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July 14, 2022 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Whites Can Just ‘Suck it Up’
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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, and today is Bastille Day.
It is the 14th of July, year of our Lord, 2022.
I think the French Revolution was an awful, horrible thing, start to finish, and why the French celebrate it, I do not know.
But it's their holiday and not mine.
Now, as we usually do, we're going to start with some comments, and this is about an occasional topic that comes up in our podcast, namely shade equity.
The fact that in the non-white neighborhoods, especially black neighborhoods, there's just not enough shade.
No shade trees.
Whitey is in the shade.
Well, one of our listeners writes in to say, on the way to a night out with my bride, who has a lot of heart, She joked about shade equity.
She suggested that maybe we should donate some acorns to BLM so it can shade the streets and cure those heat islands.
Trouble is, I just couldn't find a functioning P.O.
box for Patrisse Cullors.
Oh well, poor Patrisse didn't get her package of acorns.
One of the great stories that you used to learn as a young American was the story of Johnny Appleseed.
When he went around and planted apple trees all across the country.
And that would be a great... We need a Johnny Appleseed 2.0 to go around and to... Leroy Appleseed.
Yeah, exactly.
We don't have one.
We don't have one.
And then there's a comment about the Indian yoga teacher living in London who doesn't like the way beautiful, thin, white people do yoga.
Remember that story?
I do.
Puppy yoga, I believe is what it was called.
And our listener says, as a yoga enthusiast, oh, I should add that I had suggested, well, there's a free enterprise system.
She doesn't like the way white people teach yoga.
She can open up her own shop.
Well, this fellow had a slightly different idea, and perhaps a better one.
As a yoga enthusiast, I'd like to respectfully and white supremacistically invite Ms.
Gilani, that was the name of the woman, to return to India.
She may find a more comfortable, safe space in which to practice yoga with people like herself.
Well, yes, I think that's probably an even better suggestion than the one I had.
And then there was a comment, I don't know if you remember, of course you remember everything Mr. Kersey, and that is we had a story from Portland, Maine about blacks celebrating the 4th of July by firing mortar fireworks at police after they had come to look after a guy who had been shot and was bleeding to death.
I recall.
And I think I must have expressed a little bafflement as to what a mortar firework was.
Well, we are now informed.
This is from an active duty police officer, whose identity, of course, we will keep deeply confidential.
He writes to say, I need to tell your listeners what firework mortars are.
When you go to a park to watch a fireworks display, they're all launched with mortars.
And they are just what they sound like, a cardboard tube with a weighted plate that's set on the ground.
That's right.
A racquetball-sized explosive is lit and dropped into the tube.
The pressure launches the device high into the air and creates the huge aerial explosions that you see from on the ground.
The fellas have taken to using these tubes as handheld grenade launchers and they shoot them at the police.
They are unbelievably dangerous and is their new way of celebrating.
Well, I would certainly think so.
You know those huge things that go off kabam, boom, you can practically feel the shockwave on the ground.
Imagine one of those going off in your face or at your feet.
Yeah, your wife's going to be opening up ketchup bottles for you for the rest of your life.
Something like that happens.
I think she's just going to be attending your grave for the rest of your life.
And then also, yet another comment.
This was on the news that California was going to be the first state in the nation to give food stamps to illegal aliens.
That's right.
Along with free medical care, which is more expensive, but they have to be pioneers in all insanity.
And our listener says this.
We should be celebrating California's recent illegal payouts with food stamps and health care.
Biden will not stop the illegals, so this benefit should draw all of them away from our communities and pull them to California.
Let California just rot away.
Well, I understand that sentiment.
On the other hand, the fact that they get pulled in at all.
Some of them are going to stay in our communities, too.
And then we have a question.
And this is not an illegitimate question, but Mr. Kersey, it strikes you and I somewhere.
Well, I will read it to you and then I will give my answer and you can give yours.
Excellent.
I must question the admiration of the Confederacy that I hear on Radio Renaissance.
Apart from the terrible injustice done to the actual slaves, slavery left this country with incompatible populations that cannot live together peacefully.
It seems to me this situation was created by men who were concerned only with their personal fortunes, not the mess they were creating for future generations.
These same men then led thousands of poor, illiterate young white men to their deaths, defending an economic system that benefited first and foremost the slave-holding class.
Well, those are thoughtful criticisms, and it is certainly true that my Confederate ancestors and my colonial ancestors before that made a terrible, terrible mistake when they imported blacks to be cheap labor.
Absolutely no complaint there.
Also, in some respects, Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, was worse on race than Abraham Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln, of course, wanted to free the slaves.
He didn't like slavery, but then he wanted to ship them all out.
Jefferson Davis presided briefly over an entity that might very well have started up the slave trade, bringing more slaves.
So I agree 100% that the South, the fact of its having brought slaves into the country, made a terrible, terrible mistake.
On the other hand, as a descendant of Confederates, I admire the bravery and the dedication with which they fought for the independence of their country.
They fought against an invading force with great bravery against overwhelming numbers.
And I believe that's a sentiment that all healthy white Southerners should have.
That they admire the bravery and the dedication of their ancestors, even if they were not slaveholders.
I agree.
I frankly, I admire all brave men.
I admire the men of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
They were incredibly brave and fought very hard in the Pacific against us.
And I admire some of these terrorists that blow themselves up.
I mean, they're brave enough to give their lives for a cause.
And so that is ingrow in, as a whole, my feeling about the Confederacy.
It is respect, admiration, and even love for men who are devoted to a cause down to the last drop of blood.
It's not another docket to talk about, but it's fascinating that we're talking about the Italian Civil War because a big story just came out earlier this week.
In 1871, the United States almost acquired the Dominican Republic because President Ulysses S. Grant hoped that, quote, the entire colored population of the United States, end quote, would move to the island.
Have you looked at this story yet?
No, I've not seen that.
Well, that was not at all an unusual sentiment, even among Northerners.
They did not fight to free blacks or to end slavery.
They fought to keep the Union together.
And it was on account of slavery that the South did secede.
But no, it was terrible to have brought them here in the first place, and many horrible things resulted.
But I will always respect and admire the bravery and the dedication of my ancestors.
It's just one last thought on that.
Frederick Douglass actually supported efforts to annex Santo Domingo, now the Dominican Republic, as he saw it as a place where black Americans could own property and live freely, where the prejudices that they encountered wouldn't Well, Mr. Kersey, let us move on to a different question, and that is racial equity audits.
You have quite a lot to say on that subject today.
Oh, gosh.
Well, I mean, this is one of the big things that's happening.
And, you know, people ask, well, gosh, are these sanctions against Russia and cost of oil?
What's really making this inflation, this bear market, this recession going on?
I think over the next couple of weeks, we're going to talk more and more about environmental
society and governance investing. ESG.
Yeah, ESG. Environmental society governance. This is basically an idea where just imagine
the wokest of the woke are now taking over the fiduciary responsibilities of these major hedge
funds which own the majority of the corporations in the country, which have a majority stakehold
and some of the biggest companies.
In fact...
Let me just read this one quick quote to you.
The ESG kings are BlackRock and Vanguard.
They're the top two shareholders of the largest companies in nearly every sector of the economy.
Microsoft and Apple in tech, Disney and Paramount in entertainment, JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs.
They're the largest hedge funds.
These are huge Huge companies that have the majority stake.
They're not just hedge funds either.
They run these mutual funds.
Correct.
And so they're in a position to, don't they have the power to vote funds that they themselves don't even own?
Correct.
They own ETFs, they own mutual funds.
So they don't even have their capital there, but they can vote the shares.
Now guess, Mr. Taylor, who the top two shareholders of BlackRock are.
Well, they own themselves, do they not?
Vanguard and BlackRock.
So, here's the story.
This was from a couple months ago.
ESG investors push more racial issues after wins at Apple and Johnson & Johnson.
Alphabet, Chevron, and other corporate giants are facing investor pressure to look at racial issues as more shareholders and companies want to know whether their businesses Fuel Discrimination Five companies, Apple, Johnson & Johnson, Waste Management Inc., Altria Group, and government contractor Maximus Inc., have seen shareholder proposals demanding racial equity or civil rights audits passed this year, according to Bloomberg Intelligence data.
You know, I can't imagine that individual shareholders want that at all.
These are all these institutions that vote for that.
Correct, correct.
Companies can use the audits to assess how they're living up to commitments to promote civil rights or equity among their employees and customers among other purposes.
Now, this really got kick-started in the wake of George Floyd.
Yeah, that what happened back in May 25th, 2020.
It's amazing what one little encounter can do.
The butterfly effect.
Well, well, well, well.
Months of rioting have an effect, too.
Well, yes.
To shake down and yeah, this is hostage negotiations, basically.
So shareholders didn't approve any Racial audit proposals last year, but Amazon and Citi agreed to the examinations after shareholders' proposals in 2021 garnered strong investor support.
Now, a company could hurt its bottom line if it doesn't want to conduct a racial audit, according to former Attorney General Eric Holder.
I'm not sure where he gets that from, who said his work on the assessments has ramped up after, like I said, the 2020 murder of George Floyd.
So, no, I don't understand.
These two companies did an audit even though the shareholder measure failed.
That's what it sounds like.
They did it anyway.
They were just proposals.
Right.
It was a proposal.
The proposal failed, but they did it anyway.
Exactly.
They're all pending.
None have passed yet.
Quote, there is a potential price to be paid in terms of market share reputational damage if an unrecognized and unaddressed problem surfaces, Holder said.
The impact of those things, I think, can't be understated.
Well, actually, they can't.
They can be overstated how insane it is for the fiduciary interests of these organizations that are trying to keep the stock share as high as possible.
And you're forcing it down.
I bet Eric Holder would be happy to hire himself out to conduct these audits at $600 an hour.
Shareholders have filed at least 36 proposals on racial issues at companies' annual meetings this year, after at least 14 in 2021.
at this point. Shareholders have filed at least 36 proposals on racial issues at companies'
annual meetings this year, after at least 14 in 2021. Most specifically call for racial equity
or civil rights audits, though some seek other reports related to diversity.
Dismantling white supremacy, one company at a time.
All the proposals are advisory and don't require a company to act if they pass, but their proliferation on proxy ballots is giving advocates more opportunities to press companies on their commitments to racial equity and forcing businesses to explain why they haven't done audits already.
Again, one of the reasons why the economy is The way it is right now, folks, and why you're having to pay, what, $4.50 to $5 a gallon of gas, depending on where you are, is because this ESG nonsense is what the Democrats are pushing to basically make America no longer an energy-dependent nation, cutting off all the pipelines, trying to basically go away from fossil fuels to these, you know,
Tesla's and other EV type cars, electric vehicles, but of course you still need fossil fuels for all this stuff.
I mean, it's a bizarre world.
Let me just give you a couple more points real quick.
Chevron is opposing an audit from Sisters of St.
Francis of Philadelphia, a Roman Catholic order of nuns known for promoting corporate social responsibility.
Boy, I bet they really understand return on investment, accounting principles.
Those sisters of what, are they?
Uh, St.
Francis of Philadelphia.
Sisters of St.
Francis.
Yeah, I'm sure they know a lot about P-E ratio, and you know, uh, you know.
Okay, so the proposal which is under consideration at Chevron's annual meeting urges the company to analyze and report on whether its policies and practices discriminate or have a disparate effect on people of color.
Again, this goes back to the environmental part of environmental societal governance.
If an area is, remember we've talked so much about Shade equity?
Not just shade equity or heat maps, but we've talked about how the environmental movement is racist because pollution somehow happens to be congregated and aggregates in majority black and brown communities.
It just seeks out brown skin.
Exactly.
The proposal cited concerns that Chevron's greenhouse gas emissions, Mr. Taylor, and oil leaks can disproportionately harm non-white communities.
Racial Inequity and Environmental Racism are Systemic Risks that Threaten Society and the Economy, the Sisters of St.
St. Francis of Philadelphia's proposal set.
Now think about that.
Basically, the fiduciary responsibility of these companies, which is the primary responsibility
as a publicly traded company that puts out stock, Class A, Class B stock, it doesn't matter.
That's being retired to the goal of combating systemic racism.
You know, environmental racism and racial inequity.
We've talked about this many times before, but the entire government is under orders to do exactly that.
They are.
Every bit of the government, every piece, every agency, every department has got to have an equity plan.
Well, Chevron came out and said it didn't respond to requests for comment, but the company disputed claims it's complicit in racism and said it's committed to racial equity in its proxy statement.
Alphabet, Google, is opposing a similar proposal submitted by the Nathan Cummings Foundation, a grantmaker and investor that works to combat climate change and inequality.
The proposal up for a vote at Alphabet's June 1st annual meeting asked the company behind Google and YouTube to examine adverse effects it has on Black and Indigenous people, as well as other communities of color.
How do Google and YouTube affect the climate?
I don't know.
Maybe Google is outsourcing some of its data centers for crypto mining.
I don't know.
I'm sure there's some way it's...
A lot of this and other companies first gained significant attention with Airbnb Inc.
Back in 2016, the company had one of the following concerns that black users often were unable to book home rentals.
Airbnb required hosts to agree to a public policy prohibiting discrimination against guests after the assessment.
Starbucks also was an early adopter of the audit.
Commissioning one after a manager called the police on two black men waiting to begin a business meeting at a store in 2018.
We all know what happened then.
They shut every store down to do these... To brainwash.
Yeah, to basically do these... What's the word in communism?
These...
And of course, now Starbucks is actually trying to go back to the policy because they're having to shut down so many stores.
Well, the background, of course, was that these guys refused to buy anything.
They're just sitting there, sitting there, sitting there.
They won't buy anything.
And so she asked them to leave.
They wouldn't leave.
And so she called the police.
Oh my gosh, what a terrible, she was a proto-Karen.
Anyway, so there you go.
So, again, you're going to be hearing a lot more of this, ladies and gentlemen.
And, again, if you're looking at what's happening with inflation... Oh, go ahead.
Well, no, isn't there a second story you have about what won some city in... You want me to do this one back-to-back?
Please, please.
This one made me... I couldn't stop laughing at this story.
This is too much.
No, I thought this was great, too.
Boulder has a racial equity tool, but it's too white to use it.
This is from the Boulder Beat.
Now, Boulder, Colorado is... I've been there many times.
I used to go skiing a lot out in Denver.
Absolutely love Boulder.
I think it's I think it's a great city.
It's a great city.
It's a lovely place.
It's full of crazy people.
It's a college city.
It's a lot like Austin.
It's a lot like Berkeley.
It's a lot like wherever the University of Wisconsin is in Madison.
They're goofy places, but they're all white and to a large extent with all the problems primarily caused by The minuscule black population.
Well, this story is hilarious.
Boulder loves a grand plan and there were perhaps none grander than this racial equity plan adopted in 2021 and accompanying assessment tool.
Together, they provide a path to ensuring that every city dollar decision policy and program worked to correct historic and systemic racism.
Every breath the city takes has got to correct systemic racism.
Every breath you take, every move you make, racial equity will be watching you to borrow something from the sting of the police.
Rollout of the tool, a 14-page set of questions, has been inconsistent.
It has become somewhat of a routine for diversity-minded council members to ask if the racial equity tool has been applied to whatever issue is confronting them that night.
The answers often no.
The city's community vitality department, gearing up for a five-year expansion of outdoor dining
in Boulder, recently gave it a go. Quote, given the demographics of Boulder,
we lack adequate input from people of color, staff wrote in a pre-meeting notes to council.
Quote, input was gained from stakeholders that primarily represent a white demographic.
End quote.
What if the local blacks had said, we don't like outdoor dining.
We don't like it one bit.
This will negatively impact us.
Well, you think they wouldn't do it?
I think, yeah, because they have to correct historic and systemic racism.
So if a black individual, if just one black individual comes to the city council and says, I don't want outdoor dining because it's cold.
Yeah.
I want to eat inside.
That's right.
So why should we perpetuate, you know, the ice people versus the people?
That's environmental racism.
Exactly, exactly.
So, staff recommended gathering... staff recommended gathering information for...
Chase away all those white people, you know?
dining programs and acknowledge the limitations of racial equity assessments
in a city that is 80% white. Quote, this leads us to broader question that
outdoor dining alone cannot address. How do we make the city of Boulder more
inclusive? Because the more inclusive Boulder gets the charm, the charm
somehow melts away like the like the winter snow in the spring. Chase away all
those white people, you know, that'll solve the problem.
Yeah, no, and again, It's I really have no comment
This story just made me laugh so hard because here, you know, everything, everything the city is going to do is going to be about promoting the interests of nonwhite at the expense of, you know, 80% of the city being white, the taxpayers.
If we got to fix the sewers, well, boy, got to make sure that that is decreasing racial inequities, everything at all.
What a waste of time.
Utter, utter, complete waste of time.
Ah, dear.
Well, they're teaching them young, Mr. Kersey.
Oh, no.
They're teaching them mighty young.
I think you probably know all about this because it made a bit of a splash, more so than some of these things do.
But in St.
Paul, Minnesota, last week while police were at a home serving a search warrant in the hunt for a murder suspect, Footage has emerged of a toddler walking up to a cop, cursing and hitting him.
He's standing in the street in his underwear, just a tiny little brief bottom.
That's all he's got on.
He's barefooted and he's screaming at a black police officer.
He's screaming, shut up, bitch, and telling the officer again to shut the fuck up.
And then he turns to another cop and he makes fun of his ugly ass shoes.
While another barefoot, barely dressed child stands around looking at him.
These are children three or four years old.
And in the background of the video, it sounds like there's an adult man who called the black police officer a deep-fried Oreo head.
Now, I thought that was rather poetic.
A deep-fried Oreo head.
One of the managers, I mean, sorry, the officers all show restraint and, you know, they're trying to be nice and they're not obviously hurt by this little fella swinging his fist at him as hard as he can.
The boy is, as I say, three years old, maybe four.
He's walking around unsupervised, no adults in sight.
Clearly, the next generation of George Floyds is on the march.
But on the other hand, you have to consider the fact that he has been subject to racism every moment of his three or four years on earth.
And so the problem is white people.
Obviously.
You know, we need to purge our souls of racism and not blame a toddler who shouts, shut the fuck up at the policeman.
And just out of pure coincidence in Minnesota in 2020, 185 people were murdered, which was rather a sharp increase from the 117 the year before.
117 to 185.
Now, I haven't seen the figures for 2021, but I bet they keep going.
Now, in this vein of teaching them young, I believe they're learning young in Philadelphia, too.
They are a little young in Philadelphia, but before we move on to that story, let's take a quick break and make sure that we tell everyone it's so important to get in touch with us.
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Maybe has it won the Nobel Prize for Literature?
I've heard that.
It might have been up for it, actually.
I don't know.
Or maybe chemistry.
We love your comments.
We love your stories.
A lot of people send in some really great stories.
I got one today, apparently in Los Angeles, Mr. Taylor.
They're getting ready.
7-Eleven has recommended shutting down all 7-Elevens in the Los Angeles area because of so much theft and violence.
I just don't know if there are enough white people.
Everyone compares what's happened in the 1970s to today.
America in the 1970s was 85% white.
You're running out of white people, thus law and order, like we talked about last week.
The correlation to 80% of homicides in 1960 were solved.
And now it's almost 1 in 2.
Only 1 in 2.
So you're talking about barely 50% of homicides, which, of course, in a high-trust society, you're not protecting criminals.
In our society... Oh, yes.
Snitches get stitches.
Well, and also in our society, something else happens.
As you mentioned about Philadelphia.
This happened back in June.
We didn't know exactly... We heard the story that a 73-year-old man was beat.
He would later die as he was walking.
Just walking down the street?
Walking down the street.
Well, turns out it was seven teens, seven black teens beat 73-year-old man to death with a traffic cone.
The victim was repeatedly struck by a traffic cone by a group of black teenagers and they all looked on and were laughing as they were doing it.
Some of them were doing little dances.
They were doing a jig.
Yeah.
They were dancing, they were having fun.
The black life that they were taking didn't matter to them that night, or that morning I should say, because it happened at 3 a.m.
A group of seven black teenagers attacked and killed a 73-year-old black man in Philadelphia in June with a traffic cone.
The footage was just released on Friday of last week, so that would have been the 8th, July 8th.
And this was a huge story over the weekend.
Yes, it was.
It got a surprising amount of coverage.
And rightfully so.
Fox News said that the disturbing footage of the event, which occurred on June 14th, shows a group of apparent black teenagers pursuing the victim identified as James Lambert down the Cecil B. Moore Avenue in the city's Northwest Corridor.
He's attempting to walk away from the group at 3 a.m.
The teens then followed the 73-year-old black man across the street before one of the black male assailants attacked him from behind.
by striking him with a traffic cone.
The blow knocked Lambert to the ground, at which point one of the group's black females picked up the cone and hit him with it again.
The incident was filmed by other members of the group who also appeared to be smiling and laughing throughout the attack.
The seven black on one black septuagenarian attack, I should say.
Though one of the females appeared taken aback by the incident and held her hands over her mouth in a gesture suggesting shock.
The footage showed Lambert appearing to get up to flee the area before he was struck again with the cone by the same black female assailant.
The black teenagers then left the scene as one of the black males pedaled away on a scooter, smiling with another black male companion.
Now, of course, this article doesn't say black before all of the nouns, but I'm just putting that in there because it's important.
This was a horrific... It got called a lynching, but it was purposely, you know, It was utterly gratuitous.
I don't think they even robbed him.
Nope.
They just killed him for sport.
He was taken, exactly.
It was a wilding, basically.
Wilding.
Wilding, I'm sorry.
You rarely see that word actually used anymore.
I know, but they're our wildebeest after all, so you're forgiven.
Yes.
The police said Lambert was taken to the hospital where he succumbed to injuries on June 15th.
None of the assailants have reportedly been arrested yet.
They've actually caught two of them now.
They have caught two of them.
Okay, well this story was from July 8th.
So this was the day the video came out.
Yet all seven of the black individuals present during the incident are wanted by police.
So you said two of the seven have been caught.
I think maybe four.
No, they've started catching them.
And then the bottom of the story, here's this.
The police have offered a $20,000 reward for information on the individuals who have been
described as, quote, four black males and three black females who appear to be in their
early to mid teens, end quote.
There's no two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree in this story, guys.
This is horrific as it gets.
And again, it's one of those stories where we're constantly told black lives matter by
every institution in the country, including the Fortune 500 companies who are doing whatever
BlackRock says when it comes to ESG.
You get a story like this, you're like, you know, cognitive dissonance.
It's like, how is.
How can these matter?
Well, I suppose if all of these companies are really that concerned about the quality of life for black people, there are certain other black people that they should help put behind bars.
You would think so.
You would think so.
But thinking always gets you in trouble in the United States in 2022.
But there's good news.
Good news, Mr. Kersey.
The good news is that there's going to be no more racial bad news from the College Board on AP tests.
I saw this story.
Yes, every year the College Board used to publish detailed breakdowns of how students scored on Advanced Placement exams, otherwise known as AP exams.
And it had a state-by-state look at how high school students did, as well as demographic data so that anyone could see how students of different races fared.
And you could look up, for example, the black students' average score on the AP Bio test, the Biology test, the Chemistry test, anything at all for any given year, and compare it to the grades for whites or Asians.
Well, that was until last year.
It still posts things like the number of students who tested, How many scored in the exams range of 1 to 5, but you can no longer sort test results by ethnicity or race.
The College Board never announced this change and it also, and this really is so pathetic, it scrubbed all the historical data that it had from its website archives.
All this information they used to have on racial differences are gone.
This is despite a recent professed commitment to transparency.
Everybody's got to be transparent.
But see no evil, hear no evil, think no evil.
Well, as it turns out, based on 2020 score data, only about 5% of black students scored a 5 on one of the exams, as compared to 15% of white students.
And at the same time, far fewer black students were even taking the test.
So, a smaller number takes it, and then a yet smaller number actually gets a 5 in Florida, for example.
A quarter of all students in school took an AP class, but only 15% of blacks did.
So the comparison of white to black or Asian to black would be quite extraordinary.
But those who even take the test are only one-third as likely to get a five.
So anyway, as I say, there'll be no more racial bad news.
About AP tests.
Now this is a story from the Wall Street Journal.
And I really didn't know what to make of it entirely.
But we have talked many times about violence.
And this may be relevant, Mr. Kersey.
Let me quote from this article.
California cannabis emergency room visits climbed 53% in the three years after the state of California legalized recreational marijuana in 2016.
They climbed 53%?
Emergency rooms related to cannabis.
Daily marijuana emergency room visits in San Diego nearly quadrupled.
San Diego.
Is this due to overdose?
I don't know.
Emergency room, you're going crazy.
Some of them are just going crazy.
Well, I guess it takes an overdose to go nuts or to be in such a state that you've got to go to the emergency room.
We know that a lot of the marijuana now has so much fentanyl in it as well.
Well, I don't know.
I don't know about that.
Could be.
I mean, I don't know why you'd waste fentanyl on marijuana if you had marijuana, but maybe I guess it makes it more powerful.
In any case, cannabis-induced psychosis is fairly common.
This is the Wall Street Journal.
Some patients suffer from, and here's a condition for you, cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome from long-term use.
And you know what that causes?
Hyperemesis, that causes scrumeting.
Scrumeting, I've never heard that word before.
Tell me.
I've never heard either.
That means screaming and vomiting, involuntary screaming and vomiting, and there's no antidote.
You know what, our new country's gonna be great.
I do.
We're gonna have more states decriminalize marijuana.
Scrumeting is gonna become.
Scrumeting is gonna be all over, and they say there's no antidote,
so I guess you scream and you vomit until you can scream and vomit no more, Mr. Kersey.
Some patients, and this is the Wall Street Journal again... That's the most terrible thing I've ever heard!
Scromidine!
And that is caused by cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome.
CHS for those in the know.
Some patients spend weeks in the emergency room waiting for placement in mental health clinics.
These are people who've just gone around the twist on account of cannabis.
Countless studies have also linked chronic cannabis use to schizophrenia.
A meta-analysis in January examining 591 studies concluded that early marijuana use among adolescents was associated With a significant increase in the risk of going skitzy.
Researchers have yet to prove a causal relationship, but the weight of the evidence is hard to dismiss.
Furthermore, can pot make people violent?
That is finally the question that we get around to in the context of some of the other stories we have been relating to our loyal listeners.
A study last year found that young people with such mood disorders as depression who were also addicted to pot were 3.2 times more likely to commit self-harm and to be murdered, often after initiating the violence themselves, than those who were not pot smokers.
And a meta-analysis found the risk of perpetrating violence was more than twice as high for young adults who used marijuana.
So, I mean, I always thought of marijuana as more or less benign.
I don't think you should, well, I certainly don't encourage my children to take it.
There's no hope in dope.
That's all I'll say.
Okay.
That's my view.
And there's also no hope in cannabis stocks right now.
And also, you say, from the outhouse to the White House, right?
Keep hope alive!
Yes.
Paul Kersey.
Yes.
Now, another little story.
Williams College.
You've heard of Williams.
It's a sort of peppy, private liberal arts college in Massachusetts.
Ever since its founding in 1793.
I didn't realize it went back so far.
That must make it one of the very oldest colleges in the country.
Yeah.
It has mandated a swim test or a swim class ever since it got going.
I guess they had pools back in 1793.
Maybe they did it in the river.
But, according to its website, Williams has always felt it is vitally important that all graduates leave with the ability to swim.
I completely agree.
I agree.
You should be able to swim before you actually enroll in the school.
Well, you'd think so.
The test was a 25-yard crawl and then a 25-yard backstroke.
Not a very challenging test for those who know how to swim.
But non-swimmers are not required to be able to do the swim test, but they must sign up for a beginning swimming class.
So, it's not something that is a make or break.
You can leave the college not knowing how to swim as long as you've taken the swim class and failed, I guess.
Now, guess what happened?
A decision to end the requirement came after a study by the Diversity Advisory Research Team.
It turns out that 81% of students who had to enroll in the beginning swim class were students of color.
81%?
81%!
Only 3% were white!
Only 3!
Oh, those lonely white people learning how to swim.
Well, so they decided they had to drop that because it had disparate impact.
Now, there are colleges that have dropped the swim requirement in recent years.
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Until 2006, you had to swim to get out of Chapel Hill.
Really?
That's actually really cool.
It seems so archaic and antiquated that there'd be this mandate.
Because that, at one point, was one of the main physical activities a human being would do.
Well, it was part of being a fully rounded American.
It was knowing how to swim.
University of Chicago had it until 2012.
Notre Dame until 2014.
However, experts tell us, and I don't need an expert to tell me this, Mr. Kersey, but race-based swimming disparities are a product of past racial discrimination in the provision of and access to swim pools and swim lessons.
That's what the experts tell us.
Well, isn't that all the better reason to teach these people how to swim?
Isn't that the only way to rectify historical inequities?
Yes.
The lessons are free.
Now, I think the way to solve the problem, just call them reparations.
Reparations for slavery.
We will now teach you how to swim.
To make up for all of these centuries of discrimination, swimming-based discrimination, that everyone will have a swimming requirement, and isn't that the way to do it?
Reparations.
Or you could just do the sensible thing and just be like, okay, if you think it's racist, then we'll just pass you.
We'll just go ahead and pass you.
You don't have to swim.
Everybody else can swim, but black people don't have to take the course.
Every year when summer starts, right around spring, when the pools are getting ready to open around Memorial Day, you have invariably the same story about too many black people drowning.
Well, guess what?
Wouldn't it make sense that you learn how to swim and that be a part of, you know, I guess then again, With shade equity problems, I guess it's too hot in some of these areas because they're heat islands, and the water just evaporates.
I guess that's it.
Isn't that the obvious solution?
If they have been deprived of the ability to swim, then this is the perfect solution.
But no, they're canceling all these swimming requirements.
Crazy.
Now, I believe that on time, Being on time in Oregon is part of white supremacy.
Everything is part of white supremacy.
I think we know that now.
But this one is a very fun story.
Yeah.
Second public health official cited the work of anti-racist educator Tima Okun after several people in the threat objected.
The Oregon Authority is a government agency that coordinates medical care and social well-being in the Beaver State.
During the pandemic, OHA was responsible for coordinating Oregon's vaccination drive and disseminating information about COVID-19, both vital tasks.
The agency's Office for Equity and Inclusion, however, prefers not to rush the business of government.
In fact, the office's program manager delayed a meeting with partner organizations on the stated grounds that, quote, urgency is a white supremacy value, end quote.
So, you've got people dying, you're trying to disseminate breaking news on COVID, regardless of its validity, you know, basically.
Or the vaccine.
What's the race of the person who is saying these things?
Is that race?
Is race unspecified?
Race is unspecified, but I believe they're black.
I believe they're black.
I have every reason to think they're black.
In fact, I'm 100% sure they're black.
In an email obtained by Reason, our libertarian erstwhile friends, Well, they sometimes still do some good things.
I mean, you can't expect them to really understand.
The good people with Lou Rockwell's institution, they do some good things.
They're very good.
They found out that the Regional Health Equity Coalition Program Manager, Danielle Droppers, informed the community that a scheduled conversation between OHA officials and relevant members of the public would not take place as planned.
Hey, thanks for your interest in attending the community conversation between the Regional Health Equity Coalitions and Community Advisory Councils to discuss the Community Investment Collaboratives.
We recognize that urgency is a white supremacy value that can get in the way of more intentional and thoughtful work.
And we want to attend to this dynamic.
Therefore, we'll reach out at a later date to reschedule."
I'm sure jaws dropped when that email was sent out, because we hear about the disparities in health care with COVID.
We've learned more black and brown people have died than whites.
And Oregon, I think, is less than 4% black.
But again, urgency is a value.
What was the term you coined last week?
White supremacistically?
Yes, yes.
White supremacistically thinking.
Wait a minute.
White supremacist thinking.
We don't have to call it white supremacist.
Well, I guess thinking white supremacistically.
Yes, that's exactly it.
Tell that to the ambulance drivers.
You know tell that to the police. So here's here's just two quick things
Reason tried to get a comment. Nothing was given from her But the email was sent from dropper state government email
address and drew sharp rebukes from many who received it One such community rather sorry one such community member
replied that quote as a person of color I'm calling BS another recipient a health equity manager at
a medical group said she was thrown by the claim Please educate me on what the state means by urgency as a
white supremacy value Wait, this is an equity specialist?
Yeah, pushing back, exactly.
Also, I would like to know how this gets in the way of the REHC CAC work.
I have struggled all morning with how to communicate the reason for the postponement to our community advisory council.
You know, she didn't even follow up with an email to explain.
Basically, she just wanted... She probably didn't have any plans.
She probably wasn't prepared for the meeting.
Exactly.
She wasn't ready.
She wasn't ready for it.
And she says, well, urgency is white supremacy.
So, we'll take more time.
We'll take our time.
To put a bow on this story, the link redirects to a website.
She said that she found this link about urgency, and she put a link in an email, and it purportedly identifies aspects of white supremacy culture.
The website was conceived and designed by Tima Okun, A white anti-racist educator who has popularized the idea that several benign and widespread traits are actually characteristic of white supremacy.
Among those are preferring quantity over quality, wanting things to be written down, perfectionism becoming defensive, and yes, Possessing a sense of urgency.
Okun's work makes frequent appearances in educational equity workshops.
Similar work by Judith Katz, also an anti-racism expert, was included on the website for the National Museum of African-American History and Culture.
That abomination that sits on the mall, it looks completely out of place if you visited the Capitol in the past four years.
It looks pretty awful.
So yeah, if you're engaging in urgency, folks, if you're trying to urgently get home to have dinner with your kids and your wife, gosh, you're white supremacist.
You're driving white supremacistically.
But then at the same time, writing things down is white supremacy.
Good grief.
I suppose otherwise it's the oral tradition.
I'm sure penmanship is also white supremacy.
Oh, for heaven's sake.
Well, that goes without saying.
But just writing things down, even if it's scrawling, that's white supremacy.
Because I think that is probably compared to, I don't know, the oral traditions of the tribes.
Anyway.
It's all nonsense.
But there you go.
That's the rule we live in.
Yes.
Well, yes, I'm afraid we can't escape it.
Not for the time being.
But let's see.
NBC News recently seems to have tumbled to a certain reality, and it has to do with New Orleans.
This is the title of the article.
This quite surprised me, coming from a major network.
New Orleans battled mass incarceration.
Then came the backlash over violent crime.
I think you can see where this is going.
I have an idea.
After decades of a lock-em-up approach, Voters put progressives in key criminal justice posts in New Orleans.
Now, a rise in violent crime is their toughest challenge.
Voters here were willing to try something new in 2020 and 2021, electing two judges, a DA, and a new sheriff who all promised to rein in the harshest aspects of the status quo.
Many residents are now scared.
In a June poll commissioned by a coalition of crime prevention, civil rights, and business groups, three-quarters of respondents described the city as unsafe.
Three-quarters say it's unsafe, and 84% says it's gotten worse.
And they're right.
In the year ending in May 2022, there were 235 homicides, roughly twice the number in 2019.
That's before these wonderful reformers took office.
Over the same period, reported shooting incidents also doubled.
Carjackings tripled.
And in a series of hearings this year, council members, all Democrats, are now referring to what they call a revolving door legal system.
Wow!
Voters may soon have another chance to decide if the city is at the beginning of a new experiment Or at the end of one.
So we'll see what happens.
But it's astonishing to me how these completely cuckoo, loony DAs and sheriffs actually get themselves re-elected.
But here's a black citizen.
I thought this quote was marvelous.
The NBC News story quotes her as saying, Is there a way to make the system better and not treat people so harshly, but also hold people accountable?
I think that's classy.
Gotta hold him accountable, but don't do anything unpleasant.
You know, we haven't talked about this yet.
Just a quick, brief thing about New Orleans.
They took down the statue of Robert E. Lee.
I think that was, what, 2016?
Thereabouts.
Under a moon, was it?
Moon Landry?
Yeah, exactly.
A white guy who had just thumped his chest.
He's trying to become one of the main anti-racism experts who goes and works and consults with cities on renaming streets, getting Redeeming parks taking down statues have you seen the the two-story black power
I'm not making this up.
The two-story black power hairpick.
Yes.
A symbol of African-American identity which is erected near Gallier Hall.
Yeah.
I mean this is one of the funniest things ever.
Oh yeah, I know about that.
They put it up for 4th of July.
Yeah, it's a gigantic afro hairpick.
I'm sorry, hairpick.
A gigantic afro hairpick decorated with a peace sign and surmounted by a Clenched Black Fist.
Yeah, those are a little contradictory.
A peace sign and a clenched fist?
Yeah, and social media shows... I'm just reading this story because it's so funny.
The mayor, Latoya Cantrell, She pulled the sheet to expose the estimated 24-foot-tall steel creation, all power to all people.
And it's supposed to, it recalls the Black Power Movement, with silhouettes of hairpicks and raised fists.
I mean, it looks like something that the Babylon Bee would have come up with as a joke.
And even their writers probably said, no, no, no, they'd never do something like this.
But they do.
There it is.
All power to all people?
I think that's what it means.
Well, that means you got to start using a hairpick.
An Afro hairpick.
I wonder if some of our listeners don't even know what one of those is.
What is an Afro hairpick?
Go ahead and lighten for those who might not know.
Well, it's sort of like a pitchfork, only with more tines and a little bit smaller.
Anyway, you fluff out your Afro with it.
You ever done that?
I fluff out my Afro all the time.
Come on.
Yes, my Afro's got to look cool, man.
Now, furthermore, in with the tradition of out with the whites and in with the blacks.
A statue of Mary McLeod Bethune was unveiled Wednesday in the U.S.
Capitol making her the first black American in National Statuary Hall.
I didn't realize there were no blacks.
I would have thought they'd be at least half black by now.
Three-quarters black.
Her statue represents the state of Florida.
Since 1864, each state has sent two statues of distinguished citizens to represent the state in the U.S.
Capitol, and this is the National Statuary Hall Collection.
But since 2000, states have been able to remove and replace existing statues.
I guess until 2000, you were stuck with your choice from way back then, and some of them were embarrassing in these enlightened times.
Now, the statue of Bethune replaces one of Confederate General E. Kirby Smith.
Now, E. Kirby Smith is someone with whom I have an odd relationship, because my great-great-grandfather was his chief of staff east of the Mississippi.
Well, that's a terrible, terrible thing, then, for this statue.
Which, by the way, I don't know if... Am I stealing your thunder here?
But this was all Ron DeSantis' idea.
Was this DeSantis' idea?
It was.
Oh, no.
No, no, I did not know that.
Well, the change was directed by a state law signed by then-Governor Rick Scott.
So, hey, you may be wrong.
In 2018.
So, shut your mouth.
Well, you look it up.
You look it up and let us know.
And Virginia removed its statue of Robert E. Lee in 2020 and plans to replace it with a civil rights leader, a black girl by the name of Barbara Johns.
We've talked about her before, so I won't go into it in any more detail, but her great achievement in life was to be a librarian in an elementary school.
And let's see, in 2019, Arkansas replaced both of its statues.
One was a guy who is simply referred to as a white supremacist, James Paul Clark.
I don't know who he was, but the media simply refers to him as white supremacist.
And then a confederate sympathizer by the name of Uriah Milton Rose.
These are both names that I do not recognize, but that's apparently all they were.
But Arkansas loved them.
And now they've been replaced with a civil rights activist by the name of Daisy Bates.
No doubt an African American-ess.
And Johnny Cash.
So Johnny Cash represents Arkansas.
He's known as the man in black, so I guess that fits in, yeah.
I guess so.
But nine statues depicting Confederates are still there.
Don't name them because I'm sure people will go after them.
Okay, I won't give you any ideas.
Nine are still there.
I'm astonished by this.
Now, statues representing a state may be replaced only with the approval of the state's legislature and governor.
So, this is not something that Congress can say, this horrible man, this horrible white supremacist has got to go.
Too bad!
It's a federalist state.
Yes, yes.
A last lingering remnant of federalism.
Well, here's a story for you.
Governor Ron DeSantis formally asked Wednesday that the statue of civil rights leader and educator Mary McLeod Bethune replace the likeness of a Confederate general as representative of Florida in the U.S.
Capitol.
This was from July 11, 2019.
DeSantis sent a letter to the architect of the U.S.
Capitol officially requesting that the Bethune statue be substituted.
He had no choice!
No, because it was... It had already been voted before he was in.
They voted in 2016 to replace the Smith statue.
Yeah, well, this says the law was signed by Scott in 2018.
In any case, DeSantis, I don't think this is DeSantis' idea.
No, no, no, but despite agreeing to remove the statue, they were unable to come up with a replacement during the 2017 session, and it wasn't until...
I mean, again, it's... They were really scraping the bottom of the barrel when they came up with Mary McLeod Bethune, but that's the best they could do with that, I guess.
In any case, now, because it takes a state government to approve, in 2011, Maryland tried to replace one of its capital statutes with Harriet Tubman, but the legislature voted it down.
Can you believe that?
Now, let me speak to you of Bethune.
She was born in South Carolina in 1875.
She wasn't even a Floridian.
Palmetto State.
Then she went to seminary in North Carolina.
She taught in Georgia, South Carolina, and then eventually she set foot in Florida where she started a boarding school.
In 1936, she began serving as President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Director of Negro Affairs for the National Youth Administration.
So there you go.
So Florida has latched onto her and now she is one of the state's favorite daughters.
And if you don't think she's the right person to represent Florida, and you think there's probably someone more worthy to represent Florida, you can suck it right up, Whitey!
8 that's all? I'm afraid there are going to be a lot of other statues that are going to be replaced.
Next door? Yeah, you can suck it up. That's a great segue because this is one of those stories
where in football you're running at the score, you spike the football just to score again.
This is one of those stories.
CBS News brags about the great replacement turning Allentown, Pennsylvania from 97% white in 1970
to 31% white in 2022. Gary Ikoa recalls his grandfather's hot dog shop in downtown Allentown,
consistently hosting non-stop crowds of people.
That is until he described as a changing neighborhood forced the family establishment to operate elsewhere.
Part of what's different in Allentown is its racial makeup.
As stated in 1970, city population was 97% white, but by 2020 the share of non-Hispanic white residents had plunged to 31%.
That must be some kind of record.
Yeah, the city is among many throughout the nation with changing demographics.
Census data shows that the number of white Americans decreased over the last decade across 35 states and within 3 out of 4 counties.
So, 75% of U.S.
counties saw the white population drop.
And according to projections for the census, America is forecast to no longer have a white majority by 2024.
2044.
2044.
I'm sorry, 2044.
Don't wipe us out sooner than need be.
As CBS, they're bragging about it.
In three separate studies with different methodologies, the belief that the rights of minorities will overtake that of whites, an unfounded conspiracy theory known as the Great Replacement, was one of the primary driver For insurrectionists.
Wait, they're just talking about a drop from, what, 90 which percent to 20 what percent?
97 to 31 percent.
And this great replacement is just some conspiracy theory?
It's a conspiracy theory, yeah.
Well, okay.
Statistical analysis showed that for every one percent decline in the non-Hispanic white population, a county was more than six times more likely to send at least one insurrectionist.
That's to the Capitol, Bruce.
It's so silly.
Another study found those believing that the rights of Hispanic and black people were overtaking white people increases the odds of being in the insurrectionist movement.
The insurrection movement?
What is that?
The third study found that those with fear that Hispanic and black people have more rights than white people increases the chances of being in the movement two-fold.
I'm not sure what movement they're talking about.
There's a video that accompanies this that was broadcast on the CBS News.
You should have watched it.
You're a homeboy.
Not the only thing I watch are concerts on YouTube.
Allentown resident Emily Minaya, who came from the Dominican Republic as a immigrant child, says she thinks Allentown is an example of the future of America when it comes to diversifying communities, i.e.
Denigrating the white population until there's literally no one left.
And she's from the Dominican Republic.
Yeah, she said this, quote, even those states where there's probably no Hispanics at all, no black people, they will be seeing a lot of that in the next few years.
She said, asked what she would say to those who may be troubled by that potential demographic shift.
She says to, quote, suck it up.
End quote.
Mr. Taylor, suck it up!
That's the way you combat white supremacistically thinking.
She has learned the vernacular, hasn't she?
This ex-Dominican.
Boy, they come here, and if we don't like them taking over, we can suck it up!
Well, you know, it's nice when they lay it right on the line and tell us exactly what they think, isn't it?
They ain't hiding it any longer.
Well, they never did.
They never did.
But then again, the corporate media is going there to brag and be like, it's still a conspiracy theory.
That's right.
Oh my gosh, the city was 97% white in 1970 and now it's 31% white.
But you're a conspiracy theorist if you believe the Great Replacement is happening.
But we have to suck it up and end our episode today because we are running out of time.
It's a horrible thing, but it always happens.
So ladies and gentlemen, it'll be our privilege and our honor to be with you a week from today.
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