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March 2, 2023 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor

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A New Counterculture

Jared Taylor and his co-host learn that our elites are afraid that the dissident right “has quietly become edgy and cool.” The hosts also discuss Scott Adams, Sally Field, Lori Lightfoot, and Al Sharpton’s delightful half-brother.

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	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
	I'm your host, Jared Taylor with American Renaissance, and today is the 2nd of March, Year of Our Lord 2023.
	And with me is my indispensable co-host, Paul Kersey.
	Hello, everyone!
	Yes.
	Well, as usual, let us begin with comments from our dear listeners.
	Someone writes in to say, Hello, Mr. Taylor, on your last podcast, your co-host—that's you, Mr. Kersey—wished Catholics Happy Ash Wednesday.
	I am Lutheran.
	Like other Protestant denominations, we observe Ash Wednesday.
	Well, gosh, I apologize on behalf of Mr. Kersey and on behalf of myself for having left you out.
	Well, you know, I looked this up And it turns out we should have also included Moravians, Anglicans, some Methodists, Nazarenes, a certain number of Baptists, the Evangelical Covenant Church, Mennonites, the Metropolitan Community Churches also observe Ash Wednesday, the United Protestant Tradition does, so does the Church of North India and the United Church of Canada.
	So golly, Mr. Kersey, we were the opposite of inclusive, but not by intent.
	We simply should have said, and to all of those of you who are celebrating Ash Wednesday, we wish you a happy Ash Wednesday.
	Yeah, and also good luck during Lent.
	I know, like we said, giving up something for a number of days is difficult, but have that tenacity and you'll get through it.
	It depends on what you're giving up.
	But let's see.
	Also, this is a comment that is reacting to our podcast of two weeks ago.
	And on that podcast, we mentioned the list of hundreds of slurs for white people that was put together by the Black Student Union of Auburn University.
	We had quite a good chuckle over some of these rather imaginative slurs.
	And our listener writes in to say, I laughed at mayo sapiens too.
	Likewise, creakers.
	That's apparently an old cracker who creaks.
	He says, which I suppose I am.
	Then he goes on to ask, why is it whites are far more likely to be amused by such wordplay, while blacks are greatly offended to the point of agitation and demanding punishment?
	Of course, it's all drama.
	It's to assert dominance.
	None of them is harmed the way they are claimed.
	Then he goes on to say, it's whites who are complacent, even guilty.
	Blacks with their cuckoo whites have taken advantage of all of this.
	It's like lowering standards, getting preferences for blacks in order to be able to compete, all of which has morphed into career-ending punishments for made-up offenses.
	Blacks who identify, blacks whose identity has become being dependent on being a victim.
	And he concludes by saying, I had an associate on Wall Street who occasionally called me a silverback.
	As you know, Mr. Kersey, that's an elder male gorilla of the pack.
	A respected dominant type.
	I like that, he said.
	So Silverback is okay.
	Vanilla Gorilla is just funny.
	And here is a comment about a video that I made.
	And I know it's a little mixing of apples and oranges when I read a comment about a video.
	Which we are now talking about on a podcast, in which I hadn't made these points, but the video was about grammar being white supremacist.
	And in the video, I mentioned that when I wrote my first book, I was 31 or 32, there was a copywriter who fixed so many mistakes.
	I was humbled and appalled.
	And far from being a grammatically perfect white supremacist, I was practically a Bantu.
	Well, this person writes in to say, as the copy editor proofreader of Face to Face with Race
	and other new century titles in print and in Kindle format, I'd like to apologize to Jared Taylor for subjecting him to
	my white supremacy.
	And boy, did he.
	He taught me stuff, too.
	He says, I hope my errata sheets—that's lists of errors—didn't force him to go out and get a gold tooth grill, father illegitimate children, or perpetrate a drive-by shooting at the Vidaire Castle.
	I thought that was clever enough.
	I thought that was clever enough to read on the podcast, even though it was not a reaction to the podcast, but to a video.
	You know, it's real funny.
	I'd like to point out one thing.
	It's been three years almost now that, um, your YouTube channel, uh, both YouTube channel for the, um, podcast and the, and your videos were nuked out of orbit by our digital
	overlords. And I just, I wonder how many subscribers you would have with your video channel
	right now, Mr. Taylor. Knowing where, knowing all that subsequently happened the past three years,
	since you had over 100,000 subscribers, I would say, realistically, I think you'd be at half a
	million subscribers.
	One would like to think so. Of course, that would be assuming that YouTube did not change
	its suggestion algorithms to make sure that our videos and our podcasts were always at the bottom
	of the deck.
	No, in a fair world, I think we would have quite an enormous number of subscribers and listeners, but it's not a fair world and we have to make the most of it best we can.
	Now, the big news this week, apparently, is about Scott Adams, the cartoonist who created the Dilbert series.
	I can't say I was ever a fan of Dilbert, never much read him, but a lot of people did.
	And he got in trouble, as everyone now knows, for talking about a Rasmussen poll.
	And the Rasmussen poll found that when people were asked, do you agree with the phrase, it's OK to be white?
	I believe it was only 46 or 47 percent of blacks said that they did agree with that phrase.
	Now, Scott Adams, in his about hour long video, he said, if that many black people think it's not OK to be white, then that essentially makes them a hate group.
	Then he mentioned some of these horrible beat down videos that those of us who are in the dissonant right sometimes pass around, in which some black person will
	utterly unprovoked just beat some white person absolutely mercilessly.
	And then Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, went on to say, well, the only solution is
	just stay away from blacks, just get away from them.
	They can't be cured.
	This can't be helped.
	Well, of course, the sky fell upon poor Scott Adams.
	And all, I believe, not only did all of his newspapers drop his column, his syndicator
	stopped syndicating it.
	So if he really wants to do columns, I guess, do cartoons, he's going to have to start from scratch, at least putting the network together.
	Or perhaps he'll have some kind of website beyond a paywall.
	Who knows?
	He's going to have a locals account and maybe a sub stack.
	Also, I believe he had a book coming out.
	His publisher canceled the book.
	All because he says the only solution for whites in the face of black hatred is to get away from them.
	Now, our star writer Gregory Hood wrote an excellent piece on this whole fracas.
	And he pointed out that, after all, it is blacks who are saying that we are inherently oppressive, that we are racist practically by breathing the air.
	And you would think that if we decided, well, all right, we will stop inflicting our evil upon you by moving away, wouldn't they be happy?
	Well, apparently that's even worse.
	You can't say just stay away from them.
	But so the white people are We are evil either way.
	Just by being around black people, we are inflicting our inherent racism upon them.
	If we wish to move away, that's no good either.
	So there you go.
	The white man can't win either way.
	I'd like to actually put a formal, um, I don't think I've ever done this before, Mr. Taylor,
	but I'd like to welcome Scott Adams to come on the podcast next week.
	I'm going to email him and I'm going to send him a Twitter DM and invite him to come on
	this podcast.
	What does he have to lose?
	I would you know, I've been a big fan of Scott Adams for a number of years Back in 2015 2016.
	He started talking about the importance of Trump winning The you know, he wasn't going to endorse Trump because he was fearful that he would be Um, targeted, uh, he lost a lot of speaking engagements
	then Mr.
	Taylor, uh, he lost, uh, a lot of income because he came out and was saying that,
	yeah, you know what?
	I support Trump and I'm not going to endorse him because I don't want to get killed.
	He literally said that.
	And in other words, he wanted him to win.
	He wanted him to win, but he was afraid to endorse him.
	He also talked about in one of his books when he worked in corporate America, how there was a white ceiling.
	How he was told he couldn't get promoted past a certain level because of his whiteness.
	My only thought about all this, and this is really simple and we'll put a bow on this conversation and move forward, Elon Musk came to his defense and said that the media is anti-white and anti-Asian.
	Elon Musk is the richest person in the world who has a vision of making life better for everyone on the planet.
	and trying to colonize Mars.
	You know, I have a SpaceX shirt that says, colonize Mars.
	And I think Elon Musk is doing some of the most important things,
	both technologically, but also politically.
	And you think back last year was when he started making noise of buying Twitter
	because of what happened with Babylon Bee being attacked and being de-platformed.
	And now not only does he own Twitter, but he comes out and defends what
	Scott Adams not only said, but he doubled down and said the media,
	media is anti-white and anti-Asian.
	I'm not sure he actually defended the idea of just separating from blacks.
	No, wait a minute.
	Yeah, it was about being canceled.
	Exactly.
	Yeah, I should I should clarify.
	But the point is, he then contextualized that because context is king.
	And he said the U.S.
	media is anti-white and anti-Asian.
	And that's huge.
	Oh, that's very important.
	I was delighted you said that.
	He could end up being a very useful guy, and not just the richest man in the world.
	But I have to tell you, Mr. Kersey, I think there are more important things than colonizing Mars.
	Recolonizing the United States would be good.
	And Europe, yes.
	I agree, I agree.
	Baby steps.
	Yes, one thing at a time.
	Let's take care of Earth before we start bringing woke craziness to other planets.
	Now, on this Scott Adams business, I thought it was interesting that really at the end of February, Rasmussen released yet another poll on race relations.
	In fact, one of their spokesmen got on YouTube and made a video about the reaction to the original one.
	And he pointed out, and I think this is not illegitimate, he says it's not necessarily correct to say that just because a lot of black people can't agree with the phrase, it's okay to be white, doesn't mean that they think it's not okay to be white.
	As he and others have pointed out, it's okay to be white has been rightly or wrongly associated with White consciousness, white racial pride, and you might have gotten a different result, although maybe not that much different, if you had asked people simply straight up, not do you agree with the phrase, it's okay to be white, but is it okay to be white?
	So you made a big point of that.
	And I think technically speaking, you could concede that he has a point, but I wish he had simply asked, is it okay to be white?
	Rather than this thing about the phrase, and the ADL says it's a hate phrase.
	Of course, the ADL thinks everything is hateful.
	But their latest poll about race relations, quite interesting, I thought.
	They wanted to know, does the way race issues or racist issues are treated by schools and universities help to decrease racism or make racism worse?
	Now, I wouldn't have said decrease racism or make it worse.
	I'd say do they improve or damage race relations?
	But in any case, I thought it was very interesting that the way universities and schools, they all just go into orbit.
	They just go Balinzac or the idea of somebody doing something allegedly racist.
	But of all Americans, 46 percent say makes it worse.
	12% weren't sure.
	21% say it doesn't make any difference either way.
	And only 21% say it decreases racism.
	Presumably it makes things better by all of the screaming and hollering and hanging white people out to dry.
	But that's very significant.
	46% think it makes things worse.
	percent think it makes things worse, and only 21 percent say it makes things better.
	Interestingly enough, there is a difference between whites and blacks that goes in an
	interesting direction.
	Thank you.
	There are more white people who think that all the screaming and pilloring of white people makes things better, 22%, as opposed to blacks.
	Only 17% of blacks, by comparison, think that all the whooping about racism makes things better.
	And interestingly enough, white people are more likely to think it makes things worse.
	48% versus 34% for blacks.
	The big majority of blacks, and in the case of blacks, it works at 48%, as opposed to 30% for whites.
	48% of blacks think they're not sure, or it just makes no difference at all.
	It's 30% of whites think it makes no difference or they're not sure.
	So I thought that's very interesting.
	So there are larger percentages of whites compared to blacks who both think that it makes things worse and that it makes things better.
	So you have got more sensible whites and more crazy whites, which is something we've known all along.
	All too well.
	Yes, lots of them.
	Now, here is another way of looking at it.
	Rasmussen asked the question in terms not of race, but in terms of political affiliation.
	And only 8% of Republicans think all the screaming about race on campuses improves things, and 69% say it makes things worse.
	That is a very lopsided difference.
	The Democrats, as you would expect, 38% of Democrats think it makes things better, and 24% of Democrats think it makes things worse.
	However, let's think of the 38% who think it makes things better.
	Yes, that's a lot more than the 8% of the Republicans, but it's still a minority.
	Only 38% of Democrats think it makes things better.
	But, of course, American campuses Both K-12 and universities are run by fanatical, crazy, hopped-up, should-be-consigned-to-the-loony-bin Democrats, and so they are among the 38%, and they, of course, are making the huge stinks about alleged racism.
	Then, at the same time, there was a poll as to whether race relations in America are getting better or getting worse.
	Interestingly enough, Guess what percentage of Americans think it's getting better, Mr. Kersey?
	Any idea?
	I know the number.
	I'm not going to guess.
	I want our listeners to think about it.
	Oh, you know the number.
	I know the number.
	I'm actually looking at the chart right now.
	You've got your cheat sheet.
	Yes, I would not have guessed that the number was so small.
	Only 14% of Americans think that race relations are getting better.
	41%.
	That's a pretty small number.
	I think it's a very realistic number.
	Very realistic.
	41% think it's getting worse.
	Now, as for Republicans, we don't have the black and white race breakout here, which is too bad.
	But only 11% of Republicans think things are getting better.
	35% think about the same.
	4% don't have any idea.
	And this is unusual.
	It's very unusual to have such small numbers of people saying, I don't know.
	But 49% of Republicans think things are getting worse.
	Only 11% of Republicans think race relations are getting better.
	Democrats aren't really that different.
	Only, excuse me, only 20%, one in five of Democrats think race relations are getting better in the United States.
	I mean, they have been in charge of race relations, it seems to me, for a mighty long time, but only one in five think things are getting better.
	Thirty-five, no, thirty-six percent think they're getting worse, and then the rest think it's about the same, and they're not sure.
	This is sobering information, and probably this contributes also to the fact that according to Rasmussen, only one third of Americans think the country is going in the right direction.
	Now, does that mean that they will vote out the Democrats next presidential election?
	You never can tell, can you?
	Maybe a lot of those people who don't think it's going in the right direction are Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez types or Bernie Sanders types who think we need to just go marching off to the left.
	So we will see.
	But this is significant.
	Only one third of Americans think their country is going in the right direction.
	Well, when Democrats like Pete Buttigieg, the Department of Transportation, had called the transportation system inherently racist, I mean, again, you're hit over the head with a ball peen hammer every day about systemic racism and the evil whiteness.
	And that's why a guy like Scott Adams, I think finally is just like, what the heck?
	There's just this disconnect between where, you know, there is a dearth of racism.
	There's a massive, as you know, Mr. Taylor, a massive demand for white supremacy.
	And there just isn't a supply.
	And yet you go online, like the great Colin Flaherty used to document.
	We know where the actual antagonism and Hatred really, really flows.
	Oh, we certainly do.
	We certainly do.
	And it was entirely right of Scott Adams to talk about these clips, these video clips.
	They're just horrifying.
	And of course, the big networks are not going to show that stuff.
	It's very, very unusual that these wanton, brutal, utterly unprovoked, hideous attacks by blacks and whites ever gets any kind of mainstream attention.
	And we don't like talking about them.
	And the funny thing is, we never talk about them because they're so pervasive.
	If that makes sense.
	We almost have to marinate in like the story of that 270 pound black guy in Florida who attacked the teacher and just pummeled her.
	That's the female teacher.
	That's hard to watch.
	And yet it doesn't.
	It's excruciating.
	I want to kill those people, frankly.
	I mean, I'm sorry.
	When I see people behaving in that way, knocks her right out and then just continues to beat, beat, kick, beat, pound this huge guy.
	If they hadn't come along and pulled him off of her, would he have killed her?
	I don't know.
	It's just extraordinary.
	But now, you say that you are going to contact Scott Adams and invite him on our program.
	We are going to invite Scott Adams on the program, and I invite all of our listeners around the world, and especially the United States, reach out to Scott Adams via Twitter and say, go on Radio Renaissance, go on the podcast with Jared Taylor and Paul Kersey.
	Let's really make a big story.
	Let's have some fun.
	And you know what?
	Maybe Scott Adams, hey, he might actually be a guest at the upcoming conference later this year.
	Let's not count Scott Adams' Before They Hatch.
	Okay, well, if you have made this invitation to our listeners, you better get the invitation to him first and quickly before he gets swamped with these invitations from people saying, what's this?
	Who are these people?
	I will, but I'd also like to I'd also like to say to all of our listeners, thank you for all your comments.
	Thank you for all of your suggestions of stories and corrections.
	And let's just get this out of the way.
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	Yes, we like your reactions to our stories.
	Some of them are cleverer than anything we would have ever thought up, and we do appreciate corrections as well, like the one about Ash Wednesday.
	We did not mean to be inclusive.
	Sometimes, we do want to be inclusive.
	I think, Mr. Kersey, you and I should exercise every opportunity to be legitimately inclusive.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Now, OK, another big news story this week about Lori Lightfoot.
	Chicago Democrat Lori Lightfoot on Tuesday became the city's first incumbent mayor in 40 years to lose re-election.
	And it seems to have had to do with rising crime.
	She got only 16.4 percent of the vote.
	It was quite a large field, but the 60-year-old lesbian finished behind former head of Chicago Public Schools Paul Vallis.
	Who got about twice her count, 35%.
	And then the number two guy in the vote was a fellow named Brandon Johnson, who is a Cook County Commissioner.
	He got 20% of the vote.
	So the top finisher was a white man.
	Oh my gosh.
	Oh my gosh.
	How can that be?
	And the number two guy is quite melanin enhanced.
	It's clear that the electorate was worried about crime and public safety.
	And, interestingly enough, on Monday, ahead of the week's election, Lightfoot was claiming that critics of her four-year tenure just don't want to see a black woman in leadership.
	Oh dear.
	All told, there were eight candidates and seven were non-white, but she claims that the problem is nobody wants a black woman.
	She complained that her critics We're like the opposition faced by Chicago's first black mayor, Harold Washington.
	The same forces that didn't want Harold Washington to succeed, they're still here.
	Now, how does she even know anybody didn't want Harold Washington to succeed?
	Well, black people always know, right?
	They can always detect racism, even when it's not there.
	That's one of their superpowers.
	Did you write about Harold Washington in your book, Pay With Good Intentions?
	Because that was quite an incredible time period in Chicago and American race relations history.
	Yes, yes it was.
	I don't remember now when it was.
	He became, was it in the 70s?
	I believe it was the late 70s and then the 80s.
	He actually died in office and people were terrified of Chicago going the way of Detroit.
	And it was an amazingly contentious time period in American history and especially Chicago's history.
	Almost as contentious as today.
	Now, as news reports have pointed out, in the first two weeks of 2023 in Chicago, crime rates have jumped by 61 percent compared to the same period last year.
	And the white guy, Vallis, the top boat getter, was endorsed by Chicago's Fraternal Order of Police, and he talked about the utter breakdown of law and order under Lightfoot What he's done so far is run school districts.
	He's done them in Pennsylvania, Louisiana, various places.
	Now, as for his opponent, he was, let's see, he got much of the union's labor union and progressive, much of the city's labor union and progressive support.
	He has positioned himself, believe it or not, to the left of Lori Lightfoot.
	He wants less policing.
	Reduced fares on public transit, he wants to cancel the city's contract with ShotSpotter.
	This is crazy.
	As you know, this is this triangulating listening device that tells the police instantly where in the city shots have gone off.
	He wants to cancel a contract.
	I guess he wants people to just to shoot each other up without the police ever knowing where they are.
	Also, he wants a real estate transfer tax on the sale of multi-million dollar homes.
	Soak the rich.
	He wants a big business head tax on large companies that do 50% or more of their work in Chicago.
	And, in other words, if you do business in Chicago and you're a big company over a certain size, you pay an extra tax.
	He also wants a $98 million jet fuel tax on airlines that use Chicago airports.
	He just wants to tax anything that moves, especially airplanes.
	He also, and this is my favorite proposal, he proposes to have mental health professionals and housing advocates ready to provide resources to those dealing with a crisis while using public transport.
	I guess it's a common problem.
	People going nuts on the subway.
	I can believe it.
	So he's going to have mental health professionals standing by in case people start chewing the carpet on the subway.
	Now, just this morning, Mr. Kersey, I went through my daily ritual of mortification.
	This is like Christians who used to beat themselves with whips and wear her hair shirts.
	My daily morning ritual is to listen to national public radio.
	NPR had one of the top two scorers in the Chicago elections.
	Now, I think you can guess whether they were interviewing a white man or the black man.
	Yes, you got it right.
	They were interviewing the black man.
	And the interviewer starts off by saying, well, you know, your opponent, I mean, after all, everybody's a Democrat because that's the only party that matters.
	Your opponent is taking something of a centrist position and you seem to be seeking the support of the progressives.
	This guy says, no, this guy is no centrist.
	He's supported by the most radical Republicans.
	He's supported by people who support the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6th.
	He went on and on about what a troglodyte and Trump supporter his opponent is.
	I think all of that is probably completely baloney.
	Of course, the NPR interviewer didn't say, well, ha ha, slow down there, slow down there, boy.
	But so there you go.
	He's going to try to paint his opponent as a Trump supporter, insurrectionist, and radical Republican.
	Of course.
	There you go.
	Now, I believe you have a story about reparations in San Francisco.
	They've hit a bit of a snag.
	You know what?
	This is one somebody emailed, and at first I didn't quite understand it, but then I looked at it and I got a very big laugh.
	I understood it immediately.
	Go ahead.
	It's almost like something out of a Dave Chappelle skit.
	I know you never watch the Chappelle Show, but...
	When reparations were given out, the money was not spent in a moral manner.
	It's an amazing skit if you haven't seen it, ladies and gentlemen, it's on YouTube.
	San Francisco's landmark hearing to discuss reparation for the city's black community has been postponed by more than a month because Supervisor Shaman Walton took a nearly week-long vacation to party in Columbia and is experiencing flight issues getting home.
	Tuesday's reparations hearing had been almost two years in the making after Walton authored a resolution in early 2020 for San Francisco, a city where there were never any slaves, and a state where there were never any slaves, for San Francisco to study harm done to the city's African-American community.
	So a committee was formed, and it has met more than a dozen times since February of 2022, the board and members of the public were scheduled to discuss a plan from the committee that has numerous suggested steps to implement reparations.
	However, Walton, who's the lone black member of the Board of Supervisors, told the Standard, the San Francisco Standard, in a text that he went to Colombia for a birthday trip.
	He posted a picture on his Instagram account Sunday at a Hooters restaurant in Medellin.
	The Standard captured a screenshot before It mysteriously disappeared, Mr. Taylor.
	Walton said he went on the trip because a group of his friends all had birthdays in close proximity to one another.
	Quote, our flight was delayed on Copa Airlines and we couldn't make the connecting flight, Walton said in a text message.
	This is not a delay for reparations.
	The final report is due in June.
	Most certainly, I have no control over the airlines and flight delays, his office said.
	He began the personal trip last Wednesday and was scheduled to return in time for Tuesday's meeting.
	However, he planned to miss Monday's meeting for the city's rules committee, of which he's one of the three members.
	Reverend Amos, Reverend Amos Brown, who served as one of the 14 people in the African-American Reparations Advisory Committee, AARAC, was shocked to learn the reparations hearing was delayed by Walton's vacation to another country.
	Well, he had to be down there.
	He was hooting it up, I guess.
	Uh, exactly.
	You said, quote, I'm stunned.
	He added, quote, Well, still, there need to be reparations for the people's sake.
	The black population in this country is on life support.
	End quote.
	OK, sure.
	I support the black populations on life support.
	Yeah, that's what Reverend Amos Brown says.
	Amos?
	I think it's pronounced Amos.
	Amos, yeah.
	Amos and Andrew, I'm sorry.
	Yeah, like that funny skit.
	Amos, yeah.
	So, yeah, this is delayed.
	It appears the reparations hearing could have taken place sooner the next month but was delayed by the supervisor's own wishes.
	So, yeah, he was partying hard at, excuse me, at a Hooters in Columbia.
	And I'm sure that's what's exactly going to happen if the reparations are actually paid out.
	Oh, I think there will be a whole lot of partying.
	Well, you know the figure that he just plucked out of the air for how much every black person, every qualifying black person should get?
	Was it five million?
	Five million, yes.
	Just a cool five million.
	Yep, yep, yep.
	Man, woman, and child.
	That's right.
	You're family three.
	That means you have more assets than the top about three quarters of a percent of the entire United States.
	But, Mr. Kersey, I have to make a correction to something you said earlier.
	You said there were never any slaves in California.
	Slavery was never legal in California, but when California was a territory, there were a few owners who brought a few slaves into the territory.
	And that is something the Commission just thrills to.
	They revel in this fact.
	They probably have tracked down every single one of them, all five of them.
	And that counts for at least one or two million of the five men, the fact that they actually had slaves in what became California.
	Now, here's another interesting story.
	We can get through this very quickly, but it's about Al Sharpton's half-brother.
	Old half-brother.
	His name is Kenneth Glasgow.
	They have different names.
	He doesn't make the news all that often, but he has pleaded guilty to tax evasion, mail fraud, and drug conspiracy.
	He, like Al, is a pastor and a voting rights activist.
	They are like peas in a pod.
	Glasgow admitted he's failed to pay income on thousands and thousands of dollars that he withdrew from his two charities.
	Oh, dear.
	It's such a temptation.
	You run a charity.
	Oh, there's all that money sitting there.
	It's supposed to be going out for, you know, clothes for needy children, but ooh, gosh, I would just love to spend that on a big meal or a nice hotel trip.
	So, he's been dipping into the charities.
	He also committed Social Security fraud so he could get Medicaid.
	He pleaded guilty to a drug conspiracy charge.
	He was found in possession of cocaine with the intent to distribute.
	Fine fellow.
	Furthermore, in 2018—and this just gets more and more lurid all the time—he was arrested on capital murder charges for the death of 23-year-old Bryunia Jennings—that's probably a melanin-enhanced person—who prosecutors claim was shot in the head by someone in Glasgow's car.
	Boy, his head, his car must be an absolute rockin' place.
	However, as a local outlet reported, the federal grand jury deemed evidence insufficient to proceed with charges against him.
	I wonder what really happened.
	I mean, clearly somebody got shot in the head.
	Pretty 23-year-old Bryunia Jennings is dead with a bullet in the head.
	You'd like to know what really happened and what Glasgow's car had to do with it.
	I must point out to all of our listeners, none of this, not one bit of this reflects on the stainless honor of his more famous half-brother.
	I just want to make that absolutely clear.
	Meanwhile, there's a story about Sally Field, the actress.
	She's been around for quite some time.
	She's now 76 years old.
	I never thought of her as some great star, but apparently Screen Actors Guild gave her a Lifetime Achievement Award.
	And in her acceptance speech, she said, I was a little white girl.
	I was a little white girl with a pug nose, born in Pasadena, California.
	And when I look around this room tonight, I know that my fight, as hard as it was, was lightweight compared to some of yours.
	I thank you and I applaud you.
	Oh dear, now that she's in her twilight years, she has suddenly discovered That's my goal, too.
	To win praise on Twitter for apologizing on every occasion for my white privilege.
	One wrote, it should be everyone's goal in life to be as self-aware as Sally Field.
	Well, that's my goal, too. To win praise on Twitter for apologizing on every occasion for my white privilege.
	It should be your goal, too, Mr. Kersey. We should be self-aware.
	We should be constantly grieving and apologizing for being born white.
	Well, it's funny.
	If she feels that way, why'd she even accept the award?
	She should have said, this should have been given to a person of color.
	Well, she says, I thank you and I applaud you.
	Yes.
	You know, yep.
	If you're going to talk the talk, you should not just talk.
	Now, Mr. Kersey, I believe you have some fascinating and, well, delightful news for protesters in New York.
	Seems like they have hit the jackpot.
	This is a weird story.
	I found this at the Washington Examiner.
	New York City plans to dole out $21,500 each to the 2020 Black Lives Matter protesters.
	So they're planning to compensate protesters from a 2020 demonstration following George Floyd's death with, like I said, just over $20,000 each in a new settlement.
	In the proposed settlement, the city has agreed to pay $21,500 to each member of the class action lawsuit.
	The class action suit, plus an additional $2,500 to those who were issued desk appearance tickets.
	If it's approved by a judge, the settlement could amount to an estimated $4 million to $6 million.
	There were reportedly around 300 people in attendance at the protest, and roughly 90 have already settled with the city regarding alternative complaints.
	Now, the suit participants alleged violations of their rights under the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendment.
	Stemming from a June 4th 2020 protest when police allegedly boxed demonstrators in.
	The settlement could end up being one of the largest of its kind if approved.
	Now in 2010 a judge approved a settlement where in Washington D.C.
	agreed to pay $18,000 each to demonstrators who were arrested en masse in 2000.
	The protesters had been arrested while demonstrating near the World Bank and IMF buildings.
	That settlement was ultimately for $13.7 million.
	Now I can only imagine How many lawyers are looking at this as a potential opportunity for filing grievances in cities all across the country from where police acted, in their words, irresponsibly and violated their amendments to riot and protest and engage in mostly peaceful protests, I should say.
	Well, this is really quite astonishing.
	I mean, I wasn't there.
	I don't know what happened.
	But they got boxed in.
	They got boxed in.
	And now they're going to dip their hands into the till and walk away with $21,000.
	Sounds like a bonanza to me.
	Meanwhile, more and more of these videos are coming out with police officers at the U.S.
	Capitol gesturing people to walk inside.
	And of course, those guys are being tracked down wherever they are, anywhere in the world, whether it's Alaska or Wyoming or Alabama.
	And they're just trying to throw the book at them.
	The contrast here is just astonishing.
	So yeah, go out and demonstrate and hit the jackpot.
	Boy, this must be their absolute lucky day.
	Well, here's another strange news story.
	You thought that was strange.
	It's about a middle school.
	I beg your pardon.
	It's okay.
	A middle school in Chesterfield County, Virginia.
	It canceled a guest speaker event featuring a former white supremacist.
	There was a community backlash against this former white supremacist.
	The presentation was offered through the Virginia Holocaust Museum.
	I didn't know there was one, but there is one.
	And it would have featured Shannon Foley Martinez, a former neo-Nazi skinhead.
	Well, former is the right word.
	She apparently left what they call the white supremacist movement 25 years ago.
	I guess she's been dining out on that ever since.
	And she works now to help others remove themselves from far-right groups and white supremacy.
	Her work is, open quotes, aimed at inoculating individuals against violence-based lifestyles.
	Now, I don't know what a violence-based lifestyle is, unless you're talking about Antifa, but apparently she's not talking about springing people from Antifa.
	And the school sent out a permission form for parents to read and sign to let their children attend.
	I guess that's a standard operation that they have there.
	And she tells her story with a title, From Hate to Hope.
	Now, some parents and community members criticized the choice of school for where she was to speak because It is a majority black student, or a majority non-white student population.
	Enrollment is 43% black, 30% Hispanic, and 20% white.
	Now, that's all the information I have about the reasons for canceling.
	I guess, now you may have a better idea than I, but I suppose it's insulting to tell non-white students how awful it was to be a Nazi and how not to become one if you were tempted.
	I just don't understand, but it's fascinating to me that not even former neo-Nazis and neo-Nazi opponents are not allowed to speak at the school.
	Yeah, I think one of the strangest things that story is that Virginia has a Holocaust Museum, but I've actually seen it.
	It's in downtown Richmond on Cary Street.
	So yeah, it's anyways, I'm sure it's a deeply edifying experience.
	Now here's a delightful headline, and I won't go much past the headline.
	Five dead, two shot, after celebration of life event in Minnesota.
	That was in St.
	Paul, in an apartment for low-income people.
	Race unspecified in the story, but we can guess.
	I suspect that there probably wasn't a single member of the Leif Erikson Society involved.
	But five shot, two dead after Celebration of Life event in Minnesota.
	The story didn't even explain what this Celebration of Life event was, but apparently Celebration of Life ended up in death.
	Now, here is a story from a website that I encourage our people to visit.
	It is American Greatness.
	And let's see if I can find it.
	I'll read quite a little bit of it, because I think it's really significant and important.
	American Greatness.
	The story is called A New Counterculture.
	And it says, in July, the New York Times posted a job announcement seeking a reporter-cum-anthropologist to cover an important new beat.
	Infiltrating the online communities and influential personalities making up the right-wing media ecosystem.
	And the job was to shed light on their motivations.
	All this for the benefit of readers of the New York Times.
	Establishing this, quote, critical listening post would not be for the faint of heart.
	The daring candidate would have to be prepared to inhabit corners of the internet where far-right ideas were discussed.
	You can imagine just how horrifying that would be for a New York Timesman.
	All for the goal of determining whether and why these ideas take shape.
	You've got to be brave to listen to our podcast, Mr. Kersey.
	You've got to have an absolutely armor-plated liberalism to sit through our podcast and come out unscathed.
	Inoculated, you mean?
	Yes.
	James Pogue in Vanity Fair wrote that these dissidents had established, quote, a position that has become quietly edgy and cool.
	Are you and I quietly edgy and cool?
	I hope so.
	This may have been the most alarming news for the paper of record.
	Somehow traditionalist right wing conservatism had perhaps become cool.
	For at least a century, the left had a monopoly on transgressive chic.
	But all of what was once revolutionary is now pure orthodoxy, with conformity enforced by censorship, scientific obscurantism, and eager witch hunters.
	And the article gives the example of early middle-aged, zealously dull, tight-lipped frown, NPR tote bag, rainbow coexist bumper sticker, pronouns in email signature.
	Yes, I can see them all now.
	In this environment, the most countercultural act is to embrace traditional values.
	He goes on to say intellectual life on the American center-left is dead.
	It sure is dead.
	Those people just don't have anything but fashionable ideas.
	I think they're incapable of having an unfashionable idea.
	The article goes on to say the mainstream marketplace of ideas is now filled with a ritualized gobbledygook of foundation-founded single-issue non-profits.
	A hunger for forbidden knowledge and a yearning for genuine answers has produced a legion of autodidacts unrestrained by elite gatekeepers. The
	younger generation currently appears to be overwhelming on board with left-wing cultural politics, but
	a shift in the values of some young Americans is far from impossible. And this author
	goes on to say a transgressive countercultural appeal could prove the right's greatest
	asset. I think to a large extent that's You know, mockery, mockery, making the people in charge look like hypocrites and fools.
	I think that is very, very powerful.
	If the elite left is going to be stopped in its push to construct a woke total state, a budding counterculture won't be enough.
	The right and its anti-woke allies will have to identify, take hold, and effectively operate real centers of power and influence.
	How true.
	The writer goes on to say, personnel is policy.
	If this entrenched, decidedly not neutral, governing class doesn't accept a new policy order, it won't happen.
	Declaring a new direction for government without installing new personnel willing and able to carry it out generates only elite revolt and inevitable sabotage.
	That's, of course, exactly what happened to Donald Trump.
	Any sensible person who gets in at the top is going to find this enormous bloated mass of people who wake up every morning and say, how can I sabotage what this guy's doing?
	The guy continues, nearly everyone with the skills and experience to do these jobs is already an assimilated member of the professional managerial class.
	Alas, that's true.
	All these college educated people, the more education you get, the stupider you become.
	In fact, this status quo applies not just to government, but to nearly every influential large organization.
	All rely on recruitment from the professional managerial elite to operate, and they are effectively beholden to the cultural preferences of that milieu.
	The only practical way forward for the populist right is to develop a counter-elite.
	That's you, Mr. Kersey.
	Young men like you, the counter-elite.
	But conversion from within the existing managerial class, in other words, the cultivation class traders, would produce quicker results.
	The development of a counter-culture attractive among the young and educated up-and-coming elite is the best possible means to accomplish this.
	Again, your job.
	Too late for me, I'm afraid.
	And this is what has caused the New York Times and other prestige media to feel the hairs on the back of their necks, to which a cultural break within America's young and well-educated elite would present a direct threat to the left's monolithic institutional power.
	And that, of course, is why people like you and me are the subjects of such diligent silencing and stifling efforts.
	They are terrified.
	They're absolutely terrified.
	And it'll be interesting to see what finally happens of this job application or the job offering from the New York Times from somebody whose idea it is to make sure to listen to people like you and me, Mr. Kersey, try to find out, gosh, how can these people think such horrible thoughts?
	I look forward to their joining the subscribers to the podcast.
	In the meantime, Mr. Kersey, I think you have some news about Richmond.
	Oh my goodness, there's always news about Virginia.
	Gosh, wasn't the story...
	Out of Chesterfield County, the one you just talked about, but this one's interesting because this is as our society continues to embrace the de-policing and as we become increasingly more and more third world and run by people who have nothing whatsoever to do racially with the founding fathers of our country.
	At a micro level, our cities are going to stop working.
	Our services that we expect to happen when you pick up a phone, they're just not going to
	happen. So in Richmond, this was a huge story.
	Public safety departments are grappling with staffing shortages where residents from different
	parts of the city are concerned about slow response times when they find themselves in
	an emergency. Basically, Mr. Taylor, they're massive 911 wait times when you're calling to
	report a crime or report something's going on.
	And, uh, just I'll be very brief with this.
	This is a very important story because you could have this written about any city in the country.
	I think at this point, um, in regards to just the breakdown of things that we used to take.
	For granted, uh, we've talked about Jackson, Mississippi, where, you know, the waters, the water doesn't even work.
	Well, now you've got a situation where you pick up the phone
	and dial 911 and hey, guess what?
	You're not getting switched to anyone live for minutes.
	And that's just not gonna be the case if you have someone breaking in or in.
	So Donald Brighton has lived on the South side, just off Richmond Highway for more than 60 years.
	He loves his community.
	He said, there's one concern that never goes away.
	Quote, public safety is the main thing around here, keeping people safe.
	I've been here some nights in my house and hear gunshots going all over the place.
	He tries to stay alert and on guard at all times by using security cameras to monitor his front and backyard, but he wants more help.
	Specifically from the police.
	Over the years, he said he's noticed a rise in crime, yet a reduction in officers patrolling the area.
	He said there's also less community policing.
	Quote, try and get us more policemen on the ground.
	That's what we want.
	Just once a while, have a policeman drive by.
	Talk to the neighbors, see what they're doing, get to know the people in the community.
	Additionally, he's been unsatisfied with the amount of time it takes for police to respond to reported incidents.
	And when he calls 9-1-1 to report an issue, he said he gets put on hold.
	I had called 9-1-1 a lot of times and they don't get here as quick as they do.
	It takes a little while.
	If someone's on the ground and you call 9-1-1, you can't wait a couple minutes.
	Or a minute.
	And the article the article will go on to say right now the Richmond Police Department is down 157 officers out of 755 sworn positions or a vacancy rate of 21 percent.
	Now we know from we know we've talked about what's happening the exodus in Chicago, in Minneapolis, in New York City, in Portland, in Seattle, in a lot of these cities where the riots were you know ground zero for the insurrection in 2020.
	Officers are saying you know what I'm putting in for a transfer to a suburb. I mean, Richmond is down 21
	percent and the city's 911 center is down 28 dispatchers out of 85 positions or a vacancy rate of 33
	percent.
	They can't even get dispatchers?
	Yeah. So he says, again, the director of emergency preparedness and response for the city of
	Richmond said the 911 call center has been dealing with staffing shortages since the pandemic
	and civil unrest of 2020.
	Well, you mean the Black Lives Matter insurrection.
	He said, Richmond 911 answers at least 75% of calls within 15 seconds.
	The national standard is 90%.
	So last year, in Richmond, emergency communications spent $840,000 in overtime pay.
	Police spent $6.2 million in overtime, and that's all due to these staffing shortages,
	a vacancy rate of 21% in Richmond, and a vacancy rate for police, and a vacancy rate of an
	astonishing 33% for dispatchers.
	I mean, this is a crazy situation.
	In the end, this is a microcosm of a macro problem all across the nation, as there's
	less and less of an incentive to be a police officer.
	You're going to have longer wait times for a 9-1-1 call when you have an emergency.
	Well, as Heather McDonald, whom I consider to be an absolute national treasure, she says police are in a death spiral.
	And she's absolutely right.
	And Portland is facing the same problem.
	Here, this is really one of the most gruesome stories about an American city I've read in a long time.
	Business owners are fleeing Portland amid a pronounced rise in crime and homelessness.
	I never liked this phrase, homelessness.
	What it means is there are bums and winos and druggies everywhere.
	Homeless.
	It makes it sound like a hurricane came along and blew away their half-million-dollar home.
	But anyway, public data shows that since the pandemic, more than 2,600 downtown businesses have filed changes of address with the U.S.
	Postal Service to leave their downtown zip codes.
	2,600 downtown businesses, several big-name employers from Unitas Community Credit Union, Unitas, get it?
	To Umpqua Bank, I've never heard of Umpqua Bank, have been among the mass exodus carried away by owners who have taken issue with a rising crime level and homelessness and the city's failure to do anything about it.
	Once hailed as the crown jewel of the West Coast for its trendy art and food scenes, the City of Roses has been in peril since 2020, that magical year, largely due to efforts to defund police and lax bail reform laws that leave little to no deterrent for increasingly brazen criminals.
	Stores forced permanently to shutter due to break-ins are now common because of rampant crime, making their businesses no longer financially viable.
	Yeah, I guess there's so much crime, you are permanently shuttered, you can't do any business, that's right, your business is no longer going to work.
	This past December, a Portland retail store for the popular clothing brand Reigns was forced to shut permanently after being broken into 15 times over the course of two months.
	15 break-ins!
	I mean, you'd think they would have just barricaded the thing as tight as Fort Knox.
	15 break-ins in two months!
	Iconic ice cream shop Salt & Straw last week Threatened to move its headquarters out of Oregon
	The stores owner Marcy Landolfo put up a notice on the window explaining her decision to close
	Don't be fooled into thinking that insurance companies cover losses. We have sustained 15 break-ins. That's the
	easy to be the magic number We have not received any financial reimbursement since the
	third breaking cheese Portland, yeah
	Portland now has more than 700 homeless encampments across the city
	700 homeless in Kansas.
	That's just not 700 tents.
	That's 700 groups of tents.
	The flood of drugs onto city streets has resulted in a pronounced rise in homelessness and open-air drug use.
	According to this story, a fentanyl pill that used to cost $20 you can now get for $1.
	And District Attorney Mike Schmidt is an outspoken progressive.
	Yes, he is.
	He came into office during the height of the riots, the summer of 2020.
	He was the one who wouldn't stop, night after night after night, these Black Block Antifa types trying to blow up or tear down or burn the federal courthouse.
	That's right.
	He promptly enacted a policy decriminalizing most riot-related offenses.
	And 90% of those arrested at the riots in 2020 Ranging from arson to assault against a police officer had their cases dropped.
	Arson?
	Attack a police officer?
	Case dropped.
	Schmidt ran as a progressive and won 77% of the vote just days before George Floyd gave up his life for goodness, truth, beauty, and race relations in May 25th of 2020.
	Just 10 days into his tenure, he announced how his office would decline to prosecute protesters, including such things, aside from protests, criminal trespass, disorderly conduct, interference with a police officer.
	None of that's a crime anymore.
	None of that's a crime.
	Interfere with a police officer.
	I mean, that's a pretty doggone serious crime.
	Hundreds of police officers have since retired or quit.
	Is that a surprise?
	No.
	Of course.
	No, not a surprise at all.
	Sidewalks in the city are often littered with people smoking, injecting drugs, before they curl up and fall over into a trance-like state.
	In 2022, there were 156 overdose deaths.
	In 2020, there were 80.
	So they've gone from 80 to 156.
	overdose deaths. In 2020, they were 80. So they've gone from 80 to 156. Even some of the most charming,
	trendy, and expensive neighborhoods in this town, in in the.
	They are now overrun with tent cities.
	You could practically call it Portland Tent City.
	So, there you go.
	This is what happens, and this can happen in just several years.
	I mean, it sounds to me as though Portland, which used to be this delightful, lovely place, and it's still majority white.
	It's one of the few urban areas that's majority white.
	A lot of these losers and burnouts, derelicts on the streets, they're white.
	In just a couple of years, if you don't draw the line, if you don't keep criminals in jail, the place can go It can go to hell and a half's back in no time at all.
	And back to this astonishing statistic, 2,600 downtown businesses have filed for change of address.
	I'll tell you real quick, I was going to send this story over, this will put a bow on this, Portland.
	Nike has begged, you know, Nike is based in Oregon.
	They've begged Portland mayor for police protection to reopen a shuttered community store plagued with retail threat, with retail theft.
	Everybody is a casualty.
	Mike, you sent a letter to the white mayor of Portland, Ted Wheeler, and city officials
	asking for more police at their aptly named Morton Luther King Community Store, which
	has been closed for months because of ongoing retail theft.
	And they actually— Everybody, everybody is a casualty.
	No one is spared.
	They've proposed even paying law enforcement directly if it would bring them protection
	that they were requesting.
	That's where we are.
	That's the Anarkar tyranny.
	That's the insanity of this de-policing, or as you said, with Heather MacDonald's great words, just the death spiral of law and order.
	Instead, it's the implementation of the left's, you know, anti-fascist worldview.
	Well, Mr. Kersey, our podcast is approaching its death spiral.
	It's out of time, so we must sign off.

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