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Feb. 1, 2023 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance, and with me is my indispensable co-host, Paul Kersey.
The date is February 1st of what used to be known as February, but is now more commonly known as Black History Month.
Yeah, it's Black History Year going on.
We know that now.
Not just month.
I guess it is.
Every minute is Black History Minute.
But, yes, this is 2023, which has gotten off to an extraordinary beginning, I must say, but there's never a dull moment when you're paying attention to what's going on in the United States and around the world, what it has to do with race, immigration, and multiculturalism.
Now, as usual, we will begin with comments from listeners.
One of our listeners wants to know, when's the next Color of Crime report coming out?
Popular monograph that American Renaissance has ever put together.
We've had three versions of it.
The last did not came out way back in 2016.
So we are due for an update.
The fact is the fellow who was doing our color of crime.
He has gotten older and doesn't want to do it anymore.
And we haven't found anyone who's willing to do it.
This is a very bad thing, but I acknowledge that this is something we must do and we are certainly thinking hard about it.
The same listener says.
I have a correction.
And I know you crave correction.
Well, that is something that I often say.
He says, A squared plus B squared equals C squared.
It's known as the Pythagorean Theorem, with the emphasis on Pythagorean, not Pythagorean.
Pythagorean.
Now, did I say Pythagorean, or did you, Mr. Kersey?
One of us must have, because our listeners never lie.
I will raise my hand and say, Myakoba.
You did it.
OK.
All right.
So it's the Pythagorean theorem.
For now and forevermore.
Actually, wait a second.
It was you who said it.
I take that back.
It might have been.
Yeah, it was you.
Because I remember when you said it, I thought to myself, huh, I'm Pythagorean.
It could be my error.
In any case, good of you to stand up and say I'm Spartacus.
Another comment.
You and your cohort spoke in a recent podcast about proposals for slavery reparations from people who never owned slaves to blacks who never were slaves.
All this talk of reparations reminds me the Japanese experience of post-war reparations to Chinese and Koreans who were forced into labor during the Second World War.
Despite having paid enormous sums to the Chinese and Korean governments and individuals, Japanese people are generally still reviled by the Chinese and Koreans.
They took the money, but their hate and resentment for Japan remains unchanged today.
Even Chinese and Koreans who are born after the war are demanding reparations.
And the lesson for white Americans is this.
Grifters hustling over race or ethnic strife have no incentive to stop.
And the more you feed them, the more they demand.
I think that's entirely true.
Now, this is a question for you, Mr. Kersey.
In your last podcast, Mr. Kersey mentioned a book that had a big impact on his life.
I think he said it was called The Vanishing White Tribe.
Could he be so kind as to confirm the full title and author?
Which I will do right now as I pull it up.
I'm actually looking at my Amazon.
It is still on Amazon.
It is called Lost White Tribes.
The End of Privilege and the Last Colonials in Sri Lanka, Jamaica, Brazil, Haiti, Namibia, and Guadeloupe.
Guadeloupe.
Namibia.
Namibia.
I'm sorry.
Sorry, my eyes are a little tired today.
It was published on July 10th, 2011, and the author is Ricardo Orizio, and the translator is Avril Bardoni.
So I highly recommend all of our listeners.
Well, tell us, tell us briefly what it's about.
Why you value it so much.
It's a study of the world of the descendants of European colonialists in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean, and it describes their poverty-stricken lives as outcasts among the native cultures.
So once they've been supplanted and their white privilege is dispossessed, it's one of the reasons why I believe Wilmot Robertson wrote The Dispossessed Majority and what he saw Uh, fomenting and beginning to really percolate back in, uh, I put, but he wrote that in the seventies.
Seventies, I think 73, 74.
Yes.
Yeah.
So basically it's, it's a warning of what happens when you lose quote unquote, your white privilege.
And when, and when whiteness is deemed, uh, an outcast in a society where, which is dominated by as, as we know, uh, by non-whites for the, for the betterment of non-whites.
So it, um, I can't remember.
I think I found a copy of it at Books of a Million, and then a number of people that I've met throughout the years have also spoken highly about how haunting and what impact it made on them.
So it's the whites who are left behind, and we are in the process of being left behind ourselves, Mr. Kersey.
Another comment.
Your podcast is one of my staples, but I have a criticism.
Muhammad is not a prophet in my eyes.
It annoys me to hear him referred to as a prophet by Renaissance men and women.
False prophet is acceptable.
I also recommend the phrase so-called prophet.
Well, you know, I guess it doesn't bother me so much to call him the prophet or a prophet, because I feel that the word is so ironic to begin with.
But I certainly take our listeners' point, especially from a Christian point of view, to call this guy, this sex maniac and violent psychopath, a prada, a prophet, is a little bit much.
Another comment, I thought this was very clever.
This listener quotes a New York Times headline to us about the Tyree Nichols beating business.
The New York headline, the Times headline said this, Tyree Nichols beating opens a complex conversation on race and policing.
The five officers charged with the murder of the young black man are also black, complicating the anguish and efforts at police reform.
Our listener says, doesn't complicating the anguish really mean Making it hard to pin the blame on white people?
I thought that was very good.
It complicates the anguish.
That's right.
We can't blame it on whitey.
It's got to be cut and dry and that's how you can milk it for all it's worth and you can get consent to it.
Slapped on the police force and yeah.
Well, we could talk a lot about Tyrone Nichols if we wanted to, but I would modestly recommend readers to go to the Amaran.com page where I wrote a fairly substantial analysis of it that I think is, so far as I can see so far on the internet, unequaled.
How's that for a modest observation by your host?
That puts you in the incandescent irreplaceable category.
I suppose it does.
But let's get back to that six-year-old who shot the 25-year-old white teacher Abigail Zwirner.
First grader!
First grader!
Yes, and this has happened on January 6th at the Rich Neck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia.
We have mentioned this several times and some new information has come to light.
She had just finished reading a story to her class when the six-year-old whipped out a handgun and shot her in the chest right in front of everybody else, right in front of the class.
Now she is suing the school.
And Abigail Zwirner's attorney, by the name of Diana Toscano, she announced that on that day, over the course of a few hours, three different times, three times, the school administration was warned by concerned teachers and employees the boy had a gun and was threatening people.
But the administration could not be bothered.
The lawyer said the first time was between about 11.15, 11.30 a.m.
when Mrs. Werner herself told a school administrator a six-year-old had threatened to beat up another student.
Then, Toscano says, the lawyer says, the school administration failed to call security or remove the child from the class despite this threat.
At about 12.30, a different teacher went to a school administrator to say the child was rumored to have brought a gun to school and that she had searched the backpack.
The teacher told the administration she believed he had stashed the gun in his pocket before heading out for recess.
The administration then told this teacher, don't worry, the six-year-old has little pockets.
Then, shortly before 1 p.m., says the lawyer, a third teacher, reported to the administrators that another boy had come to her in tears, telling her that this six-year-old had shown him a gun during recess and threatened to shoot him if he told the school that he had a gun.
The administration did nothing.
Can you believe that?
Can you believe that?
A teacher comes in and says, I heard this boy has a gun and threatened to shoot a kid.
Well, then a fourth member of the staff got worried about this and asked the administration if he could search the boy.
The request was denied.
Apparently, they weren't worried.
They said, school's almost over, so don't bother.
Next thing you know, the six-year-old shoots the teacher.
Isn't this an incredible series of events?
Assuming that these things are true, it's just massive, massive spectacular incompetence.
And a few heads apparently have rolled.
Dr. Ebony Parker, the vice principal, who is ebony-colored, she's confirmed to resign.
Also, at a school board meeting, the superintendent of schools, Dr. George Parker III, also ebony-colored, was fired.
So it looks to me as though this is a black-run school district and black-run school whose incompetence led to the shooting of this white teacher.
Really quite remarkable.
And meanwhile, in yet another Virginia school district, Ingrid Gant.
The former president of the Arlington Education Association, that's the teachers union, was arrested after police conducted a six-month audit and showed that she had embezzled $410,782.10 from the union.
They calculated right down to the 10 cents, right down to the last dime, Mr. Kersey.
from the union.
$410,000.
They calculated right down to the 10 cents, right down to the last dime, Mr. Kersey.
$410,000.
They found that in the cup holder in her car.
I bet that was it, yes.
She used debit cards for unauthorized purchases and gave herself multiple bonuses.
She failed to provide financial reports to the board and filed no tax returns.
Now, she's finally arrested, so yet another African-Americanist role model for the youth of our country.
And while we're looking for role models for the youth, I understand that they're trying to figure out how California is going to pay for those reparations.
You know, Mr. Till, before we get to that, could I ask about your trip to the beautiful celebration of A.B.
Hill's life?
Ah, yes, General A.P.
Hill, Confederate General.
He was one of Stonewall Jackson's most competent divisional commanders.
We talked about him before.
A.P.
Hill was buried in Richmond, actually buried under one of the monuments.
He was the only Confederate who, in fact, was entombed beneath the monument to him.
And so he was the last one that this resolutely anti-white Richmond government managed to expel from the old capital of the Confederacy.
His family, the descendants, were outraged, of course, but they had no choice to take the body and rebury it, which they did in Culpeper, Virginia, just two weekends ago.
They advertised this event only by word of mouth because they were afraid that the obscenity shrieking people who were there when the statue was taken down might show up at the re-internment.
And I was a little worried when I heard about the service that was to be held, that it would be sparsely attended.
What was I wrong?
There must have been 400 people there.
I would say at least 100 reenactors in their Confederate uniforms.
They fired several salutes.
Some reenactors had brought a cannon which spoke very authoritatively from time to time.
There was a very eloquent preacher.
There was music.
We all sang Dixie and some of us filed by and shook hands with collateral descendants
of the general.
And I actually placed my hand on the coffin of a Confederate general.
It was there before it was put into the ground.
I suspect that's something that I will never have an opportunity to do ever again, Mr. Kersey.
I sure hope not.
I sure hope they're not, don't keep digging them up and have to be, have to rebury them.
In any case, it was a very inspiring and moving occasion, and I was deeply impressed at how much of a sign of absolutely verboten loyalty this was.
I can't imagine how many people there would have been if they'd been able to advertise it and felt they could.
So I'm very sorry that I did not alert you to this possibility.
I think it was... I would have gladly gone.
And you know, one of the sad things to think back on in the tumultuous Months of May through October 2020.
You just think if I Understand all that we've learned about police and not protecting Right-wing people we saw it all throughout the country.
Of course, Kenosha, we saw what happened with a guy who tried to defend himself when he
was being attacked by three Antifa.
So you know that hesitation people have about going to monuments and defending them.
But if people realize what was happening, the severity of this totalitarian leftist
push to just destroy these monuments.
Monument Avenue in Richmond was arguably the most beautiful street in all of America.
The 1890 statue to Robert E. Lee, the beautiful statue to Stonewall Jackson, the beautiful
statue to Jeb Stuart.
I believe there was one to the Naval Admiral Morris.
More.
Showed up and circled the monuments to protect them and said, arrest us where we're here.
I must say, I must say when I saw those 100 reenactors marching by in their authentic uniforms, their authentic rifles, I thought to myself, why the heck weren't you in Richmond when it really mattered?
It's all very well to go out and march around and fly the flag.
When you're in a cemetery, nobody else knows you're there, but hey boys, your ancestors were brave men, but you were not brave on that day.
I hate to say so, but it's true.
Yeah, I'll tell a quick story.
Why not?
I went up there on the day they tried to burn the Confederate Museum down when they burned the Stonewall Jackson flag.
The graffiti, the smell was just unrelenting because they had tried to burn down a lot of Richmond that night.
It was that first night before Memorial Day.
It might have been, yeah, it was the day before Memorial Day, I believe.
And it was as if the city had been conquered, the monuments had all been defaced, not to the extent that the Robert E. Lee statue would become synonymous with the George Floyd uprising.
And that's what it was.
And walking up to the Confederate Museum, there were a number of police Guarding it and I said hey listen, I'd like to speak to the people in there Could you just let them know that I'm you know, I'm on their side and you know Very jingoistic Attacks against the cops ACAB all over the place.
I'm like guys they hate you and the cops told me listen We've been ordered to stand down.
There's nothing we can do.
There's nothing that we're gonna do because the police are basically I Impotent at this point.
The monopoly of violence had been handed to the left, and when the people, the representatives of the Confederate Museum walked out, I looked at them and I pointed over to the Rumors of War statue, the black statue that had been built and put in place that actually faced the Confederate Museum.
That's the one where there's the black guy on the horse.
It's supposed to reenact, what, the Jeb Stuart Monument, I believe?
It's supposed to be a racially Uh, a inspired, uh, you know, uh, update to, to that.
And it's aptly named rumors of war.
And I looked at that.
I said, guys, this isn't about Confederacy.
This is about race.
And they're going to tear down every statue to a white male in this city and all across the country.
You guys got to get on the board.
You guys got to call your sons of Confederate veterans, all the chapters, email them and get these people up here to circle, because guess what?
All these legal attacks you guys are trying to do.
You've got a, Veraciously anti-white mayor who sees now as he's got the ammunition now to pull the trigger and knock these monuments down because of the zeitgeist and where we're headed.
Because this was when the third precinct had been burned in Minneapolis, and that was basically carte blanche to go and attack everything across the country.
And it's really difficult to reflect upon all that's happened to not just the South, not just Richmond, but just the entire country.
Oh, I agree.
Just a list of monuments, Mr. Taylor.
You talked about a nation gone mad, and I actually went back and I've looked at the list of the monuments that have come down, and you see what's gone up in their place.
I don't think we even talked about the monstrosity in Boston, the MLK monument that went up there, him embracing his wife, or some just grotesque, macabre monument that you're not even sure what it is.
Is it a Turd is it a is it a part of the nail anatomy?
No, no, no, no.
But it's funny.
Yes.
Last little thought, Mr. Taylor, as we move on to the story.
There's a museum in New York that you probably not heard of this movie.
It's a kids movie.
It's called Night of the Museum.
It starred Ben Stiller and the late Robin Williams, who played Teddy Roosevelt brought back to life.
And a lot of that movie is shot of the exterior of the museum where that beautiful statue of Teddy Roosevelt with the Indian and the African slave.
And this movie was made in the early mid, mid 2000s.
And there's a place of honor for this statue when you look at it.
And you think that was only, you know, 12 years, maybe eight years prior to it then being removed.
And I think it's going to what, North Dakota or something like that.
I don't know where that ended up, but it's certainly true.
Yeah, but hopefully somewhere, hopefully out of New York, because these statues don't belong in any of the territory anymore.
Let's just put it that way.
No, if they're taking it down, they don't deserve it.
But yes, the pain is coming everywhere.
So tell us about California.
Yeah, speaking of deserving, this is from the Daily Mail.
The chair of the California Reparations Panel pushes for Wealth Mansion.
Or property tax to pay billions to descendants of slaves.
Experts testify white people are more likely to be rich, so should help accumulate funds.
So as I stated, the chair of the reparations panel, I believe you noted in a prior podcast, they're all black, they're pushing for a wealth tax, mansion tax, or property tax to pay billions of dollars to descendants of slaves.
Of course, the irony is California was never a slave state.
That's San Francisco.
of the California tax force set up under the governor Gavin Newsom had previously proposed
paying each black resident in the state $223,000.
I believe part of that also, Mr. Taylor, correct me if I'm wrong, don't they get $75,000 through
250 years or something like that?
That's San Francisco.
That's San Francisco.
Okay.
Yes.
Okay.
Okay.
In San Francisco, qualifying blacks are supposed to get $5 million and then a cop up on their
income for the next 250 years, at least.
Believe it or not.
Yes, back to California.
Back to California.
To make up those funds, Kamala Moore, Tweeted over the weekend that the panel is considering proposing a state estate tax, a mansion tax, or a graduated property tax in its final recommendations to the state legislature, which are due this summer.
So basically that equity in the home, ladies and gentlemen, you have in California, if you're a white person, it's going to be distributed for equality and equity and diversity and inclusion purposes.
The panel, oh, go ahead.
Well, no, no.
Are you finished with that?
There's about three or four paragraphs in there, but if you want to opine, please.
Well, no, no.
I was just going to say, I wonder if Stephen Curry's mansion is going to be taxed, but we can talk about him next.
Well, he's not white, so... Well, they're not saying anything about exempting non-whites.
That's true.
It is not delineated and segregated by race as of yet, but we'll see.
So the panel heard from a tax law expert that white people are more likely to be wealthy, so proposals to redistribute wealth would directly benefit the black population.
I guess they didn't want to hear that Asians and Indians are wealthier than whites, according to studies, but okay.
Calls for reparations to compensate black Americans for the damage caused by slavery.
Hey, they're nothing new.
But left-leaning states and cities have recently run into problems when they have tried to put those ideas into practice.
The proposals are controversial with questions about who gets paid, how much, and by whom proving divisive.
Among the suggestions brought up in the California Reparations Tax Force meeting last Friday were proposals to tax the rich, as well as, you know, trying to figure out helping all taxpayers below the median wealth line by means of a tax credit.
One of the people who testified, Mr. Taylor, I'm not sure if you've read this book, but our tax laws as written have a disparate impact.
Dorothy Brown, a tax professor at Georgetown Law and author of the book, The Whiteness of Wealth, How the Tax System Impoverishes Black people are likely to pay higher taxes because they are less likely to gain access to the same tax breaks as their white peers.
She said the best idea to fund reparations would be a wealth tax credit applicable to all taxpayers and households with below median wealth.
Given the racial disparity, this will result in a disproportionate percentage of black households
receiving the credit.
So the article goes on and on and on and has a lot more.
So the thing is, she's not even talking about something that is explicitly black oriented,
which I would think the reparations people would be furious about.
And so under those proposals, as far as I can tell, Stephen Curry, about whom you're
going to tell us a little story, would have to pay up too.
So, tell us about Stephen Curry.
Yeah, this is from, I believe, the Washington Examiner.
It's a site that you and I have mentioned before, and we've noted they are starting to do far more Amren-leaning stories than they have in the past.
And this one is NBA star Stephen Curry, very light-skinned, black player, probably one of the best in the NBA.
I'm sure you're fond of him as a three-point shooter.
I'm completely ignorant of him.
I thought that was an Indian dish that is served with lamb.
Yes, yes.
Well, Stephen Curry opposes affordable housing near his $30 million mansion.
He is opposing the proposed construction of a low-income multifamily unit next to his $30 million mansion, saying he has major concerns First, privacy and safety.
He joined a nonprofit in 2021 focused on bridging the racial wealth gap and wrote a letter with his wife, Aisha, to the city of Atherton, California asking that it reconsider the construction of a 16-unit property near their estate.
So I guess he's not too interested in helping bridge the wealth gap if these people are put too close to his property.
Quote, we hesitate to add to the not in our backyard, literally rhetoric, but we wanted to send a note before today's meeting.
The couple wrote in the letter, safety and privacy for us and our kids continues to be our top priority.
Well, the Golden State Warriors guard opposes affordable house in his own neighborhood.
As stated, he joined the 2021 nonprofit.
I'm sorry.
In 2021, he joined the nonprofit 90 to zero, which aims to promote economic equality and opportunity.
At the time he said this, quote, Bridging the racial wealth gap is one of the biggest
challenges of our generation.
Uncovering solutions and creating opportunities is something I'm profoundly committed to.
But not in my backyard.
Two years later, yeah, he's definitely writing a different letter.
He's a longtime Democrat.
He joined former President Barack Obama for a town hall on racial equality in 2019.
A year later, he put his kids in front of the camera during the 2020 DNC to endorse Joe Biden.
He gave Colin Kaepernick-linked charities $10,000 and has called Donald Trump's 2024 run I wonder why that would affect his safety.
I can't imagine.
from his letter is he's worried about his safety with a multifamily low income unit
put too close to his property.
I wonder why that would affect his safety.
I can't imagine.
Well, here's something even better.
The Curry's want the city to scrap the project near their home in favor of others further away.
If the $30 million mansion is not spared its new neighbor, the Currys ask for higher fencing and landscaping between the properties.
I'm surprised they didn't ask for a boat and alligators.
Build the wall!
Build the wall!
Yeah, borrowing a page from Donald Trump's book, who he called a threat.
Quote, should that not be sufficient for the state, we ask the town commits to investing in considerably taller fencing and landscaping to block sight lines onto our family's property.
End quote.
So there you have it.
That's a Paul Harvey, now you know the rest of the story.
Tight moment up there.
Doesn't surprise me in the slightest.
By the way, just so that our listeners will not get too excited, the little town in Silicon Valley is Atherton.
That's how it's pronounced, with a hard th.
I live next door to it, in the poor part of town, Menlo Park.
So yes, it's Atherton.
It is a very hoity-toity place.
Now, this is a horrible story, and it's a story that is two years old.
It just came to my attention, but it's sufficiently horrible.
for me to wish to pass it along and make the day of all of our loyal listeners.
Snowden House in Horseshoe Lake, Arkansas, with marble floors and sweeping staircases, was the perfect setting for a murder mystery.
In 1996, when Sally Snowden McKay, age 75, and her nephew were found shot dead inside the historic property, it was understood they had disturbed a burglar In the act and the suspect, 16 year old Travis Lewis, had panicked and shot them.
He then set fire to the house.
He was quickly arrested, charged with double murder.
And in April of 1998, he pleaded guilty.
He was handed a 28, eight and a half year sentence of which he had to serve at least 70%.
But the daughter Oh boy, Sally's big-hearted daughter, Martha McKay, believed that he deserved to be rehabilitated.
She was a practicing Buddhist, and she forgave Lewis for having killed her mama, and for what he'd done, and she began writing letters to him in prison.
She even visited him in jail, despite her family warning against it.
And when Lewis was freed in 2018, after having served 22 years, Martha gave him a job.
Where did she give him a job?
At Snowden House itself.
She had bought the house from the rest of the family, fixed it back up after it had been burned.
She'd moved in, and there he was, living with her.
So, Lewis, now age 39, was literally back at the scene of the crime with the daughter of the murder victim, Martha.
Well, March 25, 2020, police responded to an alarm at the Snowden House.
Martha, now age 16, was found at the top of the stairs, wrapped in a blanket, drenched in blood.
She'd been stabbed to death, and they noticed an open back door.
The two officers were searching for an intruder when they saw a man jump from an upstairs window.
He ran to a car, drove across the yard, but got stuck in the mud and headed on foot for a lake.
He jumped into the lake, never came up, Specialist equipment was used to search the lake and the body of the suspect was found.
It was none other than the same Travis Lewis who had killed her mother.
So 23 years after having killed Martha's mother, he struck again in the same location, murdering the daughter who had been so generous and forgiving to him.
Something else that later came up was she had fired him from his job.
Despite all of his kindness, she had fined him and fired him and banned him from Snowden House a month before the murder.
She had finally, after having lived with the guy, become wise to just what sort of a creep and psychopath he was.
At least she found out, but it didn't save her.
He came back and killed her.
Isn't that a charming story?
Now, this brings us to a more recent story.
It's the story of Shaheen Darvish Naranjban.
And that's one part of the story.
The other is an 87-year-old British lady by the name of Brenda Blaney.
Now, Shaheen Darvish Naranjban was an Iranian national born in Tehran, lived in the UK since he was 15.
And he met Brenda Blaney in Leeds in 2013, when he was a student, and she invited him to live with her in her home in Thornton-le-Dale in North Yorkshire.
The friendship between the two has been described as a grandma-grandson relationship, with Ms.
Blaney providing him with food and other home comforts while he was a student at Leeds.
She attended his master degree graduation gave him his own study a room in her house and a car well
Just a few weeks ago Darvish Niranjaband
Strangled miss Blaney smashed her head in the kitchen floor stabbed her in the chest cut her throat and left her for
dead Oh, is that all that's all he now claims that he'd been
asleep and came down to find miss Blaney in a pool of blood in the kitchen a
A forensic psychiatrist told the court the defendant was acutely psychotic.
Well, I guess she found out the hard way.
He had applied for asylum, which was denied, and that's why he was still in Britain.
What a miserable, what a miserable, utterly awful story.
But this is the kind of thing that often happens When you have these kindly white women who refuse to see facts in the face, and of course these days they are told over and over and over again by everybody in charge that these people are just like us and they will respond with a little tender loving kindness and be even more just like us, and it turns out they're not.
Now, speaking of bad housing choices, of which we could describe these both as being examples of, tell us about what Verbo is up to.
Well, before we start this, we should preface for all of our listeners who might not know about the extent to the problem that Airbnb and Vrbo have.
These are properties that are rented out.
Normally, for a much larger fee, you can rent, a lot of times, some beautiful mansions.
And Mr. Taylor, I believe you've spoke of probably three or four of these Airbnb events where there have been massive shootouts.
Interestingly enough, the correlation between all of these doesn't matter the date, doesn't matter the time.
It doesn't matter the state.
It doesn't matter the city.
It seems to be largely melanin-enhanced individuals who rent these properties.
Word gets out that there's going to be a big party, some beef breaks out, and then all of a sudden shots ring out.
I think you talked about one in California where there were 10 or 15 people shot?
Yes, people leaping from windows and leaving their clothes behind.
They ran off in such a hurry.
Yes, it can be quite exciting in these Airbnb parties.
So to all of our listeners, whether you're in the United States or some other part of the world, I encourage you to never go to a party that is advertised on Facebook that is going to be at an Airbnb or Verbo rental.
And this leads us to this story.
I saw this and I got it.
Pretty big laugh at this one.
Vrbo's Super Bowl risk scores are basically pre-crime for house parties.
An algorithm will flag risky bookings and let hosts cancel for free.
As the Super Bowl approaches, Airbnb rival Vrbo announced its use of, quote, unauthorized event prevention technology, end quote, algorithms that try to avoid house parties at rental properties.
Similar to a credit score, the tech generates a risk score for each booking, giving hosts a chance to call it off.
The Expedia-owned company will score renters based on their length of stay, lead time, number of guests, and other factors.
Vrbo is careful to add that it doesn't use demographical information, i.e.
race, sex, gender, age, and so on, to evaluate risk.
If a renter triggers a warning, Vrbo sends the host an email alert, giving them the option to cancel without a penalty.
Guests also receive a message reminding them of the policy.
Noverba was rolling out the new system nationally.
It recently conducted a year-long pilot test in the Phoenix area, where Super Bowl XLVII takes place on February 12, 2023.
The trial allegedly prevented over 500 unauthorized bookings in the U.S., saving hosts $2.5 million in cleanup and repairs.
Verbo will also restrict same-day bookings, team up with noise monitoring and neighborhood watch services.
I wonder if they're going to team up with Shotspotter and share data with Airbnb about troublesome renters.
The new system will automatically apply to all U.S.
bookings.
Verbo says fewer than 0.25% of all weekend bookings in the U.S.
have led to party-related complaints.
Well, so this is an artificial intelligence system that's supposed to anticipate these awful events, but it's not going to use race at all.
It's going to ignore probably what is one of the most salient characteristics, so it's not going to be as accurate, but at least it's a good start.
It would be fascinating to know just what the correlation was.
What percentage of the people that are flagged by this system are going to end up being black?
I'd like to make a prediction, Mr. Taylor.
I'll make another prediction after your prediction.
I believe that in a year from now we will see stories on the cover of the Washington Journal, New York Times, and Washington Post lamenting this risk score as bringing about disparate impact on Primarily black and brown would-be renters who have been denied.
We'll learn that 80 to 90 percent of those who have their bookings canceled with this unauthorized event prevention technology are black or brown people.
I have a different prediction.
We will never know the data.
It will be suppressed.
And so the New York Times will not have the opportunity to write that story.
We'll see who's right.
Now, the next story is one of these utterly pathetic, makes-your-eyes-roll kind of stories that we see all the time in this country.
It is about a nine-year-old African-Americanist, nine years old, named Bobby Wilson.
And this was a story on, what is it, NBC, and on the 22nd of October, She was working to eradicate invasive insects from her hometown.
Good for her.
She lived in Caldwell, New Jersey, which is a majority white suburb of New York City.
She was looking for spotted lanternflies.
Lanternflies are an invasive pest from Asia.
They harm trees in a variety of ways, and scientists advise people to kill them on sight.
So, out she was doing this in her neighborhood.
And a white neighbor by the name of Gordon Lausche, I guess.
L-A-W-S-H-E.
I will call him Lausche for lack of any better alternatives.
He called up a dispatcher and he said, there's a little black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees.
I don't know what the hell she's doing, but it scares me.
So the police arrived and they questioned the girl.
The caller later apologized to Bobby's mother.
Monique, Monique Joseph.
But, and this is NBC talking, with research showing that black and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts, the mother said the neighbor's call put her daughter in lethal peril.
The episode starkly illustrated the bias that black girls like Bobby Face, And after Oprah, Oprah Winfrey, saw national news coverage of this, she invited Bobbie and decided to bring her, as well as her older sister, 13-year-old Hayden, to meet black women who are pursuing successful careers in the sciences.
Not only that, the Yale School of Public Health learned about this, and in January, just this month, I'm sorry, just last month held a ceremony citing Bobby Wilson's efforts to rid Caldwell, New Jersey of the spotted lanternfly.
An assistant professor at the public health school at Yale, Ijoima Opara, likewise just very melanin enhanced, told the people at the ceremony that she organized the event to bring attention to Bobby's bravery and how inspiring she is.
Bobby, as it turns out, that is the nine-year-old, had a collection of 27 spotted lanternflies.
And this collection has now been donated to the Yale University Museum and it will enter the archives and it can already be viewed on the museum's database.
So, now that was the first story I read.
And I thought to myself, well, probably not a good idea to call the cops on a nine-year-old girl, no matter what she's doing, unless she's waving a gun around.
Or, but in any case, what happened is this.
According to Joseph Loshi, the white neighbor who made the call, he thought that this was
either a little lost girl or a little old lady with dementia, because what she was doing,
she was walking around spraying some sort of frothy liquid on the ground and on trees.
He's wondering what the heck's going on.
It's not as though she was just walking by.
She was spraying this lanternfly killer, some homemade recipe that makes them writhe in
agony and die.
And he immediately apologized when he found out what the situation was.
And the mother, the mother was furious because the families actually knew each other and have been friendly for years.
Well, now Loshi has a lawyer.
His name is Gregory Mascara.
Who explained that Laushie did not want to become involved in a confrontation, and so that's why he called the Caldwell police.
He did not call 911, which is what we all assumed from the previous article.
He called the police non-emergency dispatch line.
He had no reason to believe that he would be putting anyone in harm's way by calling the non-emergency line.
And he, as I say, he immediately apologized to the mother.
The next day, he apologized to her again.
Mr. Loshi told Mrs. Joseph that if he'd known it was her daughter, he certainly wouldn't have called the police.
He did not, but she did not accept Mr. Loshi's apology.
There you go.
Nice neighbor, huh?
And she points out that in a country perpetually plagued with police killings of unarmed black and brown children.
When's the last time you heard of one of those, by the way?
Lashi should understand that he put her daughter in harm's way.
They've been next-door neighbors for nearly eight years.
She couldn't understand how he didn't recognize the daughter.
Well, they grow up quick, you know?
And he couldn't tell whether she was a nine-year-old girl or an adult woman.
The police, of course, handled the situation beautifully.
They didn't threaten her in the slightest.
She wasn't the least bit worried.
And after the police realized she was a child, they waited until Mama came to see what happened.
Well, John Kelly, the mayor of Caldwell, New Jersey, he reported to the press that he was horrified by the incident.
He immediately apologized to the mama, and he called to assure her that she and Bobby had his support.
And the mayor, John Kelly, wasn't prepared to say the incident was racist, but he says the fact that this is a black family in a predominantly white neighborhood certainly introduced race into the equation.
Later, the West Caldwell Police Department invited the mama bear and her daughters to tour the station.
And assure the family that there's no reason to be afraid of them.
And Mama Bear Joseph says she's received a lot of support.
And some friends in the area even set up a GoFundMe campaign to support Monique, Bobby, and Hayden.
Oh boy, they've got to support them all.
GoFundMe!
The older sister, age 13, spoke at a city council meeting afterwards to talk about the racist implications and the emotional impact of this white man carelessly calling the police.
She said, what Mr. Gordon Lashey, what Mr. Gordon Lashey did to my sister was offensive, traumatic, scarring to my family.
I can confidently assure you guys that she will never forget this.
Well, I don't know what Bobby has to say for himself.
The Caldwell Environmental Commission voted unanimously to award Bobby one of their annual sustainability awards.
Now, this to me is an extraordinary story.
And again, it is not advisable to call the police on children that young.
Of course, apparently you couldn't tell that this was a lost old woman, and there probably was a racial element.
Caldwell, New Jersey is just across the river from New York City.
New York City is, of course, full of crazy black people who will push you in front of the subway, who will smear feces on the back of your head if you turn them down, and they want to make a pass at you.
All sorts of horrible stories.
He probably just did not want to get involved, partly because he was black.
You just never know.
And so he calls this non-emergency line, probably not the wisest thing to do, but now he's got a lawyer, now his name is dragged through the mud, and this nine-year-old girl, and hats off to her for going out and killing these invasive species!
But now she is a hero who's going to dine out on this the rest of her life.
Probably Yale would admit her on early decision when she is a college student.
This is just one of those extraordinary things.
The town has got to make awards to her.
Yale has introduced her collection of lantern flies to its own permanent collection.
What in heaven's name?
They're probably all feeling so virtuous.
And then there's another little aspect to this.
The woman at the Yale Medical School who got in touch with her, if I can find the name, It's escaping me here, but it is clearly an African name.
And so here's a black woman who's in a position to do all this.
I can just imagine they're sitting around in the faculty, you know, and she says, no, we've got to honor this girl for her courage.
She stood up to a white man.
Oh, I got to honor her.
And who else in the faculty meeting is going to say, calm down.
Not a single soul.
Not a single solitary soul.
About the same number of people who tried to stop the black kid in Hampton with the gun.
Not one person intervened.
Mr. Kersey. Probably nobody. Not a single soul, not a single solitary soul. About the same number
of people who tried to stop the black kid in Hampton with the gun. Not one person intervened.
And in this case, the city gives her some sort of award for spraying this fuzzy liquid on lantern
All, of course, because she's black.
It it's it's it's just absolutely it's absolutely breathtaking.
But there you go.
That's what America is like these days.
And this lousy guy, whenever anybody looks him up on the Internet, they can find out who he's a male version of a Karen, Karen.
And he traumatized this poor girl for life.
Really, what an absolutely sad, sad, sad state of affairs.
Now, I used to criticize you, Mr. Kersey, for talking about black-run America.
I'm beginning to have to eat my words.
This lady at the medical school decided, okay, we've got to accept her, we've got to give her a special award for her courage, clearly of African origin.
And there are many, many positions of power now held by blacks who are clearly going to run the country absolutely in the best interests of their co-racialists.
As we see from the reparations panels that have been, these tribunals that are popping up all across California.
Mr. Taylor, you had a quote, by the way, in our notes from M. Stanton Evans.
Would you mind reading that real quick, if you have that in front of you?
Let's see if I can find that.
Yes, M. Stanton Evans, he was a columnist from quite some time back.
He wrote this in 1988.
He said, the Democratic-Liberal argument is in effect assuming that if a malfeasance is committed by a member of a minority group, that it is ipso facto racist to say anything about it.
By this criterion, only if a crime is perpetrated by a white Anglo-Saxon male can the treatment of the malfactor be a public issue.
The charge of racism operates in one direction only, in favor of the liberal left.
What it really means is that if you oppose the policies of the left, you are a racist, because the policies of the left are axiomatically for the benefit of blacks.
If the policies are actually espoused by a black, so much the better.
But it is the policies themselves that count.
In other words, to oppose big government or the ACLU or to take any other conservative position is racist on the face of it.
Only by supporting liberal agenda on those topics can one avoid the taint of bigotry.
And yes, that was written in 1988.
Of course, I did write Pay for Good Intentions in 1990.
I wasn't too far behind if I'm patting myself on the back rather vigorously today.
But this, this, this, I don't know, I just don't know how to describe this self-abasement in the face of this nine-year-old girl who, as far as I can tell, suffered no ill effects whatsoever from the fact that a uniformed white man sauntered up and said, how you do?
And in any case, but this this is this is America today.
But let's see.
What is our... That's a fantastic quote, by the way.
He's a tremendous writer, the late, great M. Stanton Evans.
Yes.
Did you ever meet him?
No.
No, I never did.
I wish I had, but there are many great men I never had the chance to meet.
I'm trying to make up for lost time not trying to meet great men, but they don't want to meet me.
It's awful.
Well, that makes them not great in my eyes.
Well, I wouldn't judge them so harshly.
History will judge them harshly.
Here is a story about the billions for BLM.
A rather short story, but I thought this was significant.
It's how companies are fulfilling promises made following George Floyd's murder.
It's been nearly three years since the protests and racial unrest.
And as of October 2022, the amount companies have pledged to support racial justice has grown to nearly $340 billion, according to McKesson.
I'm sorry, you've got to repeat that one.
Well, as of October 2022, the amount that U.S.
companies, private companies, have pledged to support racial justice has grown to nearly $340 billion.
McKinsey and Company, the consulting people, they are following this with considerable care.
A senior partner, Shelley Stewart, has been counting the billions.
Where's it all going?
Well, first, companies set diversity goals when they're on institutions.
They looked internally and promised to do better, diversify their teams.
Second, they pledged to use both capital and assets to help address, quote, broader systemic inequality outside their organizations.
They have committed money to supporting causes like affordable housing, diversity efforts and educations.
And this guy, the senior partner, says you see dollars flowing across the list of what I'd call human development needs that are very acute in the black community.
In many ways, the pledges are targeted in the right areas.
Still, he says, it's been a challenge to meet such ambitious goals when it comes to deploying capital.
Well, $340 billion.
As we are talking about these reparations plans, I think, as I recall, If they end up giving every Californian maybe $800,000, it would be probably something in the order of $340 billion.
At least it's many times the annual budget of the state of California.
And, of course, the most hilarious is all, as we mentioned earlier, is $5 million for each qualifying black in the city of San Francisco.
A family of four, they'd be sitting on $20 million.
Pretty nice.
And like you said, is that tax-free, as we discussed?
Did they get into that?
I think it better be.
It better be, otherwise it ain't reparations.
It better be not only tax-free, but it better be paid exclusively in Harriet Tubman $20 bills.
Yes.
Now here, the newspaper of record, the New York Times, answers a burning question that has been plaguing me for years, Mr. Kersey.
The title of this investigation is, What is menopause like for women of color?
That's been plaguing you too?
Yes, yes.
Finally, finally, the New York Times has gotten to the bottom of this problem.
And let me read from the New York Times wants to hear your stories.
The transition to menopause can be disorienting and confounding.
Race and socioeconomic status further complicate things.
A growing body of evidence has found that Black, Latina, and Asian women probably have a different experience of menopause than that of white women.
Their symptoms might be more intense or last longer, and some symptoms, such as joint pain or anxiety, might be less well-known than the textbook hot flashes and brain fog.
Well, they dug up somebody by the name of Dr. Rebecca Thurston, Who is at the University of Pittsburgh, and she said something shocking.
She said, older women have been overlooked in medical studies.
Menopause has certainly gotten a lot less research attention than something like pregnancy.
Can you imagine that?
Can you imagine that?
Problems with pregnancy and the possible death of a child or the mother, that has somehow gotten more research attention than menopause.
In any case, This is why the Times wants to hear about experiences of menopause from women of color.
Capturing your stories or the stories of someone you love will help shine a light on some of the disparities in symptoms and treatment.
Well, you know, I'm wondering, is this a story about black fragility?
We always hear about white fragility.
But in any case, for all of our listeners out there who are women of color and going through menopause, now is your chance to tell your story.
White women, we ain't interested.
Of course, it's amusing to me that despite the fact that race is a social construct, we have found that Black, Latina, Asian women are likely to have different experiences of menopause, different symptoms.
Oh boy, oh boy.
Well, I can't wait to get the news on what menopause is like for men of color.
Now, I do have one story that I was hoping to get to last time around, and I'm pushing it up to the top this time, and it's about British publishing for children.
British publishing strives to put right decades of structural inequality was the headline.
No one seems more eager to promote progressive values than the publishers of children's books.
Hence, the proliferation of titles such as A is for activist, Anti-racist baby, and teach your dragon about diversity.
That's a great title.
Yes, yes.
Teach your dragon about diversity.
Yeah, boy, that'll learn you.
Someone visited a bookstore in Whitstable, that's Britain, and there was an entire section devoted to progressive children's books with titles such as Gender Swapped Greek Myths, Julian is a Mermaid, And t'was the night before Pride, its cover illustrated with a cartoon of beaming children and their parents at an LGBTQ++LBJ march.
Among publishers of young adult novels, there appears to be a particular enthusiasm for progressive reimaginings of literary classics.
Penguin has acquired a manuscript called Dan of Green Gables.
Of course, that's a play on Anne of Green Gables.
I bet you've never read that book, Mr. Kersey.
Anne of Green Gables.
You've told me that I should.
I have not read.
It's sort of a girl's book, but it's the best girl's book there ever was.
It's such a good girl's book that boys should all read it, too.
In any case, it is now, instead of being a girl on Prince Edward Island, surrounded by white people, it is the story of a queer half-Mexican teenager named Dan, who is forced to live with his grandparents in rural Tennessee.
Oh my God, how awful that will be.
Little Brown, meanwhile, has brought out Emmett.
It is a queer commentary, young adult take on Jane Austen's Emma.
Emmett, yes, a queer contemporary take on Emma by Jane Austen.
Now, I think you could have another Emmett.
That would be a young adult revision in which Emmett Till is a gender-fluid queer activist.
I've been putting my mind to work on this, Mr. Kersey, and the titles are really just come to mind with no trouble at all.
How about Peter Pansexual or Or Pride Month and Prejudice?
Or I think James Bondage?
Or maybe The Little Homo That Could?
Or how about Queer Family Robinson?
Or I think you could come up with an alternate history in which Robert E. Lee sees a vision, defects to the Union, and leads black troops to victory over the South in six months.
And all of that, I think that'd be great young adult fare.
I think I should write my agent and get to work on some of these titles, particularly Peter Pan sexual.
Anyway, uh, let's see.
I'll pass on all of those titles.
Okay.
Well, it's interesting because traditionally when Peter Pan is on, uh, is portrayed on stage, Peter Pan is actually portrayed by a female.
That's true.
That's true because he never grew up.
Well, anyway, gosh, our time is running out.
Our time is running out, yes.
Well, I think we should remind our reader, our listeners, pardon me, I've been in the publishing business for so long, I can't tell listeners from readers.
In this case, please, listeners, we'd love to hear from you.
We'd love to be corrected if we make mistakes, and we'd love to have stories called to our attention we might have missed.
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And Mr. Taylor, the happiest, happy Black History Month to you and yours.
Oh, I expect to make the most of it, as I always do.
And to our listeners all around the world, it's been an honor and a pleasure and we look forward to having the same experience a week from now.
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