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Sept. 14, 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.
And today is September 14th, Anno Domini 2022.
Anno Domini 2022. And we'd like to start today's episode with once again urging you to contact us.
You can contact us via Amarin.com at the Contact Us page, strangely enough, or you can send an email simply over to BecauseWeLiveHere at ProtonMail.com.
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We would love your story ideas, tips, Corrections, even.
Yes, we especially like corrections.
We hate to leave errors on the record, and we have had some important corrections from our ever-astute, ever-well-informed listeners.
Speaking of errors, it would be remiss of me if I didn't wish you a happy birthday before we got started.
No, don't do that.
You don't have to do that.
We all have birthdays, and they don't have to be happy.
They do not.
Let's see.
Let's begin with Eagle Pass.
This is a story of our border.
The number of migrants drowning in the Rio Grande amid President Biden's border crisis has gotten so out of control that one Texas town needs a refrigerated truck to store the bodies.
This is Eagle Pass, Texas.
Eagle Pass Fire Chief explained, two weeks ago we had four people drowning in one day.
The next day we had another drowning.
The very next day we had yet another.
There are so many bodies being recovered that the morticians are asking for assistance and we have loaned them a refrigerator truck to store the bodies.
The fire chief also says the city has four ambulances but they get overwhelmed every single day, fishing bodies out of the river.
I have never seen so many drownings as we are seeing right now, said he.
When I started here 20 years ago, we used to do maybe 12 a year.
12 a year?
One a month.
One a month.
Okay.
Now we're doing one a day, 30 a month.
So from one to 30.
Way to go.
Way to go.
Yes, thank you.
President Biden.
Thank you, Biden.
Go Joe.
And along the whole border, Nearly 750 migrants died trying to cross from Mexico into the U.S.
during fiscal 2022.
750.
I guess brown lives matter.
750. I guess brown lives matter. Over 700, I'm sorry, over 376,000 migrant encounters have
occurred in Eagle Pass. 376,000. The town's population...
More than 10 times the town's population, and this is just since October 2021.
Thank goodness.
Yes.
More than 10 times the town's population, and this is just since October 2021.
So it's not even during a full year.
What else do these migrants do?
Apparently, they kill pets.
If they think a barking dog is going to prevent them from stealing something, they will shoot the dog.
Where's PETA?
Ah, the PETA people are out there petting other animals, not theirs.
And they steal from shops, they knock on doors late at night, and residents of Eagle Pass are laying in weapons.
One Eagle Pass resident said she taught her children how to use tasers.
And other weapons to defend the family business.
One Eagle Pass business owner said she now closes the business at 7 p.m.
because she employs a staff of all women.
They used to stay open till 9.
She says she now keeps several weapons in the store, just in case.
We close at seven because it gets dark and people are walking around and it's all girls, you know, and you just never can tell.
Well, you never can tell.
She's right about that.
And the migrants, of course, leave trash everywhere.
That's just their calling card.
Somebody once said the national flower of Mexico is the white plastic bag.
The white plastic bag.
That's right.
You know the kind you get or used to get for free?
They're five cents now, apparently, where you are.
Five cents apiece.
That's the national flower of Mexico.
I see it growing everywhere.
Now, the police chief, he says, I would ask any government official you see to come look at what's going on here in Eagle Pass.
Now, I think that would be an excellent assignment for our border Zarina.
Kamala Harris.
Remember she was in charge of the border?
I've heard that, yeah.
Well, just the other day she was on television, I think maybe not even a week ago, claiming the border is secure.
This is her idea of secure.
When Americans have to close their businesses for fear that their employees are going to be molested or potentially even murdered by illegal aliens, I mean, this is a situation that's indefensible.
It certainly is.
Now, meanwhile, in El Paso, that's just across the board from Ciudad Juarez, They, too, have had a huge surge of migrants, and now they are living all over downtown in tents.
That's the way El Paso is being transformed by this lovely diversity.
Meanwhile, in Yuma, Yuma, Arizona, over the past 12 months, almost a quarter of a million people have flooded through this city of 100,000, lured by gaps in the border fence.
That is now the favorite place to go because the border fence has holes in it.
What this means is that in the year the city has spent no less than $20 million on medical services for migrants.
Wow.
Yeah, and guess how much of that has been paid for out of pocket?
Zero.
And locals claim they are being shot at by cartel traffickers.
Moreover, in the last six months, 48 dead bodies have been discovered, and there's been, believe it or not, a drop in tourism.
Oh, just... Yeah, just coincidentally.
Whatever the correlation might be, yeah.
Just coincidentally, the tourist trade is kind of down.
You know, they've got a different kind of tourist.
They're a different class of tourist coming through now.
And the homeless shelter got absolutely overwhelmed and they locked the doors up tight and apparently people were just camping out on the street just waiting for a chance to get in, beating down the doors.
And Yuma, Yuma has become the origin for some of the migrant buses that have gone to Washington DC, New York, and Chicago.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot of Chicago, after a busload of, I will ask you to guess the number in just a moment, after several busloads actually, totaling a population of X, accused Governor Greg Abbott of racism for having sent them along.
Now, how many people do you think it took for Lori Lightfoot to accuse Governor Greg Abbott of racism because he loaded them on buses and sent them to the big, what is it, the City of Big Shoulders?
Uh, the second city, the Windy City.
No, isn't it also the City of Big Shoulders?
I've never heard that.
You've never heard that?
No, never heard that.
I think that's one of its nicknames, but maybe I could be wrong.
I know it's windy alright, but uh, well I will tell you, a mere 60 people.
I was going to guess 20.
I've heard a lot of these people get off at various stops.
Well, no.
They took it all the way to Chicago.
All from Yuma to Chicago.
That's quite a bus trip, I'm sure.
And just in July, 24,424 people crossing the Sonora Desert into Yuma.
They've got a good nice count of them because when they show up and they say, I'm an SD, they put them down, write them down in little notebooks.
That is a 400% increase on the previous year.
This is just one month, 24,000 in just one month.
That's almost a thousand a day streaming in.
And now the 400% increase this year.
No, I'm sorry, the previous year's 400%.
Sorry, let's start over.
This year, it's a 400% increase over the previous year.
The previous year was a 2,400% increase over to 2020.
Now in 2020, I think there might've been someone else in the White House.
I can't remember his name.
I think he went by the moniker Orange Man Bad?
That could be the guy.
But somehow, you know, we've now since seen a 2400% increase and after that a 400% increase.
So that's a substantial jump, but Kamala assures us the border is secure.
The border is secure.
It's secure for anybody who shows up and says amnesty.
Yeah, nothing to it.
Now, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey has tried to block some of these crossing points with their holes in the wall by stacking up shipping containers.
I've seen this.
I've seen that.
Apparently, they're not really doing their job, though.
It doesn't seem like the wall's doing its job.
It doesn't seem like the U.S.
government's doing its job.
It doesn't seem like the military, the border patrol.
I don't think anyone's doing their job.
But if the wall were complete and, whatever, 18 feet high, however it's supposed to be, if it were all across, I bet it would do its job no matter what.
It's a big, beautiful wall.
A big, beautiful wall.
Just big.
In this case, remember there was a famous book back in the 1670s called Small is Beautiful.
By a guy named Schumacher.
Hippies all loved it.
Well, I disagree with Schumacher.
I think big is beautiful.
Certainly when it comes to walls.
Meanwhile, you have a story about Texas A&M, which used to be a serious and almost conservative campus.
Yeah, I think in some ways it still is, but the leadership is not.
This is from The Free Beacon, nation's largest public university hit with class action suit over race-based hiring practices.
I didn't know it was the nation's largest public university.
Texas A&M offers a $100,000 bonus for non-white professors only.
The largest public university is reserving faculty positions based on race and making
six-figure bonuses available exclusively to minorities.
Programs are now subject of a class-action lawsuit as part of a new initiative to attract faculty of color.
Texas A&M University set aside $2 million in July to be spent on bonuses for hires from underrepresented minority groups, according to a memo from the university's Office of Diversity.
The max bonus is $100k and eligible minority groups are defined by the university to include African Americans, Hispanic Latino Americans, Native Americans, Alaskan Natives, and Native Hawaiians.
Native Hawaiians.
Yeah, another program.
We badly need native Hawaiian physics instructors and agriculture teachers.
In College Station, you're right.
Texas A&M.
We badly need them.
Another program at the university's Mays Business School reserved certain slots in the faculty for the same minority groups.
These explosive revelations form the basis for a class action complaint filed this weekend by a conservative non-profit, America First Legal.
The plaintiff, a University of Texas at Austin finance professor named Richard Lowery, argues that the hiring programs violate three different civil rights laws.
Civil Rights Act of 1866, which prohibits race discrimination in contracting.
Title XI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibits race discrimination at federally funded universities.
And the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, which bars public universities from using racial preferences in nearly all situations.
Well, that isn't slowing them down, is it?
No, it's not.
I'm about to say it.
The lawsuit, just I'll be brief, quote, university administrators think they can flout These federal statutes with impunity because no one ever sues them over their discriminatory faculty hiring practices and the DOE, the Department of Education, looks the other way.
Lowry is asking a Texas District Court to put an end to Texas A&M's programs and appoint a court monitor to make sure that the Diversity Office does not aid or abet violations of the nation's civil rights laws.
Of course, that's all those diversity offices ever do.
That's what they exist to do.
That's what diversity, inclusion, equity is all about.
Fostering fewer and fewer positions for white people.
And as we know, if they are being so brazen as to say $100,000 Special bonus for non-whites.
You know that even if they take that down, they are going to go out of their way to discriminate against whites no matter what.
This is, I mean, if they're this brazen about it, if they're not being as brazen about it, nobody's probably going to call them on them and they'll keep doing it worse and worse and worse.
My question is, what's to stop somebody for showing up, some native Hawaiian who teaches agriculture, And, or I don't know, teaches ranching or whatever it is at Texas A&M.
Ranching's big in Hawaii, I hear.
That's right.
Big in Hawaii, in the Big Island.
They got all kind of cows out there that need expert attention.
And so he collects his $100,000, then he works there for a year, goes off someplace else.
Wondering if he can collect another $100,000 if he comes back.
I don't see why not.
I mean, you're still Native Hawaiian.
A couple more quotes real quick for you.
Though the public universities can use race as a plus factor for the time being in admissions,
it's not clear whether they can do so in faculty hiring.
These discriminatory, illegal, and anti-democratic practices have been egged on by woke ideologues
who populate the so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion offices at public and private
universities throughout the U.S.
Lowry's lawsuit says the existence of these offices "...is subverting meritocracy and encouraging wholesale violations of civil rights laws throughout our nation's university system."
Again, if something like this were to be victorious, that would be a domino effect across diversity offices across the country in a lot of ways.
I don't think it'd make much difference at all.
It would simply end these blatant no honkies need apply advertising.
I mean, you can say anybody can apply, they just don't hire the honkies.
True.
Just be quiet about it.
And, as a matter of fact, I read an article, oh, several months ago by UPenn Law School Professor Amy Wax, who is fighting for a job now for this uncontrolled truth-telling of which she seems to be incapable of controlling herself.
But she pointed out that every one of the Supreme Court rulings on racial preferences in the name of diversity apply only to college students.
They don't apply to the workplace.
They don't apply to the faculty.
Every single one has had to do with preferences for students, which suggests to me that every single time there is the slightest racial preference for a faculty member, for an employee of an ordinary corporation, or anything, that should be against all of those three laws that this professor cited.
But, we won't see.
And as you know, and as our listeners probably know, the Supreme Court is hearing a case on affirmative action that might just dropkick the whole thing.
That would be exciting.
Oh, I'd love to hear them squeal when this happens.
You see, I don't want this to dropkick it.
I want it to decapitate it.
What?
Dropkick sounds like you could recover.
Decapitation, from a legal standpoint, that's the opportunity.
Well, maybe my sports analogies are not so good.
Here is a tale of two Italians.
One is UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi.
He says that governments enacting strong border controls to prevent illegal immigrants from entering their countries are doing this because of, guess what?
Racism.
Of course, racism.
He spoke at an event in Italy, stating that he was shocked at the difference in European countries' attitude towards those fleeing the conflict in Ukraine and migrants coming to Europe from different parts of the world.
He says, for them, the response is restrictive legislation, barbed wire, naval blockades, and pushbacks.
This is racism.
We have the legal and moral duty to welcome migrants.
Where Grandy was speaking, has seen a surge of illegal immigrants arriving by sea.
With last month and July both seeing more arrivals than during the entire year of 2019.
So they're having the same thing with illegals crossing the Mediterranean that we are seeing at the Texas and Arizona borders.
Grandy is, of course, Italian.
So that's one of my Italians.
And you, I suspect, Mr. Kersey, you can probably guess who my other Italian is.
I believe she's about to be Prime Minister.
We sure hope so.
You guessed right.
It's Georgia Maloney.
And the national election will take place on September 25th.
It will probably be a little bit after we talk to our listeners next, but I am sure rooting for Giorgia Maloney and the Brothers of Italy.
She is working in coalition with Matteo Salvini's League.
Matteo Salvini used to be my favorite politician in Western Europe, but I think I'm I think Georgia Maloney is increasingly getting my nod.
And of course Silvio Berlusconi, Forza Italia.
He's only 85 years old.
He's a spry.
He's still waving away.
And the chances are these three together will win a majority of the seats in the Italian Parliament.
The coalition is strongly against illegal immigration, and although the articles don't say so, they don't much care for legal immigration either, with Georgia Maloney floating the idea of a naval blockade to stop those boats.
And pollsters expect that.
Ms.
Maloney's party will emerge as Italy's number one, taking a quarter of the vote.
I think it's interesting in these European countries with lots of parties, you can be number one with 25% of the vote.
But that would be a more than five-fold increase from the last general election of 2018.
That's really quite spectacular.
Going from 5% to 25%?
But that just goes to show you what a properly expressed anti-immigration Italy-first message can achieve.
Well, not just as a tease, but we saw the same thing in Sweden last week.
Indeed.
We'll talk to Sweden.
We move directly from Italy to Sweden.
But with Italy's electoral law favoring broad coalitions, the three conservative parties are on course to trounce the fractured center-left.
Potentially handing a Milani-led government a majority large enough even to change Italy's constitution.
Now that would be exciting.
Her slogan is Italy first.
Can you imagine that?
I, you know, it's as you say, you can imagine a lot, but it actually is going to, that's her slogan.
The Italians seem to like it.
Again, if Sweden can do what they just did, which you're going to, you're going to elucidate about in a second, I think the Italians can do it far, far better.
And in fact, you know, they're the ones that can really get things kickstarted to really put a thorn or a thumb in the eye, if you will, to the global American empire that is wanting to see the European leaders That would just be awful, wouldn't it?
Well, you know, Georgia Maloney was 15 when she entered politics.
the European Union actually putting the European people first.
That would just be awful, wouldn't it?
Well, you know, Georgia Maloney was 15 when she entered politics.
She joined the youth wing of the Italian social movement, otherwise known as MSI,
and she won her first local election at age 21 and became Italy's youngest ever minister a decade later.
Then she founded her own party with other Italian social movement veterans and named it, and I've been wondering about this, It's called the Brothers of Italy.
It's named from the opening lines of the Italian National Anthem.
In other words, the Italian National Anthem opens up with addressing Brothers of Italy.
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
I love that.
Wonderful word.
Great.
I like that too.
Brothers of Italy.
She campaigns hard for patriotism, traditional family values, while excoriating political correctness and global elites.
In a speech in support of Spain's Vox Party.
Vox Party, we haven't talked about that much, but that's a very healthy-minded party, too.
We've spoken before, but you're right.
Hopefully we'll speak more of them.
Yes, yes.
She spoke out against Islamic violence, gender ideology, and the LGBTQ lobby.
She opposes also diversity quotas to boost female presence in Parliament or the boardroom saying women have got to get to the top through merit, just the way she did.
In fact, and I find this quite remarkable and exciting too, her party's priority for women is to reverse Italy's declining birth rate.
What an idea!
What an idea!
Georgia, boy, you sure get my vote.
I wish my last name were Maloney, too, so I could vote in this election.
But moving from Italy, a little further north is Sweden.
The Sweden Democrats have already started talks with other conservative parties about forming the Nordic country's next government.
The election took place, I think, about 10 days ago.
It did.
The party gained on promises to crack down on illegal immigration and shootings and other gang violence.
Because, as you, who have followed all the news very carefully, as you know, there's just all sorts of horrible violence in Sweden.
The moderates, who got 19%, have traditionally been Sweden's leading conservative party, but they were outpolled in Sunday's election by the Sweden Democrats, who got 20.6% of the vote.
The Christian Democrats also got 5.4% of the vote.
They are another conservative party.
And now it looks like the conservatives will have a razor-thin majority.
There are four parties of them with maybe 175 versus 174 seats in the left block.
This is going to be, and apparently last I checked, not all of the overseas votes and absentee balloting has
even been counted.
Uh-oh.
So, yeah.
So, I guess you never know.
Don't go there!
Well, you never know what could happen.
So, with a majority of perhaps one seat.
In any case, Sweden is now likely to face a lengthy process to form a government.
The parties in the winning bloc will have to negotiate a common government program they can all agree on.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Magdalena Anderson's Social Democrats.
These are goofy lefties of just the goofiest variety.
She came in at the head of the biggest single party with 30.5% of the vote.
However, her coalition, the coalition of lefties of various hues,
is one seat shy of the coalition of the conservatives.
Her coalition consists of Social Democrats, the Center Party, which is really rather lefty-lefty, Greens, and something called the Left Party.
Left behind this time, but they don't have enough combined seats in the Riksdag to form a government.
So this time for sure, the Sweden Democrats are the big winners, overtaking the Moderates to become the second biggest party in Parliament, just 12 years after getting their first MPs.
So here in Europe, we see just this remarkable growth of sensible political parties.
I wish we had a sensible political party in this country.
Well, not just remarkable growth, but in the face of an almost monolistic hostile media.
Oh, yeah.
There's a corporate structure where there's even far more censorship,
whether it's social media or the speech laws you can use.
I mean, think about what we saw in France.
I believe when Le Pen was running, she was, wasn't she being charged for hate speech or
something?
Oh, yes.
Fine.
Several times.
Yeah.
I mean, it's difficult to look at this, but then you see the success of my personal favorite
politician on the planet.
That would be our friend in Hungary.
Victor?
Oh yes.
Good old Victor.
And I think you see with their policies of tax breaks for the more children that families have, I think it's just sensible things like that that can reverse... Just obvious things!
Again, there's a lot of damage to a country, but if you start repatriating refugees, if you start to get serious about stopping illegal immigration, and if you just say, hey, A lot.
You're going home.
And people will voluntarily do this.
We saw this with Trump.
People started to go back home in the early days once he was elected.
If people think that illegals are going to be sent home at the Time and place of the government's choosing, they are very much more likely to go home at a time and place of their own choosing.
At no cost, no cost to the taxpayer.
But yes, back to Sweden, the moderates and the liberals.
Those are the other members of this conservative coalition.
Their own policy positions had drifted right as the Sweden Democrats grew in popularity.
Isn't that always interesting?
You have a few guys saying sensible things and everybody else has got to say sensible things.
But they did not benefit the ballot box, losing votes to the Sweden Democrats.
The Sweden Democrats have its roots in the white power and fascist movements of the late 1980s, says Euronews.com.
They are talking in public and on the campaign trail about dangers of Islamization and openly blamed Muslim immigrants.
Now, I'm quoting directly from Euronews.
They had the audacity to, and I quote, now, openly blame Muslim immigrants for many of Sweden's social and economic problems, including a crime wave that has seen a spate of shootings and violent attacks, particularly in parts of the country with a large immigrant population.
They write these sentences with a straight face.
How dare they blame immigrants for these, I guess they think, for all these shootings and violence in immigrant neighborhoods.
I guess they think native Swedes are going in there and shooting them up, these poor passive immigrants.
Correct.
In any case, Magdalena Anderson.
Yes, Ms.
Social Democrat.
I think she's one of the ones who said Sweden doesn't have any real culture anyway.
I think that's, yes, I recall that.
Magdalena herself.
Sweden's first female prime minister warned during the campaign about the rise of the far right, noting they stood candidates with racist opinions and racist backgrounds.
They are talking a lot more about nationalism and the importance of putting Sweden first, being in favor of Sweden and its citizens, she complained.
Horrors.
What an idea.
Which is why they're trying to replace him.
And the guy, really, who has to be credited with this is 43-year-old Jimmy Atkinson.
I've been following him ever since the Sweden Democrats came on the scene, and he is credited almost single-handedly for bringing this party into the mainstream.
In the past, they'd always been frozen out of any kind of power sharing, but when you are the number two party in the country, and you are the biggest party in the winning coalition, people have to talk.
It's a tectonic shift in Swedish politics, and this is, I think, the harbinger of what's going to start seeing, what we're going to see.
Before we start this program, we just mentioned, if you guys haven't watched our listeners around the world, take a look at what Tucker Carlson's been talking about the past couple weeks.
He sounds like Jared Taylor circa 2012.
The early days of American Renaissance.
But more importantly, it's almost indistinguishable.
And I think that his audience size and the fact that he's getting this message out, and he's not losing an audience, and the power and the potency, Mr. Taylor, of the stop and sputtering, hysteric attacks on him, they failed.
And he's just going crazier.
In a good way, I should say.
Not going crazier, going saner and saner.
Yes.
Well, as I say, we have the inestimable advantage of being right.
No, you're right!
And not only that, it's if you stick to your convictions and you realize that, hey, time is only going to validate what we said.
We aren't Cassandras.
There is still time to save not only the West, but to understand that Italy, under a new government, they could literally stop this invasion.
Well, no telling what could happen if they could change the constitution.
Exactly.
I don't know what that involves or what could be realistically changed.
It could make a really nice birthday next year if you could actually go to Italy and go to Rome and just see Italians.
Meanwhile, in South Africa, some very interesting doings that just let you know what happens in a real black run country.
And we would like to think this is not the future of the United States, but those who are Cassandras might say that it is.
The South African Equality Court, I didn't know they had an equality court, I guess everybody needs an equality court and South Africa's got one, ruled that the song, Kill the Boer, Is not hate speech.
That's one of the old African National Congress songs.
It goes, kill the boar, kill the farmer.
We're talking not about black sharecroppers here, of course.
No, no, we're not.
Blacks, of course, have been torturing and killing boar farmers in South Africa for years with the apparent indifference of the government.
But chanting, kill the boar, is not hate speech.
The suit was filed against Julius Malema and the Economic Freedom Fighters.
These people are absolutely out front about wanting to take the land without compensation from whites.
In October 2020, their supporters sang Kill the Boer, Kill the Farmer outside the Magistrate's Court where the accused murderer of a farm manager named Brendan Horner were being tried.
Isn't that charming?
Hear this poor boer, this farmer, Brendan Horner, gets killed, and you get Julius Malema and the EFF out there singing, kill the boer, kill the farmer.
Well, this is not hate speech.
No, no.
Not hate speech, not hate speech.
Now, the law says that it is hate if there are words, quote, against any person that could reasonably construe to demonstrate a clear intention to be harmful, or to incite harm, or to promote or propagate hate.
Well, Kill the Boar does none of those things apparently.
However, in a different ruling in 2019, it was determined that gratuitous use of the old pre-1995 flag of South Africa, flying the flag, is hate speech.
Wow.
Yes, just flying the flag.
Judge Phineas Mojapelo said the ruling was not a complete ban, saying the use of the flag is protected for artistic, academic, journalistic, or other purposes deemed to the public interest.
But if you just plant one outside your home, that's against the law.
Whereas, getting a bunch of people and chanting, kill the boar, kill the farmer, where people who are accused of killing a farmer are on trial, that is love speech, apparently.
And at the time of that ruling in 2019, Nelson Mandela Foundation said, Gratuitous displays of the old flag express a desire for black people to be relegated to labor, a pining for the killing, the torture, the abductions, it's a melancholia for the discrimination, the squads, the curfews, and the horrific atrocities committed under that flag.
They can read your mind.
If you fly that flag, that's the only reason you'd be doing it.
I'm sure that same logic is going to be transported to the United States, if we do nothing.
And in, say, 2040, when there's a Truth and Reconciliation Committee here, the same thing will be said about, not the stars and bars, Mr. Taylor, but the red, white, and blue.
Old Gloria herself.
I don't see why not.
There were many, many more years of slavery under that flag than under the stars and bars.
Let us not forget.
Meanwhile, the Phoenix Suns, gosh, they have really been on the rampage against their owner.
This is one of the more extraordinary stories we've talked about in 2022, and it's only going to be for a few brief moments.
The Phoenix Suns owner, Robert Sarver, has been suspended and fined $10 million for racist language.
At least, like Papa John, he didn't lose his pizza company.
For daring to utter the N-word out of context on a call with his marketing team.
But he was just quoting somebody.
Exactly.
The NBA levied a heavy fine and a year-long suspension Tuesday against The Sun's owner Robert Sarver after an investigation found he used racist language and fostered a hostile work environment, though the league did not require him to sell the team.
Sarver will pay a $10 million fine, the largest sum allowed under the NBA's bylaws, and is suspended for one year from managing or representing the Suns.
Or, and I know this is going to make you feel really sad, Mr. Taylor, the Women's National Basketball Association's Phoenix Mercury, which he also owns, the league's head.
The horror.
The NBA said it found Sarver said the N-word at least five times when, quote, when recounting the statements of others, end quote,
and use derogatory language and sexually charged comments toward and about women and bullied employees.
Now, if you remember last year at this time, the head coach of the former Oakland Raiders, now
the Los Angeles Raiders.
His name, I can't believe it escapes me, but he was forced to resign because of an investigation into emails.
And you were always incredulous as to what was actually in those emails.
What was in them?
We never found out.
But all we were told is that the contents were racist.
No, I just don't know the bylaws.
I'd be curious to read the bylaws.
On what grounds can they fine somebody $10 million for racism?
I don't know.
I've never read the... I've never had the interest in actually perusing the NBA bylaws.
I'd just like to know the ins and outs of it.
Maybe the WNBA bylaws.
Yeah, no.
The probe?
So here we go.
This is where it gets interesting and it kind of brings back memories of Bubba Wallace and the whole NASCAR news situation when the FBI went and they combed the area.
Yes, dozens of agents.
The probe, which included 320 interviews, And the examination of 80,000 emails, texts, and videos came after ESPN released a report on allegations of misconduct in November of 2021.
Could you read those numbers again?
Yeah.
The probe, which included 320 interviews, and the examination of 80,000 emails, texts, and videos came after ESPN released a report on allegations of misconduct in November of 2021.
Now Sarver, he's going to be required to undergo sensitivity training, his time away from his teams.
That'll do him a power good, I'm sure.
I'm sure he's gonna take copious notes.
Sarver said last year he welcomed the NBA's probe, but his legal team denied the allegations to ESPN at the time.
And remember, as we mentioned earlier, he is being fined and suspended for saying the N-word Quote, when recounting the statements of others, end quote.
That's exactly what Papa John did with Papa John.
By the way, I've not had a Papa John pizza since he was forced out of his own company.
It's also, I believe we're gonna get to the next part.
So, it's reminiscent of former Los Angeles Clipper owner Donald Sterling, who the NBA banned for life in 2014 when his racist comments were revealed, forcing him to sell the franchise.
What exactly did he say?
Do you remember?
Did he use the N-word?
Wasn't he dating some gratuitously callipygous non-white woman?
Who he apparently said the N-word to a couple times.
I believe that's the case.
Maybe one of our astute listeners can remind us.
I remember there was a girlfriend involved and didn't she rat him out?
Yeah.
Who knows?
Hey, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
Trust me on that one.
Last year's ESPN report... Oh, no, no, I've just heard that.
Okay, I was gonna say, I can't inquire any deeper.
No, no, there's nothing to inquire, but that's Shakespeare, right?
That is Shakespeare, yes.
Yeah, the Bard knows what's up.
Unfortunately, Donald Sterling didn't take the Bard's advice.
So last year, ESPN reportedly detailed the accusations against Sarver, using accounts from four employees, including Sarver, explaining to the staff that the son should have That the Sun should have a black head coach because these N-words need a N-word.
Referring to the league's majority black player population.
Well, that doesn't sound like quoting people.
If that's what he said, these N-words need an N-word?
It's alleged that he said this.
It's alleged.
Sarver stepped down as the executive chairman of Western Alliance Bank Corporation in April amid the investigation.
Forbes, this article comes from Forbes.
We estimate the Suns to be worth $1.8 billion, making it the 18th most valuable franchise in the NBA.
Sarver purchased the franchise in 2004 for a mere $401 million.
2004 for a mere $401 million.
Wow.
Wow.
Sounds like a great businessman.
How many teams are there?
It sounds like it's the bottom in terms of value.
I think it's mid-level.
I believe there's 32 teams in the NBA.
Might be 28, might be 30.
Phoenix is not the biggest market, but I don't follow the NBA except when you see a story
like this and you see that again.
Even in not such great... 80,000 emails, texts, and videos.
I would hate to see the legal bills that that cost for that discovery.
Well, and I suspect that these people were interviewed were not under oath so they could just say absolutely anything they pleased.
Meanwhile, there's news from the Department of Defense.
Kalissa Wing, an African Americanist, I hasten to point out at the outset, who is Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer of the Department of Defense's Education Branch.
She oversees the curriculum for K-12 education for the Department of Defense community.
In other words, there's schools on bases and so she makes sure that the little kiddies of the soldiers all around the world get taught right.
Oh, you know what that means?
Well, I do know what it means.
At least she has a pretty clear idea of what it means.
It has come to light that she has tweeted such things as, I am exhausted with these white folks In these professional development sessions.
This lady actually had the cawdacity.
Have you ever heard of cawdacity?
I've never heard cawdacity, but I guess that's Caucasian.
Caucasian audacity.
That's actually an awesome term.
I like that.
I mean, thank you for birthing that for us.
Well, you know, from the outhouse to the White House, those black folks come up with great new English terms.
This lady actually had the cawdacity to say that black people can be racist too.
I had to stop the session and give Karen the business.
Mmm.
I wonder what getting the business from Kalisha Wing is like.
Means don't be caudacious.
Well, I should think not.
Boy, I wish I'd been there.
Hearing Kalisha Wing give Karen the business.
Also, she has tweeted, being anti-racist means being active against racism.
You will never arrive!
See, that's just it.
This is a sin from which we can never be forgiven.
We will never get there.
Never arrive.
There is one way we can be forgiven, and I think there's the first black republic.
I think that was kind of the answer to what the ultimate goal might be.
No, no, no.
I think there is no salvation even in death.
We are racist from the grave.
Wow!
Well, I mean, I'm not quoting her here, but we can never arrive.
Wing also responded to a user, a Twitter user, who said, I am exhausted by 99% of the white men in education and 95% of the white women.
So 99% of white males are no good, but 95% of white women, 1% of white males and 5% of white females.
That's right.
So white, white ladies are five times more likely to be acceptable to this And so she says, where can I get a break from white nonsense for a while?
A wing tweeted back and said, if another Karen tells me about her feelings, I might lose it.
So this is a lady, once again, who is setting the curriculum for all the schools for DOD employees.
She also called former President Donald Trump, the whole boy version of a Karen.
I like that.
She uses inventive language.
And his former Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, is the Queen of Cameron's.
Now, DoD did not respond to media requests for comments about these tweets, and her account is now private.
So, she is no longer publicizing these remarks, but there's more to this story than tweeting.
She wrote a children's book just last year as part of the Racial Justice in America series, and it's called What is White Privilege?
Judging from the cover, it appears to be sort of K-5 is the target.
And it says, White privilege hurts a lot of people.
If you are white, you might feel bad about hurting others, or you might feel afraid to lose this privilege.
Isn't this just exactly what you want?
Your children being taught in the DoD schools?
It's all I want them to be taught.
Then she says, will you really feel good at the end of the race when you look back and see others fighting obstacles that you didn't even have?
Think about all the advantages you have every day, because you are white.
The end of what race, by the way?
Any race, any race!
Okay, I'm just curious, is this the race to get to Haiti, or is this the race to get to Detroit?
Is this the race to get to a waterless Jackson?
I mean... Yes, no, the race to clean drinking water, the race to a new job, you know?
All those poor white people are tangled up because they had hurdles and obstacles in the way that you just soared right over because they weren't even there.
She goes on to say to all these little white children leading the book, privilege is like extra money in your pocket you didn't earn.
That's what being white's all about.
How much extra money do you have in your pocket that you didn't earn, Mr. Kersey?
Then, let's see, what does she say?
In another book that she co-authored called What is Anti-Racism?
She claims that, quote, the modern idea of race was introduced by the National Party of Germany.
Really?
Yes.
I didn't know that.
I didn't know that either, and I'm not quite sure what she means by the National Party.
Maybe she means the National Socialist Party, but that's who introduced the modern idea of race, so now we know.
Now, when Kalissa Wing, and her name is spelled K-E-L-I-S-S-A, so maybe I'm spelling it right, but you never know.
It could be Key Liza.
Kalissa Wing was promoted to Chief in December 2021.
Her boss, Thomas Brady, This is the guy who runs all of education for DOD, not just for schools.
She said, Calissa Wing is exactly the right person to lead our efforts.
She will be identifying and improving how we integrate the practice of diversity, equity, and inclusion into every aspect of the Department of Defense's education branch, from curriculum and assessment to hiring and professional development.
See, she's in charge of it all.
And I'm sure she is doing a bang up job.
Meanwhile, This is a story from Showbiz.
The Little Mermaid has been recast as a live-action adaptation of the popular Disney Princess cartoon.
It now stars Halle Bailey, 22, who is black.
She is Ariel.
She is the Little Mermaid.
And since Disney announced that Ms.
Halle would be playing the Disney Princess in the adaptation, there has been a certain amount of grumbling.
And when the trailer for the live-action version appeared on YouTube, within two days it got over 1.5 million dislikes.
Ooh, those bad, bad ratios.
This happens with a lot of things.
It does, it does.
And then you know what happened?
I gotta guess.
YouTube disabled the dislike counter.
They disliked the disliked.
So when I checked... It gets ratioed.
Just this very day, I checked and there were 11,000 likes, but all those one and a half million likes had disappeared.
There were no dislikes.
I clicked on the dislike, but it just winked at me and didn't register.
So this is yet another form of censorship.
An unknown form of censorship.
Censorship.
However, now, this is interesting.
According to ABC News, parents of young black girls are posting videos of their thrilled and delighted children reacting to the trailer.
They're liking it.
Mommy, says a little girl in the video, she's brown like me.
Okay.
And another little girl says, is Ariel actually black?
She has sense enough to be skeptical.
I don't know how much of this is going on, but ABC News thinks it's marvelous and is posting these little videos all around the world.
As it turns out, director Rob Marshall said that the live-action remake will honor the original animated film, but that he wanted to bring some depth to the story.
Bring some depth.
So, turning her black.
That brings all sorts of depth.
All sorts of depth.
Now, of course, I mean, I don't at all hold it against black people who want to see black people in movies and television.
They have BET, after all.
And they can make their own princesses if they'd like.
I'm sure there are plenty of black African princesses that they could find if they just hunt a little harder.
They don't have to turn.
Wasn't that a Hans Christian?
No.
Was it a Hans Christian Ancestor, the original Little Mermaid?
I believe it's Dutch.
Maybe.
I bet one of our listeners knows.
I believe that's true.
I will say this.
Disney tried back in the late 2000s, the first part of the 21st century, To have a black princess, the Princess and the Frog.
And this movie bombed.
But now they've got a different... They haven't taken an original European fairy tale and turned that black.
Didn't they cook up their whole brand new... Correct!
Yeah, it didn't take off.
What was her name?
Malamuma or something?
I don't... I think it wasn't the Princess and the Frog.
This was, sure enough, African Princess.
Oh, I didn't know that.
Princess and the Frog, I believe, is set in Orleans.
Well, a lot of frogs down there.
But now, from the director, I had never heard of Rob Marshall before, because I pay no attention to showbiz.
But from his photo, he certainly looks white.
Now, Wikipedia says this about him.
As of at least 2007, Marshall lives in New York City with his partner, producer John DeLuca.
At least of 2007.
Now, 15 years later, you think Rob and John are still an item?
You never know.
You never know.
But at least as of 2007, Rob and John were just lovey-dovey.
Now, you've got another showbiz story for us from Rings of Power.
We talked about Rings of Power last week.
It is perhaps one of the most expensive forms of entertainment, be it a movie, be it a TV show, and that was just for the rights to be acquired.
for these appendices by by Jeff Bezos and Amazon.
Then they made the movie.
I'm sorry, they made this TV series.
They have committed to make five seasons regardless of how it's being received by very, very loyal fans of J.R.R.R.
Tolkien.
I myself have not seen it, full disclosure.
I've read from people who are Big fans of his.
All I need to know to avoid this series that it's a travesty and the ratings are apparently woeful and it is going to be a very big money, money loss.
Now just like you said, Amazon has disabled the reviews.
You can't leave a review of this because apparently a bunch of racist trolls came and just said, hey, listen, you know, this show sucks.
Oh, it's because it's because about, you know, it's got diversity.
No, this show just sucks.
I see.
So even, even with the Negroid, Elves.
Yes, well here we go.
And Hispanic hobbits.
The Rings of Power star Lenny Henry implies critics of Amazon's race swapping are racist.
Race swapping, okay.
Yeah, quote, just like the race swapping of Ariel in The Little Mermaid.
They have no problem believing in a dragon but can't accept that a black person could be a hobbit or an elf, end quote.
Well, I don't believe in dragons and I also don't accept that a black person could be a hobbit or an elf.
Well, do you believe in hobbits?
Do you believe in elves?
I think he got you there.
Or did he?
Or did he?
Perhaps I do.
Well.
Like so many before him who have defaulted to the same tired excuse in order to defend
any number of live action Hollywood adaptations from criticism about a given project's bastardization
of its source material, series star Lennie Henry has dismissed critics of The Lord of
the Rings, The Rings of Power, Power's race swapping of Tolkien's original creation as
nothing more than racists who can't handle the idea that, quote, a black person could
be a member of the court or a hobbit or an elf.
The comedian who portrays the non-Hobbit Hobbit, Sadoke Burroughs, and Amazon's multi-multi-million dollar swing and miss.
That's how they describe it, actually.
They do?
This is bounding into comics.
They call it a swing and miss?
Yeah, which is hilarious because you're kind of Burying the lead there, they're basically saying, yeah, this show sucks, but yeah, we agree.
If you don't like it, you must be racist too.
But again, let me say that again.
Multi-million dollar swing and a miss offered his thoughts on the critics of the series changes to Tolkien's dutiful and explicitly crafted world during an interview he gave with GQ.
Well, you know, whenever a classically white character turns black, objection to that is racist.
Yeah, we saw that with Star Wars Episode VII.
If there were ever a classically black character that turned white, oh my gosh, that would be absolutely outrageous.
I mean, Little Black Sambo, can he be white?
You know, can you have the story of Jackie Robinson, have a black man play it?
I don't think so.
I heard that actually Ryan Reynolds, he's a Canadian actor, he was up for the role of MLK in an adaptation.
The Black Panther.
The eponymous Black Panther.
He died of cancer.
I don't think they're recast.
I think they're just having him actually die.
T'Challa.
Yeah, there were a couple white actors who were definitely not up for that role because that can't be.
That absolutely cannot be.
No, it can't be.
I mean, race is a social construct.
That's why you couldn't have Brad Pitt be Martin Luther King.
That would be a tremendous cast.
He'd make a great... I have a dream that that actually takes place.
Because you know what?
The arc of justice bends toward Brad Pitt playing MLK.
Let's get to that.
I'll say it does.
Very good.
Okay.
Prompted to address the subject by GQ Associate Digital Editor Ben Allen's inquiry of, quote, what made you want to get involved in the Rings of Power?
Henry's bluntly began, I love fantasy.
I've been reading comics since I was nine.
Tolkien was from Birmingham and the Shire is based on the on the Lycee Hills of Birmingham.
It all very much feels like something to me.
However, despite feeling this connection to Lord of the Rings, he noted that often, quote, when you're watching these things, you don't see yourself as a black person.
But what's interesting about this being told from a 21st century perspective, things are being reconfigured.
And I liked that.
End quote.
Reconfigured.
You mean the Great Replacement comes to Middle Earth?
That's right.
It's all reconfigured.
It's all great.
Yes.
Quote, I agreed to be in the show because maybe some kid would be watching this one day and they'll see co-stars Ismael Cruz Cordova and Sofia Nomvit and they'll see me and go, yeah, I can wield a sword.
Yeah, I can rock a bow and arrow.
This is a groundbreaking moment.
Yeah, because so many people are carrying around swords and bows and arrows now.
I can be a hobbit too!
I can go cosplay at some nerd convention and pretend that I'm a black hobbit.
Yeah, okay, whatever.
Met in turn with the assertion from Alan that it feels like the big news fantasy franchises are finally diversifying.
Finally?
Yeah, HBO's The House of Dragon, Netflix's The Witcher.
There's a post scene of trying to be more inclusive than we are in this world.
Um, and so they're really excited about this all happening and that it's not just a lazy screenwriting trope, but it, uh, it needs to take place.
Um, and again, then he goes on to denigrate anybody who attacks the show and in the way it's being received as, hey, listen, you believe in a dragon, you gotta believe in a black hobbit, a black elf.
No, thanks.
I'm going to go watch Two Towers again or Fellowship of the Ring or Return of the King and never have to worry about a world that Tolkien didn't envision, but the world that was so beautifully Transmitted from paper to screen by Peter Jackson.
What a bigot you are.
Sure.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, dignitaries gathered to inaugurate a footbridge only for the structure to collapse beneath their feet.
To the barely concealed delight of onlookers.
This is all on video.
I've seen it.
Just as an organizer cut the ribbon at the ceremony in the Mont Nga Fulat district in Kinshasa, the bridge buckled.
The bridge buckled, both its handrails broke off, and the central section smashed into a stream a couple of meters below.
Spectators shouted in glee as the VIPs struggled to get away from the crumpled wreck.
One of the last people to climb free was a man in military fatigues and dark glasses who was clutching an unopened bottle of champagne.
Gotta save that stuff.
Best not to waste it.
Normally, it's like when a boat goes off for the first time in its maiden voyage.
Best not to waste it by breaking it over on a bridge.
I'm sure the champagne will be put to much better use.
But, you know, the principles of physics are racist.
We all know that, and this is a perfect example.
These poor African engineers were tricked into using Newtonian principles that were devised, like everything else in the West, as a trick to tempt blacks to their doom.
And, oh, their bridge fell down.
Oh, dear me.
Another story here.
Did you know that there is a BBC World Service Pigeon version?
Pigeon English.
And I will read a few passages from a recent article called, Which Kind of a King Charles Gobi?
As King Charles no go get him own passport or driving license again, or get strong opinions for public.
Being monarch supersede the individual.
One constitutional expert, Professor Vernon Bogdanoff, talk.
Him done savvy from him earliest days, say him style go need change.
The public no go want monarch, they want campaign.
Professor Bogdanoff, talk.
King Charles savvy say him need today less spoken.
I no day that stupid.
I sabby say not separate exercise being sovereign.
Im talk.
Just a few key passages from the BBC Pigeon Service.
And oh my gosh.
Our cup runneth over, but our time runneth under.
Mr. Kersey, that's the way it always is.
It is.
You know, I had another great story about yet another rapper gone to glory.
Save it for next week because that's an amazing story where incoming stereotypes Well, and I do think being a rapper is the most dangerous profession in the entire United States.
But, once again, ladies and gentlemen, we do love to hear from you.
And, if you missed it, if you tuned in late, the way to reach us is at the beginning of the program, right at the start.
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