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Dec. 6, 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 irreplaceable, irrepressible, and inimitable co-host, Paul Kersey.
Thank you for that introduction.
Great one.
Yes.
How are you today, Mr. Kersey?
You know what?
It's getting closer and closer to Christmas, so I just want to wish all of our listeners around the world, I hope you're having a wonderful start to December.
This is our One of the last podcasts of 2022.
Can you believe it?
I guess I have no choice but to believe it.
This is December 6th, Year of Our Lord 2022.
And let us start with a comment.
Now, apparently last week we talked about how a bunch of killings in a house can reduce the property value.
I can't remember just what that story was, but I remember there was such a story.
And by the time I get to the end of this comment, you, who remember everything, will remember what the story was.
But our commenter says he reminds us of the Heaven's Gate cult.
This was quite an interesting thing when it happened back in March of 1997.
A fellow named Marshall Applewhite started a cult.
And it was believed that they would ascend into a spaceship once they left their bodies by killing themselves.
Yes, an interesting and amusing little religion to belong to.
And yes, it was back, sorry, in March of 97, Marshall and 38 of his followers were found dead in a luxurious mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, California.
The police found almost all 39 of them wearing matching clothes and shoes, and the bodies were shrouded in purple cloth.
Autopsies later revealed that they consumed applesauce, laced with barbiturates, and then they had vodka as a chaser.
They had to maintain celibacy, and some of the male bodies in the mansion were found to be castrated.
Castrated!
After the mass suicide, people were naturally apprehensive about the house, and this affected its real estate value.
The property was eventually bought by a local developer for $668,000 two years later, and this was much lower than the real value.
The land itself was considered to be worth $1.4 million.
So, now, do you remember the story that prompted this comment?
Yeah, we were talking about high rates of crime, just these ridiculous, horrifying Primes that take place in black communities, and what that does to repress property value.
And I pointed out that I think the only equivalent, because we were talking about the study that came out about the rise in gun homicides, homicides from 2019 to 2021 during COVID, as police have just stood down.
And I pointed out, well, I guess the equivalent is if there's a suicide, since white males are predominantly those who commit suicide.
And I said, Is that the only thing that would affect property value in a white community is if there was a home where there was a suicide?
That's right.
It was suicides in white communities.
Well, if there were 39 of them all in one place, I think that really might drag the property value down.
Second comment.
This is from a listener in Alaska, and it has to do with last week's podcast interview with our AmRen contributor, Joseph K.
Now, I assume that many who listen to Mr. Kersey and me also might have listened to the Kay interview.
And so the listener says, your guest explained how different groups vacation in the Catskills separately.
I'd always thought of it as a Jewish holiday making place, but he said you get all kinds of different ethnic groups and they all clump together.
And our listener says, it reminds me of a group of subcontinental Indians to whom I gave a tour.
They were immigrants doing quite well in our racist hellscape of a country, and they were vacationing together as a group.
It was a huge greyhound bus full of them, and I provided tour guide commentary as we went through the Alaska countryside.
And I decided to tell a little joke.
I said, now I see you folks are of Indian descent.
Do you know why the American Indians got here ahead of you?
They had reservations.
Well, this was met with uproarious laughter.
I was pleased my joke landed well and relieved that not everyone in the U.S.
is looking for an excuse to be offended.
Now, I know you didn't laugh, Mr. Kersey.
You must not be an Indian.
It wasn't uproariously funny.
Not uproariously funny.
I guess you had to be there, you had to be an Indian.
Now, reparations.
Reparations are the done thing these days, and the city of Providence, Rhode Island, is really getting a jump on the bandwagon here.
It has allocated $10 million for black and indigenous residents.
But this move has sparked backlash.
Why would that be?
It's because some residents, white residents, will also be eligible to apply.
That's apparently the only reason anybody's angry about this, Mr. Kersey.
Mayor Jorge Elorza signed the budget into law in November to deliver the funds to some of the city's black and Native American communities who will qualify automatically for some of the perks.
Yes, the mayor of Providence is Jorge Elorza.
Sounds like a H.P.
Lovecraft character, Mr. Taylor.
Well, from his photographs, I think he could fit into an H.P.
Lovecraft story.
He looks just like a Jorge Elorza.
But because these federal funds cannot be splashed out to specific races, White residents who make up a third of the city's population can also apply so long as they earn less than $50,000 a year, live in certain neighborhoods, and have been in the state for at least three years.
But no such requirements apply to Blacks or American Indians.
So there you go.
White privilege.
Hard at work.
The reparations budget was formalized in Rhode Island.
As part of what was called the COVID-19 equities budget, which was funded with the Federal American Rescue Plan Act money.
For those of those of you who don't recall, that was a part of a $2 trillion plan that was supposed to speed up the recovery of the economy from the effects of COVID.
But it looks as though Providence, Rhode Island, decided to divert the funds to help black people recover from the lingering effects of slavery.
Now, the Providence plan got started in 2020 after, guess what?
George Floyd died in Minneapolis.
And as the protests began to flare, Mayor Alorza signed an order creating a Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Committee.
They did one better on the South Africans.
The South Africans just had a truth and reconciliation, but boy, we've got to have reparations.
And last year, the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Committee published a 194-page report examining the struggle for African heritage and indigenous people equal rights in Providence.
Well, Providence has been occupied for a long time in the United States, in pre-colonial times, so I guess it had to have at least a 195-page report for all the bad things white people did.
And then the American Rescue Plan happened to drop out of the sky, and Mayor Elorza decided how he was going to hand out part of the swag.
So, isn't that a heartwarming Christmas story for all of you sitting around the tree, hoping to get something next this year?
Now, Mr. Kersey, I believe you have a story about Disney.
Splash me.
Yeah, I hope.
Listen, I know a lot of our listeners have children, and you might be heading down to Walt Disney World down there in Florida.
If you are, you've got till January 23rd, because as Outkick.com reports, I love that website, fantastic website Clay Travis runs.
Disney closing Splash Mountain next month because of racism.
Well, as he writes, or one of his writers states, the woke got Splash Mountain.
Last week, Disney announced it would permanently close the iconic theme park ride on January 23rd, 2023.
So you've got just over a month to get one more ride.
Have you ever ridden Splash Mountain?
I have never been to Disneyland or Disney World.
Oh, well, you're missing out.
It's actually a great ride.
I don't like to get wet.
Well, then, you know what?
Stay on the reservation.
I guess you can get wet on the reservation if we're talking anyways.
My point is this.
I have great memories of going to Walt Disney World and riding this ride.
When you go down the log flume and you splash at the bottom, you get this picture taken of you that you can obviously purchase.
They do this at a lot of the, at, you know, Busch Gardens, Six Flags.
They get a picture of you, you know, screaming and, you know, doing a really great facial and facial expression.
And I've got this great photo of my family from decades ago doing Splash Mountain.
So I definitely gonna have to ask my parents if they can locate that,
because I'd like to look at it and have fond memories.
But according to Disney, Splash Mountain is racist.
The ride promotes racial stereotypes, and thus must depart the Magic Kingdom swiftly.
Disney decided Splash Mountain was racist after complaints over the ride's source material, the 1946 film Song of the South, which supposedly portrays plantation life as historically insensitive.
Bob, I, oh go ahead.
Oh, no, I was just going to say that I've seen Song of the South.
I had seen this terrible buildup of how wickedly racist it was.
It's not demeaning to blacks at all.
In fact, it's rather admiring of the sort of Uncle Remus character, who is really a lovable old black guy admired by a little white child.
All the hullabaloo about this is just utter nonsense.
Yeah, I mean, I remember seeing it when I was younger and I thought it was a great film, but The new CEO, the returning CEO of Disney, I should say, Bob Iger, has expressed a disapproval of the film during a 2020 shareholders meeting.
He said, quote, I felt as long as I've been CEO that Song of the South was, even with a disclaimer, just not appropriate in today's world.
End quote.
You can't buy.
It's in Disney's vault.
It's not on Blu-ray, it's not on DVD, it's not on 4K.
You can't stream it.
on the Disney on the Disney Channel and Disney plus, you know, I'm surprised they actually haven't taken Swiss
family Robinson down because that's such a great film of, of
you know, white family surviving, and they have to battle hordes of a multiracial pirate group. It's a great
film if you haven't seen in a while.
It's a multi a multiracial pirate group.
God, yes, there there, there's a multiracial pirate group that
they battle and they beat to protect their little enclave that they've created.
They're a little bitopia.
They're Little Whitepia, yeah.
In 2019, a Change.org petition gathered 21,000 signatures to order Disney to close Splash Mountain.
However, the command was met with a counterpetition with over 100,000 signatures, five times the amount.
Quote, Splash Mountain has never included depictions of slaves or any racist elements and is based solely on historical African-American folktales that families of all ethnicities have been enjoying for nearly a century.
End quote.
The popular petition read, it's absurd to pander to a small group of Disney haters that do not understand the story.
Regrettably, Disney sided with minority of easily offended signees who have probably never experienced the joy of the ride.
Again, it's a fun ride.
It's no Space Mountain, but it's pretty good for being Splash Mountain.
You know, this is so typical.
What is it?
20,000 people said Splash Mountain's got to go.
100,000 people wrote in to say, no, it's fine.
Nothing racist about it.
What does Disney do?
Gets rid of Splash Mountain.
Well, not only does it get rid of Splash Mountain, they're going to replace it with Tiana's Bayou Adventure, which will carry on the legacy of The Princess and the Frog, which was the first Disney cartoon featuring a black heroine named Tiana set in New Orleans.
And it did not do that well at the box office when it came out back in 2000, I think 2008 or 2009.
I think 2008 or 2009, so.
Well, I see.
Well, you'll have to go back and experience the new Disney, Mr. Kersey.
We'll see if your screaming space will be any different from the one you took back at Splash Mountain Days.
Oh, you know, it's, uh, it would be fun to have that exact same photo of all my family members to do, you know.
I think we went in 1994, so it would be fun to go, you know, 28, oh gosh, 29 years later if we were able to do it in January.
So, crazy.
Wow.
Well, I've got a story here about judging the judges.
There's been a survey recently conducted of 50 federal judges.
It was undertaken by two former judges and a law professor.
Most of the judges who participated and were selected were appointed by a Democrat president.
Many are minority groups.
And by their own admission, they discriminate on the basis of race when they choose their law clerks.
And in fact, it was minority judges who were the most unabashed about taking race and or ethnicity into account.
Most of the judges who agreed to participate, they were happy to acknowledge their preference for hiring people who look like them.
And they did not see themselves as confessing to a practice that is in fact unlawful for other employers.
Of course, viewing race and ethnicity as reasons for hiring is discrimination on its face.
And one of the judges said it was his overall goal to hire two women and at least one clerk of color.
Well, that's basically a set-aside or a quota, a form of discrimination that is so blatant That institutions like Harvard claim, utterly unpersuasively by the way, but they claim they don't do it.
And the study confirms that a very significant portion of the federal appellate judiciary, and the survey encompassed nearly 30% of it, strongly favors and practices race-based preferences.
So it will be interesting to see what happens In the judiciary after the Harvard University of North Carolina decision will come out later this summer, in which judges will be deciding whether or not race based preferences are constitutional.
And as I've predicted many times, what will happen if that's the case, if it's made illegal, then what the universities will do is simply get rid of any kind of objective criterion so that you would never know the extent to which they are discriminating.
And probably these federal judges will continue to blatantly discriminate in favor of their own race, too.
So you think you make things illegal.
They just go underground.
So I suppose it'll be just like marijuana until maybe it's made legal again someday in the future.
And another story here from the Chattanooga School District.
This is in Hamilton County.
In the past decade, the number of residents in this district who identified as Hispanic rose nearly 81% in the last decade.
And that's compared to 23% nationwide.
Nationwide, Mr. Kersey, the number of Hispanics or Latinos rose 23%.
That's a pretty brisk rate of increase over the last 10 years.
Well, why was the increase in Hispanics so great in Hamilton County, Tennessee?
Many Hispanics relocated the neighboring state of Georgia after a state law authorized police to investigate the immigration status and arrest undocumented immigrants.
That went into effect in 2011.
Now, who would be driven out of the state by a law like that?
I think we can be pretty sure it was not legal residents.
Well, as it turns out, there is a high school called Howard School.
It's one of the 10 schools in the district where Hispanic students are the largest single ethnic or racial group.
The number of English language learners at this school represented 56% of all the English language learners in the district.
So a lot of people don't speak English.
And for decades, the school was known for predominantly serving black students, but enrollment data show that at least half of the student body has been Hispanic for the past five years.
So blacks are being edging out.
And most of the 40 soccer players are Guatemalan.
And the larger school community has taken an interest in the team because they've been district champions.
And at the start of the day, students listen to assistant principal Charles Mitchell, read announcements in English and then in Spanish.
I guess because otherwise some of the students won't understand.
Well, all this sounds delightful, diverse, enriching, wonderful, but a Hamilton County Schools long-time board member, school board member named Rhonda Thurman, not Hispanic, she has said that the rising number of Hispanic students who speak little or no English is overwhelming the schools.
She says, teachers tell me they cannot give the attention they deserve to the English speaking students because they have to devote so much time to try to help the Hispanic students catch up.
Now, as you can imagine, this is just pure horror.
This is an unspeakable act of racism on her part.
To the point that CEMILLAS, I believe CEMILLAS means seeds in Spanish.
CEMILLAS, a non-profit group focused on racial and educational justice for Latinos.
Got that, Mr. Gersey?
I got it.
Racial and educational justice.
Ah, boy.
Has called for Thurman's resignation and for a new task force to create an action plan That would better serve the needs of Latino students and parents.
Their online petition has garnered nearly 1,400 signatures.
But you know, it's pretty doggone nervy when you think about it.
These illegals waltz into the county, and then they start insisting that we cater to their particular needs.
I mean, gosh, hard to imagine anything that is much more brazen.
There were English as a second language teachers who heard that their students might have been
referred to as a burden.
And they all got together and signed a letter calling the remarks offensive to these students,
their families, and those of us who teach them.
Now this article that is clearly a blast at this woman who has been on the school board
for many years and cares and actually cares about whether or not English speakers get
an education.
This article appeared in CNN and it's written by a certain Nicole Chavez, likewise a Hispanic.
And the title, of course, the title of the article was Racist rhetoric greets increasing population of Latino students in this Tennessee county.
Racist rhetoric.
To say that having to deal with people who don't speak English is a burden, that's racist rhetoric these days, and clearly this is designed to push her out.
This stuff is really abominable and outrageous.
But I have, I'm afraid, another abominable and outrageous story here.
There seems to be no dearth of these, Mr. Kersey, and this one has to do with a fellow named Paul Curry.
He is a tenured professor of psychology at Reed College.
Well, students have been demanding his ouster since March.
They've been on a long March campaign to get rid of Paul Curry.
A video surfaced of him making what are called racist remarks.
Well, Let's again see what passes for racism these days.
Do tell.
I beg your pardon?
Do tell.
I'm curious.
Yes.
Well, this video first posted to social media appears to show Curry arguing with employees at a business while he is sitting in his car.
This must be a drive-thru window or something.
And the video starts with Curry saying something about hiring illegal immigrants.
He then asks an employee beyond camera range whether she was born in the United States.
She says she was born in Portland.
And Curry replies, and was your colleague, your rude colleague, born in the United States?
Now, that is the most detailed description of the video I can find.
The video itself is no longer visible anywhere that I could find.
And it's unclear where this altercation occurred and what preceded his conversation or who shot the video.
All this is unclear.
But that's the long and the short of it, Mr. Kersey.
Well, if you go back to a news article from March, it says the administration's response to the incident evolved dramatically over the course of less than a week.
Changing from the president of the college, calling the professor a valued member of the community, to condemning his behavior in the strongest possible terms.
Now, what might cause an opinion of the very same video to change so dramatically?
Well, as it turns out, there was a noisy student protest outside the president's office.
And after the protest, there were signs abandoned and graffiti along the hallways of the administration building.
Isn't that lovely?
Paint graffiti along the halls of the administration building.
And students' ire was focused on President Audrey Bilger and other top officials.
One of the students wrote up and down the hallways and the stairways, read protects racists.
You'd think they'd get arrested for vandalism, but that didn't happen.
And another big sign said, it's not just Paul Curry that is the fellow involved.
Not just him.
Everybody else is racist because they're protecting racists.
Well, this, of course, persuaded these weak-kneed, limp-wristed, spineless people who run the place to change their minds.
And even after they changed their minds, some first-generation immigrants were saying the school had not done enough.
It had not done enough to punish Professor Paul Curry or taken any tangible action that would reassure the college's students of color and immigrant students that they were safe and valued at Reed.
It's just a bunch of words, said one first-generation immigrant from Kenya.
There was no real change or action happening to help POC or immigrants whatsoever.
I mean, again, the nerve, the nerve.
These people waltz into the country.
I'm overusing the word waltz, but that's the way I see it.
And then they insist that everything turns around them.
Of course, they're walking with confidence.
They're walking knowing that there's not going to be a burden to their entry.
Nope, nope.
And they just insist that the world revolve around them.
There are plenty of white people who say that it should.
And so in an email to the campus community after the protests, President Bilger said Curry's words and actions are antithetical to Reid's values of inclusion and respect.
Well, Professor Curry, who was a tenured professor And on sabbatical at the time that this incident took place, he issued a written apology.
He groveled in the most despicable way.
I know I have deeply offended you, and for that I am truly sorry.
There is no excuse to ever engage in offensive and discriminatory behavior, and I accept full responsibility for my actions.
Now, all of that was in March, as soon as the video appeared.
Well, he has now resigned.
Effective January 6, 2023.
So, loose lips, sink ships, Mr. Kersey, these are bad and dangerous times we live in.
Well, I believe at UVA, there's been a bit of a fracas that you'd like to tell us about.
Oh, yes!
Yet again, another one of these stories that immediately upon being promulgated gets a lot of press, and then When we find out the culprit, well, kind of buried in a file that's never opened again except by people like you and me.
This is from collegefix.com.
I'd like to say thank you to Andy Neo, the very brave journalist who is one of the bright spots on Twitter, both pre and post Elon Musk's purchasing of the platform.
Are you back on Twitter yet?
No, I'm not.
I'm waiting and hoping, but not yet.
All sorts of other people have beat me to being back on Twitter, but I would love to have my 40,000 followers back.
I'm waiting.
You could get that number doubled, I think, very quickly, and it would be quite the achievement.
It would also be fun, well, we'll talk about this later, but go back to the story that we're referring to from the College Fix headline.
Black female in headscarf attacked UVA Black Cultural Center.
Oh, it took a public records request.
They weren't just going to unbosom this information.
to release further details. A black female in a headscarf is the primary suspect in a vandalism
Bingo!
against the University of Virginia, a black cultural center, according to a police report
obtained by the college fixed through a public records request on November 30th.
It took a public records request. They weren't just going to unbosom this information.
Bingo. The police report identified Zainab bin Tabdul Hadejikin.
Again, I may have butchered your name if you're listening.
Was that a kosher butchering, I hope?
Yes.
She's the person most likely to have thrown a rock through a window at the Luther Porter Jackson Black Cultural Center within the campus Office of African American Affairs in August.
I don't know who Luther Porter Jackson was.
I'm sure there's going to be a statue for him on Monument Avenue soon in Richmond.
But if you look at the article, you can see that she's pictured likely carrying out the attack as retaliation against the interim director of the center, Michael Mason, who also oversees psychological services.
UVA's media team did not respond to requests for comment on Zainab's current status at the university and her court case.
A search of Albemarle.
Able Marley?
Gosh, I can't even pronounce that word.
The county where UVA is located.
Albemarle.
That's like a mouthful of marbles.
Gosh, all the marbles.
Okay.
It did not yield any further information on charges against her.
The College Fix called County Prosecutor's Office on Thursday morning, left a message for Communications Director Emily Kilroy.
The Public Records Coordinator for the County Police Department responded to an email sent to Kilroy and other staff for the Prosecutor's Office.
She said the county's involvement Regarding Zainab, we're for two arrests for failure to appear on charges on 10-3 and 10-28-2022.
She was arrested on September 3rd, but the university, Mr. Taylor, never named her nor provided any other information beyond saying the suspect was a student.
Well, they probably couldn't pronounce her name.
That was the problem.
Probably.
Quote, we're unable to divulge a student's identity due to federal privacy laws, but the individual in question has been charged with this act of vandalism.
End quote.
A September 22nd email from university officials stated, Zainab was her high school valedictorian in 2020, according to a tweet from McEachern High School, a public school in Georgia.
I actually know McEachern very well.
Used to be a predominantly white school that I believe is now predominantly non-white.
And You know, just like this, probably daughters of refugees.
When served with a warrant, the suspect said she was innocent and was being targeted by University Police, but also asked the cop to shoot her, according to the report.
What?
Could you say that again?
She said she's innocent, but said, please shoot me.
When served with a warrant, the suspect said she was innocent and was being targeted by the University Police, but also asked the cop to shoot her.
Another part of the police document reports that the officer responded to a woman in crisis at the Student Health Center.
She expressed anger, frustration, and concern about Mason.
The report stated, leaving law enforcement to see her as a suspect.
She's probably mad they haven't melted down the Robert E. Lee statue yet that was taken down in Richmond.
I'm sorry, in Charlottesville.
Mason told police during the initial interview that there were several individuals he thought might have been targeting him, including a former staff member and a student.
He said that he was possibly the target.
Yes, yes, yes.
I'm not going to embarrass you by asking you to try to pronounce it.
which condemned the rock throwing initially, did not respond to a request for comment
via Instagram on Thursday that asked if it planned to release another statement with knowledge now
that the suspect is a black individual with an unpronounceable surname.
It doesn't, it didn't say that, I'm just adding that in.
Yes, yes, yes.
I'm not gonna embarrass you by asking you to try to pronounce it, and it's hyphenated to boot.
But well, gosh, you know, there you go.
All of a sudden these cases become utterly, utterly uninteresting and un-newsworthy when the races change.
Strange thing about that, isn't it?
Well, it took an Information Act from College Fix to even divulge what was going on.
We would have been at a loss, and the NAACP would have been able to say in all their press releases there in Charlottesville, gosh, who threw this rock?
Why are they protecting this white male, obviously a member of Sigma Chi or Beta or Sigma Nu there at UVA?
It's such white privilege.
That's right.
That's right.
Well, they did lose interest.
In France, Michel Houllebecq is best known for his novel Submission.
This was translated into English, had something of a success in the English reading world, and it's about France after the takeover of Muslims, and what it's like to be a dhimmi, so to speak, that is to say a second-class citizen in a Muslim society.
It was apparently very cleverly depicted.
I never read it myself, but I thought it was very significant that this kind of nightmare future in novel form was a very popular and widely read novel around the world.
Well, it recently had a wide ranging discussion with the influential French philosopher Michel Onfray.
And Houlibec said this, the great replacement I was shocked.
It's called a theory.
It's not a theory.
It's a fact.
When it comes to immigration, nobody controls anything.
And that's the problem.
Europe will be swept away by this cataclysm.
And his interlocutor, the philosopher Michel Onfray said, it's objectively what the figures say.
He was described in 2015 by The Guardian, no less, which is about as lefty as a publication can get, as France's biggest literary export and, some say, greatest living writer.
Wow.
And he's saying, the Great Replacement, it is shocking to call it a theory.
Both of the people involved in the discussion talked about Islam, but had different opinions on what was going to happen.
Onfray said he believes that Islamism is not such a powerful phenomenon, but rather a reaction to American power.
That's an interesting theory.
He said Muslims in the West will eventually line up under the banner of consumerist materialism and cast off their religion, just as many other peoples, such as Europeans, have already done.
Again, an interesting theory.
I don't want to take the risk that that will happen.
I think there are all sorts of reasons to keep them out.
Ullebek believes otherwise.
He says, and this is remarkable, this was discussed in a public manner by two very high-profile intellectuals.
He says, when entire territories are under Islamist control, I think acts of resistance by the natives will be commonplace.
There will be attacks and shootings in mosques.
He then went on to predict what he calls reverse Bataclans.
The Bataclan, of course, was that nightclub in Paris several years ago where these Muslim jihadis killed more than 100 French people.
I mean, he's really predicting civil war.
And Onfray replied, making that very reference, he says, you think the civil war is coming.
I think it's already here, but going on quietly.
Now, can you imagine a public discussion like that, say, on a major television network in the United States?
I mean, this is the sort of thing you and I can talk about, but boy, these are, and I don't know, who would the equivalents be?
Who is a well-known, respected, I don't know, maybe somebody like, Patrick Buchanan talking to some major historian, having a discussion like this.
It can happen in Europe, but not here.
I'll tell you who it could have been.
It could have been Michael Crichton, the author of Jurassic Park, the guy who wrote the TV show ER.
He wrote a lot of great books and he came out, one of his last books was about Global warming and what a fraud it was.
It's a phenomenal, I can't remember the title, but he was a man who was, who commanded a lot of respect.
And he was, if we're talking about the literary point, I think he would be somebody that would have just been, he could have said some things like, Hey, this is, this is happening and it's not good.
But when you say Pappy Cannon, Pappy Cannon tried Mr. Taylor back in 2011 and got kicked out.
And the head of MSNBC said it's because these ideas are not allowed to be discussed.
That's exactly right.
They're not tolerated.
So it just shows the suppression that's existed now for going on 12 years, where the only person who discusses it is Tucker Carlson.
And we know that they've fired every salvo that they have.
I'm talking about the left.
I'm talking about the enemies, those who want to have an honest and truthful debate.
Trying to get him muzzled, yep.
I'll tell you the person who could do it, Mr. Taylor, and I'm going to challenge in case anybody out there listening has a line to him.
Elon Musk could uproot the world with a tweet about simply, you know, hey, this isn't good.
What, you're talking about the Great Replacement?
Yes, yes!
Well, there are lots of things that he could do.
Which I fear he will not yet do, but all I ask is not that he say these things, just let the rest of us say these things.
That's all I ask.
And 140 characters or less.
It doesn't take that many.
Or a video.
Yes.
Now, the Navy.
The Navy has...
I don't know.
It's charting a different course now.
It's heading, shall we say, south?
Or is it going underwater?
I'd say it's capsized.
It's capsized.
Well, it's not going to happen immediately, but it's listing heavily to starboard.
As the military struggles to attract new recruits, The Navy on Monday began a pilot program that will let in those who have lower scores on part of the entrance exam used to gauge a recruit's ability to serve.
Potential sailors are required to take the Armed Forces Qualification Test, or AFQT, to determine whether they are qualified to serve.
This is part of what's called the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, Better known by its initials, ASVAP or ASVAB.
Under the Navy's pilot program, the service will accept lower scores on the AFQT between the 10th and 30th percentile.
So long as the ASVAB scores still are high enough to qualify for a Navy rating.
The point is AFQT is basically an intelligence test.
The ASVAB is really a aptitude test.
It's used to determine what kind of job a sailor can do, whether he's mechanical or whether he's good with people.
And so there really is, it's really a completely different kind of thing.
Now, those who fall within this new lower AFQT percentiles must have already graduated from high school.
And the Navy plans to offer this exemption for up to 20% of its new hires.
Now, I decided I would look into what's going on between the 10th and the 30th percentile on the AFQT.
And I looked up a different page from the Army that the military services put out to people who are interested in joining up.
And it makes the point that the AFQT, yes, you've got to pass that for sure to get in.
And at this point, the Air Force and the Army require an AFQT score of in the 31st percentile or higher.
And you'd need 32nd percentile to join the Marine Corps.
And the minimum AFQT score so far had been 35.
That was the highest cutoff.
And that's what's being reduced all the way down to the 10th percentile and translated into IQ points.
The 10th percentile in the entire United States population would be an IQ of about 80 or 81.
So you can get into the Navy, according to this program, and at least a fifth, a fifth of the new recruits could be in the IQ range of 80 to 81.
That is to say an IQ lower than the average African-American.
The 30th percentile, which had been, or the 31st percentile, which had been, it's cut off before, is approximately 91 or 92 IQ.
In the case of the 35th percentile, it would be a little higher, 94, 95.
You could still be below average and be a Navy man, but now you can be really below average.
I said earlier it was listing to starboard.
I think it's more likely to be listing to port.
That is the left hand of a ship.
Now, meanwhile in the Dominican Republic, there is an article from TheGrio, which is one of these lavishly advertised black-oriented websites.
Boy, it's just got all these wonderful ads for this high-class equipment, cars, and luxury vacations.
In any case, it talks about a recent warning by the U.S.
Embassy in the Dominican Republic to darker skinned Americans traveling abroad in Hispaniola.
Hispaniola is both the Dominican Republic and Haiti, but apparently they're talking about Hispaniola.
And you know why?
It says, carry your passport with you.
The U.S.
embassy issued the guidance to, quote, darker skinned citizens of African descent.
I would think that's racist to talk about such things.
I thought it was a social contract, so wait a second, what's going on?
Well, you know, I guess they don't, they take it more seriously in other places.
After reporting that many travelers had been stopped and questioned by Dominican immigration officials based on their skin color.
The horror, the horror.
Not only had been travelers detained But an estimated 40,000 people, overwhelmingly of Haitian origin, have been deported across the border to Haiti.
You see, Haiti is such a mess that Haitians are trying to get out of Haiti any way they can, and one of the ways they can do it is to cross the border into the Dominican Republic, which is on the same island.
And you and I talked about the fact that the Dominican Republic is building a wall all the way across the continent.
Big wall.
Yeah.
A big, beautiful wall without a magnificent door in it, which Donald Trump was promising.
Remember that?
He was going to let in even more immigrants, but they were going to be the ones he wanted.
Legal immigrants, exactly.
Yes.
I don't think that the Dominicans are building a big, beautiful door in their big, beautiful wall.
In any case, according to Isa Reyes, who is a research manager for something called Encultured Company, a development organization focused on Haitian and Dominican relations.
He says, he says, we have seen even people from outside the Dominican Republic and Haiti, black people from the US, from Europe, who were also being removed to Haiti, despite having perhaps no connection to Haiti at all.
Now, wouldn't that be something?
Imagine you're a high-toned African-American sunning yourself on the beach at Playa Costa Esmeralda in Dominican Republic, which, judging by its photographs, is really quite a swank place, and the cops come along and say, hey, you Haitian, and they pitch you over the wall and you're in Haiti.
Wow.
That would be a bit of a surprise.
Now, I've never heard of that happening, and I would be surprised if it has ever happened, frankly.
But the U.S.
Embassy is warning, keep your passport on you.
I've got an idea here, Mr. Taylor.
Everyone always says you should have New Year's resolutions.
What are you going to change?
I think, you've mentioned this before, and I'm wondering if there's a listener out there to the Radio Renaissance podcast, which, gosh, we've been doing this since I want to say 2015, 2016?
You'd think with all these years of practice, we'd be better at it by now.
You know what?
Our YouTube channel had, I think, 35,000 subscribers before it was scrubbed in the middle of 2020.
I believe we'd be well over 150,000 at this point.
So no, I think we are quite good at it.
I think that, unfortunately, big tech censorship is the only thing that exists that can stop these type of discussions from happening.
But I'm wondering if there's a listener out there who would like to potentially help out Mr. Taylor and myself taking a trip to Port-au-Prince and doing a podcast from one of the nicer hotels there as we tour Haiti.
I've always wanted to go to Haiti since I read Under the Black... Oh, what's the book?
It's—Sam Dixon gave it to me a long time ago.
It's this unreal book about what life was like in Haiti in the 1880s, 1890s.
I can't recall the title, but I think that would be a lot of— Was it the book called Where Black Rules White?
Yes.
And by that, they meant the black Haitians ruling over the mulatto Haitians.
They really weren't talking about white people in that book.
But yes, it's a pretty eye-opening, hair-raising thing.
I've wanted to go to Haiti, too.
Apparently, it's not necessarily the safest place to go, but I bet there would be a thrill a minute.
Oh, I would love to go, and everybody out there is listening!
Uh, we would love in 2023 to go visit the island where we call it, uh, I believe it's the, the first black Republic in the world.
You know, Wakanda forever out is out right now.
And why don't we get a chance to go see a nation powered, powered by, powered by actual vibranium as, as, as opposed to the, uh, vibranium and the Marvel cinematic universe.
Uh, so listen, if you're out there.
Shoot me an email at BecauseWeLiveHereAtProtonMail.com.
Once again, that's BecauseWeLiveHereAtProtonMail.com, or you can always contact me at amren.com, A-M-R-E-N.com, at the Contact Us tab.
And I will get your message.
The thing is, Mr. Kersey, I have proposed to a number of wide-awake friends of mine that a little group tour down to Haiti would be a stimulating and rewarding adventure.
I don't usually get very good response to that idea.
Our comrades don't seem to be as full of curiosity and eagerness as you or I or Sam Dixon.
Sam Dixon has always been promoting this idea.
But, well, maybe it will happen.
But just to return to this little story here about apparently black people, no matter where they're from, being caught up in this Dominican urge to pitch black people back over the fence to the Haitian side, it says, here this activist says, It says, let's see, that the deportation of Haitians is part of a long legacy of tension between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, a legacy activists say has racist roots.
One activist says you don't see the same kind of retaliatory actions on the Haitian side.
Well, that's true.
You don't have Dominicans wanting to even live there.
And so, no, you don't have Haitians pitching the Dominicans back over the fence.
Just the way you don't have the El Salvadoran authorities deporting white illegals who have all been scrambling down to El Salvador to escape from the horrors of the United States.
No, it doesn't happen.
It's not because the El Salvadorans or the Haitians are particularly lovely people.
They just don't get swamped with people, unwanted people, who want to live there.
The people who live there don't want to live there.
The only people who want to go to Haiti are white do-gooders who, when they are raped
by their racial pets, refuse to speak on it because, hey, it would make the Haitians look
And then a couple of goofballs who engage in pattern recognition who want to go see what the Black Republic actually looks like.
Yes, I would love to go.
Maybe someday.
Maybe someday.
Yes, that was a gruesome story, wasn't it?
This white do-gooder woman who gets raped by a black and refused to talk about it because that might fuel racist stereotypes.
We can't do that.
I can't recall if that was in the aftermath, Mr. Taylor, of the earthquake.
It was.
It was.
Okay, gotcha.
So she got her personal private earthquake.
After she went down there to bring sweetness and light to the poor.
I wonder what that registered in the seismograph.
Anyways, that's uncalled for.
Well, you, sir, have a story about something I'd never heard of.
It's called Shark Week.
Now, I guess I don't swim in the correct circles because I'd never heard of Shark Week.
But speak to me of Shark Week.
That's on Discovery Channel.
I've yet to discover it.
I think Shark Week is one of the more infamous, famous, fun weeks of the year.
It's become just a must-see television for those who are still Connected to cable or, you know, to DirecTV, Verizon, whatever you have.
I strongly urge all of our listeners to unplug and disconnect and maybe do one or two streaming services, but don't pay for cable.
Shark, because of this story.
This is from the Washington Post.
This is not from the Griot.
This is not from News One.
This is not from Professor Crunk.
What's the difference?
What's the difference?
Exactly, exactly.
It doesn't matter anymore because, as we've said, if something exists in 2022, obviously it's going to be racist.
And now Shark Week, Shark Week lacks diversity, over-represents men named Mike.
Scientists say, researchers say, discoveries programming overwhelmingly featured white men as experts while emphasizing negative messages about sharks.
No, I'm laughing.
Sharks!
This is anti-shark racism!
It's anti-shark prejudice, bigotry, and just all-around buffoonery.
I mean, how can you misgender a shark?
You know, sharks are just lovely creatures.
They are actually pretty cool.
So, this is an article that's a must-read.
This is maybe one of the funniest things I've ever read because My good friend Gregory Hood actually sent this over to me.
He's like, I thought this was a joke.
And it's like, nope, this is where we are in 2022.
Shark Week is now considered racist.
Lisa Whitenack loved sharks as a kid.
She spent rainy days leaping through a guide to Sharks and Readers Digest.
Every summer she would watch Shark Week, Discovery's annual TV event that spotlights the ocean predator.
With seven days of dedicated programming, But when scientists appeared on her TV screen, she rarely saw any women she could look up to.
Quote, why would I?
No, I could do that, Whitenack said.
I don't come from a family of scientists.
I didn't see very many people that look like me on television.
Whitenack, now a biology professor at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania, found her way into shark research anyway.
A miracle.
It was a miracle.
Exactly.
Pop it out of Zeus's head.
When the pandemic lockdowns came in 2020, she saw an opportunity to study the source of her old misconceptions.
Was Shark Week feeding audiences the wrong messages about sharks?
And who studies them?
Again, it begs the question, why is it that white people want to study all these birds, animals, rocks, You name the creation on God's green earth, why is it that white people are overwhelmingly the ones who are identifying them, studying them, naming them, trying to make sure they don't go extinct because of overfishing?
Anyways, White Knack led a team of researchers to examine hundreds of Shark Week episodes that aired between 1988 and 2020.
In a study published last month, go ahead, Oh, this was during the lockdown.
They couldn't think of anything better to do than to hunt for white people in Shark Week.
Exactly.
They watched a bunch of great white sharks and a bunch of great whites looking at great white sharks.
In a study published last month by the Public Library of Science, the research claims that Discovery's programming emphasized... God.
Sorry, let me try and let me get through this.
Okay.
In a study published last month by Public Library of Science, their research claims that Discovery's programming emphasized negative messages about sharks, lacked useful messaging about shark conservation, and overwhelmingly featured white men as experts, including several with the same name.
Wow!
God, that's outrageous!
I mean, the programming featured More white experts and commentators named Mike than women, said David Schiffman, a conservationist at Arizona State University, who was co-author of the study.
What we didn't find out is that David Schiffman was, he was left on the cutting room floor because he wasn't named Mike.
No, I'm joking.
When there are hundreds of people of color interested who work in the field, and when my field is more than half
women, maybe it's not an accident anymore that they're only featuring white men," Schiffman said.
Discovery did not respond to a request for comment on the study's findings. The company told NBC
Boston that it wouldn't comment on a study that has yet to pass any scientific approvals after a
preliminary version was presented in 2021.
Just real quick, Mr. Taylor, It's a 34-year tradition and consistent ratings draw for Discovery.
It's faced criticism in the past.
Scientists and TV critics blasted the event in 2020 for announcing a roster of TV specials that featured six white men out of eight named experts.
Gosh.
Just to finish up, White Neck's study found that the trend persisted throughout almost all of the television event's history, and yet it's still popular.
So strange.
It's probably the most popular television series Mr. Taylor, of any programming on any network in the year.
It's a yearly tradition.
It's promoted and it's nationally beloved.
But over 90% of the 229 experts featured in 201 Shark Week episodes were white.
Because once again, when white is used, it's a pejorative.
That's right.
And 78% were men, which means that 22% were, gasp, white women.
Carly Bohannon, a marine biologist and co-founder of Minorities in Shark Sciences, praised the study for putting numbers to her and her colleagues' long-standing concerns about diversity in both the media and shark science.
Mr. Taylor, I've got a quick thought for you.
Have you ever seen Jaws?
I don't think a white person gets eaten by Jaws.
I'm sorry, I don't think— No, nothing but white people get eaten.
I meant to say, I don't think a non-white person is devoured by Jaws in that New England beach town for the Spielberg film.
Well, probably not.
Well, I do want to fit in this little piece, even if we run over time a little bit.
This has to do with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
That's Mrs. and Mr. Meghan Markle.
They will be honored with a prestigious Human Rights Award, and it's supposed to happen this very day.
The couple were to get the Ripple of Hope Award at a glittering gala that honors exemplary leaders who have demonstrated an unwavering commitment to social change.
Did you know that Meghan Markle and her accessory husband, the Duke of Sussex, have made an unwavering commitment to social change?
Well, the annual event is organized by the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Foundation, named after Bobby Kennedy.
They will be honored for taking a stand against structural racism within the monarchy.
This little gala is hosted by John F. Kennedy's niece, Carrie Kennedy, who said the Duke and Duchess will receive the award after having the courage to challenge the royal family's power structure.
She said they've been heroic by standing up against such an ancient institution.
Well, Ms.
Kennedy, she says they went to the oldest institution in UK history told them what they were doing was wrong, that they couldn't
have structural relation or structural racism within institution.
They knew there'd be a price to pay.
They've done it because they couldn't live with themselves.
If they didn't question this authority, they are heroic.
Good grief, what rubbish.
Previous winners have included Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and Hillary Clinton
and Al Gore, Desmond Tutu, and Anthony Fauci.
Colin Kip? Got it.
Yes.
Anthony Fauci.
He, too.
He, too, got the Ripple of Hope Award.
And you're my favorite football player, Colin Kaepernick.
Just about, it seems, every high-profile narcissist fraud seems to get this reward.
And the thing about this, these two, Mrs. and Mr. Meghan Markle, they fought tooth and nail to keep their royal titles for themselves and their children.
Pathological, egotistic grifters.
Boy, they get a heroism reward.
I give up.
But I give up only until next week, Mr. Kersey.
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