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Jan. 19, 2023 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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The Jackpot Keeps Growing
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance.
With me is my indefatigable co-host, none other than Paul Kersey.
Today is January 19th, year 2023.
As has become customary, we'll begin with comments from listeners.
We love to hear from listeners, by the way.
And that's you, ladies and gentlemen.
Our first commenter, Notes, we just listened to your recent podcast about the astonishingly low reading scores at a Baltimore high school, with many students reading at the kindergarten level.
It was hysterical.
Unfortunately, so true.
Baltimore City Public Schools are a disgrace.
When I was still working at a Baltimore hospital, there were several blacks who were fired It was discovered they could not read despite being in charge of handing out medications as medical associates.
That was their title.
They were busted because the state discovered that they had filled out the wrong boxes on the forms issued through the state of Maryland for medical compensation.
I knew these people.
They were very sweet, just stupid.
Ah, dear.
Yes, this is the world we live in.
And now here is yet another comment.
I learned from your podcast last week that field is now a taboo word at the University of Southern California.
This, of course, is because the word is associated with slavery.
And, oh, our poor pets can't be hearing words that they might somehow were associated with slavery.
Our listener goes on to say, those students must have a lot of time on their hands and seem to be running out of ways to make the world a better place.
I wonder if the kids aren't just tweaking the system to see how far they can bamboozle pious and gullible white liberals and annoying conservatives.
That's a pretty good guess.
And the listener goes on to say, now some hapless professor or middle manager will be fired for saying fieldwork Or talking about the outfield, or maybe even a magnetic field.
Some middle-class black kid will be compensated for pain and humiliation.
The concept of white fragility becomes laughable when it seems blacks are presumed to be crushed by such words as field.
Of course, they're not.
I doubt any black or brown ever gave the slightest thought to the word.
There are other words that certainly evoke slavery.
Cotton, tobacco, rice.
Will they all have to be renamed, too?
That's a good question, wouldn't you say?
I'd say that's a great question.
Yes.
And instead of tweaking the system, it should be twerking the system.
Except I bet it's mostly white people who are doing this stuff.
This craziness seems to be very much a white specialty, but yes, they're tweaking and twerking and who knows what they're doing.
And I think this might be a good point at which to explain to our readers how to contact us with their comments.
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Once again, all one word, BecauseWeLiveHereAtProtonMail.com.
Indeed.
If we make mistakes, if there's something we should turn our attention to that we have not, or if you have comments on any of our stories, just like the kind we had, we love to hear from you.
Now, The whole reparations for slavery bandwagon is really struck up a tune, and it is gaining ahead of speed.
And the San Francisco African-American Reparations Advisory Committee, it has come in with what I think is the absolute top dollar figure as to what we owe our African-American fellow citizens.
So far?
So far, yeah.
I think it's going to be a competition.
They advised the city on developing a plan for reparations, and it released its draft report just last month.
Not for slavery, of course, since California was never a slave state, but it will, quote, address the public policies explicitly created to subjugate black people in San Francisco.
I don't know how many there were of that.
By upholding and expanding the intent and legacy of chattel slavery.
Well, they never had slavery, but apparently they had policies explicitly created to subjugate black people in the spirit of slavery.
The draft plan includes a long list of financial recommendations for the benefit of black San Francisco residents, including, and this is the part I like best, a one-time lump sum payment of five million dollars each to every individual.
Five million.
To be eligible for the program, an African must be 18 years old and have identified as black or African-American on public documents for at least 10 years.
I guess that's to keep out the phonies.
And all you black people out there who are passing for white, you know, you better start identifying as black if you expect to cash in.
Yes, sirree.
Now, furthermore, they must also prove at least two of eight additional criteria.
Choosing from a list that includes Born in San Francisco between 1940 and 1996 and also have proof of residency in San Francisco for 13 years, or another item could be personally or the direct descendant of someone incarcerated by the war on drugs.
So if you have a marijuana charge, you went to jail, or if you were born in San Francisco, I'd like, you know, I should have looked up what the other criteria are, but there's sort of a smuggler's board.
You don't want to include everybody.
Now, The aspects of this reparations plan I really do fail to understand.
The plan also calls on the city to supplement lower income recipients income to reflect the area median income, the AMI, which is about $97,000 annually for, get this, at least 250 years.
250 years?
That's right.
Get this, at least 250 years.
250 years.
That's right, they're gonna supplement the incomes for at least 250 years, but this I don't understand.
Haven't they collected $5 million?
Or are these the ones who can't really show that they qualify one way or another?
They go on to say, by elevating income to match AMI, area median income, black people can better afford housing and achieve a better quality of life.
Well, I guess they can't.
The plan also would establish, quote, a comprehensive debt forgiveness program that clears each eligible person's student and housing loans, credit card debt, etc.
But Mr. Kersey, if you're sitting on $5 million, I think you could pay that off yourself, don't you?
I'm curious, is the $5 million lump sum, is that tax free?
Now, I have not heard about that.
I would imagine they would insist that it be tax free.
I should think so.
I mean, you might lose more than half of that if it's not tax free.
And the committee submitted the draft proposal to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors as a Christmas present on December 23rd.
However, so far, the African American Reparations Advisory Committee has not received any feedback from the board.
You know, I would have some feedback for them, but my feedback, I'm afraid, would be unquotable on a family program like ours.
However, Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, he says he hopes the plan is approved.
How can anyone, how can anyone in any position of authority approve a deal to pay $5 million to black people?
I mean, that would bankrupt the city overnight.
He says, there are so many results, so many efforts that result in incredible reports that just end up gathering dust.
We cannot let this be one of them.
And of course, as you know, House Democrats are pushing to establish a reparations committee at the federal level.
Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, just about my favorite congresswoman.
She's been in the place for 28 years, fighting racism every moment of every day.
She and 52 other House Democrats have proposed legislation, just like we just last week, seeking reparations and national apology for slavery.
Now, I believe we've talked about this before, but there is a California state plan That would ladle out $800,000 per eligible black person.
I guess they can collect that on top of the San Francisco 5 million.
And the California state plan says explicitly that if the feds ever come through with their operations, they must be offered on top of the state operations.
That's what they say.
Now, I did a little bit of calculation on this, Mr. Kersey.
Do you know what a net worth of $5 million means in terms of the percentiles of net worths in the entire country?
I bet you can have a pretty good guess.
What percentile would that put you in?
I would say the 97th percentile.
You are spot on.
You get the dog biscuit.
Now, How about for 18 to 24-year-olds?
Because remember, you can be 18 and older and you get $5 million.
Drops out of that sunny blue California sky.
You could be an 18-year-old walking around with $5 million.
And of course, like you said, $75,000.
How much was it per year?
Well, you see, the area median income is $97,000.
So my guess is whatever your income, it would be boosted to $97,000.
Now, if I had an income, I would stop having an income.
I'm sure there's a COLA, Mr. Taylor, involved there.
So every year, if they're smart, they're going to, that area median income, that AMI, you got to have a COLA to make sure that it goes up if the AMI goes up.
I should think so.
Or were they thinking that far with future time orientation?
I don't know.
But if they're thinking in terms of the next 250 years, at least these people are future oriented, Mr. Kersey.
But now, if you're 18, I looked into this too, with what amount of net worth would put you in the 99th percentile if you are 18 to 24?
What's your guess on that?
Gosh, I, 99.8, I mean, it's got to be something.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
If, if what income would you, what net worth would you have to have as an 18 to 24 year old to put you in the 99th percentile of rich 18 to 24 year olds?
Oh, what income?
No, what net worth?
What net worth would you have?
How much money would you have to be sitting on as an 18 to 24 year old to be richer than 99% of all other 18 to 24 year olds?
I would say $500,000.
You're spot on again.
This is miraculous.
Yep.
The astonishing thing about me is that newspapers report this just sort of in the most factual way.
They don't quote anybody who says, absurd, ridiculous, unmerited, out of the question.
They just report this and then they quote the people who say, yeah, yeah, yeah, we deserve this.
But, you know, at some point, I guess this is, this will be considered just an opening negotiations.
And if they end up getting 50,000 each, Then they'd say, whoa, we gave up so much!
Ah, this is just incredible.
But, uh, We will see.
We will see.
The push is on in a big way.
I've never seen the bandwagon, as I say, strike up the band with such volume and intensity as it has got now.
Well, I guess these people, these San Franciscans and Californians, won't need any help from Fidelity Investments, but I suspect they'd take it anyway.
Oh, this was a story that I kind of just happened to see because I was looking at a website That was noting Raleigh crime and then all of a sudden this story just pops up and this one, this is a shocker.
This is a shocker ladies and gentlemen.
Fidelity has pledged $250 million to support minority students address equity gaps in education.
So Fidelity Investments will commit $250 million to a new education initiative to support up to 50,000 underserved minority students with scholarship and mentorship programs over the next five years through 2028.
So less ambitious than the San Francisco reparations program, but nevertheless one that only benefits non-whites.
The Financial Institution, which has an office in Durham, is using the triangle as one of its launching points for this new initiative.
Now, for those who don't know, the triangle is the North Carolina Research Triangle.
I believe it's Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill.
Is that correct?
I forget which the third one is.
You're probably right, but it's Raleigh, Durham and something else.
So, Fidelity is partnering with the United Negro College Fund to select students to receive the funds, with hopes of addressing equity gaps in access to education.
Quote, there has been a trend in the wrong direction that many of these young people have been so economically hard-pressed that they have had to defer or even not attend college.
End quote, said Dr. Michael Lomax, the president of the UNCF.
The Education Data Initiative found that college attendance amongst Black students decreased by more than 13% between 2010 and 2020 following years of increases.
Quote, It's very expensive to go to college, and first-generation, low-income students of color oftentimes have to balance the desire to go to college and get a degree that will enable them to learn more and to develop more family resources with the immediate need to be the breadwinner in the family.
End quote, said Mr. Lomax.
The National Center for Education Statistics found white students have average monthly
student loan debts lower than Black, Hispanic, Asian, and American Indian counterparts.
Black students, it's one in five that don't complete their college education that they start.
For Latinks, I can't believe they actually printed that.
For Latink students, it's almost a third, and we want to fix that," said Leslie Walden, vice president of regional public affairs at Fidelity.
Walden explained the program extends past funding and into networking.
Quote, it's a Fidelity mentor to offer career mentoring to offer financial education, managing your money and building generational wealth, end quote, said Walden.
Well, again, just find a way to finagle your way into the San Francisco reparations money,
but you'll be fine.
The financial company had previously worked with Maiden Durham, which earlier launched
the BOLS initiative, a program with a similar goal, i.e. helping only non-white students.
Quote, we work specifically with communities of color, young students between the ages of 18 and 25
to get them the opportunity to go to Durham Tech and get a certification or a biotechnology industry sector
that will get them the opportunity for an entry-level position
that pays them 20 to $25 an hour, said executive director Casey Steinbacher.
That doesn't sound.
That doesn't sound all that ambitious to me.
Are these college graduates that are supposed to get $20 or $25 an hour?
Well, $20 to $25 an hour, that translates to, what, $40,000 to $50,000 a year.
So if you're making that much, that's not too bad for someone coming out of college.
I guess you're right.
Yes, yes.
So again, there's not much else to this story.
They're just trying to get some quotes.
And again, it's just one of those other little things that shows you who the true privileged individuals collectively are in this country.
And it ain't white people.
No.
Now, did you say it was going to be for 50,000 people?
Or was it 50,000?
Correct.
$250 million from Fidelity to exclusively non-white pupils for five years.
50,000.
50,000 people.
It doesn't delineate how you qualify.
It doesn't have any of that in the story.
But once again, it's just another major...
Brokerage, major bank, major investing house that has decided that, hey, let's just allocate all these resources, all these financial resources to underserved communities.
And again, I believe Fidelity is a publicly traded company, Mr. Taylor.
I was going to say, yep, shareholder lawsuit, if you ask me.
From a fiduciary standpoint, yeah, exactly.
Wow, that would pay for a few dividends, it seems to me.
But now, I wanted to add this Good Sense story as well.
There is a black man who talked about the formation of a reparations commission in his hometown of St.
Paul, Minnesota.
He said, today, approximately 80% of black families are led by a single parent, almost always a mother without a husband.
This is a problem that reparations, yet another form of handout, will not fix.
We can no longer ignore the results of generations upon generations of fatherless families.
Reparations for slavery will not undo the damage fatherlessness has wrought.
If anything, a conditions-free financial payout will only exacerbate this intractable crisis.
This is by someone named Kendall Quayles.
Well, good for you, Kendall.
It's very good to hear a black person coming out against this nonsense.
Now, wouldn't it be interesting if one of the conditions for reparations in San Francisco, for example, would be, well, you have to have been married for the last five years.
Think of that.
But no, no, no, no, that would be much too much.
Well, Derek Chauvin is back in the news.
He's the guy, of course, who created a saint, a saint, single handedly.
George Floyd, may his name be praised, died on May 25th of 2020.
And it was Derek Chauvin who is said to have killed him.
I think there are grave doubts about that.
And the trial, according to his attorney, could not possibly have been fair.
His attorney has gone before the Minnesota Court of Appeals saying that the trial judge should have moved the case out of Minneapolis because of extensive pre-trial publicity and unprecedented security precautions.
He says, and this is a pretty good quote, I say, Attorney William Mormon said, The primary issue on this appeal is whether a criminal defendant can get a fair trial consistent with constitutional requirements in a courthouse surrounded by concrete blocks, barbed wire, two armed personnel carriers, and a squad of National Guard troops, all of which, or whom, are there for one purpose, in case the jury acquits the defendant.
I think it's a pretty good argument.
Just goes to show you where the pressure lies.
Mormon argued in his brief that the pretrial publicity was more extensive than for any other trial in Minnesota history, I would say maybe in the entire United States history, and that the judge should have moved the trial and sequestered the jury.
He wrote that the publicity and the riots and the city's $27 million settlement with Floyd's family announced during jury selection and the unrest over police killing in a Minneapolis suburb During jury selection and the sealing off the courthouse were just some of the factors prejudicing Chauvin's chance to get a fair trial.
Mr. Taylor, if I could real quick, that was an unprecedented move by the city of Minneapolis to award that $27 million before the trial had even commenced, correct?
Yes!
Yes!
Crazy!
Why on earth would they do that?
It's almost encouraging a jury verdict of guilty.
And the jury heard about this.
I mean, how prejudicial must that be?
It's just incredible.
And of course, after the guilty verdict, Hennepin County Judge Peter Kahle sentenced Chauvin to 22 and a half years.
Now, you will probably remember this better than I, but he later apparently pleaded guilty to a separate federal civil rights charge.
And was sentenced to 21 years in federal prison.
Now, I don't remember.
Maybe it was a plea deal.
Maybe there was a potential for even greater punishment if he had had to go to trial on that.
But he pleaded guilty to that and got 21 years in federal prison.
Therefore, even if Mr. Chauvin wins his appeal in state court, his federal sentence would keep him in prison longer than his state sentence would.
Because he would qualify for parole earlier in the state system, says this news story.
Now, do you remember the details of why he ended up pleading guilty for that civil rights charge, that federal charge?
I don't.
I can't remember when the trial happened.
Did the trial happen in the fall of 2020?
Was it going on during the campaign of Trump-Biden?
No, no, it wasn't.
Uh, St.
Floyd died in 2020.
They didn't get, they didn't get to trial that quick.
I don't think it was until 2021.
But, uh, in any case, uh, no, it, uh, I do not remember the details around why he decided to do.
Yeah.
Maybe we should look into that.
Well, I, I let, let's face it.
He may have done, he may have made the plea deal because he was well aware of what was about to happen, uh, to the gentleman from Brunswick.
Well, but that's a whole different—you know, but the guys who were involved in the Ahmaud Arbery business, they went to trial.
They were tried twice.
They pled innocent both times.
Oh, that's another.
I mean, I think that's an even more outrageous case.
I get hot under the collar thinking about what happened to those guys.
And you know what's so sickening, Mr. Taylor?
There are only two people who have really done a lot of research and who have looked into the facts of that case, and that would be you, and that would be John Derbyshire over at VDARE.
It is as if there's a media blackout on that topic on the right.
No one wants to look at it.
Not even Tucker Carlson.
Not Ann Coulter.
Not any of those people who you would think would have an interest in some kind of absolute blatant miscarriage of justice of that kind.
But speaking of miscarriages of justice, the German Green Party.
This is an eye-opening story.
It just goes to show you how far the rot has set in in what used to be a wonderful European country.
The Green Party dismissed its own justice minister, Dirk Adams, in the German state of Thuringia.
Thuringia.
He was a male of the wrong skin color, which by the Green Party's own admission was the only reason he was dismissed.
This came about after a number of retirements and reshuffled positions that would have left both green ministers in the state government as white men, which is incompatible with the Green Party's position on quotas in government.
So he just had to go.
That's the long and the short of it.
Adams will now be replaced by an Afro-German woman, Doreen Denstadt.
Afro-German, that's not a phrase that rings trippingly off my tongue at any rate.
She has no law degree.
Mr. Kersey, she has no law degree, no political experience.
She served as a clerk in the police trust office in the Thuringian Ministry of the Interior.
Her lack of experience in any real substantive role is no problem.
The Green leadership described this firing But only the firing as a painful step, but a necessary one.
Adams, a 54-year-old politician who's been in office since March 2020, would not give up his position.
He was asked to resign, to go quietly.
Two of the state party green chairpersons, as they call them, Anne-Sophie Bohm and Bernard Stengele, asked him to resign and he refused flatly.
He said his department was currently dealing with an extremely demanding arrival situation.
That has to do with all these migrants.
He also pointed out that there are important decisions regarding generational change in the judiciary.
Again, this is the justice minister.
That's an important job.
And he then issued a challenge to the Green Party leadership.
He says if they want him gone, they are free to ask the state prime minister to fire me.
And that's what they did.
The Green Party asked the Prime Minister of the state to get rid of their own guy because he was a white man.
Now, this has not gone unnoticed by the people in the AFD, the Alternative for Deutschland, and Beatrix von Stork, one of their top people, wrote, when a minister has to go because he's a white man to be replaced by a black woman, that is open racism and gender discrimination.
The Green Party was saying, hip hip hooray!
They said, good riddance to him, because they said in a statement, this demonstrates the, quote, importance that the topics of integration and migration have for us Greens.
So they're happy as clams.
What a disgusting situation.
But if there's anything more disgusting, you are going to tell us about it right now.
I've not seen this story, and this makes me hot under the collar, too.
Yeah, and try to process on that story we just talked about.
Holy cow.
Yeah, yeah.
Extraordinary, isn't it?
I mean, I guess they got hard and fast rules.
They say, you know, we just can't have X number of white men in any position.
And so if we get one, out he goes, even if he's doing a great job.
Why don't we cleanse our palate of that story with a quick celebration of Robert E. Lee Day, as I believe today, January 19th, Year of Our Lord 2023.
So, there's a man that's worth veneration and remembering and commemorating.
Indeed, and everybody's forgotten him.
January 21st is Stonewall Jackson's birthday, and I'm proud to say that it's also the birthday of one of my daughters.
So, I never forget her birthday, and I never forget Stonewall Jackson's birthday.
I'm afraid, having cleansed our palates, we're going to dirty them all over again with a story about this German-Iranian who is gloating about how he and their lot are going to take over.
Yeah, this protuberance will be hard to excise.
Ethnic Germans are dying out and migrants will inherit Germany, claims Iranian writer in one of Germany's biggest newspapers.
Now forgive me, ladies and gentlemen, if I butcher the pronunciation of his name.
I'll forgive you.
I encourage you.
Go right ahead.
Just the name.
Following the mass riots involving migrant youth on New Year's Eve, German-Iranian author and commentator Bizad Kareem Kani is criticizing the debates about the young men of foreign origin, which he says are fueled by historical racism.
That's right.
If they're rioting, you mustn't criticize them.
I love it.
He got off to a great start.
Noticing the rioters is a far greater crime than the riots themselves.
And that goes for our country as well.
So here we go.
Let's dive into these murky waters.
Connie asserts that regardless of what Germans think about the riots, migrants are not only going to stay in the country, but will eventually, quote, inherit Germany, end quote, from ethnic Germans who are dying off.
Quote, we're here not just for your pension funds, but because we make sure that the Aryan nightmare never becomes a reality in this country, he said.
He wrote in one of Germany's top media outlets.
Berliner Zeitung?
Zeitung.
Zeitung.
That means daily.
I'm sorry?
The Berlin Daily.
The Berlin Daily.
And a piece entitled, Bizarre Karim Kani on New Year's Eve.
Integrate Yourself.
So, integrate yourself to the rioters.
That sounds like an FU to me.
It's like that great scene from that Tom Hanks movie where the Somalis take over the ship and he looks at Tom Cruise's character, Captain Phillips, and says, Who's in charge now?
Who's in charge?
It's a pretty famous meme.
Connie, who was accepted to Germany as a political refugee from Iran, along with his family when he was about 10 years old, writes that migrants will inherit Germany.
He adds that time is on the side of migrants as ethnic Germans are dying out.
I think we're at a point now where we should have an honest look at the situation.
Let's start with a simple statement that we, migrants, foreigners, people with, call us what you like, are not going to leave that easily.
And neither will you, dear organic Germans.
Though, demographically, you're definitely going away.
You're dying out, and your country needs about 400,000 new workers every year.
Over the next 15 years, that's about a million immigrants a year.
We migrants will probably inherit this land, so we could play for time here, which is time you don't have.
Anything you'd like to add?
I'd love to subtract, but...
Connie refers to the Bio-Deutsch, a slang term for ethnic Germans.
He asserts that these Germans deserve to be demographically replaced for the country's actions during the Second World War.
There is no forgiveness.
Strange things also happen when you gas, shoot, or exile almost all of your intelligentsia.
And after the war was lost, there is a need for simple workers, people who can be brought in to rebuild the piles of rubble that until yesterday were still Berlin, Dresden, or Cologne.
The author appears to assert that Germans to be uniquely evil in history, pointing not
only to the Second World War, but also what he says is the country's Islamophobia.
He makes no mention, for instance, of Muslims, Arabs and Persians waging imperialistic wars
of aggression throughout their history, including the colonial occupation of Spain and the Balkans.
Nor does he mention that Islamic nations were committing genocide against Greek and Armenian
Christians as late as the 20th century.
In addition, Connie's article omits the Arab slave trade, which involved the enslavement
of approximately 1 million white Europeans across Europe's vast coastline, or Arab and
Persian involvement in the African slave trade.
This story comes from a right-leaning conservative site in Europe.
So they're just pointing out what this guy says.
It's, you know, it's a little premature celebration.
It's kind of like in football when somebody is running toward the end zone and they start celebrating a little early and they end up dropping the ball before they cross the goal line.
Let's hope this stimulates a certain amount of thought and action in Germany.
When these folks confessing in announce that they are superior to the people who built the country and say, yep, we're taking over.
And we deserve it.
Nothing you can do about it.
Get lost.
I hope to goodness that there are bio-Deutsch, as he calls them.
I imagine that's some sort of insult.
In any case, bio-Deutsch.
The bio-Deutsch will wake up and see what's happening to their wonderful country.
Well, not that and bio-French and bio-English and bio-Americans.
That's right.
Bio-whites, yeah.
Bye-bye, bio-whites.
Well, did you know that Eric Adams is a white supremacist?
Sure seems that way.
You know, he was at the border at El Paso just on Sunday, and he declared that there is no room in New York for busloads of migrants being sent to America's most populous city.
And you'd be referring to the mayor of New York, correct?
Oh, did I?
What did I call him?
You just said Eric Adams, just in case some of our listeners don't know who that is.
Quite right.
Yes, there are plenty who don't know, especially those of you who live outside the country.
Eric Adams, mayor of New York, he was critical of the administration of Joe Biden, saying now is the time for the national government to do its job about the immigrant crisis at the southern border.
But he doesn't think that the way it does its job is to keep them out.
He wants loads and loads of money and a system to sprinkle them and spread them all around the country everywhere but New York.
The visit of a New York City mayor to a southern border city about the issue of immigrants is unprecedented.
Well, what's happening there is unprecedented.
He said the migrant influx into New York could cost the city as much as $2 billion at a time when the city is already facing a major budget shortfall.
And, after all, in recent months, Republican governors in Florida and Texas have sent thousands
of migrants seeking sanctuary to cities run by Democratic politicians, including New York,
Chicago, and Washington, D.C.
But the only thing Mayor Eric Adams can think of is we want federal money and we want a
federal redistribution program.
These guys, it seems impossible for them to think in terms of, well, wouldn't it solve the problem if they were just kept out?
That seems to be an impossibility for them.
As it happens, I was listening to C-SPAN radio.
And just today, Eric Adams was addressing a national conference of mayors, and he laid out this four or five point program about the border crisis.
And that's all he talked about.
Federal money to take these people and spread them around the country.
That's all he cares about, not about keeping them out.
At the same time, though, The Washington Post has had an astonishing spasm of sanity.
I nearly fell out of my chair when I read this editorial, Mr. Kersey, and I'll read some passages from it.
Washington could become a more dangerous city if the D.C.
council votes Tuesday, as currently planned, to override Mayor Muriel E. Bowser's veto of a bill that decreases punishments for violent crimes.
Well, in fact, they did override.
So, she said, this is going to make the city more dangerous.
They said, too bad.
And what they did was a far-reaching rewrite of the criminal code that will further tie the hands of the police and prosecutors while overwhelming the courts.
Can you believe WAPA was saying these things?
As I say, an astonishing spasm of sanity.
With the capital city already awash in handguns, the measure would scale back penalties for convicted felons illegally carrying firearms, as well as for using them to commit crimes.
The bill eliminates life sentences and gets rid of mandatory minimums for every crime except first-degree murder.
The maximum penalty for someone convicted of a violent felony while using a gun to commit more violence would drop to four years from 15 years.
In other words, you've got a violent convicted felon, he uses a gun to commit another crime, the most he can go to the pokey for, I guess unless he kills somebody and it's first-degree murder, is four years.
It is a 450 page bill.
You know, our rulers love these great fat bills that nobody can read all the way through.
Proponents of the bill say, and this is the crucial part, African Americans are disproportionately convicted of violent crimes.
And they say all of these penalties must be reduced in the name of equity.
The Post goes on to say, the law will overwhelm the already overstressed Superior Court by giving defendants charged with any misdemeanor that carries jail time the right to a jury trial.
Of course, they'll all get public defenders, so of course they'll ask for a jury trial.
It will also leave dangerous people on the streets as they await trial.
The law won't take effect until October 2025, and proponents say nearly three years is plenty of time to prepare for an influx of new cases.
Now a little further into this, there is a draft from this council, this committee that's proposing the revision of the criminal code, and it begins with a quotation from Angela Davis.
And I didn't memorize the quotation, but we know who Angela Davis is, that old black power lady who got in all sorts of trouble and now teaches at Berkeley, if I'm not mistaken.
It was something about, you know, we have to have justice and justice means this, that, and the other for black people.
I found that one of the reasons that they cite with the greatest gusto for why all of these mandatory minimums, etc., have to be changed is because of disproportionate black convictions.
From 2010 to 2019, according to statistics, for if the offense is first degree murder, the number of convictions of people who were black during those nine years was 90%.
90.3% to be exact.
And when it comes to armed carjacking, it says at least 75%.
I think that's probably because they don't know.
I would guess, like unarmed carjacking, which is 92.6%, it's at least in the 90s, armed carjacking.
Who but black people do that in the District of Columbia or in the country as a whole?
Possession of a firearm during a crime of violence, The percentage of people convicted, 91% black.
First degree burglary, 91%.
Second degree burglary, 92%.
Robbery, 94%.
Yes.
You know, it does paint a pretty dreary and dark picture, doesn't it?
But anyway... Oh, it paints a very dark picture, but in the way that you're referring to.
But, and for this, and because those numbers are so high, we have to reduce the penalties.
And even the Washington Post thinks that's a bad idea.
Well, just last Tuesday, that today is what?
Thursday, I believe?
The council voted 12 to 1 to override Muriel Bowser's veto.
The council now says that the code is safer.
I don't know why it's safer.
More just and equitable.
Now, I believe that the United States Congress and the committee that deals with the District of Columbia has to approve this change.
And my guess is that with the Republicans in charge, they will not approve the change.
And it may be that these people, I'm just speculating now, that the city council voted to enact all of these insane changes, knowing they're insane, knowing that Congress will not approve them, but they can preen themselves in front of their constituents and say, look what we tried to do.
But all those nasty white people in Congress stopped us.
That's my guess.
You know, Mr. Taylor, back in October of 2020, D.C.
street signs went up with a clear message against white supremacy.
Do you remember this?
Street signs?
No, I don't remember.
Yes, underneath like a sign that says, you know, no parking 7 a.m.
to 6.30 p.m.
Monday through Friday.
Underneath that, there's a message that says white supremacy kills black people.
Wow, I didn't remember that.
Did we talk about that?
I don't think we talked about it because it was just one of those crazy stories that popped up.
I think there's actually some other signs that read Black Lives Matter.
These are on street signs, and you think about the numbers you just spouted out.
Not spouted out.
That's derogatory.
You think about the numbers you just cited about crime in our nation's capital city.
It's not white supremacy that's killing black people in Washington, D.C.
Certainly not.
Wow.
Well, as we said yesterday, they're going to put up signs that say, Thou shalt not kill in Washington, D.C.
That's right.
That was in D.C.
That's right.
That's right.
We'll see if that works.
They're getting creative.
Yes.
Now, the New York Times, I mean, this is a real twofer, Mr. Kersey.
The New York Times had another astonishing spasm of sanity, believe it or not.
And I'll quote from it, too.
After George Floyd's murder, As companies faced pressure to demonstrate a commitment to racial justice, interest in the diversity, equity, and inclusion industry exploded.
The American market reached an estimated $3.4 billion in 2020.
$3.4 billion.
That would send a lot of black people to college.
That might even compensate, what, that would be 34,000 San Franciscans.
I don't know, my math is not quite right there.
And the New York Times says, there's little evidence that many of these initiatives work, and the specific type of diversity training that's currently in vogue, mandatory trainings that blame dominant groups for DEI problems, may well have a net negative effect on the outcomes managers claim to care about.
We've been speaking to employees about this research for more than a decade, says sociologists Frank Dobbin and Alexander Kalev.
With the message that diversity training is likely the most expensive and least effective diversity program around.
That's not stopping them.
Some diversity initiatives actually might worsen the D.E.I.
climates of the organizations that pay for them.
Diversity trainings that are mandatory or that threaten dominant groups' sense of belonging or make them feel blamed, and I suspect that includes all of them, may elicit negative backlash.
Or exacerbate pre-existing biases.
I think it probably just makes white people hoppin' mad to be told that they're racist and everything that goes wrong for blacks and everybody else is their fault.
But let me continue.
Many of these trainings run counter to the views of most Americans of any color on race inequality.
And they're generating exactly the sort of backlash that research predicts.
It's more important accurately to diagnose an organization's specific problems and to come up with concrete strategies for solving them,
then to attempt to change the attitudes of employees.
Now, I'd like to see how that actually works either, but then they say the history of diversity trainings is in a
sense a history of fads.
Maybe the current crop will wither over time.
New ones will sprout that are stunted by the same lack of evidence.
And a decade from now, someone else will write a version of this article.
I think that's really rather prescient.
DEI does not lend itself to easy solutions.
Well, Mr. Kersey, it sure doesn't, does it?
And no one dares explain why.
But it's got something to do with average IQ and the ability to defer gratification.
But that's not one of the easy solutions either.
So there you go, New York Times, Washington Post, in one week.
Gosh, saying something sensible.
I just couldn't believe it.
Common sense must be trickling up to the thinking classes.
What do you reckon?
It's really the Washington Post one that sticks out just because of how much has been invested to gentrify and turn Washington DC around and you also realize why home rule needs to be overturned just because of the insanity of the local elected government officials who are doing everything they can to protect black criminality because of the disproportionate number of individuals who are black who collectively
basically commit all the violent crime in the city. Well of course as it gentrifies
you would think that those white folks are gonna vote a few more white council
members on board and they all love and really love to read the Washington Post
and if even the Washington Post has woken up to how idiotic this is.
Maybe their own government become a little more responsible.
But we'll see.
I would ask that you remember the story of the fair jumping, which was decriminalized because it was basically blacks who were the only people who were fair jumping in the D.C.
metro system.
And I want to say only two council members voted against it.
Sounds about right.
I will never forget that story.
That's the way it is in Washington and all around the world.
And that was pre-George Floyd, too.
Yes, you're right.
You're right.
Pre-George Floyd.
Now, this is a story about brownies and not the edible kind.
The Canadian Girl Scouts have dropped the name brownies in favor of embers after the term brownies was deemed racist and it offended some of its members.
The name changes were announced by the Girl Guides of Canada.
That's the equivalent of Girl Scouts.
To create a more inclusive space for the seven and eight-year-old girls.
Current and former members claim the previous name caused harm and was a barrier to belonging for racialized girls and women.
Racialized, you know, race is just an illusion, but their sense of insult is not an illusion at all.
Neo-Canadians.
Yes, yes.
Families have signed up with Girl Guides for the first time because changing the name means Girl Guides is more inclusive for their daughters, they say.
Now, I guess, how many people really were kept out because brownies made Iranians or Hispanics or black people feel insulted?
And what are they going to call those square chocolate cookies they serve dessert?
Now, I looked up the origin of the term brownie, and as I had suspected, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, a brownie is a benevolent spirit or goblin.
Now, I didn't realize it was of shaggy appearance, supposed to haunt old houses, especially farmhouses, and sometimes perform useful household work while the family is asleep.
I'd always had this sense that brownies were these sort of useful spirits and fairies and sprites.
I didn't realize they were shaggy.
But there you go.
It can also be a household fairy who lives under and in the trees.
And that is why the brownie badge—and I don't recall ever seeing one, Mr. Kersey, maybe you have—is an acorn.
So there you go.
Now, what's the origin of brownie points, I wonder?
That I didn't look into.
Well, Mr. Kersey, I believe you've got one of these heartwarming stories, and this one comes all the way from Texas A&M.
Yeah, College Station.
This comes to us from the Washington Examiner.
It hasn't gotten enough news, or really, I haven't seen it in too many other places, so let's go and dive into this story.
Texas A&M Medical School bragged about removing photos of white male alumni.
This was published on January 16th.
The Texas A&M School of Medicine bragged that removing photos of white male alumni was an example of its institutional commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion.
New documents reveal.
Now, as we just learned from the New York Times, this commitment by institutions to promoting diversity, equity, inclusion is only causing white people to notice the great replacement that's transpiring at a little accelerated rate.
So this is one of those stories.
Hopefully some of our listeners who maybe attended Texas A&M will learn to never cut a check to their alma mater.
The institution included the response to a survey it completed for the Association of American Medical Colleges last year, which the organization used for its diversity, inclusion, culture, and equity inventory.
Why not just have an inventory of individuals who want to become doctors and live up to the Hippocratic Oath?
I guess that's been sidelined and superseded.
That's much less important.
George Floyd.
Yes.
The school's survey responses were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act requested by the medical watchdog group Do No Harm.
That's a great group because you can see what diversity, equity, and inclusion is doing.
Much harm to the concept of medicine.
and it was shared with the Washington Examiner. The survey detailed a number of institutional
commitments to diversity, equity, inclusion, including maintaining, quote, holistic admissions,
in quote, requiring diversity training for search committees and reviewing salaries, Mr. Taylor,
for diversity. I'm not quite sure how you do that. I guess if white guys are getting paid too much,
there needs to be a little more equity. You know that there has been a strong push in a lot of
academic departments for blacks in particular and BIPOCs in general to get a supplement because of
all the wonderful diversity they provide. So even if their qualifications are identical to those of
a white person, they should get a special extra bonus, extra time off because of all the wonderful
things they do simply by being there. So maybe that's what they're aiming to.
Breathing while non-white.
It gets you a lot of points.
Gets you a lot of brownie points.
In response to a question that asked schools that they had modified branding and communication displays to eliminate aspects that could be perceived as non-inclusive, the Texas A&M School of Medicine said it removed quote the
predominantly white male photos of the graduating class prominently displayed on the entrance end
quote to the school. This hearkens back to what happened at Harvard when they removed a lot of
the pic that when they removed the paintings of the dean of the past dean's school because
they were all white man. That's right.
Now, this is just removing the past.
If you keep putting up the photos of the graduating classes, yes, a lot of them are going to be white back in the old days.
I guess they've just got to tear them down, pretend there weren't any graduates, or they're going to go in and blackface some of them.
Just stop.
The school has bragged— Yeah, exactly.
It's unending.
You're exactly right.
The school also bragged to the AAMC that a faculty member of color said the medical school communicates Too much to students, faculty, and staff about its, quote, former policies related to diversity, inclusion, and equity, end quote.
The Texas A&M School of Medicine has over 650 students and is nationally ranked as the 80th best medical school for research.
By U.S.
News & World Report, a Heritage Foundation report said Texas A&M employs 46 diversity, equity, and inclusion staffers in line with the national average of 45.1.
Wow!
Per medical school?
No, this is just for the overall school itself.
Wow, 46!
Yeah.
Boy, I wonder how they avoid stepping on each other's toes, but boy, I guess they've got a whole lot of work to do.
Because they've got a lot of white toes to step on together.
You're right.
Not just the present students, but the past.
They have to dismantle Texas A&M brick by brick and throw it onto the bonfire that used to occur
before the Texas A&M football game.
Now, while the survey results provided a snapshot of the Texas A&M School of Medicine's
internal diversity policies, the school openly touts its commitment
to diversity on its website and published a diversity, equity, and inclusion statement.
May I read it to you real quick?
Please.
Knowledge is power, and the primary purpose of a tertiary educational institution
is to uplift humanity through the continuous advancement of the power of knowledge.
This is achieved through the creation, dissemination, and application of knowledge and service to humanity.
Given that knowledge comes from diverse sources and experience, diversity is Oh gosh, I'm going to butcher this Latin term, so I'm not going to try and pronounce it.
Forgive me.
Cinque non of excellence in tertiary education.
Grounded in this fundamental framework, Texas A&M University is deeply committed to a culture that embraces, expands, and celebrates diversity and inclusion in an inclusive environment where all parties are appreciated, encouraged, and supported, end quote.
Unless, of course, you have white male portrait, which has to come down.
That's funny.
That's interesting.
They say knowledge is power.
That's what they start off with.
Knowledge is power.
But diversity is the power that makes knowledge possible.
That's basically what the statement states.
I guess so.
Well, we have yet another astonishing story of a completely different kind from Louisville, Kentucky.
Six men have finally been arrested in connection with a New Year's Day shootout That was, well, 19 days ago, in which nearly 600 rounds were fired near an apartment complex in Louisville, Kentucky.
That's a lot of bang, bang, bangety-bang.
And that was the birthplace of American Renaissance, is it not?
No, it's not the birthplace.
The birthplace was actually in Menlo Park, California.
But American Renaissance used to operate out of Louisville, Kentucky.
That is true.
Officers for the Louisville Metropolitan Police Department responded to reports of two groups shooting at each other.
Nearby apartments and vehicles were struck by gunfire, but no one was shot.
Detectives were able to identify several people involved in the shootout through video surveillance, witnesses, and an anonymous tip line.
Detectives also seized eight guns.
So, nearly two weeks after the shooting, Bullet holes remained, windows and walls of the Enclave apartment complex, and five stolen vehicles were recovered while they were looking into all of this.
And that's about all we know.
There's been no news on this in the entire Internet in the last three days.
But I am fascinated by 600 rounds shot.
Boy, their aim is poor.
And, you know, we should talk about the ammunition shortage that we're suffering from here in the United States, but that is long gone.
Does the article give mention of what casings they found?
Were these handguns?
Actually, there was a photograph of several of the guns confiscated, some of which were long guns.
So these are rifles, yes, yes, quite a mix.
Well, they got quite, quite a little arsenal, these folks who are firing off their 600 rounds.
I guess we have time enough for just an update on Richneck Elementary School.
That is a school where, as you recall, it's in, I think it was Hampton Roads in Virginia.
A teacher, Abby Zwirner, was shot by a six-year-old.
I had understood that she was trying to disarm this laddie.
But apparently not.
He marched in.
He picked up a gun.
Well, he took the gun out of his backpack, aimed it at her and shot her through the hand and then into her chest.
As I said, I thought that that was because she was trying to take the gun away.
No, she just held her hand up as a protective measure.
But no, she was shot.
And apparently now every school in the entire district, including elementary schools, will get metal detectors.
So, that's going to solve the problem.
According to the K-12 school shooting database, this was the first school shooting of 2023, and it is a six-year-old shooting a white teacher.
We still do not know the race of the student, but we can guess.
It was confirmed the student is black.
Oh, okay.
If any of our listeners out there can just send this over to us, please do.
You can send it to me one more time at BecauseWeLiveHere at ProtonMail.com.
Once again, all one word, BecauseWeLiveHere at ProtonMail.com.
But I did see Mr. Taylor on Twitter.
It was confirmed.
I have saved this, so... On Twitter?
Alright.
Yes.
Elon Musk's Twitter.
Yes.
Well, apparently, according to this school shooting database, In American schools since 1970, there have been three other cases in which the suspect was as young as six, and they've all occurred since 2000.
So I'd love to know the race of those shooters, but that's probably a mystery wrapped in enigma.
And as is always the case, Mr. Kersey, The time flashes by, and we must say goodbye to our dear listeners all around the world.
And on behalf of Mr. Kersey, it is my pleasure once again to tell you how much we enjoy speaking with you and how much we enjoy hearing from you, and what a pleasure and an honor it is to have you with us every week.
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