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Sept. 1, 2022 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor

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	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
	I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance, and with me is my indispensable, incandescent, irreplaceable co-host, none other than Paul Kersey himself.
	It is August 31st, Year of Our Lord 2022, and we will begin with a comment that has not been vetted by your hosts.
	So, caveat emptor.
	A listener writes in to say, a while back you asked for channels that listeners might enjoy.
	I would suggest History Debunked on YouTube.
	It's run by a man called Simon Webb.
	Many videos which I think the AMRAN audience will enjoy.
	Again, we are passing this along, unvetted, with great confidence.
	I will endorse that channel, actually.
	You will endorse that channel?
	Yes.
	All right.
	Listen, listen, ladies and gentlemen.
	Vetted and endorsed by none other than Paul Kersey himself.
	Another comment here.
	I hope Mr. Taylor and his Indispensable co-host managed to mention the rise and fall of FNMICA, the world's first AI-generated rapper, who was in the news last week.
	Well, I didn't know about FNMEKA, and now I do, thanks to our listeners.
	So I looked into the story, and here it is.
	Not long after announcing that the Capitol label had signed a computer-generated rapper named FNMEKA, M-E-K-A, Capitol Music Group announced that it is severing ties with the project.
	That quickly?
	They have done an instant about-face.
	The singles Moonwalkin' and Internet by FNMECA had previously generated social interest, adding up to hundreds of millions of views.
	Why would a label drop this?
	That's a lot.
	That's hundreds of millions of views.
	Moonwalkin' and Internet.
	I checked one out, by the way.
	You know, I cannot claim to be a connoisseur of rap, but it sounded pretty rappity-rap-rap to me.
	Well, the Capitol signing had been announced on August 11th in the press release, explaining that with over 1 billion views and 10 million followers on TikTok, he is the number one virtual being in the world.
	Virtual Being.
	The climb down came after Capital came under fire from activists pointing out that the music perpetuated black stereotypes.
	Can you imagine rap perpetuating black stereotypes?
	I never in a million years would have thought those two words would be put in the same sentence.
	No.
	I can't.
	And F.N.
	Micah included the repeated use of the n-word But it was actually the work of a non-black creative team.
	Okay.
	Oh boy, I guess it sounded absolutely black as it seemed to me.
	It sounded awfully authentic to me.
	So, Capitol Records says we offer our deepest apologies to the black community for our insensitivity in signing this project without asking enough questions about equity.
	And the creative process.
	The creative process.
	You just can't have non-black people turning out rap no matter how authentically black.
	No matter how popular it is.
	Again, that's a lot of money that that record label is severing ties with.
	You know, I guess is that the first artificial, is that the first artificial intelligent use of the n-word?
	Oh, probably not.
	Probably not.
	But the first virtual rapper, and he's got it figured out.
	I mean, how can you rap without the N-word?
	I think it's required.
	It's a prerequisite to have a rap song.
	Oh, God.
	The project was quickly attacked for seeming to feed the language and themes of black street life into a computer that spat out lyrics about themes common to hip-hop, including, again, copious The account Industry Blackout posted this message.
	It's a direct insult to the black community and our culture.
	An amalgamation of gross stereotypes, appropriative mannerisms that derive from black artists, complete with slurs infused in the lyrics.
	This digital effigy is a careless abomination.
	I've never heard of a careless abomination before.
	No, I haven't either.
	That's novel use of the English language.
	And disrespectful to real people who face real consequences in real life.
	Of course, if this had been a genuine flesh-and-bones, absolute out-of-the-ghetto rapper, it would have been fine.
	Oh, they'd be extolled until they were an expiring rapper.
	Well, I guess he's expiring without even having the chance here.
	They pulled the plug on this virtual rapper.
	Literally pulled the plug.
	Yes, they did.
	It is a direct insult.
	Now, the letter goes on and asks for, guess what?
	Guess what?
	Guess what this outfit wants?
	These people who are complaining?
	Money!
	Mr. Kersey?
	Money!
	Money must be reallocated to charities benefiting black youth and further promoting black artists signed to Capitol.
	Do we know how much money that this artificial wrapper generated?
	We don't.
	We don't.
	And in fact, there's no money to splash around.
	I mean, they've made no money from this deal.
	In fact, they're probably paying a cancellation fee.
	So it's not as though Capital's got money, but they want money reallocated.
	You know, white people love money just sitting around, as everybody knows.
	And so they're going to splash this out.
	For charities benefiting black youth and further promoting black artists on Capitol.
	So there you go.
	Now, moving on to another black capital, Jackson, Mississippi.
	Governor Tate Reeves of Mississippi has declared a state of emergency.
	That was just last week, saying that a water crisis in Jackson threatens critical needs and has no end in sight.
	This is a very different situation from a boil water notice.
	They've had those.
	They're used to those.
	Those are everyday occurrence.
	That's just standard.
	Boil the water.
	Can't be drunk.
	Now, this is also a serious situation which the residents of Jackson have become tragically numb to, said Governor Reeves in a statement.
	Until this situation is fixed, it means we do not have reliable running water.
	The city cannot produce enough water to flush toilets, fight fires, and meet our critical needs.
	Can't flush toilets in Jackson, Mississippi.
	Do you know what that sounds like?
	It sounds like, well, it sounds like India.
	No, it sounds like New Orleans 15 years ago today when Hurricane Katrina hit.
	Well, they had an excuse for a hurricane at that time.
	Well, what's the excuse in 83% black Jackson?
	You just explained it.
	You just explained it.
	President Joe Biden has approved an emergency declaration in the state freeing up federal resources to help manage the crisis.
	The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency will take the lead in providing bottled water.
	Since there just isn't any in the pipes, you get a trickle out of the pipes, all the water's got to be provided.
	Replacing our largest city's infrastructure of running water with human distribution is a massively complicated logistical task, he said.
	I bet it is.
	That's why we have running water.
	We don't have people running around in trucks and bottles.
	We need to provide it for up to 180,000 people for an unknown period of time, says Governor Reeves.
	Well, well.
	Now what could possibly be the problem?
	There are certain clues that Jackson's mayor is named Chokwe Antar Lamumba and he has declared a water system emergency.
	You see there was flooding from the Pearl River that disrupted a water processing facility and now the city which is 83% black.
	Has long been plagued by infrastructure issues that have made clean, reliable water a challenge.
	Jackson has other challenges too, but this is the one we're concentrating on for the time being.
	You'll tell me about another challenge in just a moment.
	It has aeronautical challenges too.
	The Environmental Protection Agency issued a lengthy report in 2020 outlining major shortfalls in Jackson's water system.
	What happened?
	Nothing?
	And, uh, uh, let's see.
	That's, uh, uh, but you know, as I say, nothing.
	Now the, the great, the great panic though, the great panic in Jackson, do you know what that is?
	What's that?
	The city is home to Jackson State University, a historically black school.
	And the city apparently lives and dies on the fortunes of the football team.
	The football team is struggling to prepare for its coming season opener because there's no water.
	That's famously Deion Sanders.
	I know you don't watch much professional or collegiate football.
	Deion Sanders was One of the top, prolific defensive backs.
	Now he's become the head coach there.
	And he's trying to recruit the top black talent in the country to come to a historically black college university.
	Last year, in Jackson, he got his boombox, a number of his private belongings, stolen from his car.
	It was a pretty big deal because it was his first season as a Jackson State head coach.
	I see.
	Well, I think he's going to have a hard time recruiting them if there's no water to drink and no water to shower in.
	But there you go.
	Tell me about the aeronautical emergencies.
	So a reader had sent this to me and I kind of followed away thinking this is kind of a funny story about life at Jackson because I've actually flown into the Jackson Airport a number of times.
	A Physicians Air Transport King Air 200 medevac aircraft was hit by a bullet while parked at Hawkins Field in Jackson, Mississippi on Monday at the end of June 2022.
	Apparently, a dispute over the city's garbage collection contract has led to people on the ground taking potshots near the airport.
	Quote, I don't think it helped that they put the garbage trucks on the airport's property.
	It's a lot of hate now for the airport, and some are shooting guns at planes, and that isn't the answer," said City Councilman Kenneth Stokes.
	He called for more police enforcement.
	Meanwhile, the company that owns the airplane says it's likely out of action for a while, suffering hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages.
	A random shot was fired from about 700 feet away, and the trajectory hit this airplane on the upper cowling, said David Hood, a pilot with the Physicians Air Transport.
	Hood said the plane will likely be out of commission for an extended period and that will hurt healthcare in the region.
	Talking about medevac stuff.
	So, quote, we missed a lot of flights because of this and the chance to help a lot of people and save lives and it's going to be down for, oh, I don't know how long.
	So the aircraft, the bullet cost $250,000 worth of damages.
	Just one round.
	One round costs that much damage.
	You understand, Mr. Taylor, these two stories juxtaposed with one another show the fragility of civilization.
	You know, you hear these idiotic things like water, potable water is a human right.
	Are you kidding me?
	It takes so much ingenuity to create and to extract water and then be able to deliver it and maintain the pipes, maintain the infrastructure.
	It's not a right, it is a responsibility and a duty of those who are put in civic positions.
	It's an achievement of an advanced man.
	Exactly.
	Now, you know, in my very first American Renaissance talk, that was in 1994, the title of it was, If We Do Nothing.
	And I was describing the things that would happen if we do nothing.
	And one of them was, I said, which is going to be the first major city in which the water becomes too dirty to drink?
	Wow.
	Now, it never occurred to me that there'd be a city in which the water would completely run out.
	Oh dear, oh dear.
	28 years later.
	I just could not see that far into the future.
	Oh my goodness.
	Well something else is going to run out and that's the money if BOA goes ahead with this crazy idea.
	So speak to us of BOA.
	We have a fiduciary responsibility before we do the story to say that we are not licensed stock traders or anything, but I would say that reading this story might be smart to short Bank of America.
	Bank of America tests no down payment mortgages for minority communities.
	So Bank of America Corp started a trial program aimed at helping first-time homebuyers in black and Hispanic neighborhoods by offering mortgages that don't require down payments, closing costs, or minimum credit scores, all considered long-time obstacles to narrowing the gap between white and minority ownership.
	Once again, being responsible for your finances is somehow an impediment to success, or not being, it's somehow an impediment to success in life, whereas For us, you know, if you and I were to go get a loan for a house, we'd have to get all sorts of stuff to show assets, etc, etc, etc.
	So customers using the program will be evaluated.
	For a home loan, not by credit scores, but rather factors such as their history of making rent, utility, phone, and auto insurance payments on time, Bank of America said in a statement this past Tuesday.
	So the program is going to be tried out in certain predominantly black and Hispanic areas
	of Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles, Miami, and Charlotte, North Carolina, which is where
	Bank of America is based.
	Is going beyond credit scores so quote, people can use other mechanisms to define their credit
	worthiness, buy a home, and build their wealth.
	AJ Barkley, head of the neighborhood and community lending at BOA said in an interview, while
	homeownership saw its biggest annual increase ever during the pandemic, it remained lower than a decade earlier for blacks, and black and Hispanic buyers were more likely to be rejected for mortgages than their white and Asian counterparts.
	Why is that?
	Because they're not as creditworthy.
	Creditworthy is now racist, too.
	Of course it's racist.
	Just like environmental racism is to do with Jackson, Mississippi's problems.
	Expecting people to come up with a down payment, I mean, my gosh, that's white supremacist.
	Somehow the Asians come up with it, but you know, that's the funny thing about Asians.
	So, uh, I agree.
	So according to the National Association of Realtors, the National Association of Realtors, forgive me, approval ratings for homeowners looking to lower their payments have also varied by race.
	Bank of America approved 66% of black refinance applicants, 78% of whites, according to a 2020 study compiled by Bloomberg.
	The Biden U.S.
	Justice Department has hammered lenders for practices that discriminate against minority borrowers.
	And in the wake of George Floyd's murder in 2020, I don't like the fact that they used that.
	I think he died of a fentanyl overdose.
	Banks and other corporations vowed to do more to fight racial inequities.
	Of course.
	Of course.
	The practice that most discriminates against black borrowers is the expectation that they repay their loan.
	That's highly discriminatory against them.
	Perhaps their mortgage can identify as a student loan.
	But Bank of America's new offering is on top of a $15 billion program that offers down payment and closing cost assistance to lower income consumers and another program that has a goal of providing $15 billion more in mortgages to low to moderate income buyers through May 2027.
	All in the name of George Floyd.
	While no down payment mortgages potentially make it easier for lower income borrowers to buy homes, they're not without risks.
	If the housing market were to slump, homeowners would, without a significant amount of equity, may have little incentive to keep paying their mortgages, hurting their credit scores, and then sticking lenders with foreclosed homes.
	Let's see here.
	This is what happened in 2007 with collateralized debt obligations and credit default swaps.
	I believe that brought down Lehman Brothers.
	Colonial Bank in Alabama.
	It was a worldwide crash.
	Billions were lost.
	Billions upon billions.
	People lost their homes.
	All and it goes back to this idea that you could get more and more black and hispanic people into houses Even despite the fact that they didn't meet usual credit-worthy standards, you're going to waive the responsibilities for them.
	And at that time, though, they couldn't very well say, OK, we're just going to do this specifically for our non-white pets.
	They started letting anybody do it.
	Well, so we've seen this before.
	We've seen it before.
	We know it plays out.
	We know it's going to end.
	Here is the interesting little caveat, a little addendum to this story.
	Bank of America has also announced a lending program to help small businesses owned by minorities and women, historically disadvantaged borrowers.
	would be able to apply for a down payment grant of as much as $25,000 to help with commercial real
	estate purchases according to a statement. Properties must be in opportunity zones. I
	believe those were created by President Trump as part of his platinum program. It's the
	updated nomenclature for enterprise zones, Mr. Taylor.
	These opportunity zones are, of course, areas without a large white population or Asian in Atlanta,
	Chicago, Charlotte, Dallas, or Los Angeles.
	I'm sure they are great real estate investments.
	Okay, well, you heard it here, ladies and gentlemen.
	There's a small cloud the size of man's hand visible on the horizon.
	Now, moving to Indianapolis, there's an extraordinary story here.
	Three men were shot in the heart of Indianapolis Entertainment District early Saturday morning, leaving two of them in critical condition and one dead.
	These were not our African-American fellow citizens who were out frisking.
	These were three Dutch soldiers who were in Indiana for training.
	They are members of the Corps Commando Troopen, or Commando Corps, a special defense unit.
	These are elite soldiers of the Royal Netherlands Army.
	And now, how in heaven's name were they shot?
	Well, the incident happened during the soldiers' free time in front of the hotel where they were staying.
	Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett said Monday that the soldiers had returned to the hotel after a scuffle at a bar.
	And we're standing outside the hotel when gunfire came from what he called a drive-by shooting.
	And again, a 26-year-old, one of these elite soldiers, identified by the authorities as Simi Potsima, is dead.
	Two were injured.
	Now, we do have an arrest with a preliminary charge of murder that his name is Shamar Duncan.
	Now, the details on this story are sparse, but my guess is that this is what happened.
	The hotel was right downtown Indianapolis, and as part of their briefing for their tour of training in the night, since nobody said to them, there are certain neighborhoods that is unwise to frequent.
	They probably went around the corner to a local night spot and were probably walked into a place where they were not welcome they were treated in an unpleasant way and being the tough young lads they were they expressed themselves forcefully probably smashed up a few faces and then went back to the hotel and lo and behold they didn't realize that the way the brothers work is to show up with a drive-by and shoot you dead That is my guess, but it's just pure speculation, Mr. Kersey.
	So, Indianapolis we know, I think it's still, I think it's about 60% white.
	Blacks are responsible for about 90% of the fatal and non-fatal shootings.
	And you're right, I mean, this is It's somewhat sad to think that they were there to do this urban training, this elite special forces.
	I'm not sure if it was urban.
	Oh no, in stories I've read, there's a great story at Vidar that actually mentions this, and they point out how... They're for urban training?
	Urban pacification, urban terrorism, urban warfare, and then... Well, they got it firsthand, didn't they?
	It's just they didn't expect it quite in front of their hotel.
	The job came looking for them.
	So there you go.
	Now, meanwhile, at Marquette University, every year it holds a convocation in which the school welcomes freshmen and their parents.
	This year, however, The convocation was shut down after crowds of students stormed the stage to protest alleged racism.
	Who would be protesting alleged racism?
	Would that be gangs of whites who are being prejudiced against?
	No!
	It's the Black Student Council of Marquette University.
	It stated its members sought to bring to light the constant oppressions and hardships placed on students of color.
	This is before the school year even begins.
	This is anticipating problems.
	We're constantly underappreciated, watched, socially abused, and forgotten by the administration.
	Holding signs and chanting, the protesters stormed the stage at the convocation while parents and freshman students sat in stunned silence.
	Imagine there you are with mom and dad.
	You're all excited.
	You're going to be a student and this happens?
	Well, I can imagine it.
	In a world where the capital city of Mississippi doesn't have water, I think you can pretty much imagine anything at this point.
	You can imagine anything.
	Holding signs and chanting, the student protesters stormed the stage.
	After about ten minutes of all of this, the Vice President of Academic Affairs, Kimo Ayun, he doesn't sound like a long-term Marquette guy from generation after generation, but he announced the event would be Postponed.
	Okay.
	Postponed.
	Yes.
	Sorry, ladies and gentlemen, we're going to postpone this.
	The protesters remained on stage until most of the Central Mall area was cleared, leaving just empty chairs.
	Their explanation?
	We shut this down to represent how they're trying to shut us down.
	I bet they're really trying hard to shut them down.
	Says Senior and McNair Scholar.
	I don't know what a McNair Scholar is, but it probably comes with a price tag.
	Laying Lionel Clay trying to silence our voices, how they're trying to mute us, how they don't want us to be here.
	I'm sure that's why they give you scholarships, McNair scholar Lionel Clay.
	We know I have to, I have to salute their forward-looking, far-seeing view protesting against racism that hasn't yet happened during the school year.
	Well, that's like the Biden administration floating the idea about taxing unrealized capital gains.
	We live in a world where there's so little white supremacy and white nationalism, we have to talk about... Well, you know, this idea of asking for payouts before you've even been harmed, it reminds me of something from 1936.
	And that was at a time when various World War I veterans were getting bonuses from Washington, and college students, this is 1936, everybody knew that war was on its way, and a group of pacifist college students organized something called Veterans of Future Wars.
	They said they want to get their money before they might have to be killed in the war, and if they survived, get it while they could still enjoy it.
	Veterans of Future Wars.
	I mean it should be Veterans of Future White Supremacy, Veterans of Future Environmental Racism.
	Victims!
	Survivors!
	I guess the question we have to ask now in the wake of what happened with Jackson is we know how many other cities the Great Replacement has happened and we'd be remiss, ladies and gentlemen, if we don't mention that there's an amazing series at American Renaissance The Great Replacement.
	And Jackson's one of the cities we talk about.
	And believe it or not, Jackson in 1960 was 64% white.
	Today, the 2020 census shows us it's 15% white.
	So I wonder what major city is going to be next to have some sort of electrical or a malfunction with the energy grid or just the complete collapse of the ability to go to the sink.
	Or go to your toilet and flush it.
	Flint, Michigan had that problem for a while.
	It just had water.
	It was contaminated.
	Flint somehow had an all-black city government too, if I'm not mistaken.
	There was a correlation.
	Yes, but back to Marquette.
	Marquette is a private Jesuit university.
	Apparently, tuition is $46,000 a year, which is not so bad by contemporary standards.
	But this spring, you may be aware, it unveiled a new seal after Native American activist groups argued that the previous and original seal was disrespectful to them.
	The seal, which was crafted shortly after the school was founded in 1881, it included a depiction of Father Jacques Marquette in a canoe with an Indian guide.
	Well, the Indian guide, because he was sitting down and Marquette was standing up, and I don't know, oh, oh, one of the other objections was Marquette is dressed in a Jesuitical clothes, black outfit, whereas the Indian is in a loincloth.
	And they say, this is disrespectful.
	Sounds historically accurate to me.
	He sounds like an Indian.
	Yeah.
	But this is no good, no good, no good at all.
	So they got rid of both Jacques and the Indian.
	So there you go.
	But Jacques Marquette was one of the great missionary explorers.
	He came to the area in 1673.
	But now he is off the seal.
	And the convocation is off the stage for now.
	As I say, nice introduction to college life.
	When you show up and this is the first thing that happens.
	Your freshman and your parents sitting there.
	Johnny, I'm not sure we brought you to the right place.
	You know, we should be going to Jackson State University.
	Yeah, that'd be even better.
	Is that going to be our running joke from now on, Jacksonville Water?
	I mean, can you really get any more?
	You know, we haven't talked about this yet, so I do want to bring this up to all of our listeners around the world.
	You're giving a big talk on Friday night.
	We don't know how big, but I'm giving a talk, yes.
	Is there any way that people can watch this online?
	Not that I know of.
	I'll be at Arizona State University.
	Friday evening.
	And there's information on our website for those of you who are within striking distance of Tempe.
	Tempe, Arizona.
	But we'll see.
	It will be an exciting time.
	The local diversity enthusiasts have promised me a very warm and welcoming reception.
	Why encouraging the listeners in Arizona or within that area.
	Phoenix, Tempe, beautiful, absolutely gorgeous campus.
	They're right outside of Arizona.
	I encourage all of you to try to attend and maybe even reach out and see if you can see Mr. Taylor while he's out there.
	It will be a delightful time.
	Now moving on to Doug Mastriano.
	Doug Mastriano.
	There is a Reuters story that begins like this.
	Three years after retiring from the U.S.
	Army in 2017, Donald Trump-backed Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano posed in Confederate uniform for a faculty photo at the Army War College.
	That's all you need to know about this guy, apparently.
	Faculty, at the time, had been given the option of dressing as historical figures.
	And at least 15 of the 21 faculty were in ordinary clothing, but the rest were in uniforms or suits of one sort or another.
	One guy wears a trench coat and sunglasses.
	Another guy carries an aviator's helmet.
	I saw the photograph.
	One guy looked more like a medieval clown than anything else.
	But Mastriano, there he is, bless his soul, wearing a Confederate uniform.
	Well, after the Reuters News Agency made its formal request for the photo, it was removed from the War College wall, where it hung along with other annual portraits of faculty groups.
	But now the War College says that a Confederate uniform, even worn as a historical relic, conflicts with the college's values.
	Values?
	I wonder if you wore a Napoleonic uniform.
	That, too, would conflict with its values.
	Napoleon restored slavery.
	Couldn't have that.
	In any case, Republican Maestriano, who has embraced Trump's stolen election lies.
	That's what Reuters says.
	He is trailing his Democratic opponent in the governor's race ahead of the November ballot.
	And his district in the state Senate, Pennsylvania's 33rd, actually includes Gettysburg.
	This guy has a PhD in history.
	That's why he's teaching at the college.
	He's an interesting fellow here.
	He was in the U.S.
	Army from 1986 to 2017.
	Retired as a full bird colonel.
	But he once said something really quite outrageous, Mr. Kersey.
	He said Islam wants to kill gay rights, Judaism, Christianity, and pacifism.
	This is one of his great sins.
	This is what is trotted out to discredit Mr. Mastriano.
	He also helped organize bus rides for Trump supporters for the January 6th protest.
	However, he and his wife left the area as soon as things turned violent.
	And he has called the violence unacceptable.
	But the fact that he was there!
	Doesn't matter.
	Doesn't matter.
	And his campaign, I think, is really pretty good.
	His campaign is largely avoided talking to media outlets and journalists.
	Instead, he goes straight to his supporters via Facebook.
	Fortunately, he still has.
	I was about to say, I can't believe he's actually still on.
	We'll see.
	I mean, after this Confederate uniform, my gosh, I think he will be forcibly, have to forcibly secede from Facebook.
	Reporters from several outfits have been refused entry at his rallies, including reporters from the Philadelphia Inquirer, I can see why.
	NBC News and CNN.
	Out, out, out, they say.
	You're not going to give us good coverage?
	So scram!
	And despite being commonly described as a Christian nationalist, Mastriano has rejected this label.
	This is the new buzzword these days.
	It really is.
	Marjorie Taylor Greene.
	They're all Christian nationalists.
	They're Christians, but they're not Christians of the sort that the left likes.
	Well, the left doesn't like any Christians, but if they're sort of oatmeal-y and stay-in-the-background Christians, that's okay.
	But he has rejected this label now.
	He has called for funding of public education to be cut.
	He says the per-student school funding in public schools should go from $19,000 to $9,000.
	Quite a hefty cut.
	Now, the Anti-Defamation League has condemned Mr. Mastriano's, and I'm quoting, "...politics that teeter on the edge of a kind of extremism."
	Did you know that if you have politics that teeter on the edge of a kind of extremism?
	The ADL is going to warn people against it.
	I mean, we're at a point now where the press secretary for Biden today basically came out and is attacking anybody that voted for Trump as a threat to democracy.
	Aren't we semi-fascist or half-fascist?
	Isn't that his new phrase now?
	Mr. Biden calls us semi-fascist.
	I think you're an enthusiast of the Second Amendment, a proponent of gun rights.
	I think you need to realize that, hey, the state has F-15s.
	What do you have?
	This is the kind of rhetoric we're getting, ladies and gentlemen, and I know this deviates from American Renaissance, but he's right.
	I mean, this is why you don't talk to the press, Doug.
	Mike, hats off to you, my friend.
	Well, here's what he says about extremism.
	He says, I have had top secret clearances for 30 years.
	I've been constantly investigated.
	The idea that I'm extreme is crazy.
	Now, on the news of the fact that he posed in a Confederate uniform as a historical figure, we don't know which by the way, at least 16 Republicans have now announced that they are going to endorse the Democrat.
	Come on.
	In Pennsylvania?
	In Pennsylvania!
	The Democrat candidate Josh Shapiro now is picking up Republican endorsements because of this Confederate uniform.
	There you go.
	Just think, in 2003 when Gods and Generals was made, I believe the governor at the time, George Allen, and a number of sitting senators were filmed singing the Bonnie Blue Flag with the great Ted Turner, who financed Gods and Generals in Gettysburg.
	Wouldn't do that now.
	Now you have a story about Pfizer for us.
	Yeah, we'll roll out this Pfizer story.
	Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has offered a prestigious fellowship that bars whites and Asians from applying.
	Trumpeted on the company's website as a bold move to create a workplace for all, civil rights lawyers are criticizing it in a different way as a blatant violation of the law.
	Let me pull the story up because there's a couple things I actually need to read that I couldn't get printed off.
	The Pfizer program is so blatantly illegal, I seriously wonder how it passed internal review by its general counsel, said Adam Mortara, one of the country's top civil rights attorneys.
	Pfizer's Breakthrough Fellowship offers college students multiple internships, a fully funded master's degree, and several years of employment at the pharmaceutical giant.
	It also restricts applications to Black, African American, Latino, Hispanic, and Native American students, the fellowship requirements state.
	So in the Frequently Asked Questions brochure about the nine-year program, Pfizer asserts that it is an equal opportunity employer requirements, and I quote, be a U.S. citizen or a U.S. permanent resident, be an
	undergraduate student enrolled in a full-time university program and a graduate December 23rd or spring
	2024, committed interest and intent to pursue an MBA, MPH, or MS statistics program, have a 3.0
	GPA or above, that sounds kind of racist.
	That's asking a lot, boy. Meet the program's goal of increasing the pipeline for Black,
	African-American, Latino, Hispanic, and Native Americans.
	Demonstrate exceptional leadership potential.
	Obviously, there's a correlation and a synonym.
	Just being any of those things is pure leadership.
	Yeah, a willingness to work in NYC.
	or other Pfizer locations as indicated by the job posting.
	And then it goes on to say, number two, I'm not from a minority group identified for the Breakthrough Fellowship Program.
	What opportunities are available to me?
	Pfizer should have said none.
	Why'd he shut up?
	But it says this, Pfizer is an equal opportunity employer.
	We have multiple programs, opportunities throughout the year for undergraduate and graduate students and Pfizer colleagues generally.
	For example, any colleague can pursue an MBA or MPH through the Pfizer Benefits Education Assistance Program.
	We also host MBA students each summer.
	More information in this program can be found by clicking here.
	Undergraduates and graduate students who are not eligible or interested but would like to pursue a career can apply for the Summer Growth Experience Program.
	In essence, there's nothing available for white students.
	Well, nothing specifically.
	I mean, they may have a few things available, but in all those other programs, I'm sure that they are beating the bushes like mad for diversity, equity, and inclusion.
	And just to put a bow in this story, Gail Heriot, a member of the U.S.
	Commission on Civil Rights, described the fellowship as a clear case of liability under federal law, a violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1886, which bans racial discrimination in contracting, and Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which bans racial discrimination in employment.
	Quote, major corporations seem to have forgotten that there is such thing as a law, said Heriot, who is a law professor at the University of San Diego.
	Quote, they seem to think that as long as they're woke, they're bulletproof.
	End quote.
	Well, what they're going to do is they will, because of stories like this, they will stop that particular program or they'll stop advertising in that particular way, but still they're just going to make a point of hiring the non-whites and not hiring the whites.
	In fact, I'm grateful that they're explicit about this.
	This goes to show you the way they think, and the way they want to operate, and the way they think they can get away operating, and which is exactly how they operate behind the scenes in programs that are allegedly open to everybody.
	So thank you, Pfizer.
	Thank you, Pfizer, for really showing your hand.
	Now in this case, Reverend Al Sharpton arises from his grave.
	I haven't heard about Reverend Al lately.
	I guess he's getting old and retiring and happy, but he is urging PayPal to end its partnership with the NBA's Phoenix Suns and its owner Robert Sarver.
	You've probably heard about this.
	Apparently he's facing allegations of, believe it or not, racism.
	Oh gosh.
	Along with misogyny.
	Oh my goodness.
	That means he probably really likes pretty girls.
	That's all it takes.
	PayPal announced in June of 2020 that it would commit $535 million towards black and minority-owned businesses and communities.
	That's a half a billion. Yet, says Al Sharpton, PayPal has continued to do business with Robert
	Sarver, who is a known perpetrator of racism and hate.
	Hate!
	Oh my gosh.
	Sharpton has previously called the NBA to stop doing business with him and to remove Sarver as the owner of the Suns.
	Now to some degree these associations can fire the owners, can't they?
	Or put real terrible pressure on them to sell.
	I would have thought that private property was something that did not permit this kind of activity, but PayPal and the Sons signed a multi-year endorsement and Sharpton's letter to Shulman, who is the head of the NBA, was also published in a full-page ad in the Arizona Republic.
	I'm sure you're going to be featured in that newspaper on Saturday.
	Yes, I'm looking forward to it.
	ESPN report apparently detailed allegation of racist and misogynistic behavior.
	Now this is always the case.
	You get these stories and you're reading along, well what did the guy do?
	That was like the John Gruden one last year.
	You were always incredulous.
	What exactly was in this email?
	What did he do?
	What did he say?
	What is his sin?
	All we need to know is, oh, it was racist.
	Oh, it was misogynistic.
	Oh, it was insensitive.
	Oh, that's all we need to know.
	Okay, out he goes.
	Well, the details matter to me.
	But apparently, let's see, an NBA commissioner, Adam Silver, said at the league's annual board of governor meetings that it has an investigation into this guy, it's nearing completion, and the alleged racist and misogynist has openly welcomed the investigation, but of course Sharpton can't wait for the conclusions.
	Sharpton knows.
	He knows what's in the mind of white folks.
	Apparently he is accused of asking his former coach Earl Watson, who is black, why he couldn't say the n-word if Golden State Warriors star Draymond Green could say it.
	That's one of his great sins.
	Now that clearly means he's not fit to own a franchise.
	Also, he is said to have passed around photos of his wife in a bikini, and claiming that his wife gave him oral sex.
	Now I consider that exceedingly crude, and I would never do such a thing, or count on such a thing, but I guess that disqualifies him for owning, and this does he mean to be strung up?
	Well, Sarver said he had never suggested he should be able to use the n-word because black players are able to do it.
	He says he has denied every single charge.
	None of it has ever, ever happened, but a report is forthcoming.
	We will see.
	Now, this reminds me of another case.
	This, I thought, was particularly interesting and, once again, seems to me to represent this terrible problem we have in America where the demand for racism Terribly outstrips the available supply.
	It has to do with NCAA Women's Volleyball.
	According to the press, NCAA Volleyball was put under a cloud of controversy just this last weekend when a Duke Volleyball player, Rachel Richardson, one of our African-Americanesses, she said she was subjected to racial slurs during a game against Brigham Young University in Utah.
	Okay, in Provo.
	Yes, BYU is one of those universities that is still awfully white.
	And Richardson's grandmother, Lisa Pamplin, now the press does not record whether she was in fact there, but she alleged in a tweet that the volleyball player was called a racial slur every time she served.
	Someone called her a racial slur?
	They use that word?
	They call her a racial slur?
	I know, I know.
	This is an unpredictable word.
	You and I are not allowed to speak it.
	We'll be struck dead.
	The finger of God will reach down from heaven and you will be crushed.
	It's like a lightning bolt.
	Jove will hurl one of his lightning bolts at you and you will be laid out dead as a doornail if you use this two-syllable word.
	In any case, the grandma also tweeted that she was threatened.
	The black player was threatened by a white male who told her to watch her back going to the team bus.
	A police officer had to be put on their bench, says grandma.
	Well, it turns out none of this may be true.
	BYU said that this alleged fan was not a student.
	But he was sitting in the student section, and he has been banned from all athletic venues on campus.
	Now, what in fact happened?
	We don't know.
	On Tuesday, this horror of racism occurred over the weekend.
	On Tuesday, BYU officials said they were still investigating.
	And BYU Police Lieutenant George Besendorfer, this is a criminal case now, mind you, For having uttered these two syllables in an inopportune time, the police are here in all full force, armed to the teeth, I'm sure.
	He said an initial investigation of the footage in the crowd does not show the person who was banned shouting anything while Richardson was serving.
	No.
	Several Athletics Department employees have also been combing through all the footage.
	And they just can't find any racial slurs being shouted.
	Not one, Mr. Kersey.
	Why is the FBI not involved yet?
	Well, because their sound enhancement team is busy doing something else.
	I'm sure they'll trot something out.
	I mean, gosh, how many people for the NASCAR driver who said he found a noose to go investigate?
	I think it was over 30.
	It takes a lot of FBI agents to find a small amount of racism.
	Well, so then there was another officer who made a report and he said he looked all over, he looked at the film, he listened as hard as he could, no racial slurs actually made, but BYU Athletic Director Tom Holmo asked students to come forward with any information they may have regarding the incident.
	Well, if you can't hear the word, they probably have no information.
	Now my question is this, Let's say that this black lady heard something that she thought was racist, or maybe she didn't even hear anything.
	The fact is, it's a whole room full of people.
	There are girls on both teams.
	And if she heard it, presumably somebody else heard it.
	My guess is this.
	Nobody else on either team heard anything.
	But they won't dare come forward and say, well gosh, I never heard anything.
	Because if you do, You're on the side of the word.
	You're on the side of the word.
	That's right.
	You're promoting the word.
	Yes, you're promoting the word.
	If you didn't hear it, you're promoting it.
	But what a crazy situation!
	But this is the way justice works in the United States.
	And, of course, science is moving in an equally insane direction, as you are going to explain to us.
	Yeah, I'll try to read this one quick.
	There's a lot to this one, but I encourage everyone to check out Nature.com.
	This was published on August 18, 2022.
	Science must respect the dignity and rights of all humans.
	This is an article Presumably an op-ed editorial.
	Nature Human Behavior.
	New ethics guidance addresses potential harm for human population groups who do not participate in research but may be harmed by its publication.
	I'm going to read that one more time.
	New ethics guidance addresses potential harms for human population groups who do not participate in research but may be harmed by its publication.
	In other words, hmm.
	Although academic freedom is fundamental, it is not unbounded.
	The same ethical considerations should underlie science about humans as apply to research with human participants.
	Well-established ethics frameworks govern the conduct of studies with human participants.
	Research ethic bodies use these frameworks to examine prospectively whether research projects involve human participation align with ethical principles.
	So I'm just going to go on and I'm going to read the part where they talk about the importance of we recommend avoiding the use of descriptors that refer to attributes such as race, ethnicity, national or social origin.
	Sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, political or other beliefs, age, disease, disabilities, or other group descriptors, unless they are relevant.
	Well, why would anybody use them if they weren't relevant?
	I agree.
	Regardless of content type, research, review, or opinion, and for research regardless of whether a research project was reviewed or approved by an appropriate institutional ethics committee, Editors reserve the right to request modifications to or correct or otherwise amend post-publication and in severe cases refuse publications or retract post-publication if content that is premised upon the assumption of inherent biological social or cultural superiority or inferiority of one human group over another based on race, ethnicity, national origin, or sex origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, political or political beliefs, age, disease, disability, or other socially constructed or socially relevant groupings.
	Content that undermines or could reasonably be perceived to undermine the rights and dignities of any individual or human group on the basis of socially constructed or socially relevant human groupings.
	So this means if you do research and you find that white men can't jump, that would seem to me to undermine the dignity of white men.
	You can't publish that.
	I think it would, but I think that actually serves to, once again, Add another layer of dirt upon the ever-growing casket.
	Not casket, but burial ground for the white male that the entire establishment of the Western world is seemingly trying to mock and promote hatred to on a given basis, on a daily basis.
	Here we go.
	Content that includes text or images that directly or indirectly disparage a person or group on the basis of socially constructed or socially relevant human groupings.
	And we'll just get to this part.
	Race, ethnicity, and racism.
	Race and ethnicity are sociopolitical constructs.
	Humans do not have biological races, at least based on modern biological criteria for the identification of geographical races or subspecies.
	Studies that use the constructs of race and or ethnicity should explicitly motivate their use.
	Race, ethnicity should not be used as proxies for other variables, for example, associated economic status or income.
	For studies involved, data collected from human participants, researchers should explain A various number of factors.
	So basically they say this.
	Racism is scientifically unfounded and ethically untenable.
	Editors reserve the right to request modifications to or correct or otherwise amend post-publication and in severe cases refuse publication or retract post-publication racist content.
	Editors use the guiding criteria outlined in the prior section on research on human populations to identify content that potentially undermines The Equal Dignity and Rights of Humans of All Races and Ethnicities.
	So, basically, if your data insult protected groups, they reserve the right not to publish?
	Or, even if they've published and they've let it through, they can retract?
	Well, basically, if you publish an article with the title, Why Water Stopped Working in 83% Black Jackson, Mississippi, eh, I don't think you could actually get that published.
	You probably can't even publish FBI statistics on crime rates.
	No, you can't.
	Because that might raise eyebrows.
	Well, actually, Mr. Taylor, what it does, it undermines the equal dignity and rights of humans of all races and ethnicities.
	That is the moniker.
	That's the mantra for 2022.
	Dignity.
	Dignity.
	Well, gosh.
	I guess my dignity depends on the data in the magazine.
	My dignity could somehow be besmirched by what appears in a peer-reviewed publication.
	Boy, oh boy, these people are nuts.
	But that's hardly news.
	In any case, were you aware of the TikTok theft challenge?
	I try to stay clear of TikTok.
	Well, I don't own any TikTok.
	I've never seen a TikTok.
	I don't know whether it ticks or tocks.
	But apparently between July 1st and mid-August of this year, some 642 Kia and Hyundai vehicle thefts were reported in the Chicago area.
	642 compared to only 74 the same period last year.
	That's incredible.
	642 as opposed to 74.
	An astounding 767% increase due to the TikTok challenge.
	Okay.
	What happens in the TikTok challenge?
	An astounding 767% increase due to the TikTok challenge.
	Okay.
	What happens in the TikTok challenge?
	Well, apparently, it is a play-by-play explanation for young adults.
	Note the phrasing used in the news reports.
	Young adults.
	Boy, I better keep an eye on my daughters.
	For how to steal Hyundai and Kia vehicles.
	It's the TikTok challenge!
	And a sharp increase in thefts of Kia and Hyundai cars have been reported in other parts of the U.S.
	as well.
	Did you know that?
	The trend appears to originate in Milwaukee.
	In 2021, vehicle theft grew year-on-year by, hold your breath, 2,500 percent.
	Yes, and according to local police, 66 percent of the thefts were accounted for by Hyundais and Kias.
	Apparently, there is some relatively easy trick to hotwire one of these things.
	I tried to find this TikTok challenge, but I'm rather challenged when it comes to TikTok.
	I don't own it, and I couldn't figure it out.
	But, I did find a YouTube video in which one of the guys who has been following it explained how it works.
	The guy had a Kia, and the guy goes through the routine.
	You know, you do this, you break that, and you do this, and boom!
	Off you go!
	So, people have been taking the TikTok challenge and apparently they have been succeeding in the TikTok challenge.
	Meanwhile, the knockout game is back in fashion in New York City.
	Remember the knockout game?
	We know it all too well.
	It used to be called polar bear hunting, but in this case it has branched out and it seems to me that it's no longer necessarily black on white anymore.
	But there have been 20 cases so far this year, and for those who were unaware, you walk up to some unsuspecting guy, cold cock him, see if you can knock him out, or her sometimes, with a single blow.
	And then you walk away laughing.
	That's an important part of it.
	Walk away laughing.
	Do you strut away?
	Do you... Well, you just... the pimp role, you know?
	I'm surprised there hasn't been a TikTok challenge of polar bear hunting in New York.
	That seems like something that the TikTok community... They don't need it.
	They don't need it, you know?
	The word's out.
	The word's out.
	Now, five cases just in the last couple of months in Manhattan, two in, well sorry, in New York, two in Brooklyn, two in Manhattan, and one in the Bronx.
	Now, the intriguing thing about this, no conversation, no interaction, no robbery, I mean, but there's a pattern.
	There was one attacker who was not black.
	These are overwhelmingly black attackers.
	But, as I say, unlike the previous rash of polar bear hunting, the victims seem to be quite a variety.
	They've been Asians, of course, because blacks just love Asians.
	And one of the attackers was a guy named Bui Van Phu, age 55.
	His victim was white, very seriously injured.
	This is one of the ones that appeared on video.
	You walk up behind him and just ker-whap!
	And the fact is some of these people are absolutely knocked out before they hit the ground.
	They do not brace themselves in any way.
	Their heads just go splat!
	on the pavement there's one of a black guy just standing in line waiting to pay for something and a black guy walks up behind him both of them are young and just sends him sprawling in his head it's it's in a uh it looks like a a a paved indoor area one of these really hard floors that you might find And it's just, it's just a terrible, you imagine how the human body even survived.
	A lot of people have been very, very seriously injured doing this.
	Getting punched is not like it is in the movies or the television, ladies and gentlemen.
	As Mr. Taylor just described, it's pretty brutal.
	Normally, it's one and you're down.
	These guys, as I say, they are so out before they hit the ground.
	They are not bracing themselves in any way.
	It's just painful to see those heads just hit smack on the concrete.
	So, that is the new sport in New York City.
	It is back in fashion.
	Meanwhile, there has been an interesting sentencing in one of the Jan 6 cases.
	I've been following this in a desultory sort of way, but the U.S.
	Select Committee, I think those hearings are still going on, but the sentences of course are still being handed down.
	Mark Ponder, a MAGA supporter, was sentenced to 63 months.
	That is more than five years.
	This is a record.
	And the judge that sentenced him is Judge Tanya Chipkin.
	We've discussed her before.
	We have.
	She's originally, she's a West Indian.
	Here's this black lady who shows up in the United States and boy is she throwing the book at the MAGA supporters.
	Now his sentence is now tied for the longest.
	His is just as long as that of Robert Scott Palmer who attacked law enforcement officers with a fire extinguisher.
	This Ponder guy used a pole to assault law enforcement officers.
	He was a supporter of Donald Trump.
	He pleaded guilty and he'd been held without bond since March 2021 when he was arrested.
	God!
	Yes, without bond.
	Now, Ponder told federal agents that police were part of the problem.
	He is, interestingly enough, one of our African-American fellow citizens.
	Hmm.
	Yes.
	Intriguing.
	So at least Judge Tanya Chipkin is not sparing the brothers.
	So he got more than five years in the slammer, along with this other fellow, as one black tweeter tweeted about Mr. Ponder.
	Poor guy.
	Forgot he was black.
	My thoughts and prayers.
	Forgot he was black.
	Yes, he's wearing a mega hat, just doing all those crazy things that only white people are allowed to do.
	Meanwhile, and I think we're gonna have to close with this one, Mr. Kersey, because we are running out of time.
	You haven't had a chance to talk about your marvelous Atlanta D.A.
	Oh, that's okay.
	We gotta talk.
	You'll fit her in one of these days.
	Move on to Tempe.
	All in Nigeria.
	The word is out.
	The word is out, ladies and gentlemen.
	All advertisements, advertising and marketing communications materials are to make use of only Nigerian models and voiceover artists.
	Hey, good for them.
	Good for them.
	I quite agree.
	The Advertising Regulatory Council of Nigeria has issued a diktat.
	Current advertising companies using foreign talent will be allowed to continue, but there'll be no new permits for foreign talent.
	Nigeria has heretofore been very heavily reliant on foreign models and voiceover specialists in its ads, including, oh my gosh, white models.
	White models are popular in Nigeria.
	As well as voiceovers with British accents.
	Well now, too bad.
	Out they go.
	Although these will probably be fat times for any white people living in Nigeria.
	You may have Nigerian citizenship or Nigerians with British accents.
	So, there you go.
	They're being nationalist about it.
	And I agree with you.
	Hats off to them.
	Nigeria for the Nigerians.
	Agreed.
	And Nigerian companies used to do ads in Kenya or South Africa using local models.
	Now, if they want to do a shoot in Kenya or South Africa, they'd have to ship Nigerian models out there.
	So they probably won't be doing that either.
	So it's going to be all Nigerian.
	Well, there you go.
	Very good.
	Nigeria for the Nigerians.
	And I guess we better leave it there because we're running out of time.
	Because there are other countries I think we should express should belong to other people too.
	But these are out of the question.
	So hopefully you'll get a chance to address that Friday in Arizona State University.
	We will see.
	Now, we'd love to hear from you.
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