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Feb. 24, 2023 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor

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Happy Ahmaud Arbery Day

Jared Taylor and his co-host cannot share the jubilation of February 23, but they do discuss Tyre Nichols, Lady Susan Hussey, a civil-rights breakthrough in Seattle, our idiot President, and surprisingly good news from Rasmussen. Thumbnail credit: © Stephen B. Morton/The Atlanta Journal-Constitution via ZUMA Press Wire

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	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance and with me is my Indispensable and inimitable co-host none other than Paul Kersey.
	How are you today?
	Mr. Kersey?
	Well, Mr. Taylor I would be remiss if I didn't say that today is of course February 23rd 2023 which means that earlier today I ran my 2.23 mile in honor of Ahmed Aubrey's life if you remember last year Georgia lawmakers created Ahmed Aubrey, the Ahmed Aubrey Day with House Resolution 688, which passed last year, which recognizes the date that Aubrey was jogging through the Satilla Shores neighborhood.
	Ahmaud Arbery was a true pioneer.
	I'm glad you reminded me.
	If you recall, Mr. Taylor, this predated, I believe, not only Breonna Taylor by a month,
	but also the George Floyd stuff.
	So this was one of those dominoes that had to fall to really create that, uh, just that
	color revolution that we all live through.
	I'm at Arbery.
	It was a true pioneer.
	I'm glad you reminded me.
	I'm at Arbery day had escaped me, Mr. Kersey.
	But thanks to you, I can offer up a prayer of thanksgiving for his sacrifice and for
	all the efforts he made for racial justice in America.
	A great man, well deserving of a name henceforth and forever named after him for the entire state of Georgia.
	Thank you so much for reminding me.
	In the meantime, we'll begin with some listener comments.
	One writes in to say, your podcast hits dead center at the problems we face.
	Your dry humor is funny to those of us who are plagued by the melanin-enhanced, who scream that we, melanin-deprived, are the problem.
	And here's a little thought experiment that might be fun.
	What would Africa be like today if Arabs or Europeans had never showed up to spoil their tropical paradise?
	Well, just a week or two ago, Hannah Nicole Brown of the 1619 Project pointed out that all the problems of black people would be gone if we would only leave them alone.
	So, Mr. Kersey, I guess Africans would have solved the problem of indoor plumbing and electric power all by themselves, even if we'd never showed up.
	And the more you think about it, given the power of black girl magic, Maybe they would have fission reactors and have cured cancer.
	Who knows?
	All that's possible if we'd never showed up.
	But to continue with our comments by our listener, keep up the great work.
	Once again, you are spot on.
	We're spot on, Mr. Kersey.
	What do you think of that?
	Well, we're spot on with our admiration of Ahmaud Arbery Day.
	And like I said, I encourage all of our listeners, go walk.
	If you can't run that 2.23 miles of white guilt to atone for the actions of, uh, gosh, those three white men who are now languishing in jail for the rest of their lives.
	And of course, Mr. Taylor, I've got to say, you're probably one of the few people who actually cared about that case and wrote about it extensively about what a injustice it was.
	Oh, it was a terrible thing, an absolutely terrible thing.
	It was really a shameful black mark on American so-called justice, but that is a subject for another time.
	We have another comment from a listener who writes about a high school in Western Virginia which has an entire hallway displaying artwork.
	The art teacher is a white woman who proudly announces her pronouns.
	I don't dare guess what they are.
	And she has selected works of art by Degas, Jan van Eyck, Rembrandt, Manet, etc.
	displayed on the hall, and each piece has been redone so that it displays black people instead of whites.
	Degas' ballerinas are all black girls.
	All the people in Seurat's Sunday Afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte are also black.
	They're also self-portraits created by the students on display in a variety of colors, brown, purple, orange, blue, etc.
	The only color that's missing is, guess what?
	White!
	Our listener goes on to say, white children make up 43% of the student body.
	But in history classes, white children learn about how evil their ancestors were.
	White children are being taught to despise themselves.
	White children of other races are being taught to despise And I'm sure this sort of thing is absolutely widespread.
	It makes me furious, absolutely furious.
	But we will get some good news from you later on in this podcast, Mr. Kersey.
	So, listeners, I realize that smoke is coming out of your ears at descriptions of this kind, but there may be reasons to hope.
	In the meanwhile, as we celebrate Ahmaud Arbery Day, I'd like to talk about Tyree Nichols.
	Perhaps the next great hero in the liberation of black people.
	He's of course the black man who died at the hands of Memphis's finest.
	With the interesting wrinkle that the finest were all black.
	The five fired Memphis police officers pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder over the beating of Tyree Nichols.
	Second-degree murder in Tennessee is a class A felony punishable by 15 to 60 years in prison.
	So this is a serious charge.
	Judge James Jones asked all parties involved in the case to remain calm and be patient.
	Well, when black people are involved, you have to do that kind of thing, you know.
	Please be calm.
	Please be patient.
	Well, Rovon Wells, Mr. Nichols' mother, is promising to attend every court date until we get justice for my son, says she.
	The five officers are now out on bail.
	Well, Mr. Carsey, I think that this is a good thing.
	and the special unit, the Scorpion unit, of which they were members, has been disbanded.
	Well, Mr. Carsey, I think that this is a good thing.
	That means there'll be a trial.
	They're not pleading down.
	There's going to be a trial.
	They're pleading innocent.
	It'll be hugely expensive.
	It'll be enormously time-consuming, but the trial will be a good thing because it will throw a very harsh light on how they were trained, and it will put the blame right where it belongs on impulsive, low IQ, badly trained blacks who are being made into police officers and it would make it very clear that white supremacy had nothing to do with it.
	All these idiots claiming that these black officers behaved as they did only because they absorbed the ambient white supremacy that perfuses, that is everywhere in America.
	Yeah, it comes from the pyramid there in Memphis, Mr. Taylor, that beautiful pyramid that is the Bass Pro Shop now, it used to be the home of the Memphis Grizzlies, but now it's somehow it emanates white power and white supremacy all across the planet.
	That's where it comes from.
	It's a rumor I've read.
	It's a rumor I've read.
	I didn't realize that.
	It all comes from Memphis, Tennessee.
	Well, boy, it sure affected those five black officers.
	I guess they got a very powerful dose of it.
	If I could ask real quick, you mentioned that the Scorpion unit was disbanded.
	I read a very interesting article about the Scorpion unit at the New York Times.
	Could you let our listeners know what that was and what it was actually trying to do to make the streets of Memphis safer for all law-abiding citizens, regardless of race?
	I know only that it was a special unit put together to go into the high crime areas, of which there are probably a great many in Memphis, and try to be active in controlling crime.
	And the idea of disbanding it just because these five guys misbehave seems very silly to me, but whenever something like this becomes front page news, everybody runs around like a beheaded chicken and they think they've got to do something.
	But is there anything more that our listeners should know about the Scorpion unit?
	No, but these are the type of units that have been disbanded all across the country throughout the past 60, 70 years.
	It happened in Detroit.
	I can't remember the name of the unit, the Special Forces unit.
	I think it was called Stress.
	Stop the Robberies and Ensure Safe Streets?
	That sounds familiar.
	They had stress that was trying to, as the city went from majority white to majority minority, or to majority black so quickly, stress was created to try and convince white people to stay in the city.
	And they did primarily target blacks.
	In New York City, I believe you had this amazing unit.
	I read a book about a detective or police officer who was an amazing shot with a revolver.
	And they were part of a robbery unit, and they would wait in areas, Mr. Taylor, that had been in businesses that had been robbed a lot.
	And they never encountered a white robber.
	And they always wanted to do that because they were consistently lambasted for being racist.
	Well, they got to fill their quarters.
	I believe the officer's name was Jim something.
	It's an amazing book.
	Okay, well, we have many stories, so let us move along.
	You know, it's a pity that these units for high crime neighborhoods are being disbanded.
	Of course, people who go to high crime neighborhoods are going to deal with high crime people, and not everything is going to go well.
	Heather MacDonald, the great and good Heather MacDonald, has also written about Tyree Nichols, and she has, I think, touched on exactly the right points.
	She says, is U.S.
	policing in a death spiral?
	Yes, as long as the fatal beating of Tyree Nichols by five Memphis police officers is portrayed as a manifestation of racism.
	Exactly right.
	The problems underlying that episode, the recruitment crisis lacks hiring standards and de-policing will worsen.
	Intensified by the very policies ostensibly adopted to prevent another such episode, the vicious cycle of rising crime and a flight from the profession will accelerate.
	Even before the videos from the officers' body cameras had been released, Biden was blaming Nichols' death on systemic racism.
	What a dope that man is.
	In his recent State of the Union speech, he said, every single time a black child walks in the street, plays in a park, or gets into a car, his parents rightly worry that racist cops might kill him before he makes it home.
	Good.
	I wonder if he even believes that sort of rubbish.
	As Heather MacDonald goes on to say, black cops, no less than white cops, absorb the police culture of anti-black racism.
	That's what is alleged.
	She goes on to write, unable to compensate for officer attrition, police departments are left without enough well-trained sergeants and lieutenants to supervise officers who maybe should never have been hired in the first place.
	Since 2014, Black Lives Matter agitation has decimated police ranks and driven away potential applicants who do not want to be presumed racist from the first day on the job.
	And in that respect, the Memphis PD is typical.
	Meanwhile, the tactical toolkit is shrinking.
	The call to reduce car stops is being renewed.
	The decline in such stops after the Floyd rights already led to a massive increase in fatal car crashes, especially in high crime minority areas.
	Yes, if you can't pull over cars, they don't have their license plate lit up, their headlights out, their taillights not working, and they realize that they can drive anywhere they like, the police aren't going to stop them, guess what happens?
	They get into fatal accidents.
	In the wake of the Nichols death, Expect implicit bias and cultural competence training to increase, draining precious time and resources from subjects that actually help officers do their job.
	The only thing that will get policing out of its death spiral is the widespread repudiation of the racism narrative.
	It's not racism that brings officers into more frequent contact with minorities.
	It is exceedingly high rates of crime in minority communities.
	It's not the police who are responsible for the fact that blacks between the ages of 10 and 24 die of gun homicide at 25 times the rate of whites.
	All great stuff from Heather MacDonald, who is at the Manhattan Institute, and I don't think has ever written an off-key word about these subjects.
	So, bravo, Heather MacDonald.
	I hope people are listening.
	Now, Mr. Kersey, you have results of a Rasmussen poll.
	Rasmussen?
	I don't know how it's Rasmussen.
	Rasmussen.
	Yeah, Rasmussen.
	Rasmussen.
	And this gives us some encouragement to think that A lot of people out there maybe are reading Heather McNaughton after all.
	So reveal us with the statistics.
	I think so.
	Thanks to Peter Brimelow for allowing me access to his Rasmussen account.
	Not woke yet.
	Most voters reject anti-white beliefs.
	This was a poll that was conducted February 13th through the 15th, 2023.
	It's OK to be white.
	Despite years of progressive activism, the majority of Americans still don't buy into the woke narrative.
	That white people have a monopoly on racism.
	The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 79% of American adults agree with the statement.
	Black people can be racist too, including 53% who strongly agree.
	Just 12% disagree and another 10% are not sure.
	Similarly, 72% of Americans agree, including 58% who strongly agree with the statement.
	It's okay to be white.
	For heaven's sake, it's okay to be white.
	You can practically get strung up for a hate crime by putting up notices that say that.
	These are great statistics.
	Sorry, interrupted you.
	No, give me a chance to get some water before I start coughing.
	So, this of course is a slogan that originated on the 4chan internet forum and has been labeled Hate speech.
	12% disagree with the OK to be white slogan, while 17% are not sure.
	So we get support for OK to be white crosses political lines.
	Majorities of Democrats, 51%, Republicans, 73%, and those not affiliated with either party, 52%, strongly agree that it's OK to be white.
	Now again, 73% of Republicans, we already know Mr. Taylor from polls, That Republicans, the base, are increasingly working class whites who understand that the Great Replacement is happening.
	So very interesting cross section there.
	So fewer Democrats, 39 percent, than Republicans, 67 percent, or the unaffiliated.
	Excuse me real quick.
	53% strongly agree that Black people can be racist, too.
	Once again, let me say that.
	67% of Republicans strongly agree that, with the statement, Black people can be racist, too.
	Still, even among Democrats, only 19% disagree with that statement.
	Wow.
	I mean, that's not what you'd expect.
	I mean, you read the media, and you would never expect numbers like this.
	It just goes to show you how people are not being bamboozled by all this nonsense that they're surrounded with.
	This is great.
	Well, 81% of whites at least somewhat agree with the statement, it's okay to be white.
	53% of blacks at least somewhat agree with the statement, it's okay to be white.
	And 58% of other minorities at least somewhat agree with the statement, It's okay to be white.
	83% of whites, 67% of blacks, and 73% of other minorities at least agree with the statement, black people can be racist too.
	Blacks are more likely than whites or other minorities to disagree with both statements.
	I thought that was interesting.
	Yeah.
	Well, yes.
	Blacks are most likely to think that it's not okay to be white.
	Well, no, it's not only that, but they also believe that black people can be racist, too.
	They say, no, no, no, that's not true.
	We can't be racist.
	That's what that means.
	There is not much of a gender gap in these findings, although men, 62 percent or somewhat
	more likely than women, 54 percent to strongly agree with.
	It's OK to be white.
	Adults under 40 are less likely than elders to strongly agree with either.
	It's OK to be white or black people can be racist, too, although majorities of all age
	categories at least somewhat agree with those statements.
	More married Americans, 62 percent.
	I guess it's because they can afford to live far away from any possible problem.
	white, breaking down opinions by income categories. Those earning $200,000 a year are least likely
	to agree with either, it's okay to be white or black people can be racist too.
	Isn't that the craziest thing? I guess it's because they can afford to live far away from
	any possible problem. It reminds me of what Joe Soberman used to say about a college education.
	The purpose of a college education is to give you the right attitudes towards minorities
	and then the means to live as far away from them as possible.
	That's a brilliant commentary on what the states, because Americans with annual incomes
	between $30,000 and $50,000 are most likely to strongly agree with.
	Black people can be racist too, because these are individuals who probably have to have their kids go to majority black schools, live in areas that have far more blacks per capita, in their communities, neighborhoods, apartment complexes.
	They're not probably living in single family homes at that type of income.
	Whereas if you're making $200,000 a year, you're more than likely, your neighbors are named are named Buffy and Tanner, and not Trayvon and Dexterious, or, you know, Shreveda.
	Well, yes.
	We know who you mean.
	Shreveda.
	Leshanda.
	Yes.
	No, they're often their little white topias, thinking they're so virtuous, and thinking that blacks can't possibly be racist because they've never met one themselves, because they've never met a black person.
	And to put a bow on this story, Mr. Taylor, among those who strongly agree with black people, can be racist too. 75% also strongly agree with it's okay
	to be white. So there's a correlation if you realize, hey, you know what, it's okay to be white,
	and yeah, yeah, blacks can be racist too, it's not just white people. Well, no, these are encouraging
	numbers.
	On the other hand, if you look at the opposite and you discover that, what percentage was it, 15% of the American adult population or maybe 20% of the adult population doesn't think it's okay to be white.
	I mean, that's one in five people when it boils down to it.
	Correct.
	But still, still, it is great that such strong majorities say and agree strongly that it is, believe it or not, okay to be white.
	What a finding!
	Well, let's talk about the British.
	The British have some of these crazy ideas, too, and these are not such encouraging statistics.
	Apparently, almost half of the young people aged 18 to 24 believe that Britain was founded on racism and continues to be structurally racist.
	The research is carried out by Eric Kaufman of Birkbeck University of London.
	He's the author of White Shift, a very on-the-ball savvy guy.
	But according to polling by YouGov, 18 to 24 is the only age group that does believe schools should teach students that Britain was founded on racism.
	The age group supported that statement by 42 to 25 percent.
	I guess the rest of them don't have an opinion on it.
	Whereas UK adults as a whole rejected that idea by 53% to 24%.
	But that's only a small majority.
	Other adults say teachers should be taught that Britain was founded on racism.
	Good grief!
	29% of 18 to 24 year olds say that J.K.
	Rowling, author of the Harry Potter stories, should be dropped by her publisher because of her views on transgender people.
	Compared to 10% of all adults and 3% of those over 50.
	So, the older you get, the wiser you get, it seems.
	But the idea that Britain was founded on racism, I mean, how could that even be logically?
	Egbert, king of Wessex, and Offa, king of Mercia, are sometimes called the first kings of England.
	That's the late 8th century.
	I mean, were they racist?
	The first monarch that ruled Great Britain was Queen Anne, who was crowned as Queen of England, Ireland, and Scotland in 1702.
	So Britain is founded on racism?
	That is just such pathetic rubbish.
	59% of what the Brits called school leavers, what we would call high school graduates, ...say that they were taught or had heard from an adult at school at least one of the three concepts linked to critical race theory.
	White privilege, systemic racism, or unconscious bias.
	That's 60% of people who are in high school were taught about that.
	We go on to find out that 38% of 18 to 24 year olds agree with the idea of removing Winston Churchill's statue from Parliament Square because he held racist views.
	Among adults as a whole, 68 percent said no and just 12 percent agreed.
	So older people are more on the ball than younger people.
	So those are what I would call discouraging numbers.
	But in some respects, Britain is further down the road to insanity.
	In some respects, we are further down the road.
	It's almost a race to the bottom here.
	Now, here's another Great Britain story.
	I've got two short ones and then we'll get back to you and you can tell us an American school story.
	But the UK's counter-terrorism program, it's called PREVENT, and its aim is to ensure that those at risk of radicalization can be stopped in their tracks and turned away from extremist ideology and terrorist attack.
	Well, a report by its Research Information Bureau said that the far-right extremists are promoting reading lists online.
	And guess what's on them?
	Please tell.
	There are some classic British sitcoms such as The Thick of It and Yes Minister and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare.
	These are key texts for white nationalists and white supremacists.
	Also, the 1955 war film, The Dam Busters.
	I never saw it, but you probably did because you've seen every movie ever made.
	The poems of G.K.
	Chesterton.
	Chesterton is a Catholic author, perfectly harmless.
	It also referred to films including The Bridge Over the River Kwai.
	I saw that.
	What is right-wing about that?
	The Great Escape and Zulu.
	Of all of these movies, Zulu would be the only one that I would think would qualify as even remotely racial, because it's this heroic story of a small band of white people having to defend themselves against an attack wave after wave after wave of Zulus.
	They kill hundreds of them, hundreds of them, but is that really going to prove that you're going to turn into a terrorist?
	Then John le Carré's spy novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Beowulf.
	Canterbury Tales, Paradise Lost.
	If you like John Milton, oh boy, you might be throwing bombs next, Mr. Kersey.
	And I looked up these sitcoms, one called Yes, Minister.
	Apparently, it's a British comedy that first aired in the 1980s.
	And it's about an MP who wants to reform government and do right for the voters and taxpayers.
	And he becomes a minister.
	But all of his best attempts are stymied by his civil service permanent aide, a certain Sir Humphrey, who always explains how it would cost more or be impossible to reform something.
	And he used to run on PBS, a station in the U.S.
	I never saw one, but that means PBS sitcoms, if you watch them, boy oh boy, as I say, you could be out shooting people any minute.
	It's the mind bombs, the mind bombs.
	Maybe they're upset that Chesterton, Chesterton, Chesterton, get it out correctly.
	wrote the poem canonizing the victory of Lepanto.
	So, did you ever read that poem?
	No, I'm not familiar with that poem.
	I remember reading the Father Brown tales.
	He's got this Father Brown detective who's a very clever lad.
	But, well, maybe next week you can recite the Lepanto poem for us.
	It's a long poem.
	I've got it actually right here.
	I haven't read it in a while, but it's great.
	That's one of the great battles in Western naval history where we defeated the The Turks!
	Yeah.
	Yes.
	Well, last story about Great Britain.
	Do you remember Lady Susan Hussey?
	I'm sure you do.
	She was Queen Elizabeth II's most senior lady-in-waiting.
	Correct.
	I do.
	Yes.
	She was forced to resign after she had a set-to with a certain Ungozi Fulani.
	And Ngozi Fulani is a super African type black woman.
	She practically wears a bone in her nose.
	She gets this regalia with strange things.
	She dresses like an African.
	She looks like an African.
	Her name is African.
	And Lady Susan Hussey asked her where she's from.
	And Ngozi Fulani says, well, I'm British.
	And she says, well, who are you really from?
	Well, that was just unspeakable racism.
	But as it turns out, she's back in action again.
	After Ms.
	Fulani made a string of media appearances, apparently she and Lady Susan met again at Buckingham Palace.
	They had an arranged encounter.
	Well, this is, you know, it's a happy ending that she's back on the job.
	She's a lady-in-waiting.
	She's back at the back of the palace.
	with Lady Susan offering sincere apologies for her comments and the distress they had caused,
	and Miss Fulani accepted this and understood that Lady Susan had intended no malice."
	Well, this is, you know, it's a happy ending that she's back on the job,
	she's a lady-in-waiting, she's back at the palace, but the fact they had to have this love feast,
	and she apparently had to apologize and seek forgiveness, oh boy, these stories are just so
	In any case, Mr. Kersey, I've jabbered on for a long time about Britain.
	Tell us about white schoolchildren.
	Oof, this is out of 49% white, 22% black elementary school in Ohio.
	Springfield police investigate racial incident involving elementary school kids.
	Principal says white students were forced to say, black lives matter on playground.
	This all happened during the auspicious month of February, Black History Month.
	This was published by Springfield News Sun on February 15th, 2023.
	Springfield police are investigating a report from Kenwood Elementary School where allegedly involved several students and a racial incident.
	Officials were called to the school around 10 a.m.
	Monday about an incident that happened Friday during recess on the playground, according to police report, which states assault and menacing Here's where it gets dicey, and very interesting.
	The school principal told officers that a group of black students gathered several white students on a spot of the playground and, quote, forced them to state Black Lives Matter, end quote, against their will.
	The principal said a few of the students who tried to avoid the situation were, quote, chased down and escorted, dragged, or carried, end quote, back to the spot on the playground And one student was punched in the head by one of the students, according to the report.
	The group of students also reportedly recorded the students who were forced to make the statement.
	At the time of the report, the principal said the school was still interviewing students who allegedly were involved in the incident.
	Springfield City School District officials didn't provide any additional information, citing the investigation by the police division.
	quote, the Springfield City School District is committed to providing our students with a safe learning environment
	where they look forward to attending every day.
	The district is aware of a situation that occurred at Kenwood Elementary.
	We are working closely with the Springfield Police Division on this matter to ensure that we maintain
	that safe environment, end quote, the district stated.
	And that followed up with the story, so I don't know what's actually happened since Mr. Taylor,
	but I can tell you that this is one of those more pronounced
	moments where the whole 1619 project and its insidious nature,
	I think is finally coming to the forefront when we see interracial interactions
	at even the K through five level.
	Yes, well, it's just like our listener said.
	That the white students are being told to despise their ancestors and themselves, and the non-white students are being told to despise whites.
	And this is a perfectly logical thing for these black kids to do.
	They're told over and over and over that white people are devils and vanilla gorillas and whatever it is, and so why shouldn't they do this?
	It's all part of the program.
	But at least this is coming to the attention of authorities, it's making the news, and one wonders whether something might happen.
	And apparently there was a somewhat similar incident.
	A video was shared widely on social media showing a ninth grader picking up and throwing a much smaller boy at the ground.
	This was at Ada Cosgrove Middle School in Ogden, New York.
	And the brute who picks up a boy who must be half his size, really half his size, is black.
	The boy he picks up is white. I'd say I saw the video. He must be twice as tall as this white kid.
	And he's not thrown down with absolute full force over his head, but he's definitely thrown down to
	the ground. And the white boy is stunned, but he manages to get up and run away.
	But in addition to being suspended, good, the student, the thrower, has been arrested and charged with assault in the third degree.
	He's been suspended for the rest of the academic year.
	That seems like quite a long time, because the academic year will end in June, I assume.
	But the ninth grader, He says race had nothing to do with his picking on a white boy, but he believes his own punishment by the administration of the Central School District was racist, and he is punished only because he's black.
	I mean, this is so typical.
	Act like a thug and a coward to boot, picking on a guy really literally half his size, and then complain about racism.
	He's caught and punished.
	In any case, I'm very glad this guy's facing criminal charges.
	A ninth grader.
	Anyway, there has been a new level of anti-discrimination in the United States, and it took place in Seattle.
	Seattle often leads the country in areas of this kind.
	Seattle has become the first United States city to outlaw caste discrimination.
	Indian castes.
	Finally!
	Yes, that's right, that's right.
	We've been afflicted with this ever since 1776, Mr. Kersey, and finally, finally, one city has decided to ban it.
	The local council voted to add caste to the city's anti-discrimination laws.
	The Dalit community is on the lowest rung of the Indian caste system and has been treated as untouchables.
	As it turns out, Seattle has an Indian-American city council member by the name of Kashama Sawant.
	This is what diversity gets you, Mr. Kersey.
	And she said caste discrimination doesn't take place only in India.
	It is faced by South Asian-American and other immigrant working people in their workplaces, including in the tech sector in Seattle and in cities around the country.
	Activists opposing caste discrimination say it's no different from racism.
	And interestingly enough, and I wish I knew more about this, tensions within the community were visible at Seattle City Hall on Tuesday.
	The packed room, which overflowed with activists from both sides, bearing banners, chanting slogans, challenging speakers and city officials as they made their comments, laid bare stark divisions over this issue within the Indian population.
	Now, this is fascinating to me.
	Apparently, there was a group of very vocal Indians saying, don't ban caste discrimination.
	I'd be, as I say, I wish I knew more about this.
	I wonder what their motives were.
	Are they saying none of it's happening?
	Or are they saying, sure, we don't want to be around these untouchables.
	We need to be able to discriminate against them.
	Fascinating.
	But, as I say, what a lovely addition to America.
	Only Indians understand, of course.
	When it comes to caste, or will these Dalits start accusing white people of discrimination against them?
	I mean, I can see that too.
	But then how would you prove motive?
	I mean, this is, of course, the craziness you get when you import other people who bring all their problems with them.
	But this is America, and this is Seattle.
	Moving on to a different story, which I thought was quite fascinating.
	This was a survey carried out by an organization of which I'd never heard, called Castle Connolly, that's involved in health services research.
	And it did a survey of blacks and whites, and it had a little graphic explaining how patients differ.
	And black patients were considerably more likely than white patients to say that finding a doctor who shares their race, ethnicity, or sexual orientation is important.
	Now, this is quite interesting.
	Black patients, 41% of black patients say such a person who shares their race, ethnicity, or sexual orientation.
	I imagine race is the most important consideration here.
	Of course.
	41%.
	I mean, I doubt, you know, I don't go to a doctor and say, boy, he better be heterosexual.
	I don't even think about it, frankly.
	But in any case... I think, are you going to make me better or not?
	I beg your pardon?
	I think, is this guy going to make me, or girl, going to make me better or not?
	Yes, but 41% of black people think that race is going to lead to better health outcomes just because the doctor's black is going to make you healthy.
	41% think so.
	Only 17% of white people think that.
	And 39% of blacks say that the fact that the doctor is proper race, ethnicity, or sexual orientation, Makes them more likely to follow medical advice.
	39%.
	17% of white people say this.
	And then, 41% of blacks saying that the right mix, the right person, the right race, will provide a greater sense of comfort.
	41%.
	22% of white patients say this.
	Now, I wonder, really, how honest white patients are being.
	I doubt there are that many white people who have a black doctor anyway.
	And I bet in their heart of hearts, most white people would prefer to have a black, have a white doctor.
	But in any case, I thought it was quite fascinating that blacks are certainly much more willing to say, yeah, the race of my doctor matters to me more than whites.
	Now, I think you have a story about the Big Easy.
	Oh, my goodness.
	You know, I believe that Mel Gibson, Mr. Taylor, was supposed to be one of the Gentlemen who helmed one of these crews.
	Have you ever been to Mardi Gras?
	I have been to Mardi Gras.
	I hate to have to confess, but I was there once.
	Yes, I was there for Mardi Gras.
	Well, I believe yesterday was Ash Wednesday, so I'd be remiss if I didn't say to all of our Catholic listeners, I hope that you are doing well with your Lent and you are prepared to forego for the next What, 40 days?
	Whatever it is, you're giving up!
	So, best of luck to all of our listeners who are participating in Lent.
	However, as mentioned, New Orleans mass shootings account for 5% of 2023 national total, according to researchers.
	This is from the New Orleans Time, Piki Yoon.
	Now, New Orleans, I believe, the population is just over 300,000.
	Barely.
	About 60% black, 41% white.
	I'm sorry, about 31, 33% white.
	My apologies.
	It's only 300,000.
	about 31, 33 percent white, my apologies. And... It's only 300, only 300,000.
	You know, the number dropped below 300,000 after Katrina, back in 05, but you have seen about 250,
	you've seen about a 40 percent increase to that since of people moving back into the city.
	Correct.
	The majority of those have been black.
	The city was getting whiter, but that's done because of stories like this.
	So it's not even 1% of the population of the US, but it accounts for 5% of the mass shootings.
	Correct.
	Now, a couple of years ago, the New Orleans police actually put out this incredible data
	where it showed that 99% of non-fatal shooting suspects and about 99% of fatal of those committing
	homicide were black, black individuals.
	So the city was virtually devoid of white gun crime.
	So knowing this, that going, we're going to the story, knowing that virtually every shooting fatal or nonfatal has a black individual pulling the trigger.
	So attacks in NOLA, including the one at the Bacchus parade, on Sunday account for nearly 5% of all mass shootings tallied
	across the country thus far in 2023, far outpacing any other city in the country.
	According to statistics compiled by a nonprofit that researches gun
	gun violence. The Bacchus shooting, which left one teenager dead and injured four other people,
	was the fourth mass shooting the city has seen this year.
	That leaves New Orleans at the top of the list for mass shootings. The city has seen more such
	incidents than 43 states.
	Think about that for a second. One little city, right there on the Gulf at the end of the
	the Mississippi River, you know, this is where, this is where what was his name?
	Beast Butler put forth that horrible proclamation after the end of the Civil War where Robert E. Lee's statue wants to finally look north because he never turned his back on the north that came down back in 2015.
	Now you basically have one of the most violent cities in the country, courtesy of a population group consisting solely of black individuals.
	Now, the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit tracking gun violence across the country, Using police and media reports and other resources has tracked 82 mass shootings across the country since the start of 2023.
	Like the Times-Picayune, the Gun Violence Archive defines a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people are killed or injured, not including the shooter.
	Five people have been killed and 14 more injured in mass shootings in NOLA since the start of the year.
	They are among the 125 people who have been killed or injured by gunfire in the city during the time frame, which works out to an average of more than two victims per day.
	The overall number of shooting victims roughly matches the city's pace at this point in 2023, a year that was one of the most violent on record in the city's history.
	Mass shooting incidents have been far more common in the early months of 2023.
	There were 12 mass shootings in the city in all of 2022.
	If the current rate continues throughout the city through the year, New Orleans will experience 28 such events in 2023.
	Now remember, there were only 12, well, only, but there were 12 mass shootings in the entire, in the city for the entire year of 2022.
	They're on pace, Mr. Taylor, for 28 mass shooting events.
	Well, should we lay off?
	Will they break the record?
	They'll break the record.
	They'll break the record.
	I'm going in the over.
	I'm taking the over.
	Okay.
	Point.
	Well, I wonder.
	It's funny you ask that, Mr. Taylor, because Caesars, I believe, bought.
	There's a big gambling facility down there on Bourbon Street, and I believe it's Caesars that took it over.
	You have to wonder if Caesars actually has gone into the business of which city is going to post the most homicides or nonfatal shootings per week.
	I would bet you.
	Speaking of.
	Gambling, I would bet you just about any amount of money that there is no public odds maker that would accept bets of that kind.
	They would.
	I suspect not.
	But, you know, it'd be interesting.
	You never can tell.
	People will bet on just about anything.
	Well, we have a completely different story here.
	It is from Yahoo News, and it is written by a professor of anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin by the name of Cersei Sturm.
	I believe she claims to be a Native American, and it has to do with American Indians.
	And she cited some very interesting statistics.
	The Native American population in the United States grew by a staggering 86.5% between 2010 and 2020.
	Nearly doubled 2010-2020.
	She points out that the birth rates among Native Americans cannot explain this, and there certainly is no evidence of an influx of Native American expatriates returning to the U.S.
	No, I haven't heard of a mass exodus of Kickapoos from El Salvador, for example, coming back to the United States.
	Instead, what's happening is that people who previously called themselves whites are now claiming to be Native Americans.
	She writes, yes, yes, what an idea!
	I mean, we've seen some high-profile cases of this.
	Apparently, it's happening by the million!
	Well, she writes, I spent 14 years researching the topic and interviewing dozens of race shifters for my book, Becoming Indian.
	I learned that while some of these people have strong evidence of Native American ancestry, others do not.
	Nearly all of the 45 people who were interviewed, she interviewed 45 people in 14 years?
	Anyway, nearly all of the 45 people, that seems pretty slow moving to me, but of the 45 people she interviewed, Nearly all believe they have indigenous ancestry and that it means something powerful about who they are and how they should live their lives.
	Only a tiny but troubling number makes blatantly fraudulent claims to advance their own interests, says she.
	I wonder how she unmasked the frauds.
	She says the Native American population started increasing at a dramatic rate in the 1960s, growing From 552 million, half a million, to 9.7 million in 60 years.
	That's half a million to nearly 10 million.
	Wow!
	That is a 20-fold increase.
	Until then, the Native American population had been relatively stable.
	Most race shifters see themselves not as white people who are playing Indian, But as long unrecognized American Indians who've been forced by historical circumstances to play white.
	Isn't that interesting?
	I wonder how many of them really think that.
	At least that's their story and they're sticking to it.
	Many argue, for example, that their families avoided anti-Indian policies like removal by blending into white society.
	When did Indian removal take place?
	That was 1832, something like that?
	I mean, this is crazy!
	Only in the 1960s did they finally decide they weren't going to be removed, and so they could come out of the closet and say they were Indians?
	This is very strange stuff.
	She goes on to write, racial shifting is a rejection of the centuries-long process of assimilation when different racial and ethnic groups were pressured to adopt white norms and behavior as a way of fitting into an American society that was defined by whites.
	Racial hierarchies that consistently place whiteness at the top are now being challenged.
	I bet you didn't know that, Mr. Kersey.
	As one woman from Missouri put it, they forced us to be white, act white, live white, and that is very degrading.
	Of course, nobody forced them, and they could have stayed on the reservations—sovereign reservations—and be as Indian as they liked.
	But, well, yeah, if you want a job, you have to speak English, and, you know, it helps to be able to tell time and count up to ten and things like that.
	Anyway, back to this article.
	The genealogical and historical details might not always be verifiable, but the emotions are real.
	In my interviews with race shifters, they frequently associated their former whiteness with racial and cultural emptiness.
	It makes perfect sense that once race shifters link their melancholy to assimilation, they try to ease the sadness by rejecting whiteness and reclaiming an indigenous status.
	They're easing the sadness, Mr. Kersey.
	She goes on to add, Whiteness has taken on increasingly negative connotations.
	Well, what do you know?
	They also associated whiteness with social isolation, unearned privilege, and guilt over colonialism and slavery.
	Well, you don't want that, do you?
	This shift from white to indigenous self-identification is, I believe, fundamentally about a desire to leave behind the negative connotations of whiteness.
	Yeah, I think she got that right.
	The citizens of federally recognized tribes, on the other hand, have a different interpretation.
	And I found this just as interesting.
	Most view anyone who identifies as Native American without being an enrolled citizen of a federally recognized tribe, they see that as a threat to tribal sovereignty.
	Because tribes have the sovereign right to determine their own citizenry.
	American Indian identity is a political status, not a racial one.
	Race shifters also undermine tribal sovereignty when they create alternative tribes for themselves outside the federal acknowledgment process.
	Had you ever heard of that?
	People sort of cooking up brand new tribes that have nothing to do with the federally recognized tribes?
	This is all news to me.
	Most of these groups, such as the Echota Cherokee Tribe or the Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy—it's a confederacy, Mr. Kersey—have emerged since the late 1970s and have no federal recognition.
	The number of these new self-identified tribes is startling.
	Over the course of my research, I discovered 253 groups scattered across the U.S.
	that identify as some sort of Cherokee tribe.
	This is a huge number, considering that there are only 573 federally recognized tribes.
	573 federally recognized tribes. Now 573 sounds like a huge number to me, but there are only
	573 federally recognized tribes, only three of which are Cherokee.
	But these phony Cherokees or wannabe Cherokees, there are 253 of them.
	I mean, this is really quite startling.
	And Mr. Kersey, it sounds as though you and I could start a tribe.
	Now, I don't think we can claim to be Blackfoot, but I think we could be the Eastern Albino.
	What do you think?
	I would name you Chief Vanilla Gorilla.
	You know, Vanilla Gorilla, let's think here.
	We'll go back to that that Auburn University thread.
	There's a lot of great names we can pull from the Black Student Union's chat group that we could use.
	I've always liked just the thought of just the Fighting Whiteys.
	I remember back in the early 2000s, there was that push to rename all the Indian, all the schools or, you know, pro teams that had I'll take it.
	That's all that happens.
	It's supposed to be in something.
	Yep, yep, yep.
	No, I think Chief Vanilla Gorilla.
	I'll take it.
	I like it.
	You know, I might be Chief Oreo Filler because of my sweet personality.
	You are too sweet.
	Too sweet, yeah.
	Too sweet.
	Yeah.
	Too sweet.
	Yes, but you know the author of this thing, this thing about Indians, she writes as if she is one, and maybe she claims to be one, but she is a rather nice-looking lady who looks perfectly white to me, so who knows?
	Let's see, one more story about our lamentable, pathetic, and An unspeakable president.
	Joe Biden hosted a screening of the movie Till at the White House.
	This is, of course, about Emmett Till.
	I can imagine just how gruesome it all is, how deceptive it all is, how slanted it is.
	And I can't wait to hear about black children on the playground, picking up white children, throwing them down and making them say Black Lives Matter after they march out of the movie theater.
	But be that as it may.
	He noted that this came nearly a year after he signed into law legislation making lynching a federal crime, as if it wasn't already a crime.
	He says, it was one of the great honors of my career.
	That's the high point, Mr. Kersey.
	You know, folks, lynching is pure terror, enforcing the lie that not everyone belongs in America and not everyone is created equal.
	Innocent men, women, and children hung by a noose from trees, bodies burned, drowned, castrated, their crimes, trying to vote, trying to go to school, trying to own a business, trying to preach the gospel, false accusations of murder, arson, robbery, lynched for simply being black, nothing more.
	White crowds, white families gathered to celebrate this spectacle, taking pictures of the bodies and mailing us postcards.
	Gosh, he's just reveling in this, Mr. Kersey, reveling in this.
	Then he says, Hard to believe, but that's what was done.
	And some people still want to do that.
	Now, would he care to name names?
	Who wants to do that?
	Even one person.
	Please, Mr. Biden, name one person who wants to get back to lynching black people.
	Of course, this idea that people were lynched simply for being black, that is nonsense.
	Almost all of them were guilty of something, whether rape or murder.
	And nor was Emmett Till's case a typical lynching, but more of a private vendetta.
	No.
	It wasn't a lynching.
	I mean, the way this guy's talking about this, it might as well be Radio Rwanda telling black people,
	oh, these horrible things white people did to you just because you're black.
	You didn't just go running out and round up a black person.
	And, of course, he probably doesn't even know that of the 4,000 or so cases of verified lynching, over 1,000 of them were white people.
	And there were cases of, yes, there were cases of black people finding a white criminal and lynching him.
	That was not unheard of.
	And again, in almost every case, the person was probably guilty of something.
	Now, there are probably mistakes.
	Probably mistakes made, but you didn't just go running out like, oh, who are we going to lynch today?
	Oh, there's a black guy.
	Let's string him up.
	Biden is just he's just unspeakable.
	But all this talk.
	Yeah, I agree.
	It's funny.
	No, just just to put up just to really contextualize what you're talking about, because context is king.
	You're talking about the Tuskegee University study on lynching.
	I believe it went from.
	The 18 something to, I think the last lynching was in the 1940s in the United States.
	And it's, it's just astonishing to look at this because this concept of vigilante justice being racial in nature, white toward black, it's just profoundly untrue.
	And one of the things about this Till movie, I know you won't see it.
	We all know what happened to Emmett Till's daddy.
	He was a rapist and he was, he was, uh, I believe he was killed for that in Italy.
	Well, yes.
	It was rape and murder.
	He is buried in one of the cemeteries of American soldiers in France.
	He's buried in France.
	I believe you're right.
	The crime was committed in Italy.
	He's buried in France in a part of the graveyard for criminals.
	And it's got a hedge around it.
	You can't even go through the hedge.
	Yeah, and I'm going to make this one quick.
	from those graves, but he's got his own little headstone somewhere and there he
	is. But yes, he was certainly not a model soldier and I'm sure this will not be
	mentioned in the movie. I think a lot of Americans have no idea about that. In any
	case, I believe we have time for a story about the Naval Academy. Yeah, and I'm
	gonna make this one quick. This is actually a op-ed from a friend who sent
	it over to me and asked me to read it and I did enjoy it because it is sad
	This was from the New American Naval Academy Continues War on Confederate Heroes Symbols.
	Of course, you've never been into Annapolis.
	It's one of the only parts of Maryland worth going to.
	The U.S.
	Naval Academy has renamed a building that once honored Matthew Fontaine Maury, the founder of modern oceanography.
	It is now named for President Jimmy Carter.
	Uh, whose most significant achievement was ordering the failed rescue mission of American hostages in Iran.
	The reason Maury had to go, he served in the Confederate Navy, which means all things Confederate now being the subject of a campaign of renaming, replacing, and taking down even at places like VMI and the Citadel.
	You, you, Mr. Taylor, well aware that VMI removed the Thomas, the Stonewall Jackson statue.
	The attack on Maury is part of a larger campaign that began in earnest after a mass shooting at a black church back in 2015 in South Carolina.
	Uh, and of course that was in, uh, that was in Charleston and it only intensified further after the George Floyd died of a fentanyl overdose while being restrained by Minneapolis police.
	You and I famously walked Monument Avenue after the Jefferson Davis statue was torn down by a crowd of Antifa, Black Lives Matter, uh, leftist communists, whatever you want to call them.
	And we saw the aftermath of what happened, and it was very distressing to see.
	And of course, now, as we all know, there is virtually nothing left of the Confederacy in Richmond outside of Hollywood Cemetery.
	Quote, when U.S.
	Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin directed us to implement the recommendation to the Naming Commission, He instructed us to give proud new names, said Naval Secretary Carlos del Toro.
	Not sure he has too many ancestors that were on the Mayflower, Mr. Taylor.
	Now, of course, we know that West Point is also removing all Confederate symbols and the military is going to rename bases that honor Confederates all across the country.
	It's been really shocking to see the changes.
	You know, you're talking about what it was like to grow up and Playgrounds, you know, there was never where I grew up, not too many black faces on the playgrounds, but I can tell you that we definitely had no problems playing.
	Smear the Queer, which was a fun game.
	Didn't really even think twice about the word queer.
	It's just somebody would have the ball and their job would be to try and evade as many people as possible as we attack them and did our best to portray American Gladiators, which was a pretty popular show back in the early 1990s when I was in elementary school.
	Or we would play the Grays versus the Blues and we would set up sides and we would reenact the Civil War at our playground in elementary school.
	Did anyone actually want to be a Yankee?
	There weren't too many Yankees on that field.
	Let's just put it that way.
	This was a different Georgia, unfortunately, and that Georgia did not celebrate Ahmaud Arbery Day.
	And I think that Georgia, so many things that have changed since the 1990s, it really is an unrecognizable country.
	But I want to say that one of the things that animates the show and the New Century Foundation Is our belief that there is still an America worth not only defending, not only fighting for, but celebrating and never bending a knee to apologize and state.
	And I'd say that there is a white pill from all this, Mr. Taylor, that we talked about today.
	And that's that Rasmussen poll.
	There are people who still say it's okay to be white.
	And that's the, that is the first step toward understanding if it's okay to be white, it's okay to advocate.
	Yes, indeed.
	Well said, well said indeed.
	And as usual, our time is running out.
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	And Mr. Taylor, I've just got to say one more time, happy Ahmaud Arbery Day.
	I'm thrilled.
	Well, ladies and gentlemen, it is a pleasure and honor to spend this time with you, and we look forward to doing the same a week from now.

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