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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the latest episode of Radio Renaissance.
It is July 6th, Year of Our Lord 2022.
I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance, and with me is my indispensable co-host, Paul Kersey.
And we'll begin with comments from listeners.
This is a rather interesting and thoughtful one.
And this gentleman, whose name we always withhold, As a matter of decency, he says, I'm writing to address the topic of former Democrats changing to the Republican Party, which you discussed on your last podcast.
You'll remember that, of course, Mr. Kersey.
Why is it that while some few can see the threat to our culture posed by migrants from other lands, we lose our vision when we address political migrants from other parties with different ideologies?
In other words, I think we were probably promoting the idea.
We thought it was a good idea that people were changing from Democrat to Republican.
Our listener goes on to say, these Democrats had no problem voting for Joe Biden and supporting the woke insanity that's destroying our civilization and are only temporarily deigning to sully themselves by interacting with their perceived moral inferiors, the Republican Party, now that they are feeling the evil effects of their own policies.
Does no one see that this is the very process that moves the Republican Party to the left?
It is because of previous such political migrations that all of you at American Renaissance are now outcasts.
You were once accepted members of the GOP.
Peter Brimelow, John Derbyshire once wrote for National Review, as did you, Mr. Taylor.
Now you are extremists, and before long, more such conservatives will be pushed out of polite society.
I can remember the argument made in past years that the illegals in Mexico were actually conservative.
They were the future of the GOP.
How'd that turn out in California?
Now I hear the same argument being made about Texas.
What psychosis is it that so convinces people that those who have been resolute supporters of a cause or a party or citizens of a nation must simply be replaced by former adversaries?
Well, an interesting point here, of course, and it is an ambiguous thing.
If former Democrats become Republicans, how much of their erstwhile Democrat nature do they bring with them?
How much do they change the Republican Party?
How much can be accomplished by voting for Republicans rather than Democrats?
Those are all good questions.
The question I have is who wants to be associated at this point with National Review?
I mean you look at some of the really exciting things that are happening on the right that are pushing discourse in a direction that I would say is toward where we are in a lot of ways.
I think of American Greatness.
I think of Revolver.
I think the fact Revolver is doing some of the best work out there as a journalist We're at a point now where the transgender stuff has now trumped race.
This weird LGBT stuff has eclipsed.
I mean people who are getting suspended on Twitter now are those who are Mispronouning, or whatever you call that, or I think it's called deadnaming?
Deadnaming.
Deadnaming, that's right.
I like mispronouning better.
That sounds like some sort of beauty content.
Yeah, exactly.
I mispronounce.
Jordan Peterson, all these people who are trying to engage on this issue, which is so clearly now the primary zeitgeist.
I mean, you look around the world And you see this flag that didn't exist.
This Transgender Black Lives Matter flag.
Oh, they're very good at flags.
They love flags.
I love our American flag.
Well, that's not good enough for them.
No.
That's the flag of white supremacy, as you know.
But this issue of, for example, we have talked a number of times about the usefulness of Hispanics in certain elections.
Getting rid of that Boudin guy.
In that horrible George Soros report.
That was definitely the Asians who were the ones in there.
And Asians have crowded in a big way trying to keep competitive schools competitive so that you don't have admissions to the most demanding and test-based admission schools in Virginia or California just go turn into lotteries instead.
Obviously, that's not a long-term solution, but there's no reason to deny the effectiveness of that kind of thing.
A lot of those Asians, of course, they voted more overwhelmingly for Biden than Hispanics did.
So, by and large, in fact, to an inscrutable degree, Asians are often Democrats.
In any case, these are all very interesting points that this person raises.
Another comment here.
Just five years ago, if you'd said Roe v. Wade would be overturned, no one would have believed you.
I think that's true.
I think three years ago.
Yeah, maybe two.
Yes.
Nobody.
I'd actually argue before the leak.
Well, you're right.
That being said, what do you think are the odds of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, or portions thereof, being overturned for being just as much of an overreach as Roe v. Wade?
That too is a very provocative and interesting question and I'm going to do a video later on this week about some of these Supreme Court decisions and the question I think a Supreme Court that's got the backbone to overthrow Roe v. Wade may very well have the backbone to say this alleged diversity goal is by no means sufficient justification for racial discrimination against white people.
What year are we?
And that was supposed to be, was it Ginsburg who said that back in the early 2000s?
No, it was Sandra Day O'Connor.
Sandra Day O'Connor.
Yes.
And I think it was 25 years from now, and I think we're fewer than 10 years from that point now.
Yeah, that was the Michigan case, right?
That was in Michigan, yes.
We can get rid of this.
I suspect, and there is a case coming up, Imagine that.
Imagine the terror on the left, the fury on the left.
The Supreme Court said, no, you can't discriminate against white people anymore.
You can't do it.
There goes the diversity, inclusion, equity movement.
Oh boy, oh boy.
And in effect, that would say all these people that you've appointed these high positions of authority to discriminate against white people, they're effectively breaking the law.
It's unconstitutional.
Opens up to a lot of lawsuits.
Wow, yes.
In any case, both of these are very perceptive and interesting comments, as our comments so often are.
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I've heard of the grapevine that's won some awards in branding and marketing.
Well, I've not heard of any of the awards myself, but I love that phrase.
It sounds good to me.
I write the newsletter, but I never got the award, so what's going on?
In any case, let's talk about July 4th and just the various hostility towards the police that this engendered.
Thousands were attending a 4th of July concert and fireworks in Philadelphia.
Shots were fired, leaving two officers injured and no one else.
Seems to me that must have been clearly an attack on the police.
The chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police is offering a $20,000 reward for any information on the shooting.
So far, no takers.
No arrests, and I suspect there never will be.
In San Francisco, a dozen officers were injured while trying to disperse a large crowd when suspects threw fireworks and bottles at them.
That appears to be a special risk on Fourth of July.
You get shot at with fireworks.
Now, likewise, in Chicago, a mob targeted police cruisers in Portage Park, jumping on the hoods and punching out windows.
That just infuriates me.
You see, this is really a symbol of order, municipal order, a police car.
And when people set fire to them, jump on them, twerk on them, bash their windows in, Infuriating.
And one Chicago officer was driving near the area when the crowd launched an object at the cruiser that went through his windshield, sending him to the hospital.
Jesus.
Yeah.
I wonder what the object was.
Now, this is an interesting one, too.
In Halton, Texas, gunmen opened fire on three officers who were responding to the scene of a shooting.
A security camera outside a home showed the gunman ambushing three officers after he fatally shot two people.
They survived.
Now this is really one of the most disturbing in Portland, Maine.
Portland, Maine.
Portland, Maine is one of the whitest states and one of the safest states.
Pure coincidence, of course.
A 35-year-old Portland man who was shot and then assaulted as he laid helpless on the ground.
Police, people gathered around them and officers came and tried to treat the victim until medics from the Portland Fire Department took over.
Well, while the officers were trying to help this guy, a very hostile crowd formed and the police officers came under attack.
I guess they really wanted to finish this guy off.
The officers had to shoot pepper balls into the crowd who were targeting officers with mortar-style fireworks.
What do you think that means?
I'm not sure.
Mortar-style fireworks?
It's probably definitely not a bottle rocket.
It's definitely the ones that you probably have.
You have a stand.
There's a stand.
It's somehow fixed in place.
Probably.
Yeah.
Probably.
You don't want to be on the receiving end of a mortar-style firework.
You want to be on the receiving end of any firework.
Trust me.
Maybe a sprinkler.
A sprinkler.
I'm sorry.
A sparkler.
It'll still hurt.
Yeah, that's true.
If you hold one up to your nose, I'm sure it wouldn't feel good.
Officers who were containing the crime scene, as I say, came under attack, and people continued to set off fireworks as officers remained at the scene for the next several hours.
They're still being bombarded.
No one has been charged with these attacks on the police, but we did get a description of the killer.
A black man, aged six foot, larger build.
Also, the news accounts said nothing about the race of the firecracker artists.
I suppose we'd assume they're just white high school students out for hijinks.
However, the truth leaked out in amateur videos posted here and there.
I guess it must have been some of those Somalis who went to Maine.
Correct.
Looking for the best possible welfare benefits in the country, if not the world.
This is apparently the second year in a row in Portland for an incident like this.
Police being attacked when they came to a crime scene and they just have at it.
Well, interestingly enough, in the U.S.
as a whole, In 2021, 73 law enforcement officers were killed, murdered.
That's 27 more than in 2020, and the highest number since 2001.
73.
73, I mean, when you think about it, that's not all that overwhelmingly large a number, but each one of them is a horrible assault on law enforcement.
Yeah, because the state should have the monopoly on violence.
And as we've known since the 3rd Precinct burned in Minneapolis in the era of George Floyd, they just let them go.
Exactly.
Step back, call the police off.
You know, if I'd been one of those officers, I would be spitting bullets.
I'd be so angry.
They tell you, retreat, hand over your headquarters to the mob, let them burn it down.
I think I would have resigned on the spot.
I think I wouldn't have followed the orders.
Anyway, just on the subject of violence, the murder clearance rate.
In 1965, 83% of murders resulted in a clearance.
Arrests of some kind.
In 2020, barely half, 51%.
And solving a murder is a 50-50 coin flip, says Thomas Hargrove, who runs the Murder Accountability Project, which tracks unsolved murders.
It's never been this bad.
And during the last seven months of 2020, a majority of murders went unsolved.
That's never happened before in America, says he.
Is that from that CBS report?
No, it's a different report.
Okay.
CBS has a different analysis.
In Chicago in 2021, guess how many homicides resulted in arrest?
24%.
24%.
So you're talking, I believe there were 700 plus?
Something like that.
Yeah.
Now when three quarters of the killers don't get collared, your odds of getting away with murder are pretty good.
Pretty good.
Now, one of the issues of course, and this is a source of much hand-wringing, police are less likely to solve a murder when the victim is black.
According to a CBS News analysis, there is probably some truth in this analysis.
In 2020, the murders of white victims were about 30% more likely to be solved than cases with Hispanic victims, but 50% more likely than when the victims were black.
Now, I believe you have a story on the Philadelphia situation, but before we get into that, Nationwide clearance rates for other crimes.
This is interesting.
Now, I don't have the historical data on this, but 2020, aggravated assault was 44%.
That's assault with a deadly weapon.
That is pretty much the equivalent of attempted murder, 44%.
Rape, only 29%.
I would expect if there's outright violent rape, there'd be a better chance of solving that because presumably the victim gets a reasonable look at the suspect.
Robbery, 28%.
and burglary only 14%, car theft 11%.
If your car is stolen, chances of the car thief getting caught,
about one in 10.
What does this tell you about the efficacy of law enforcement
and just the trust and civility in the nation?
Going, going, gone.
Going, going, gone.
Now, of course, when blacks, black murderers are not arrested at the rate of white murderers, well, here, tell us about the situation in Philadelphia.
Yeah, I do want to direct everybody to check out this incredible resource, www.cbsnews.com forward slash crime dash without dash punishment.
Check out this site.
They're doing an in-depth dive into all of these cities, places like Jackson, Mississippi.
We've talked about that city before, how black it is and how it has one of the highest homicide rates in the country, non-fatal shooting rates.
We've talked about Detroit.
We've talked about Chicago.
What we're going to talk about today, one of our favorite cities with our favorite police commissioner, Philadelphia.
That's right.
Now if you remember, what was her first act that Outlaw did?
Oh, she made it okay for lady police officers to have black fingernails.
Because she wanted to have black fingernails herself, right?
That's right.
She wanted to have long black fingernails.
Miss Outlaw.
Philadelphia police commissioner says disparity of arrest for black Hispanic homicide victims is stunning.
Of course, this is in any city in the country.
Yes.
How can it be stunning?
How can it be shocking when every city has the same data?
It can stun.
Same data.
It can stun only the ignorant.
Of which there are many.
So, in a new investigative series, Crime Without Punishment, Unsolved Murder in America, CBS News is taking a look at the disturbing rise of homicides.
Of course, they're talking about post the George Floyd era, as stated in this podcast thus far, when the police basically said, we're standing down, we're not going to be next Derek Chauvin.
Our lives actually matter, even if the elite had basically said, hey, you know, black lives matter far more than the black and blue.
So today there is about a 50-50 chance a killer will not be arrested, as you said.
The investigation which brought Chief Investigative Correspondent Jim Axelrod to Philly and other cities around the country also found a stunning gap in arrest rates for cases with white victims versus black or Latino victims.
But these detectives spent each day confronting a troubling question.
Why do so many murders now go unsolved?
For us, It's the volume.
One of the detectives interviewed said 562 homicides were committed in Philadelphia last year.
It's about 11 a week.
More than half of those cases are still open.
But 562 is not 11 a week.
Oh, no, 11 a week.
Yeah, I'm sure.
Yes, yes, quite right.
Yeah, that sounds about right.
Yeah.
The detective said it's a number of murders.
We just keep going and going and going and going.
It's just the volume just comes in and it just crushes you.
As you said, in 1960, when America was 90% white, police solved eight out of every 10 murder cases in America.
Now as America's roughly what?
55% white?
Yes, maybe.
It's all very mushy as far as white.
Exactly.
Now it's barely 1 in 2.
So it's interesting there's a correlation with a very little standard deviation.
Somehow white killers are easier to track down it seems.
Thomas Hargrove of the Murder Accountability Project said, it's never been this bad.
During the last seven months of 2020, most murders went unsolved.
And that's never happened before in America.
Well, of course, we never gave up our country and saw law and order handed over to the Black Lives Matter Antifa mob.
And of course, they're just the shock troops of the establishment, as we've seen Biden turn a blind eye to what's happened to the border and In all these cities where crime is just crazy.
What Chiefs Nationwide told us hinders murder investigations most.
The breakdown between police and communities of color in a post-George Floyd world.
Our investigative data team analyzed unsolved murders across the country.
The murder rates over the last 30 years when the victim is white.
The arrest, I'm sorry, the rate of arrests over the last 30 years when the victim is white has risen above 85%.
See, I doubt that figure, but that's what CBS is saying.
Look how the rate declines below when the victim is Hispanic and even fewer arrests are made when the victim is black.
I don't have that article in front of me.
There's a chart that shows the white arrest rate climbing.
The arrest rate when the victim is white and the black and hispanic arrest rates for when the victim is hispanic or black are down and it's lower for blacks than for hispanics.
That I believe.
But in any case... Yeah, in 1995, the rate for whites was about 74%.
Now it's at 85%.
In 1995, on this chart, Hispanics were at about 63%.
Now they're at about 65%.
Blacks, 65% in 1995.
Percentage of murders solved by race.
When they were black, it was about 65% in 1995.
Hispanics were at about 63% now they're at about 65% blacks 65% in 1995
percentage of murder saw by race when they were black it was
about 65% in 1995 and and now it's
About 60 60 percent 60%?
Well, see, but that makes no sense, because nationwide, these other statistics say that nationwide, about 50% of murders are unsolved.
Correct.
And these numbers can't be right, because they're all above 50 for every group.
They're all above 60 for every racial group.
It doesn't make any sense to me.
But in any case, I believe the national figures that I've seen elsewhere, not from the CBS, But there are a couple of important points to make about racial differences in clearance rates.
And that is one, of course, obviously, in the case of blacks, nobody will talk to the officers.
I've talked to a police officer.
He says, in their dying breath, a black gangbanger will refuse to say who shot him.
And then of course, jury notification, which happens in black majority cities all the time,
where they just refuse to, the jury just says,
we're not gonna send another brother to jail, or intimidation.
But see, even, we're not even talking about getting that far.
We're even talking about an arrest.
That's true, that's true.
So, what happens also is that murders with a handgun, as it turns out,
are harder to solve than murders with knives or fists or feet.
I'm not sure why that is.
And a considerably larger number of murders perpetrated by blacks against blacks are with a handgun.
Correct.
That's very true.
But there are other reasons that go into it.
But of course, whenever the police don't solve a murder of a black man, oh, racism, racism, racism.
To finish off this story, we're going to end with the aforementioned Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw.
She was interviewed.
She says it is stunning.
It's not just here.
It's not just here.
Outlaw says police need the community's help, but knows it must be earned.
Axelrod asks her, are black murders pursued just as aggressively?
She says, in the affirmative, yes.
As urgently?
Yes, she replies, with the same amount of manpower.
Outlaw replies, yes, yes.
Again, it's a cross.
Axelrod replies, so then why do you end up with this kind of disparity?
Outlaw says, I think it's obvious.
I'm a black woman.
What we need is a collaborative effort in solving these cases.
Axelrod then says, sometimes it sounds like what's implicit is the community of color needs to trust the police more.
Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
If they want, if black lives really matter and they want the killers caught, they've got to help the police.
And as you said, it's implicit in this.
Well, here's what Outlaw replies to end the interview.
No, not at all.
We're talking about historical issues, systemic inequities that contribute to the mistrust.
It has to be a two-way street.
So even in the face of rising homicides and non-fatal shootings in Philadelphia, Police Commissioner Outlaw sides with the black community, preying upon the black community, and not helping solve these homicides and these non-fatal shootings, thus keeping murderers.
In other words, we have to solve what she calls the systemic issues first.
White privilege must be solved first.
And then maybe we can ask the victims and their families to cooperate with the police.
What do you know?
What an idea!
Well, yet more good news here.
Governor Gavin Newsom has announced the state of California will be providing food stamps paid for, of course, by California taxpayers to illegal aliens.
But you have to be 55 or older.
I'm not quite sure why they're limiting it to geezers, but that's what they've decided to do.
This is the first initiative of its kind in the United States where illegals can get food stamps.
An executive of the group called Nourish California Says, California is once again making history by removing xenophobic exclusions to our state's safety net.
I wonder what other xenophobic exclusions they would remove.
I suppose they'd let illegals vote.
Well, they'd let them vote except for what's happening in New York where the judge said, no, you can't do this.
So the federal judge.
But no, that's xenophobic.
You waltz into the country illegally and you're told, no, no, that's one thing you can't have is food stamps.
That's xenophobic.
Well, it's expected that 75,000 illegals will enroll every year.
And Newsom's budget deal will also ensure that California is the first state in the nation to provide taxpayer-funded health insurance.
And that's going to be a whole lot more costly to everyone of its 3.3 million illegal aliens.
What is... I mean, this is just incredible.
Free food for the geezers and health care for everybody.
Its entire illegal alien population, the largest in the nation, will probably cost taxpayers somewhere between two to three billion every year.
Billion.
And that'll start in 2024.
Well, the following is a public service announcement to all our listeners around the world.
If you have an expensive medical problem, say dialysis, or your children need expensive surgery, just sneak across the border.
Go to California.
Yeah, don't go to St.
Jude's.
Get to California.
It's where the taxpayers... Show up at the hospital.
You just tell them, Uncle Jared sent you.
And they'll say, step right up.
What'll it be?
Now moving to Tennessee instead, the founder of Black Lives Matter Memphis has been sentenced to six years in jail.
Oh no.
These things rarely happen to these BLM types.
She was convicted, believe it or not, of illegally registering to vote after having pleaded guilty to felonies in 2015.
Well, she's now 44 years old.
Her name is Pamela Moses.
She has been found of illegally voted six times.
After admitting that she was guilty of some of the following felonies.
All of the following felonies.
Evidence tampering, forgery, perjury, stalking, and theft.
Now, you know, usually you plead down.
You're charged with something more important, more serious, and you plead to a lesser charge.
She pleaded guilty to evidence tampering, forgery, perjury, stalking, and theft.
Boy, what has this girl been up to?
And I wonder if she did it in time.
The article doesn't say.
She claims she didn't know that she was prevented from voting because of her criminal record.
She said she didn't know.
The judge was a wicked white man who, white supremacistically, refused to believe her sincere expressions of regret, unawareness, and implications of her acts, and gave this valiant champion of justice and human dignity six years behind bars.
So there you go.
Yes, that's a new adverb.
White supremacistically.
White supremacistically?
Don't give people an idea out there.
There's somebody getting their PhD who probably is like, wow, that is... That's good.
That's good.
Well, you breathe white supremacistically.
Your heart beats white supremacistically, Mr. Kersey.
It's just the nature of the white man.
Now, I believe you're going to talk to us about the hideous whiteness of yoga and you're going to talk about some things that mystify me.
I like doing yoga.
I love doing yoga because it's fun, especially when you do Bikram yoga or hot yoga normally.
Hot yoga?
Hot yoga.
You're in a room where the lights are dim.
It's about breathing and it's about experiencing the yoga in an environment that sometimes can be As hot as 115 to 120 degrees.
Gracious.
I thought you were talking about the yoga teacher.
Well, it's always nice when the yoga teacher is attractive, or those you're attending the yoga session with are likewise attractive.
But in this case, what I'm going to talk about is an article I found titled this, Puppy Yoga, Expensive Leggings and Overly White Studios, Why Yoga Has Become Inaccessible to Most Women, According to the Yoga Dissident.
The Yoga Dissident.
Okay.
The Yoga Dissident.
And her name is Nadia Giuliani.
She had high hopes when she started working as a yoga teacher in London back in 2018, although teaching yoga had never been the plan.
She was a news journalist by trade.
She was introduced to the practice at 16 by her mother.
It had been a big part of her life after going through various struggles on her personal... Do you figure she's Indian?
I didn't see a picture of her.
I saw a picture of her.
She looked like she could pass for Indian.
Okay.
I didn't see a picture, but if it's London, more than likely she's either East Asian.
And how's that spelled?
Is it Jilani?
G-I-L-A-N-I?
Jilani.
Yeah, Jilani.
Yeah, it's not Giuliani.
Not Giuliani.
No, not Italian.
Sorry.
Jilani.
My eyes are a little, yeah.
Okay.
After going through various struggles in personal life, including the death of her grandmother, she thought full-time yoga teaching would bring her the peace and direction she needed.
Because I loved yoga so much, I thought it would be living the dream when I started teaching, but I became disillusioned with the industry almost instantly.
I had major imposter syndrome.
I was going to all these auditions where I was the only person of color, the only BIPOC trying out, so I felt like the odd one out.
I was seeing all these styles of yoga which were very different to how I taught next to the other instructors with their agile bodies and fancy activewear.
TikTok pants.
I felt I didn't look the part.
I ended up buying myself all these multicolored leggings and tops so that I would look like a yoga teacher and be taken seriously.
Jelani often felt conflicted between meeting the studio owners and students' expectations of yoga class and sharing the practice in a way that felt authentic to her.
I'd spend hours choreographing elaborate sequences and making banging playlists.
What are banging playlists?
What now?
What's a banging playlist?
No, that's a hip, that's a hop, that's a cool, that's a great playlist to get your... No, it's banging, it's loud, it's really awesome!
Wait, wait, wait.
There's disco music while you do yoga?
Yeah, you know, I like it when there's sort of serene music that you'd have in a spa.
I like it when it's just more orchestral, but I'm sure she wants to be hip.
She wants to, as you would say, hip and a hop and away she goes.
And there's loud banging music while you do yoga.
Yeah, it'd be kind of cool to listen to some tunes like the 1975 or The Churches, but hey, she's probably talking about Beyonce.
That's banging.
I guess.
I don't know.
My nomenclature's off.
Because I knew it was what they wanted, even though I didn't believe that's how yoga should be taught.
Reflecting on this time period, she recalls feeling upset, stressed, and anxious.
She found herself working in an elitist, whitewashed wellness industry that she hated and which seemed totally at odds with the practice she had known since she was a teenager.
It was painful for me to see yoga being distorted, decontextualized, and repackaged into something so far removed from what it was intended to be.
Huh.
So she knows what it was intended to be.
She does.
She says that.
She explains that when yoga emerged in ancient India thousands of years ago, it was about making sense of the world's self-discovery and meditation.
The new practice appears to become a self-serving, fitness-focused, trendy, expensive, and in many ways elitist, white activity.
She continues to see her problems with the modern yoga industry.
She said she couldn't unsee them or stop thinking about them, so she started writing as a way of dealing with her feelings.
The Yoga Manifesto, a guide to decolonizing yoga, is what she came up with.
She started writing lengthy posts on Instagram about the cultural appropriation of yoga and the Instagramification of wellness.
I guess that would be the white suprema... What was the word?
I'm sorry.
What was the adjective?
It was an adverb.
Adverb.
Oh, because it's Indian L-Y.
Yes.
White supremacistically.
White supremacistically colonizing.
Yoga has been white supremacistically erasing the Indian heritage of Jalani's wondrous activity.
So her messages she wrote were filled with people of color telling me how grateful they were for me to be speaking out and putting into words how they had been feeling.
As her community continued to grow, it wasn't long before she had a book deal.
And in 2020 of October, she started working on the draft, The Yoga Manifesto.
Looking at the way yoga is marketed, you'd be forgiven for thinking exclusively for slim, blonde, hyper-flexible white women who eat superfoods, wear expensive activewear, and post carefully curated yoga workouts on social media.
This is a major issue, Jelani said, because it excludes... It's kind of like doing a yoga class.
Yeah!
Hey, sign me up!
Jelani says because it excludes and disempowers people of color, both teachers and practitioners, who don't feel welcome in an overwhelmingly white supremacistically state.
She didn't say that, but we're going to start throwing it in there.
She says instead, in an overwhelmingly white space, again, a space that whites have colonized, And made it so that it's not just the people of color who alienated from the billion dollar industry.
There seems to be little room for people from the LGBTQ plus communities, people with disabilities.
It's going to be kind of hard if you're a paraplegic to be able to do the downward dog, Ms.
Jelani.
Trust me, I can barely do a downward dog and I'm pretty flexible.
And other groups who don't reflect the modern yoga type.
There's such a simple solution.
Well, it ends with this quote before, before you can get the punchline.
She says this, we're so creative with our yoga classes in terms of banging on playlists and alcohol and puppies.
Why aren't we creative in terms of making it accessible?
End quote.
Well, because hey, you have to get paid, you know?
But alcohol?
What?
Puppies?
I mean, do puppies come to yoga class?
People bring their dogs?
Heck yeah!
I'm sure people bring their cats, people bring some red wine.
Again, when I've done yoga, I did a really great class back in March of 2022 and it was it was Bikram hot yoga and because I wanted to go into an environment where you're stretching, you're challenging your muscles, but also you're in a very heated, almost a faux sauna like and you walk out of there dripping.
You'd also walk out of there realizing, wow.
I'm glad this was a colonized white space, because these girls were gorgeous!
And yes, the more Lululemon or TikTok pants they wear, and the hotter it gets, the less they wear.
The better the yoga!
Yeah, the better the yoga!
So, I'm all for colonizing yoga, if that's what we're getting.
How does a Doberman look doing a downward dog?
Pretty good, I imagine.
We'll leave it there.
Gracious.
Well, this is all too deep for me.
But of course, if she doesn't like the way yoga is being taught, and the people who are taking it, she doesn't like them, she needs to just start her own studio.
It's pretty simple.
Then she's going to have to rely on BIPOC money.
I guess there won't be much of that.
Poor girl.
She's got her book deal.
All right.
Well, let's see.
What was I going to talk about?
Oh, yes.
Friends is arguably one of the most successful sitcoms of all time.
So I'm told.
I never watched an episode, but it ran for 10 seasons between 1994 and 2004.
1994 and 2004.
Well, its co-creator, Martha Kaufman, has pledged $4 million to her alma mater,
Brandeis University, to set up an endowed professorship in the, guess what, drum roll please,
African and African-American Studies Department.
Well, Ms.
Kaufman is now 65.
She says she felt embarrassed that Friends featured a predominantly white cast, and she's expiating her guilt by giving $4 million to set up this endowed chair.
And if she's one of the creators, she's got a lot of mailbox money because Friends is a show that I would say is in the top five of syndication.
I think some of the actors She's rolling in dough.
She's got the mailbox money.
That's pocket change for her.
I've learned a lot in 20 years, she says.
Admitting and accepting guilt is not easy.
It's painful looking at yourself in the mirror.
Well, I saw a photograph of her.
I can see why it might be painful.
She's not doing any downward dogs.
I think she's doing downward.
But in any case, she says, I'm embarrassed I didn't know better 25 years ago, she says.
Can't look herself in the mirror because, oh boy.
It took the show until 2002, that was eight years into it, to cast Aisha Tyler as the first black actress to become a regular on the series, but she lasted only nine episodes.
Don't know what happened to her.
I guess a Ku Kluxer took her out.
It took me a long time to begin to understand how I internalize systemic racism, she says.
I've been working really hard to become an ally, an anti-racist, and this seemed to me to be a way that I could participate in a conversation from a white woman's perspective.
You won't get this joke.
Okay.
Because you never watch Friends, but she was white supremacistically.
friendly, excised this black character.
She was white supremacistically, excised from the central perk.
The central perk is the coffee shop and friends, where they always congregate.
And I remember this was a big controversy when they cast her because she then
became the love interest of the two of the three male.
Two of the three?
Yeah, they both fought over her.
Oh my.
And if memory serves correct, the episodes weren't warmly received.
Oh, is that right?
They wanted to go back to the saga of Rachel and Ross or Joey chasing Rachel.
No, I'm not ashamed to admit that I think Friends, it's a show that doesn't hold up that well because it's not woke at all.
It's very funny, actually.
So she got booted after having become the center of a love triangle.
White supremacistically is excised from the show.
She's not, she's not, she wasn't a friend.
Okay.
Well, she became a lover, I guess, or anyway, no, I never saw it.
So I should not comment, but let's see.
She says, this is still Ms.
Kaufman.
She says it was after what happened to George Floyd, I began to wrestle with my having bought into systemic racism in ways I was never aware of.
But she will go and sin no more.
She says, I want to make sure from now on on every production I do I'm conscious of hiring people of color and I will actively pursue young writers of color.
I want to know I will act differently from now on and then I will feel unburdened.
She wants to know that she will act differently, and that way, I suppose, she can look at herself in the mirror.
This is just such pathetic chest-beating, breast-beating, I should say.
Chest-beating is a different thing.
Now, there's a story here.
This is really a somewhat heartbreaking story about the University of Texas.
It's about craven conservatives, of which there are many.
It's written by Richard Lowery, who is a professor at UT Austin.
He says that the Liberty Institute at UT has been a total failure, and it has been undone not through the machinations of the campus left, but through the weakness of supposed conservatives.
And I think this story can probably be told over and over and over.
For the Liberty Institute, we drafted a proposal for an independent academic unit that could house faculty with perspectives and research agendas that would disqualify them from employment elsewhere on campus.
This to restore sensible analysis to UT Austin.
In other words, to knock a little sense into the campus.
UT President Jay Hartsell begrudgingly acceded to the idea.
We came up with a plan calling for an independent academic unit.
It would have been a college or a department that had majors, politics, philosophy, economics, and a minor and a master's degree.
It got support in the legislature, and funding for the project was added to the 2021 budget for the state.
We proposed to the president an initial committee of UT faculty to work on the project, but we never heard back.
During this time, the President put a critical race theorist in charge of developing the Liberty Institute.
Can you believe this?
His name was Richard Flores.
He belonged to the almost exclusively CRT-focused Mexican-American Latino-Latina Studies Department.
He was going to run the Liberty Institute.
And then, and this is another part of the story, the Texas Tribune ran a hostile article.
Which led to continuing hostility in faculty council meetings and UT professors said they were opposed to anything potentially conservative coming to campus.
Opposition built, and either the government could have come in and insisted that the original plan be followed because it had voted the funds, or potential donors could have presented a united front and said, no, it's our way or the highway.
Instead, everyone caved completely, says this guy.
This is really a revolting story.
This is the guy, by the way, who wrote this that was once the editor of National Review.
Richard Lowry.
Yeah.
Yes, I guess that's right.
Is that the same Richard Lowry?
Is it L-O-W-R-Y?
L-O-W-E-R-Y.
I wonder.
I mean, he was a pretty weak sister at National Review.
Oh, he did the conservative case for taking down Confederate monuments.
I think he attended the University of Virginia and he was totally fine with the Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson statues.
Then again, no one with Charlottesville is now in that campus.
But anyways.
But even this guy, Can't hold the line.
All of our support evaporated.
Ultimately, it was conservative politicians and donors, not Marxist faculty, who brought us down.
We now have the beginnings of an institute that will be intellectually mediocre at best and have no ability to fulfill its mission to bring underrepresented but important ideas to campus.
Well, I wonder if it is the same Richard Lowery.
In any case, while I talk about another story, maybe you can look it up.
Yeah, I'll do it.
In the meantime, here's a heartwarming story about Hispanic family values.
A certain Elizabeth Berrios, age 36, of Elizabethtown in Pennsylvania, was at the Lancaster County Prison to see an inmate who was in jail for a case involving her.
I don't know the details, but apparently it had something to do with her.
She was parked in view of the back side of the prison where she climbed on top of the vehicle and exposed her breasts.
This resulted in a great deal of yelling from inmates inside the university.
I bet it did.
And during the time she was exposing herself, two young children with her were running around the car and swinging from a nearby road sign.
Well, she was arrested, and Señorita or Señora Berrios showed no remorse, was belligerent towards the responding officers, and bragged later about her exhibition.
Now, when she went into court, the defense argued that jail time was wrong because Berrios needed to care for her children.
But Lancaster County Judge Thomas Sponagle quite supremacistically sentenced her to a prison term of two months and a year!
I don't think people are able to use their children as shields from going to jail, he said.
He also mentioned that the incident took place about 10.30 p.m.
on a Thursday, which is school night, so these two young children are probably better off without bare-breasted mama.
Yes, yes, yes.
Even if it was done white supremacistically.
Yes, yes.
The children would be better off.
Uh, now, are we, uh, have we got, have you- It's not the same, it's not the same one.
Okay, okay.
I didn't expect- But he's, uh, the pictures, he's, uh, definitely hasn't hit the gym in about 10 years, so.
Has not hit the gym?
No, a little weak, weak guy.
Ah, Liberty Institute, come on!
Push some of those weights around.
Now, I believe you have a story, a really outrageous story, about police targets.
Yeah, this was at Vice.
Police department uses images of black men holding guns as target practice.
A police department just outside of Detroit uses images of black men in hoodies
and backwards caps, holding guns as shooting practice targets.
A group of boy Scouts discovered, gosh, I thought the boy Scouts were being sued out of oblivion
for all the, for all the gay, all the gay masters there. It's amazing.
In so many States, they're selling their, their, their boy Scout camps that they've had for, you know,
decades because they don't have the money to maintain them anymore.
Is that because they've got to pay off suits from the little boys who were diddled by Scoutmasters?
Unfortunately, that's the case.
So this Boy Scout group discovered it.
The troops spotted the targets, some of them pierced with bullet holes, when it was touring the headquarters of Farmington Hills Police Department back in April of 2022.
One photo from the tour.
Six white scouts are looking at the targets.
The same image of a black man with a menacing look and pointing a gun while a black Boy Scout stands behind them.
An unidentified person who attended the visit, represented by attorney Dion Webster Cox, first reported the use of images.
Quote, when those children were exposed to those images, to me it was the potential detrimental effects on how they view black men and black people that was indescribable.
They're probably scarred for life.
It's literally profiling for the black man.
We've got young, you've got young police officers and this is what they're being trained on?
End quote.
The targets, which have been since removed, are now the subject of a legal review.
Mayor Vicki Barnett said at a public city council meeting about the legal review.
The police chief of Farmington has apologized.
I'll take this one to the chin.
I apologize to each and every person in the room, this community, my department, my city council, my city manager.
I can't overlook this.
He also told the meeting the images were purchased but didn't say where they came from or if they are of actual people.
But King told Vice News the use of the images of black men were taken out of context.
Quote, a diverse group of targets were on display the day of the tour, not just targets featuring black people.
Unfortunately, this was not accurately depicted in the photographs, as the photographs only depict a small area of the department's firing range and a select number of the targets that were presented and discussed during the group tour.
Now, these are key details here.
Yeah.
He said the department uses images of a dozen different people, 10 of who were white, Two are black, in line with the Michigan Commission on Law Enforcement Standards, as well as the city's demographics.
Farmington Hills is 18.5% black and 62% white.
Farmington Hills is 18.5% black and 62% white.
But again, it was a, you know, white supremacistically using targets of black men
so to perpetuate negative stereotypes.
You see, everything about this story, until you get to that point, including the headline, makes it sound as though every single target was of a black man.
Exactly.
And this photograph shows these people staring at the target of a black man, and apparently it was only 2 out of 12.
2 out of 12.
And they completely ignore the 10 who are white men.
They don't matter.
The 10 white men, in fact, they need more bullet holes in them so they're unidentifiable by their race.
They need to just, hey guys, unload a magazine.
Well, carry on here.
This is interesting.
My recollection is that once they can hit the target, They come up with these targets that are actually of people and they're either holding a gun or not.
Assistant Chief John Pagot told Vice News the officers normally train on silhouettes and bullseyes when measuring accuracy and only use images of people once they start training officers on threat assessment.
While the default targets are all holding guns, their hands can be swapped out to hold a beer can.
A cell phone.
Or nothing at all.
Quote, because now it's not a question of whether or not the officer can hit a target, he said.
The question now is whether or not the thing that they're looking at is a danger to them or not.
End quote.
Threat assessment.
Right.
And some of them are black, most of them are white, and they take a picture of just one target.
This is outrageous to me.
No, ten of them were white, two were black.
And it just so happens they said, oh my god, Yes, this is just disgusting to me.
And why did the police chief apologize?
That too is disgusting.
He should explain what's going on.
Anyway, I get hot under the collar here.
Excuse me.
Well, we're talking about New York City for a while here.
A 20-year-old woman on the Upper East Side was fatally shot Wednesday night by a hooded gunman.
While she pushed her three-month-old child in a stroller on the Upper East Side.
Upper East Side.
Pushing a stroller.
The victim was on East 95th Street near Lexington Avenue at 8.30pm when an assailant shot her in the head once at point-blank range.
The gunman's identity has not been released, but the sources said there was a history of violence between the victim and the father of the child, a girl, before she was born in March.
No arrests so far.
Now, why is this important?
Because 95th and Lexington That is one of the toniest parts of New York, Upper East Side.
It's just north of the Cooper Hewitt Museum, the Guggenheim, the Dalton School.
That's one of those really snooty expensive private schools where they teach white people to apologize for being white.
But the point is, this is right in the middle of where all these crazy liberal white people live.
And furthermore, about New York City, the police, members of the NYPD, grew so disenchanted with the job in 2020, for all the reasons we've gone over many times on this podcast, that 5,346 uniformed officers either retired or quit.
Say that number again?
5,346 uniformed officers either retired or quit.
5,346.
Say that number again.
5,346.
That was a 75% increase over the year before, amounting to 15% of the total number of officers
Poof!
Gone.
15%.
Out the door.
Out the door.
Now, the 5,346 officers who left the force, that was nearly 2,300 more than left the force
the previous year.
One disgusted, and we're talking about 2020 here.
One disgusted NYPD sergeant said, elected officials are coddling those causing complete chaos on our streets and taking every measure, literally, to handcuff our officers.
Think how many of those officers probably went to Portland, Maine, and then they saw Somalis running around on July 4th and said, oh my god.
Now, stopping fireworks is probably not as bad as stopping some of the stuff in New York City.
But this year, we now have jumped ahead to 2022.
523 members left the force in June alone.
In June alone.
That would be an annual rate of 6,276.
And as I said, 5,346 was a huge record.
And these numbers, 22's numbers, represent a 38% increase over the previous record of 1,535 in the first six months of 2020.
was a huge record.
And that these numbers, 22's numbers represent 38% increase over the previous record of 1,535
in the first six months of 2020.
So we're breaking records again.
Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch says, the accidents has become a stampede.
We're not only losing experienced veterans, we're also losing cops in the prime of their careers who are taking their talents elsewhere.
Yes, to where they're appreciated, is my guess.
Where they're safe.
Well, that too.
Where their families... Where the prosecutors prosecute, because listen to this.
The Manhattan District Attorney, Alvin Bragg.
I didn't realize that the Manhattan DA is another Soros boy.
That's right.
Yeah.
Yes.
He has had 65 assistant DAs resign.
That's about 12% of his staff just since January.
97 quit in the entire year of 2021 and the year's about halfway through, so they're really dropping like flies.
The Brooklyn District Attorney's Office has seen 67 prosecutions, about 13% of its total staff, 94 prosecutors quit in all of last year.
Now, what happened?
In January, the Soros-backed Alvin Bragg released a memo telling his staff to, quote, not seek pretrial detention or prison sentences for crimes other than homicide, public corruption, and a few other exceptional cases.
In other words, aggravated assault, rape, robbery, no pretrial detention, or prison sentences.
Yeah.
What's a DA supposed to do?
A DA might as well just walk off the job.
He's got no job to do.
Precisely.
Wow!
And there was also a policy which the state implemented.
The state!
In other words, the state legislature did this in 2019, commonly known as Speedy Trial, which requires prosecutors to turn in all evidence about the case in a short period of time.
Now, why is this bad?
A former prosecutor who resigned says, you become a file clerk rather than a trial lawyer.
Most of the material is completely irrelevant and not germane in any way to the issues of the case.
But you've got to spend your time while doing that, and you don't have the time to prepare your case.
In the meanwhile, in 2021 compared to 2020, which is a pretty lively year,
there's been a 25.8% increase in homicide, rape, robbery, and assault. 25% increase.
In New York City?
In New York City, yes.
The DA's are going home, the police are resigning, and guess what happens?
It's a vicious cycle.
Who's going to be left?
The only people who are going to be police officers are criminals, psychopaths, it's just, there's really no way out.
You're just going to start seeing companies basically hire private security to, I mean, how long can that last?
I think there's been a mass exodus of Of centralized wealth from New York City.
I think I read somewhere it's in the billions of individuals who, again, that's the tax revenue from property taxes for residential in these condos.
Wouldn't surprise me.
Wouldn't surprise me.
One last story about New York City.
Paula Lev, the principal of High School for Law and Public Service.
That's in Washington Heights, up the really tippy top of Manhattan.
There are only 450 students there.
But Paula Dev, who was originally from Dominica and Luxor, she's facing a Department of Education probe for allegedly telling a teacher that she was going to get rid of all these white teachers that aren't doing anything for the kids in our community.
That's right.
If you're white, you're no good.
And she made good on that vow.
And so white teachers were dismissed right and left.
And there are many more teachers who have voiced that they plan to leave and they feel demoralized, a staffer added.
The exodus comes after teachers took an unusual vote of no confidence against the principal.
I didn't know you could do that, but I guess there's a certain parliamentary democracy in some of these schools.
And then the students, the students are annoyed.
One student, Angel Dilawar, age 17, She does not sound like a daughter of the American Revolution.
Who will be a senior in September and is the class valedictorian started a petition saying, we've had enough and cannot bear to witness the utter disorganization and insanity at our school.
We have some new teachers who are super underqualified, and staff members that were fully experienced and qualified were fired, says the petition.
Right now, students can do anything they want, and they're not going to get in trouble, Delaware said.
This is student writing.
A student that really has some ambition and sense of what a school is supposed to do.
She also said, and this is as astonishing as anything, while helping out in the school's college office, She was asked to write recommendation letters for other students because the assistant who was supposed to do that had a limited grasp of English.
She said these students would be shocked to find out their recommendation letters were written by a student, a junior, namely me.
Because the staff can't speak English.
Welcome to 2022 America.
Yes.
Well, we're running out of time, as we always do.
Gosh, we've got so much exciting stuff.
We can hold some of the stories.
There's some good ones here still.
You're going to tell us all about violence in Green Bay.
And I was going to talk about, you know, there's some interesting findings on marijuana that we will look into.
It's called a tease.
Yes, this is a tease.
I don't like to tease, you know, but we've run out of time here.
And so I guess as the clock counts down, I will once again thank our listeners.
We really do.
Appreciate the time that you spend with us.
It's a pleasure, and it's an honor, and it's an education for us, because we constantly learn from the things that you send in to us.
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