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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance, and with me is my indispensable, inimitable, incandescent co-host, none other than Paul Kersey.
It is a beautiful December 20th, year of our Lord, 2022.
And Mr. Kersey and I would like to take this opportunity to welcome all of our listeners all around the world and to wish you a wonderful and very Merry Christmas.
Yeah, I can't—I could have said that better myself.
Merry Christmas to each and every one of our listeners.
We appreciate you all, and we hope you and your family and your friends have a blessed Christmas season this 2022.
Yes, we're counting on it for ourselves, and we're counting on it for you.
And as we usually do, we'd like to start with reader—listener comments.
Our listeners are readers, and that's why they know about some of these things.
And this is a comment who writes, I took particular interest in the story related to the removal of the Splash Mountain Ride from the Disney theme park because of its association with the movie Song of the South.
This was a story that Mr. Kersey had brought to our attention.
Our listener says, I hadn't heard about this and also was unaware that the ride was inspired by the Disney film Song of the South.
It has, of course, been banned from public viewing for several decades, going back to at least the 1990s, and Disney has never released it for home viewing at all.
It's because of its notorious reputation and the belief that viewing it could harm young minds.
I therefore became very curious about Song of the South several years back, and I was able to track down a bootleg copy on DVD for about $10.
Don't do this at home, folks.
That's probably against federal copyright law.
I was very surprised when I saw the film.
Contrary to what I'd heard, this is a heartwarming, gentle, totally inoffensive family film that could only have a positive influence on any child who watches it.
The problem with Song of the South, apparently, is that it portrays black slave characters who are content with their situation in life, faithfully serving their white family.
Oh, the horror!
However, the character of Uncle Remus in the film is kind, even heroic.
The lonely little white boy, Johnny, looks to Uncle Remus as a wise friend and protector.
And this I didn't know, Mr. Kersey.
Perhaps you did, because you know everything about movies.
The black actor, James Baskett, who portrayed Uncle Remus, was wonderful in the role and received an Honorary Academic Academy Award.
It was honorary because he died not long after the film's release.
As others have pointed out, it's a terrible shame that thanks to the woke crowd and to Disney cowering, no one can today appreciate this actor's wonderful work in a film for which he was awarded an Oscar.
Our listener goes on to say, I suppose Song of the South has been banned for decades for much the same reason that Confederate monuments have to be removed from Richmond and all over the South.
There's a chance some black person might see this and suffer mental anguish.
But what exactly is this anguish?
How does it manifest itself?
How can it be quantified?
Of course, it's all just a silly excuse.
Did you know that the black actor had won an honorary Academy Award for that?
I did, I've actually read a couple really cool books about Space Mountain, about Splash Mountain.
I'm sure Space Mountain will be banned sometime soon.
There's actually an interesting academic book the University of Texas Press just put out called Disney's most notorious film, Race Convergence and the Hidden Histories of Song of the South.
And it actually, it does talk about, it's one of these goofy leftist academic books, Mr. Taylor, but it does talk about the The role that the avuncular Uncle Remus was given, and the opportunity, and how well he shined.
And I remember seeing the movie in probably the late 80s, early 90s.
I loved it.
I think it's a beautiful film.
Zippity-doo-dah, zippity-ay.
My oh my, what a wonderful day.
Well, I was like our listener.
I'd heard it was just this horrible, horrible terrible portrayal that insulted blacks left, right and
center. And I, my reaction is the same as his, very heartwarming. And Uncle Remus is a
wonderful guy. This little white child absolutely adores him. But there you go.
Well, moving on to our first piece of news having to do with Title 42. A federal judge
has just temporarily blocked the Biden administration from ending its Trump era policy requiring
asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S.
immigration court.
The U.S.
District Judge Matthew Kaczmarek in Texas stayed the termination until legal challenges by Texas and Missouri are settled, but it didn't order the policy restated.
And President Joe Biden, who said it goes against everything we stand for as a nation of immigrants, he suspended the policy on his first day in office.
You know, this isn't Title 42 after all, is it?
This is the Remain in Mexico policy.
Maybe you can look that up while I'm talking here.
Is this 42 or is this the Remain in Mexico?
I'm feeling ill prepared here.
But in any case, Judge Kaczmarek, a Trump appointee in Amarillo, ordered that the policy be reinstated in 2021.
The Biden administration complied with the order after agreeing to changes and additions demanded by Mexico, but it didn't enforce the policy widely, and only a few thousand people were sent back to wait in Mexico.
Yes, this is Remain in Mexico.
This is not Title 42, I don't believe.
In any case, Title 42 ends tomorrow.
Yeah, Title 42 ends tomorrow.
I believe Greg Abbott, the Attorney General is fighting that right now, but you are right confirmation that you are talking about remaining in Mexico.
That's right.
Now, the U.S.
Supreme Court ruled five to four in June that Biden Could end, technically, what is known as the Migrant Protection Protocols that remain in Mexico.
But it threw back to Judge Kaczmarek one main issue determining whether the administration's action was arbitrary and capricious and violated federal law for crafting regulations.
That was a 5-4 decision.
In the 35-page ruling, the judge said the administration failed to consider the benefits of the policy.
Including reducing illegal immigration on unmeritorious asylum claims, of which there is practically an infinitude.
And Judge Kaczmarek said that the Biden administration memo mentioned conditions that migrants might face while in Mexico.
But not the hardships they face when making the dangerous journey to the southern border in the first place.
In other words, Biden acts as if as though, you know, it's just been a it's just been a cakewalk until they get to Mexico.
And oh, gosh, the horrors they're going to suffer living on the other side of the Mexico-U.S.
border until we get around to dealing with their asylum application, completely forgetting about everything they've gone through in the first place.
Now, Texas Governor Greg Abbott tweeted after the ruling, it's a common sense policy to prevent people from entering our country illegally.
Texas wins again, for now.
That's being much more realistic.
And the decision comes as El Paso, Texas and other border cities face a daily influx of migrants that could grow larger and larger and larger if separate asylum restrictions enacted under President Donald Trump end next week as scheduled.
Yes, that's the Title 42 business.
So you're right.
They are bracing for an absolute onslaught, but at least the remaining Mexico can be used.
But the thing is, It sounds as though that the Biden administration, if it chooses to, can ignore Remain in Mexico, despite the fact that it's technically on the books.
Well, one of the things that did happen yesterday, Mr. Taylor, is that Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts put a temporary hold on the termination of the, quote unquote, controversial, end quote, Trump era immigration policy notice, Title 42, that was set to end tomorrow on December 21st.
So it's being left in place for now.
So the brief order, Robert, signaled that the court wants to act quickly and asked the Biden administration to respond by 5 p.m.
Tuesday to an emergency appeal filed by a group of Republican-led states.
So as we're speaking, this might have been there might have been a response from the Biden admin.
I mean, again, this is a nation breaking situation.
We talked about last week on the podcast, the Daily Mail article about the unbelievable tsunami that has never been replicated.
In human history, or seen before, Mr. Taylor, what's happening?
This massive 15,000 to 20,000 to 30,000 people on a daily basis.
But sounds like border integrity is hanging by a thread, thanks to these judicial decisions.
So we'll keep our fingers crossed and hope that America survives.
Meanwhile, Moroccans are rioting.
This was a story out of France, as when France ended Morocco's dream run at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, with a dominant 2-0 victory in the semifinals, riots erupted across France and Belgium, as they have after every game that Morocco has been involved in.
The Moroccans in Europe, when they beat Belgium, the Moroccans in Belgium rioted.
When they beat Spain, Moroccans in Spain rioted.
Oh, they just love their host countries, don't they?
In France, the police dispersed crowds of Moroccan fans who were setting off fireworks near the Arc de Triomphe and had to use tear gas to dispel mobs who set off firecrackers in Nice.
And there was a 14-year-old boy.
He was injured after being hit by a car.
He died shortly after being taken to hospital.
Videos showed Moroccan fans, this guy among them, trying to pull off a French flag from a car.
Before the driver did a sudden U-turn and tried to get away from him.
The real issue here is, and I think this tells the whole story, in Paris alone, France deployed 10,000 police officers.
To keep the peace, because they knew from the record of what the Moroccans had been doing so far, that they were going to really have to put the clamps on to make sure that the whole bloody capital city of Paris didn't go up in flame.
10,000 extra police officers and 2,200 of them just on the Champs-Élysées.
That's where the Moroccans really choose when they want to get frisky.
But only 100 rioters were arrested by the Paris police.
And riot police were deployed in Marseille, Avignon, and public transportation was halted in the city centers.
So this is what happens when you import Moroccans.
Now, the question I have, it just occurred to me in my usual perverse way, there are many French people living in Morocco.
Quite a few.
Yes.
I wonder how many of them rioted after the game.
My guess is not one.
But what do I know?
Well, Mr. Kersey, you say that you don't much follow the World Cup, but you had an interesting story on Argentina, or an interesting story, an interesting technical story on Argentina.
No, I do not follow the World Cup, Mr. Taylor.
I know that this past Saturday, I believe, there was a pretty historic game, some people are calling it the greatest football game ever played between Argentina and France.
Argentina won the game three, it was three to three, so it went to penalty kicks, and France, I believe, I might be wrong here, I've watched the highlights, I believe every individual who took a penalty kick for France was African.
So, Argentina, this was a story that appeared in the Washington Post a few weeks ago.
I believe this comes from Summit News, again another fantastic website that Paul Joseph Watson runs, has this headline.
Washington Post corrects op-ed conflating lack of black Argentinian soccer players with, quote, history of black erasure, end quote.
The Washington Post was forced to issue a correction to an op-ed that asked, why doesn't Argentina have more black players in the World Cup lineup?
After Argentinian people pointed out that the country is overwhelmingly white and not obsessed with virtue signaling about race.
The best response to it was, I think, from the Argentina soccer team, where they said, In a direct response to the Washington Post, because life isn't a Disney movie.
The piece claimed that it is a myth that Argentina is a white nation, with the author Erika Denise Edwards, an associate prof at the University of Texas, El Paso, suggesting her rantings uncover a history of black erasure in Argentina.
In the piece, she argued that in the 18th century, a third of Argentina's population was black, and that since then, there's been an agenda to whiten the country.
They believe that to join the ranks of Germany, France, and England, Argentina had to displace its black population, both physically and culturally, she further asserted.
She also points to a census figures from 2010 claiming they proved that roughly 1% of Argentina's population of 46 million is black.
After people pointed out that that's just not true, the Washington Post had to issue a correction, noting that the actual number was far less than 1%.
Sounds like a lovely place.
Translation, quote, the stupid note from the Washington Post about the lack of blacks and the Argentine team left me disgusted.
The United States, the United States is obsessed with race.
Argentina is not.
The United States chose to keep them separate.
Argentina mixed them, but they insist on exporting their neuroses, end quote.
And of course, Argentina won Lionel Messi.
He's a white Argentine.
Probably the best soccer player in the world, Mr. Taylor.
They were victorious in penalty kicks, so they took home the World Cup this year from Qatar.
Well, I like that.
America exports its neuroses.
How true.
How true.
The question, of course, is ridiculous.
Why would it even occur to anyone to ask how come this great team does not have Africans on it?
How come the Moroccan team doesn't have any Africans on it?
How come the Japanese team didn't have any Africans on it?
Why does a British team or why does a Portuguese team have Africans on it?
The theory seems to be that if you don't have blacks, then you can't have a proper soccer team.
So I guess if Argentina wants to get with it, at least in the views of the person who wrote this editorial, they've got to go out and round up some black African soccer players so they can rub shoulders with England and France.
It's just utterly ridiculous.
At the same time, how come there are no white people on the Senegalese team?
Why not?
No, this is just—this fixation with race always goes one way.
Anything that would ordinarily be white can't be white.
It's got to be black.
But if it's black, oh gosh, no reason to have any whites or Arabs or anything else.
Absurd.
It is true, though, in the case of Argentina.
Back in the 1850s, there was a political philosopher and diplomat by the name of Juan Bautista Alberti.
And his motto was, to govern is to populate, and he promoted white European immigration.
And the Argentine president, Justo Jose de Urquiza, supported Alberti's ideas and incorporated them into the country's first constitution.
Amendment 25 says the federal government shall foster European immigration.
And in fact, an ex-president, Domingo Faustino, remarked towards the end of the 19th century, 20 years from now, it would be necessary to travel to Brazil to see blacks.
Now, it's not as though blacks were erased.
In effect, they sort of melded into the population.
But four million European immigrants answered the government's call to migrate between 1860 and 1914, and apparently this clause about the federal government shall foster European immigration that remains in Argentina's constitution to this day.
And what the heck is wrong with that, Mr. Curtis?
To their everlasting shame, my God!
So the fact, I mean, again, the dichotomy here is that this writer believes that to
have a proper soccer team, black athletic superiority is axiomatic.
Would that not be it?
It's white.
There must be discrimination if they aren't playing enough black players.
The English, I mean, what's the black population of England?
I think they had, oh God, three or four, maybe five black players on the pitch for the World
Cup.
France, I think, had seven or eight.
I mean, if you remember back in 2018, you and I discussed at length the interesting dynamic between the Croatian team that played in the finals against France, and the French team was heavily immigrant, heavily black.
The Croatians were Croatian.
Except that this lady, as I said before, is not at all insisting that why aren't there any Africans on the Japanese team?
The Japanese beat the Spanish.
The Japanese beat the Germans.
They had a pretty sporty World Cup this time around.
But she's not saying they need blacks.
I don't think it's necessarily an admission of black racial athletic superiority.
That would be anathema.
It's just that anything that's white can't stay white.
I think that's all it boils down to.
But, be that as it may, here we've got another goofball.
This person is not writing articles in the major newspapers, but a Caitlin Reedy Rogier serves as a member of a medical school's Understanding Systemic Racism team.
This is Washington University in St.
Louis.
She told a class of medical students this past semester—these are medical students, I have a really hard time being neutral around issues of systemic oppression.
I will not think less of you, nor will I try to fight you or debate you if you disagree, but if you try to fight me or debate me, I will shut that shit down real fast, she says.
She is not going to discuss the question of systemic racism.
I mean, that goes without saying.
It's an article of faith.
And why on earth somebody that holds a master's in social work is even talking to medical students?
This is outrageous.
But the lecture was part of Washington University's health equity and justice lessons, which are part of the medical school's required gateway curriculum.
And a summary of Reedy Rogier's lecture found, we are very firm in race being a social construct.
This has implications for how we practice medicine.
And she says, we're really asking you to think about your own identities and what that means to be anti-racist, which is an active stance in medicine that we know has really bad racism issues.
Again, you know, this is it's required that future doctors be pounded with this sort of utter nonsense.
She's the program coordinator for the Pipeline to Compassionate Care Project.
I guess you might as well consider medical students to be gallons of oil.
They pump through a pipeline to compassionate care.
She has particular expertise in diversity and inclusion, as well as HIV and AIDS, and is active with the Anti-Defamation League, facilitates dialogue in the community, but boy, all around issues of difference.
But you better not have a difference of opinion with her.
And I wondered, you know, with that hyphenated double-barreled name, so often these fancy black people have these hyphenated names.
Well, she is a white lady with a nose ring.
Now, meanwhile, Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, he's really a great guy.
I'm a great admirer of him.
He is the director of something called Do No Harm, and this is a group of medically oriented people who are blasting this woke stuff in medical school.
He says, These videos of faculty teaching medical students that they must consider race as a primary factor in practicing medicine is a corruption of health care.
There is no valid evidence that health care disparities are the result of the manner in which patients are treated by physicians.
Absolutely right.
Again, this is just a matter of faith.
And if you disagree with this matter of faith, she will shut that shit down real fast.
And apparently, 23 of America's 25 top medical schools have some kind of mandatory student training in CRT, and 16 of the top 25 have declared that anti-racism, DEI, CRT, or other similar studies will be embedded into the general curriculum.
And back to Washington University, where this Caitlin Reedy Rogier teaches, in October, they celebrated the training of 21 new equity champions.
They have equity champions at the medical school.
Their role is a vital part of their campus-wide initiative for culture change to understand and dismantle systemic racism.
So they're booking no agreement on the existence or non-existence of it.
Meanwhile, at the University of Minnesota, yes, I'm just laughing at that concept of equity champions.
Would that mean that you and I and all of our listeners are equity underdogs?
What would we be?
We are, gosh, we are probably equity criminals.
I don't know.
The equity bankers?
We're the equity mafia.
I don't know.
The student leaders at the University of Minnesota call for Regent Steve Sviggum to resign Wednesday.
After he questioned whether the Morris campus had become too diverse.
This is in Minnesota.
Of course, you can never question that anything is too diverse, right?
Nothing is ever diverse enough.
He said he was talking about it from a marketing standpoint.
This fellow, who this is clearly a Scandinavian name, Sviggum is his name, he asked at a regents meeting whether more diversity was to blame for the low enrollment numbers at the Morris campus.
I don't know where exactly it is, but he added that this was a concern that had been raised to him by two friends whose children had decided not to go there.
Now, remember this is Minnesota.
This is not in the middle of some overwhelmingly non-white state.
It currently has 1,068 students enrolled, of whom only 54% are white.
41% are black, indigenous, and people of color, including 32% who are American Indians.
So, this campus has a high proportion of American Indians because it offers free tuition to American Indians.
That's a legacy that goes back to the campus's former existence as an American Indian boarding school.
We're no doubt all the children were tortured to death and they were stripped of all their language and culture and made to eat bones and roots and things.
But it is the only four year college in the upper Midwest that qualifies for federal designation as a Native American serving non-tribal institution.
Boy, that is a coveted designation.
Believe me.
Well, Sviggum issued a public apology after receiving a backlash from students, faculty and fellow regents.
He met with student leaders last month to discuss how diversity is a campus strength, but the students were convinced his apology was not sincere.
And he resigned from his position as vice chair of the Board of Regents and said he would step down from his role when his term comes to an end in 2023.
The student body president with whom he met, needless to say, is an American Indian.
And he says that resigning as vice chair is not good enough.
And admitting that he's going to leave in 2023 is not good enough.
He says Sviggum must resign now.
But yeah, this is the situation, Mr. Kersey.
Nothing is ever too diverse.
Nothing ever has not enough white people.
That's just an impossibility.
Absolutely impossible.
No, I think Stanford is doing something equally crazy, or maybe less crazy, equally crazy.
Well, they're definitely trying to win that title of equity champions at Stanford University.
Yeah, they are.
In fact, I think that actually should be the ultimate designation of the anti-white trope, if you are an equity champion.
But the point is, this is from the New York Post.
I would argue the New York Post is getting closer and closer to being in that same echelon as the Daily Mail in terms of just doing really great stories such as this.
Stanford releases guide against harmful language, including the word American.
Stanford University released a guide this week on harmful language that once removed from its online properties, including the term American is now a no-go.
The Language Guide was published Monday, December 19th, 2022, which aims to eliminate many forms of harmful language, including racist, violent, and biased language in Stanford's websites and code.
Excuse me.
Violent language?
Yeah.
Launched in May, the project known as the Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative, EHLI, lists the prohibited terms under 10 categories, including racism, homophobia, and ableism.
Under a section titled Imprecise Language, the Guide advises readers to replace the term American with U.S.
citizen.
Quote, American often refers to people from the United States only, thereby insinuating that the U.S.
is the most important country in the Americas, the packet reasons, noting that the region actually includes 42 countries between North and South America.
Other listed terms include immigrant, which should be replaced by person who has immigrated.
Nice passive-aggressive language there.
Or non-citizen, to avoid referring to people by single characteristics.
While walk-in hours is swapped out for open hours in order to include those with disabilities.
Guess you can't roll in during the walk-in hours.
You have to roll in during open hours.
The common phrase, beating a dead horse, is also cautioned against, based on the idea that it normalizes violence against animals.
It normalizes violence against animals?
It does.
Beating a dead horse.
Even if the horse is dead, it's okay.
You know, you can't do that.
In addition, the 13-page list outlines several slurs against black individuals, indigenous groups, wheelchair users, LGBTQ plus individuals and others.
Quote, the purpose of this website is to educate people about the possible impact of the words we use.
End quote.
Of course, there's no reference to what continually telling non-whites that white privilege, systemic racism and implicit bias is the reason why they are in their lot in life, which only further antagonizes their feelings toward whites.
That's perfectly fine and acceptable.
Sure, but now what is a slur against people in wheelchairs?
I can't think of now.
Maybe I'm not... Maybe it's something as simple as handicapped.
Yeah, I think handicapped might be... Maybe I'm not evil enough.
I can't think of these slurs against people in wheelchairs, but I guess they're out there and got to be policed.
We need to get the full list.
We do need to get the full list, but just to finish it up real quick.
Language affects different people in different ways.
We are not attempting to assign levels of harm to the terms on this site.
We also are not attempting to address all informal uses of language.
Well, rhetoric has been weaponized, Mr. Taylor, in the United States in 2022.
And I think the story shows that the elite levels of American education, Well, I don't want to pat myself on the back too much, but I've been predicting for years that somebody was going to say, talking about Americans, and meaning United States citizens, is hogging the whole hemisphere.
So that day was bound to come.
Also, I think, I'm still waiting for the day when People decide that having a White House is absolutely unacceptable.
They're going to paint it many different striped colors, and they'll call it the House of Many Colors.
Well, I mean, they light it up, the LGBTQ colors constantly.
I know they do.
Quick anecdote for you.
I think this was back in the mid-2000s.
There was this radio show out of Texas, and they were talking about just that.
Where is political correctness going to go?
I called in.
I was just a simple college student at the time.
And I said, listen, the White House has to go.
Can't be calling the whole White House.
And they laughed so hard.
And they're like, oh, I hope that never happens.
That would be But again, that's where we are.
That's the logical conclusion of this perpetual revolution.
Oh, White House is... Well, you know, but actually they are going far further afield, further than I would have ever imagined, because did you know that rather than calling for the House to be repainted and called the House of Many Colors, There's a group of scholars at Concordia University in Montreal, this is Canada after all, that are going to decolonize light.
Decolonize light?
That's right.
Light, yes.
The mind boggles.
The effort, funded by the Canadian government, seeks both to explore ways and approaches to decolonize science, Such as revitalizing and restoring indigenous knowledges, that's plural, not just indigenous knowledge, indigenous knowledges, and it's going to develop a culture of critical reflection and investigation of the relation of science and colonialism.
And it's led by Tanja Tajmel, a specialist in equity, diversity, inclusion, and core members actually include a physicist, believe it or not, as well as an associate professor of first people studies.
And as they wrote in a paper in 2021, they targeted physics for decolonization due to the field's, quote, unique scientific authority.
For our purpose, they said, it is important to understand physics as a social field rather than as pure knowledge.
They chose to focus on light.
Well, yes, we'll focus on light, shall we?
Because of its ubiquity across societies and languages and its importance.
Well, yep, light's everywhere!
Every society's got it, and it's pretty important.
They plan to develop courses with indigenous scholars and knowledge keepers—that's what they're called—in which indigenous knowledge is elevated and Eurocentric Western science is de-centered.
One is elevated, the other is de-centered.
And Western science is scrutinized for its alleged past and present contributions to colonialism.
Well, I guess the wave theory, as opposed to the particle theory, that was a really important part of colonizing Africa.
One of the guiding principles of this effort, the scholars wrote, is the practice of, get this, two-eyed seeing.
Yes, no squinting here, no squinting here, Mr. Kersey.
Two-eyed seeing allows people to view natural phenomena through two eyes, one based in indigenous knowledge and the other on Western science.
I think that I would go cross-eyed trying to do that.
Well, this is obvious poppycock of the worst, most preposterous kind, but it takes a fellow by the name of Patanjali Kumbhampati A professor at McGill University to say so.
This is what Patanjali Kambhampati says.
There are no alternative ways of knowing.
There is only science, and it was largely developed in Western Europe and the USA.
Mr. Kambhampati goes on to say, neither the Canadian government nor the US government should fund this quackery.
Yeah, maybe it's just me.
I think the ultimate goal for every one of our listeners and everybody associated with the New Century Foundation, anybody who actually wants Western civilization to find another gear and actually move forward and to shake this nonsense, You have to do the exact opposite of what equity champions and knowledge keepers and those who would decenter and work to decolonize indigenous lands.
You have to understand that this is insane.
There is no compromise with this mindset.
And to be an equity champion is to basically plunge everything that's come before us back into everything that
we try to aspire to be and to Basically kind of like what Elon Musk has said, Mr. Taylor.
It's you know, it's a war against wokeness and it's you know
The future of humanity is based on this To me to me it is a dismal state of affairs when it takes
Patanjali Kambampati to tell us what we all should know I bet they couldn't find anybody by the name of Robert Jones who was prepared to say the obvious.
In any case, moving on to a different sparkle, a slight glimmer of sanity, which was at Upper Moorland School District.
This is in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania.
A member of the school board, Jennifer Sullivan, She had this to say when two names were up for the seat of president of the school board.
One was April Stainback and the other was Greg D'Elia.
She said, I believe Mr. D'Elia would make an excellent president.
However, I feel that electing the only cis white male on this board president of the district sends the wrong message to our community.
A message that is contrary to what we as a board have been trying to accomplish.
So, he'd make a great president, but he is the only cis white male.
Well, later on, Upper Moreland School District Superintendent Dr. Susan Elliott issued a statement on Solot's comments.
As a result of this incident, Ms.
Solot has decided to resign from the board, effective January 2nd, next year.
She wishes to apologize for her poorly chosen words.
I think she chose her words perfectly.
What she needs to apologize for is her insane point of view and her hatred of ordinary white men.
That's what she needs to apologize for.
The superintendent added that Salat's comments were solely hers and did not represent the opinions of the rest of the school board members or the district The district says she, and I wish it were true.
I can imagine it being true, but I suspect it's not.
The district hires the most qualified person for the position and does not discriminate.
So, a glimmer of sanity.
She lost her job for saying something so ridiculous.
And there's been yet another glimmer of sanity.
But all of this has to do with fighting back.
The other side goes too far.
It's all defensive action, which is really disturbing.
But at VTech, you might have heard of this story.
There's a woman soccer player named Kirsten Henning.
She played for the Hokies at VTech on the team from 2018 to 2020.
Her coach, Charles Adair, Lewis White was not a fan of her political views, and Kirsten often differed from her teammates on social justice issues, especially at the height of the BLM madness in 2020.
She says she does not support BLM.
She cites its tactics and core tenets, such as defunding the police as policies she cannot support.
How dare she?
And after Kirsten Henning declined to kneel during a reading of a unity statement before a game against UVA, can you just imagine this unity statement?
They're all on their knees.
Oh, dear.
They're equity champions, Mr. Taylor.
Come on.
These are your moral superiors.
These are groveling champions is what they are.
But this is to be a game before UVA on September 12, 2020.
She said her coach verbally attacked her at halftime because she refused to kneel, claiming she was bitching and moaning and she jabbed a finger in her face and she continued to berate Kirsten Henning until they benched her and ultimately made things so intolerable, she quit the team.
She had been a major on-field contributor for two years before the 2020 season.
And, as a matter of fact, then he removed her from the starting lineup for the next two games, drastically reduced her playing time, because she had expressed fully First Amendment-protected points of view.
When she was a freshman, she averaged 76 minutes of playing time.
Isn't a game 100 minutes?
Or is it 120 minutes?
I wouldn't say a game is 80 or 90 minutes.
And as a sophomore, her playing time was nearly 88 minutes.
So she was really on the field a lot.
But the next game, after the kneeling incident, Henning played only 29 minutes, and at the game after that, only 5.
Well, a judge recently ruled that she can sue her former coach.
And I hope she sues his idiocy all the way to a multi-million dollar settlement.
Yeah, so a college women's soccer game in D1 is 90 minutes.
It consists of two 45-minute periods.
So she's basically playing.
She basically was playing when she was playing 88 minutes.
She was not leaving the field at all.
That's right.
That's right.
Clearly a talented player and then she just gets five minutes of playing time.
Good grief.
Well, so speak to me of what Stanford is up to.
Well, it's not about Stanford.
We're going to talk about the University of North Carolina.
This is where white students are prohibited from... Oh, I beg your pardon.
It's okay.
We already discussed the goofiness of Stanford, where America is now... an American is a term that's no longer acceptable, but we're going to talk about now where white students are prohibited from applying to this UNC fellowship.
The public university dragged into court over its race-conscious admissions policy is now advertising a research fellowship That bars white applicants from applying.
Along with Harvard, they are in the dock before the Supreme Court because of their discrimination against whites.
And now they're openly advertising a fellowship open only to non-whites.
Is that right?
Correct.
That's correct.
So the University of North Carolina, yes, they're equity champions.
Again, there are winners and losers in life, and the winners They think they're on the right side of history, because what is that that MLK said?
The arc of justice bends?
Whatever.
It's kind of a lame quote anyways.
It bends right between your eyes, white boy.
That's where it bends.
Hey, listen.
I thought we learned earlier that Canadians are trying to get rid of bias and... What was it in Canada?
I'm sorry.
They're decolonizing light.
Decolonizing light, exactly.
So if you're going to decolonize light, you kind of override and negate MLK's great quote about moral justice.
Anyways, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, whose Affirmative Action Program, along with that of Harvard University, is under review by SCOTUS, sponsors the Fellowship for Exploring Research in Nutrition, which accepts applications exclusively from students who are, quote, black, indigenous, or people of color, BIPOC.
According to the program's website, fellows can earn thousands of dollars, live on campus apartments paid for by the university, and receive generous mentorship opportunities, including letters of recommendation.
Quote, the field of nutrition is open, overwhelmingly comprised of white researchers, end quote.
An ad for the fellowship states, quote, increased BIPOC representation in food policy research is critical for developing effective, equitable, comprehensive, and culturally competent policies that address nutrition-related health disparities and quote, give them the gold star for
being equity champions.
It doesn't matter whether or not nutrition is actually increasing and we're helping people
be healthier.
All that matters in the eyes of this fellowship is that there are fewer and fewer white people
trying to prolong individuals' lives by making, by helping them eat healthier food.
We're all going to starve to death if there are not enough BIPOCs telling us what to eat.
I think it boils down to that.
That's exactly what it says.
Wow.
You know, on Monday, the economist Mark Perry filed a complaint about the fellowship with the District of Columbia's Office of Civil Rights.
The complaint, which was reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon where this article appeared, it asked the office to investigate the university for race-based discrimination.
I wish it would go further and say anti-white discrimination.
Indeed.
The UNC Chapel Hill did not respond to a request for comment.
The program Which was announced last week on this website, comes as UNC Chapel Hill and Harvard await a verdict from SCOTUS over a lawsuit from Students for Fair Admissions, a non-profit opposed to affirmative action.
The group argues that both schools are violating the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bans racial discrimination by the recipients of federal funds, and that UNC Chapel Hill, as a public university, is also violating the 14th Amendment, which bans racial discrimination by the government.
At oral arguments for the case in October, SCOTUS conservative justices seemed receptive
to that argument. The Nutrition Fellowship and white students' explicit exclusion from it
undercuts the school's claim that it does not discriminate based on race,
though in this case the discrimination is occurring outside of the school's admission offices.
You know, this shows you what they want to do. This is what their little hearts yearn to do,
is exclude white people.
And by this reasoning, they could say, every single brain surgeon is white.
So, we're just not going to let any more white people become brain surgeons.
And while we're at it, maybe we should fire all the ones we already have.
Because how can brain surgery work if it's done only by white people?
Well, on that line of thinking, Argentina should give up its World Cup.
It should forfeit its World Cup for its lack of black players.
You're right about that.
They weren't equity champions.
Again, sometimes on these podcasts we have fun with the words that we learn.
We learn so many new concepts.
Equity champions has entered that nomenclature that That I think was previously only inhabited by heat islands.
And food deserts.
And what was it?
Shade.
Shade equity.
Yeah.
OK, well, you know, meanwhile, Mr. Kersey, there's a heartwarming story here for you.
It's the heartwarming story of Reverend Bling.
It has to do with the Brooklyn pastor Lamar Whitehead.
He, as you may recall, we discussed this, it was really very exciting.
He was robbed of a fortune in personal bling jewelry while he was preaching in July.
And this happened right in the middle of a live stream, and they took the bling right off him at gunpoint, as well as his wife.
She was pretty blingy, too.
I recall the estimates being in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
They were really just clanking every time they walked down the street.
Well, Reverend Bling himself has been arrested on federal financial fraud charges.
He's 44 years old, and he apparently, according to the U.S.
District Attorney in Manhattan, bullied a businessman for $5,000 and then tried to defraud him of more than that.
Prosecutors also said White had offered to help one of his prisoners buy a new house talked her into withdrawing $90,000 from her retirement account.
He said, I am a man of integrity and you will not lose.
There is a record of this because that's what he texted the woman.
But the prosecutors say he spent the money on luxury goods.
When she asked for it back, what was his reply?
He said, too late.
Already gone.
The indictment also says Bishop Whitehead tried to persuade A different businessman to give him $500,000 and a stake in some real estate transactions in return for which Bishop Whitehead promised favorable actions from the city that would make them minions.
Well, the indictment did not.
Now that sounds pretty shady, doesn't it?
The indictment did not name any of the city officials or specify what actions Bishop Whitehead might have taken.
It raised the question of his friendship with Mayor Eric Adams, who has since distanced himself from the bishop.
I bet he distanced himself at great speed when this word came out.
Yes, who knows what he was going to do with that $500,000 and favorable action from the city.
In any case, when he was younger, Bishop Whitehead spent time in prison, and he faced lawsuits accusing him of taking large amounts of money He was ordered to pay a former client, and I don't know what client relationship he had with him, what he was advising on.
He'd pay a former client $300,000 after he did not repay an initial investment of $200,000.
And he owed more than $400,000 in judgments to a construction company that had worked on his house and the credit union that financed his Mercedes-Benz and his Range Rover.
Why?
Yes.
Oh, yeah.
You can't have just one.
That's Mercedes-Benz when you're just ruling down the highway, for your Range Rover when you're climbing trees, you know?
Along with bling, he likes nice cars.
In 2008, he was convicted in Long Island of identity theft.
He was taking out loans in other people's names and using the money for cars and motorcycles.
This guy loves wheels.
He spent five... He's hitting five... He shot bling.
Ah, yep.
He spent five years in prison, and then when he got out, He was a reformed man.
No more of this fraud.
And that's when he started the church.
But now this is the heartwarming part.
His followers have said that his expensive tastes are an inspiration to them, says one of his parishioners.
Rappers, singers, the way they attract people, that's what he's doing.
People want to know how he got all that.
And once you understand, you see he is teaching about God.
So this is an inspiration.
Now, Mr. Kersey, aren't we always supposed to be setting up role models for blacks?
And now we're going to put this admirable man behind bars for shame, and he's an inspiration to his people.
He is personifying the concept of prosperity gospels, but unfortunately he's living a Nouveau riche.
He's living the dream, living the bling.
Here's some interesting news.
It was from the National Post, which is a normal Canadian newspaper, but Quebec Premier François Legault's Coalition Avenir Quebec announced In the National Assembly, they passed a motion that expresses a commitment to merit-based hiring on university campuses and rejects the imposition of racial or gender quotas by the federal government.
Quebec's Minister for Higher Education, Pascal Derry, presented the motion asking the Assembly to, quote, express its concern regarding the exclusion of certain candidates from attaining Canada Research Chairs on the basis of criteria not related to competence.
That's another way of talking about cis white people.
The motion reiterates the importance of academic freedom and denounces the interference of the federal government, which funds research chair programs according to certain criteria that do not reflect the specificity of Quebec.
So they are blasting all these racial quotas.
This Pascal Derry, by the way, is the first Jewish woman ever to be appointed to the cabinet in Quebec history, and she is sick and tired of these quotas.
Last month, as it turned out, a history professor at Montreal's Dawson College filed a human rights complaint against Laval University.
His name is Frédéric Bastien.
He argued he's qualified for position as a Canada researcher, but his application was not even considered because he's a white man.
Other provincial governments run away from controversies like this.
Few elected politicians in the rest of Canada want to talk about the inherent unfairness of the federal government distributing opportunity according to identity quotas.
Quebec has proven to be different.
It's a province leading by example.
This is the National Post's words.
I think it's remarkable.
And a motion unanimously passed by the National Assembly of Quebec opposes the exclusion of white men from government programs.
Again, this is progress, but it's all defense.
It's so annoying that the National Assembly of the province of Quebec even has to pass a motion opposing the exclusion of white men.
But we have that in the United States too, as you just pointed out, University of North Carolina.
Correct.
And the National Post goes on to say, Premier Legault's resistance to le wokisme, as they call it in French-speaking Quebec.
It's well documented.
For years now, he has refused to adopt language such as systemic racism to describe what goes on in Quebec.
Even in the face of immense criticism and pressure from journalists, he refuses to believe in systemic racism.
I mean, that's not as well declared that you're a witch under a Christian regime if you refuse to accept systemic racism.
In any case, let's see.
Now you have a story about Minnesota seeking non-whites, do you not?
Did I get that wrong?
No, no, no.
This goes back to the story you just told us a little earlier at the beginning of this podcast about Minnesota.
What a strange place to think that that would be.
What a strange place.
To think that that would be the state that was the catalyst for what you called a country that lost its mind back in 2020.
The whole George Floyd stuff kicking off with Oh gosh, not Darren Wilson.
Why do I always think of him?
Derek Chauvin.
Derek Chauvin.
This story is, Minnesota schools tried to recruit teachers of color with a new bonus program.
Equity champions won it all.
Minnesota lawmakers last year earmarked $400,000 to help several school districts attract More educators of color from other states aiming to boost a teaching corps that doesn't match an increasingly diverse student body population.
So far, schools have hired only six educators who are black, indigenous, or other people of color, and nine of the 11 participating districts didn't hire any.
According to a legislative report published by the Minnesota Department of Education this month,
none of them immediately qualify for the bonus that is tied to a certain level of a teaching
license. Quote, while this result falls short, it is a revolt against meritocracy. So
forgive that Freudian slur.
Let's try this again.
Quote, while this result falls short of the program's goals, there were several lessons learned from the pilot experience that will lead to stronger results in the future.
End quote, said Tamara Valmay, the program lead at the MDE, who wrote in the legislative report.
The Come Teach in Minnesota program represents one of the most recent pushes by state and school officials to create more parity between Minnesota's rapidly diversifying student body, the great replacements happening, you shouldn't notice it, but we're celebrating it, and its largely white teaching core.
In order to qualify for the hiring bonus, out-of-state educators must be eligible for a Tier 3 license, which includes several requirements and can be renewed indefinitely.
Mr. Taylor, the report suggested three key fixes for the coming year.
Mixing the requirement that teachers be licensed in another state, allowing the educators with a Tier 2 license to qualify for the bonus, and allowing districts to use grant funds to pay out-of-state recruiting trips, i.e., we're going to go eat at Chili's and Applebee's and have a good time on the taxpayer dime.
Looking for five options.
They steal away all these infinitely valuable BIPOC teachers.
Aren't the other states going to complain?
This is unfair.
This is awful.
Gosh, what a country, what a state, what a world, what a race.
Well, I didn't get to the best part.
Nearly 37% of Minnesota's public school students are pupils of color, according to the Department of Education data, while the pedagogues who teach these pupils of color are 95% white.
In the seven-county metro area of Minneapolis-St.
Paul, students of color represent nearly 48% of the enrollment and 88% of the teachers are white.
Mr. Taylor, this is, of course, part of a deliberate Decolonization of the state due to non-white refugee resettlement of the Hamang and Somalis that were so lovely enriched by and the former land of a thousand lakes.
And this is, well, the lakes are still there.
It's just not the people who used to be there.
Wow.
Yes, this is Minnesota, the great white north.
I suppose that's what we used to call Canada.
Well, Mr. Kersey, as always happens.
Our cup runneth over in terms of the stories that we have to tell, but our time runneth under.
And so I think I will take this occasion to once again wish all of our listeners everywhere around the world a wonderfully happy Merry Christmas, and also to remind you that we love hearing from you.
We particularly like commentary on our stories that adds dimension, adds perspective to something that Mr. Kersey or I might have said, or particularly in those cases when he gets something wrong.
We love to be corrected.
We don't like errors to go out over the air and stay there.
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And at the amren.com page, if you click on the Contact Us tab, your message will come straight to me.
Or, if you prefer, you can reach the inimitable, irreplaceable, incandescent Paul Kersey at All one word, BecauseWeLiveHere at ProtonMail.com.
Once again, the email address, shoot over whatever you want to.
Maybe you can tell us what you think or who you think should be the ultimate equity champion of 2022 should be.
Send me that suggestion at BecauseWeLiveHere at ProtonMail.com.
And Mr. Taylor, I just want to wish you and your family a lovely, happy Christmas, as the British would say, and to all of our listeners, Indeed, indeed.
And you know, I would like to hear from anyone out there who considers himself or herself an equity champion.
Yes, as Mr. Kersey suggested, we are a little weak in equity business.
We need to be beefed up if ever we are going to be equity champions.
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