.
But the point is, Racism is everywhere.
Women's nowhere.
Well, just recognizing reality.
And we've said this over and over.
If we've said it once, we've said it a hundred times.
Recognizing reality, recognizing patterns is racism.
And when blacks are considered likely to be criminals only 10% more often than whites, that is vastly, vastly underestimating the criminality of blacks.
But anyway, it's racist, sexist.
They've got to be made stupid.
So it's got to be unnatural, unintelligent, unnatural stupidity systems rather than artificial intelligence systems.
But anyway, yes, the Violence Reduction Team is a victim of violence.
Yeah, you know, this is out of Indianapolis.
Family, friends, remember Indie Violence Reduction Team member killed in a shooting.
We've done these so many times.
Invariably, it's...
I would say 9 times out of 10 Baltimore, where just this past weekend they had one of the most violent weekends.
They had Chicago-esque numbers, though Baltimore's only got 500,000 people, and yet they're having as many shootings as Chicago.
And I've got a question for you after this, but let's roll the story.
Son, a father, and a brother, John Barnett left a huge hole in the community of a police city.
He was shot and killed Saturday night in Indianapolis.
He was a key member of the city's violence reduction team who dedicated his life to stopping violence.
They don't say this, but I hate to say it, Indianapolis has had record-breaking homicide years and non-fatal shooting years.
I believe four or five years in a row.
That predated the George Floyd increase.
Got a lot of work to do of those remaining members of the violence reduction team.
Quote, I'm sorry to his loved ones, but we're not going to give it up.
In quote, the director of the Indianapolis Office of Public Health and Safety, Lauren Rodriguez, said he was somebody that lived in this community, that served his community and gave back to his community.
City officials said Barnett had made it his life's mission to help reduce crime.
But at the age of 45, he died a victim of the violence.
He was a peacemaker for the city's Office of Public Health and Safety, that means he was an outreach worker, an interrupter, and a life coach.
Quote, his main goal was to be out in the community, so that's what JB loved to do.
It's what he was great at, and making relationships with community organizers, churches, schools, with the gas stations on the corner, end quote.
Nutty said, Mr. Taylor, there are around 40 peacemakers in the city.
How many peacemakers are there in Oakton?
Gosh, I think everyone who lives in Oakden is a peacemaker.
It's a pretty peaceful place.
A lot of trees?
A lot of trees, a lot of shade equity.
That's probably the reason.
People are just so much enjoying the shade, they just can't work up the anger to shoot somebody.
There's very few heat islands?
I haven't found one.
Okay.
Of course, I haven't set sail for Heat Island.
So again, Indianapolis, 40 peacemakers trying to convince black people not to shoot other black people.
I wonder how dangerous a profession that is.
It sounds pretty risky to me.
Yeah.
We find these stories pretty often.
Yeah, well Barnett focused on the Riverside neighborhood where he spent time with the youth and provided safe spaces for them.
Friends say he was playing with the kids at Riverside Park the day before he died.
Quote, they had stationary bikes, seeing him interact, seeing the other community members interact is critical because that's showing the kids that there are, that people care about them and they want them to succeed.
End quote.
Does that make them stop shooting each other?
Maybe.
I don't know.
I mean, they're trying something.
They're trying something.
At least, at least they're not running around just constantly.
It's more than midnight basketball.
Let's put it that way.
At least they're not just non-stop blaming white people.
No, no.
At least they're trying something.
I mean, you can't.
In this situation, I mean, what?
Would 100% more?
Would 80 peacemakers?
Would that make the difference if you had, you know, two people?
One watching the other one's back?
Well, moving south of the border, Univision, that's the Mexican television station, recently promoted a swim coach who's helping illegal immigrants cross the Rio Grande.
Sunday's Edición Digital spotlighted a coach who has been training them.
We now go live to Mario Venero, the swim coach for the Stingray Club, who teaches his countrymen that are set to migrate free of charge.
Obviously, when people see the Rio Grande, it looks very calm, still, like a pool.
However, there are many currents, which are dangerous.
So, he says, we made a tunnel with some lanes inside a swimming pool.
We placed 10 people with boards on each side and we created turbulence by splashing water on the person.
And Univision host concluded the segment, it's good that you're telling us about this course, which has gone viral.
Fathers, mothers, children who are thinking about coming to the United States and facing these very dangerous waters of the Rio Grande, thank you very much.
So learned across the turbulent waters of the Rio Grande with the coach from the Stingray Swim Club.
I guess Univision wants more viewers in the United States.
What stroke do you think he's teaching?
That's a good question.
Backstroke?
Brushstroke?
I don't know, wet backstroke.
That's a good question.
This reminds me, of course, in 2005.
If any of our listeners know the best stroke to get across the Rio Grande, let us know.
I think it's got to be the wetback stroke.
But the Mexican government put out a guide for the Mexican migrant.
I remember this.
Yeah, 2005.
It was this cartoon.
Yeah.
And we translated it in English.
You can find it on our website.
Yes, Guide for the Mexican Migrant.
It's really something else.
It begins with, esteemed countrymen, The purpose of this guide is to provide you with practical advice that may prove useful to you.
And it talks about heat and cold and dehydration and the border patrol.
The stuff that struck me is every time they depicted an American woman, whether she's a customs inspector or a policeman, she's wearing some skin-tight outfit.
Vivacious.
Good grief.
Yeah, it's titillating.
Absolutely.
I think I'd be doing the breaststroke across the Rio Grande.
Call me a wetback if you want to or not.
You better not.
You better not.
Of course, I guess swimming the Rio Grande is probably going to be safer than coming in the back of an 18-wheeler, but be that as it may.
Further north of the border in California, this is really quite an interesting story.
Eugene Volokh at UCLA Law School, he has this The Volokh Conspiracy.
Yeah, great.
It's a great, great little blog he has.
And he talks about the change in the recent Supreme Court ruling that says that concealed carry permits should go from a may issue to a shall issue standard.
In other words, unlike in California, you have to prove that you got some special need to carry a concealed weapon, If so long as you don't have a criminal record, etc, etc, and minimal training, whatever it is, they must issue.
Well, the California Attorney General's Office concludes that the existing statutory requirement that a public carry license applicant provide proof of good moral character remains constitutional.
I bet you know where this is going, Mr. Kersey.
And that this requirement is not limited to disqualifying felons and violent misdemeanor commitments and the like.
Sacramento County says it's reasonable to consider factors in evaluating an applicant's proof of the requisite moral character to safely carry firearms, and this can include respect for the law, integrity, candor, discretion, observance of fiduciary duty, respect for the rights of others, and absence of hatred and racism.
How do you determine absence or presence of hatred and racism?
Investigators may personally interview applicants and ask you, well, Mr. Kersey, have you ever listened to Radio Renaissance?
And if you say yes, that's probably proof of just incompetence with a firearm.
That's proof of incompetence of, you know, of loss of mental faculty doing that in their eyes.
I guess so.
That means your First Amendment rights go on too.
Yes, of course.
And they can also search publicly available information including social media accounts.
Now, this is the direction in which they're moving.
And this is something that I've been worrying about with the red flag laws, too.
Which just passed.
Yes, yes.
And they could say anybody who listens to Radio Renaissance is just by definition a danger to himself and others and must not own a firearm.
And we're joking about that, ladies and gentlemen.
You may listen to Radio Renaissance for the time being.
But as Volokh says, if California were allowed to deny concealed carry licenses to whoever California law enforcement officials believe is racist or endorses hatred, then any state could deny such licenses Or any kind of license to whoever its law enforcement officials believe is anti-government, or anti-police, or a Muslim extremist, or whatever you like.
Or in states that have banned abortion, if you think abortion should be legal, they could decide that that is a sign of too much of a moral turpitude.
Correct.
So anyway, there it goes.
Now, of course, on the subject of who gets to carry a weapon, A certain Roosevelt Rapley, one of our African-American fellow citizens, R-A-P-P-L-E-Y, he entered a Dayton area store, produced a firearm, and demanded money.
One of the store clerks, with a concealed carry permit, and was legally armed, Mr. Rapley pointed his gun at him.
The clerk drew his own weapon, fired it, striking Mr. Rapley in the chest.
Rappley returned fire, hitting no one, unfortunately, before stumbling outside and collapsing.
He was pronounced dead, and witnesses confirmed that Rappley pointed his weapon at the clerk, prompting him to draw and fire, fearing for his life.
Well, shortly after the failed robbery attempt, two members of Rappley's family spoke with reporters outside the store, and their conclusion, it's the fault of the clerk for being armed and acting in self-defense.
Rappley's sister was on the record talking about her brother.
He's got some responsibility, but not all.
Right is right and wrong is wrong.
It was wrong for the clerk to shoot my brother in the chest.
Oh yeah, he's robbing them.
Oh well.
Call the police.
That's what you're supposed to do.
You're not supposed to take matters into your own hands.
She is all beefing about this.
The woman then went on to say there's no reason to have a gun for protection at work.
Of course, her brother just provided an excellent reason to have a gun for protection at work.
And according to these two siblings, this is the second of ten siblings.
It's a big, happy, jolly family.
Ten siblings have been killed by gunfire.
And it does turn out that Rapley does have a prior history, alas, alas.
Pending weapons charges, possible involvement in other commercial robberies in the area, including a recent robbery at another Dollar General.
Seems to me he's not aiming very high.
I don't think I've ever been into a dollar general.
I think, isn't that one of those stores?
It's a dollar, yeah.
Pretty much everything is a dollar with tax.
Yeah, seems to me, you know, if you're gonna really hold up a store, I don't know.
But what struck me about this story is that this attitude, it's never our fault.
This is not just limited to people whose brothers get shot in armed robberies.
Look at the blacks in Congress, for heaven's sake.
Nothing's ever their fault.
This is an almost universal black mentality.
Okay, I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah, he did hold up a liquor store, but you had no right to shoot him in the chest.
All these other cases of black heroes, you know?
I agree with you, and just to punctuate that point, CBS has this incredible series they're doing.
I encourage all of our listeners to go to cbsnews.com forward slash crime dash without dash punishment.
And they're basically showing how many murders across the country are going uncleared. And it's astonishing when you think
about that because what would the actual percentage of homicides committed by blacks be if you had
clearance rates above 50, 60 percent in Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C.? In some of these
cities, I think, believe in Baltimore, Philadelphia, the clearance rate is less than half.
You have a better than 50-50 chance of getting away with it if you kill a black person.
Yeah, black victims' murders less likely to be solved.
This is from this amazing new CBS news that came out today.
Back in 1995, about 75% of white victims' murders were solved.
Right.
Now it's about 85%.
Oh, the white solved rate has gone up.
Significantly.
The black rate has actually gone down from about, it looks like it was about, About 60, about 65, and now it is about 60.
Now this is nationwide.
Yes, yes.
These are extraordinary numbers we're talking about.
No, you shoot a black person, you've got a better than 50 chance.
Sometimes probably a 60-40 chance of getting away with it, maybe more.
But we can't get away with using more time than we have been allotted to us, Mr. Kersey.
And our time has come.
And as always, ladies and gentlemen, we greatly appreciate your comments and commentary, and you can get to us in two different ways.
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