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March 16, 2023 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor

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Finally: The Museum for Black Girls

Jared Taylor and Paul Kersey plan a trip to the “cloud tunnel” where “black women are heavens.” The hosts also discuss the decline in IQ, Newark’s foreign policy, Rebeca Rothstein, and how black hair will inspire tomorrow’s architects.

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	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
	I'm your host, Jared Taylor with American Renaissance, and the date is March 16th, Year of Our Lord, 2023.
	And with me is my indispensable co-host, Paul Kersey, and oh my gosh, the year is almost one quarter done.
	I haven't done nearly a quarter of the things I meant to do this year, so I need to catch up.
	I did nearly a fifth of the things—or, I'm sorry, one twentieth of the things I wanted to do.
	It is astonishing, but I do want to say this.
	I hope everybody remembered to turn their clocks forward one hour if you're in the United States of America, because it is—you spring forward.
	And I hope where you are, Mr. Taylor, in Northern Virginia, the weather is starting to turn a little warmer, so you can go outside.
	Well, if they didn't turn their clocks forward when they should have, they're way behind now, Mr. Kersey.
	Let's begin with what I thought was a particularly edifying comment from a listener.
	He writes to say, in your March 2nd podcast, you said there had never been slavery in California aside from a few cases of blacks who were brought in.
	Now, I thought I was being scrupulously correct in pointing this out to Mr. Kurz.
	You had said there had never been any slavery in California.
	This had to do with all of this nonsense, this insanity about passing out bushels of dollars to blacks who are living there, despite the fact that there was no official slavery.
	And our listener says this.
	I'm afraid you are viewing the history of slavery in California from a white colonizer European American centric mindset.
	Shame on you.
	He's right.
	He goes on to say the Native Americans in California of course owned slaves.
	Slavery was a common practice among the indigenous peoples who would take enemies captive and enslave them in war or they themselves could become slaves if they gambled themselves into debt.
	He goes on to say the Smithsonian points out that women and children, to be used as sex slaves, were particularly prized.
	Here is a quote from the Smithsonian magazine about California.
	Ute bands, or maybe it's a Ute, U-T-E, I never quite knew how to pronounce the name of that tribe, but let's say Ute bands, spent the winter in the mountains to the west and north of New Mexico.
	In the spring, they rode into the Great Basin, where they encountered a people known as the Paiute, who lacked horses.
	The Ute traders thus made ferrying horseless Paiute from the Great Basin as part of their seasonal movements, taking captives to sell at the fairs of New Mexico and California, only to recommence the cycle the following year.
	Comanche traders operated in an even larger area, enslaving various native groups as well as Euro-Americans and Mexicans.
	For the Yuti and the Comanche, enslaved people constituted a very versatile commodity that could be used as an exploited underclass of laborers, as pawns that could be exchanged for kinfolk captured by other groups, or simply as a form of currency readily accepted throughout the region.
	So there you go.
	Well, I would say shut my white Eurocentric mouth.
	I stand, sit, and lie down corrected.
	And this, of course, is why we love your comments, dear listeners, your corrections, and even occasional hate mail.
	But I confess it's those perfumed love letters that I like the best.
	And the way to get in touch is to go to amren.com, A-M-R-E-N dot com, and hit the Contact Us tab, or you can go straight to Mr. Kersey.
	Yeah, and it's really simple, ladies and gentlemen.
	Simply go to your email, go to the To function of your email, whatever you use, and send an email to BecauseWeLiveHereAtProtonMail.com.
	Once again, that email address to contact me is BecauseWeLiveHereAtProtonMail.com, and with an added bonus, when you contact either myself or the New Century Foundation, you will be added to the award-winning American Renaissance Newsletter. And Mr. Kersey, I'm sorry,
	Mr. Taylor, I would like to say one quick thing. I meant that in the United States of America,
	the context of the USA, California was never a slave state. So regardless of if the
	Spaniards had slavery or the Mesoamericans, I'm sorry, they're not even, you know, the, uh, the Amerindians,
	Amerindians.
	Yes, they had nothing to do with America, the Amerindians.
	The point is, why should that slavery be a pretext for San Franciscoans paying 50,000 blacks $5 million?
	In fact, Mr. Taylor, we should add an interesting postscript.
	Yesterday, the board met and they approved that $5 million payout.
	Of course, it's never going to be implemented, but it was approved by the By the all-black group of individuals who put it together.
	Of course, of course they're going to approve it.
	It is going to be pure fantasy until somebody actually votes the money.
	And I predict not even in wide awake, woke San Francisco are they going to vote money anywhere near that amount to put in the pockets of black people.
	That is my heartfelt and confident prediction.
	Let us start with a heartwarming human interest story.
	And here's the headline.
	Family of 12-year-old auto theft suspect call for charges against vehicle owner who killed him.
	Now that's quite a headline for you.
	The story goes like this.
	The vehicle owner told authorities he was tracking the vehicle using an app after it had been stolen and he found it later that day.
	When the owner approached the car, he was involved in an exchange of gunfire with those inside the vehicle.
	A juvenile male drove off in the car and officers found him suffering from a gunshot wound.
	I guess his foot hit the accelerator.
	He was taken to the hospital and later pronounced dead.
	The medical examiner identified the juvenile as Elias Armstrong, age 12.
	I doubt he had a driver's license.
	The Denver DA decided not to file charges against the vehicle owner.
	After all, there was an exchange of gunfire.
	The family recognizes that Elias was caught up with the wrong crowd that day.
	I guess otherwise he was just an absolute choir boy, but does not believe he should have been killed.
	Well, I looked up young Elias, and despite his relatively normal-sounding name, yes, he turned out to be melanin supercharged.
	Well, there's a follow-up to this.
	In a later news story, I discovered that members of the Denver family are processing a fresh wave of grief following the death of their 12-year-old son, that's Elias, who was killed mere months after they buried another child.
	On Friday morning, just last Friday, dozens of people filled the Pipkin-Braswell funeral home to say goodbye to Elias.
	His older brother died in October during a police pursuit.
	Authorities say he shot himself.
	Well, I guess he did fall in with the wrong crowd.
	And not just that day.
	I guess he must have been hanging around his brother.
	Now, this is the part that intrigued me most, Mr. Kersey.
	Mourners described Elias as a smart, lovable kid who lit up the room with his smile.
	He had a keen interest in money and was doing well in school.
	He had a keen interest in money at age 12.
	Now, Mr. Kersey, if you had come to an untimely end at age 12, as your family were lowering you into the grave, would they say to each other, what a fine boy and what a keen interest in money he had?
	This is just the strangest thing.
	It's an absolutely bizarre thing to say about someone of any age.
	Here you're standing around the coffin.
	Mmm, he had a keen interest in money.
	Yes, indeed.
	Well, I'm so pleased the papers chose to report that picante detail about Elias.
	He clearly had a keen interest in other people's cars, too.
	Maybe he was a squeegee boy in training.
	Maybe he wanted to move from about 8-9% black Denver Colorado to heavily black Baltimore, where he could have been one of those entrepreneurs who, as a squeegee boy, maybe sold water.
	Or maybe he would have been one of those students, Mr. Taylor, as an individual with a keen interest in money, who was going to help Some of those 23 schools that had 0% proficiency in math.
	Well, they said he was doing well in school.
	Maybe he was going to start SVP Bank.
	You never know with these kids.
	Oh, careful now.
	Talk about risk management.
	Yes, yes.
	Well, he sounds like being his parents was a job in risk management.
	Having that whole family is pure risk management.
	In any case, Ladies and gentlemen, listeners all around the world, you'll be delighted to know that American intel agencies will finally get the job done right.
	Won't they now, Mr. Kersey?
	I've got a question for you if we go to this story.
	What is your favorite website to find really good news stories?
	Well, I must say it's amrad.com.
	Amazing plug.
	Amazing plug.
	I agree.
	I would argue, as an American, we have so few outlets, but Daily Mail, of course, UK, is phenomenal.
	Summit.News, Paul Joseph Watson.
	But I would also say Zero Hedge does a phenomenal job.
	If you remember back in 2019, Zero Hedge was one of the first News websites booted from Twitter, actually.
	It was a very strange moment.
	Zero Hedge does great stuff, and this story comes to us courtesy of ZeroHedge.com.
	All right.
	Proceed, sir.
	Yes, sir.
	U.S.
	intel agencies need to focus intensely on diversity, equity, inclusion.
	Intelligence Chief says, I feel safer already.
	I'm not sure about you, but I feel safer already.
	Well, it's because they're going to focus intensely.
	Oh, boy.
	If they were just going to kind of casually focus, you know, I wouldn't be worried, but they're going to focus intensely.
	Oh, boy.
	Yes, sir.
	So during a hearing of the House Intelligence Committee last week, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines expressed the need for intel agencies to focus, as you stated, more intensely on D-E-I.
	Diversity, Equity, Inclusion.
	Sounds like an old college chant.
	D-E-I.
	D-E-I.
	The hearing was called by the Intelligence Chairman Mike Turner, Republican of Ohio, to discuss global threats.
	Hanes took the opportunity, however, to make comments about the need for the intelligence community to hire more minorities, more non-whites, on the basis of their race.
	Representative Andre Carson, a Democrat from Indiana, addressed the issue of workforce development.
	in questioning to Haynes, citing earlier comments from David Petraeus, former head of the Central Intelligence Agency.
	And if memory serves correct, wasn't he the The highest ranking general during the Iraq invasion of the Otts?
	He was in command of the troops, all right.
	He was originally a special forces guy.
	You'd think he would have a certain flinty-eyed, hard-headed view of what goes into proper personnel selection, but... You would think so.
	You would think so.
	But to get promoted in today's global American empire world, that's not exactly... No, wait.
	Maybe Petraeus was not special forces.
	I'm thinking of a guy named Crystal.
	Yes, you are.
	Yes, I beg your pardon.
	But so again, right after David Petraeus, this new, this individual, Andre Carson is black.
	The Democrat from Indiana said he contended that minorities were underrepresented in the intelligence community.
	Quote, what are your organizations doing to improve diversity when it comes to recruiting and retaining your workforces?
	He asked the head of the, the director of national intelligence, again, Avril Haines,
	and does the IC, the intelligence community, need to devote more resources to professional development?
	How do you plan on tackling those very apparent issues?
	Haines reported this, thusly, quote, "'I think there is no question that we have to do better
	"'on diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility.'"
	End quote.
	Taylor I wonder if that accessibility does that mean that we need more
	wheelchair bound Of course!
	Of course!
	It's well known that they are the most thorough intel researchers.
	They come up with absolutely the best answers.
	The more crippled, the better.
	Maybe deaf?
	Maybe one-eyed?
	Maybe blind, yeah, Down syndrome.
	Hanes pointed to a recent budget request in which her organization had requested more funding to carry out, quote, more intense efforts, unquote, to increase the presence of minorities in the intelligence community.
	Quote, I think you'll see in our budget requests and our proposals and all of the work that we're doing that we see this as an area that we need to focus more intense efforts I don't know.
	resources," she said, end quote. She specifically noted the lack of Hispanic and Latinos among the
	leadership of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, ODNI. OMG is what I say to that.
	How has the country survived? I don't know. I don't know. I mean, it's...
	We need those... ...inquiring minds want to know.
	We need those Spanish speakers keeping the tabs on the Arabs and the Russians and the Chinese.
	Oh, they'll do a great job.
	Yep.
	There's that nuclear threat from Mexico we have to worry about, you know.
	Wow.
	I wonder, doesn't anybody ever in these public hearings say, well, hold on just a moment.
	How is having more black people or more wheelchair-bound people going to help?
	I mean, does anybody ever even ask that question?
	I guess not.
	Well, in the meantime, Mr. Kersey, Wakanda will come.
	And you know why?
	Oh no, don't do it.
	I can't resist.
	Because, and this is a serious article from a black website whose name I have forgotten, but maybe I will check for it while you're telling a story and I can get back to you, but black hair and its care practices, that is to say twisting, braiding, locking, and more, are integral to the life of black women the world over.
	While they seem at times to be just a daily chore, such practices are a vital source of African material culture.
	We're talking about hair now.
	And in spite of this artistic lineage, the fine arts, especially architecture, Have yet to recognize the design potential of black hair practices.
	Wow!
	Were you aware of this terrible racist brush off in the architectural community of the inspiring potential of black hair practice?
	I always wanted a house that looked like a Bantu knob or whatever those things are called.
	So all you architects out there, you hustle on down to Houston because An exhibit has opened in the University of Houston's College of Architecture and Design to set the record straight.
	Yes, black hair is going to inspire the architecture of America.
	This is Wakanda right here in the lower 50s.
	Hair Salon, it's called.
	It brings together artists and architectures from six countries to address a common question.
	A common question now.
	How can black hair techniques be translated into innovative building materials, designs, and methods?
	That's a common question.
	It had escaped me.
	But the Graham Foundation funded the project, and it seeks to highlight hair.
	As a distinctive element of African material culture, one that survived and transformed during the transatlantic slave trade to become an enduring signifier of black identity in contemporary culture.
	Wow.
	Is your hair an enduring signifier of anything, Mr. Kersey?
	Proper maintenance and nice and making sure I use the right shampoo.
	Well, I'd have to say mine is an enduring signifier to progressive baldness.
	Maybe if I had white privilege it would mean something courageous and noble like the hair of black women, but I guess I just don't qualify.
	So what's in this exhibit?
	There is computer code based on the practice of dreadlocking in order to translate braiding practices into woven material.
	Build a house with that.
	There is a map showing migratory patterns and the flow of goods linked to the transatlantic slave trade.
	Build a house with that.
	Now, there is a chandelier inspired by the use of braids as ways to disguise coded maps along the Underground Railroad.
	Now, I'm not quite sure how that works in architecture, but now I realize that when I was a boy, my neighbor was celebrating the Underground Railroad.
	He had a train set in the basement.
	Also, there is sculpture as a means of exploring the vitality of curl patterns in black hair.
	There is a work of art and artistic inspiration known as Coiled Field, a pale wooden table comprised of 22 fragments from which coiled copper tubes radiate upwards.
	So now I know the mattress upon which I sleep is a celebration of black hair, those coils radiating upward.
	I will sleep the sleep of the virtuous tonight and give thanks to the miracle of black hair that inspired my mattress maker to make my life so much more comfortable.
	And this is not satire, boys and girls.
	This is a serious statement of the enduring essence of black hair and black identity.
	Now, here's another story that sounds like satire too, but I'm warning you, it's not.
	Did you know, Mr. Curzon, black spaces for black girls and women can be few and far between, but thanks to the founder of an interactive museum that brings creatives together to usher in innovative art, that's no longer the case in the nation's capital.
	Well, I always thought the nation's capital was fairly black, and I would have thought there would be spaces for black girls and women, but apparently that's not the case.
	But finally, one has arrived.
	Charlie Billingsley, the 34-year-old gender-based founder and CEO of the Museum for Black Girls, opened a space in D.C.
	in September of last year.
	The experience includes multiple immersive exhibits that can take people back in time with nostalgic memories of growing up Such as the pressing comb in grandmother's kitchen.
	I think we're back to hair now.
	And Billingsley herself says, we grew up getting our hair done in the kitchen or in the living room or on the porch, being able to bring back those memories, because it's not so often that those are the things we still do today.
	I guess we're doing other things with our hair, like designing buildings, but it's important to our world, Billingsley said.
	This is a space where we are giving black girls their flowers.
	I don't quite understand that, but if you need flowers, black girls, hustle on down to the museum.
	There is not very many black people here in Denver.
	You have to find the pockets in the space, so whenever I travel and I see a black girl, I'm like, oh my gosh, hi!
	Billingsley said.
	Well, someday, Mr. Kersey, America will be just like that for you and me.
	We'll see a white person saying, oh my gosh, hi!
	And she says, just the excitement of seeing another woman who looks like you, oh, that kind of inspired me, especially to start the Museum for Black Girls.
	The museum started in Denver and has now turned into a three-year traveling exhibition.
	D.C.
	is the home of its third location, just after Houston.
	So Houston is really hopping, boys and girls.
	The district had decided upon a location, it was decided as a location because of its rich history as Chocolate City.
	But Chocolate City apparently had no safe spaces for black boys and girls and women.
	Now, this is the part that I don't understand.
	Listen carefully.
	This may be Ebonics, Mr. Curtis, because I don't understand much of a single word of it.
	So we have a cloud tunnel because the artist likes to say that black women are heavens in it.
	So she created this whole cloud room experience with the people of what it takes to create a black woman.
	Did you understand any of that?
	Please repeat that, because I'm still trying to think about how architecture and black women's hair have anything in common.
	I know, I know.
	It just swallows up your mind, it doesn't.
	You can't think of anything else.
	Well, I will repeat this.
	This is one of the, I suppose, one of the immersive exhibits, and I'm quoting you, as this outlet quoted Ms.
	Billingsley.
	So we have a cloud tunnel because, let's start again.
	So we have a cloud tunnel because the artist likes to say that black women are heavens in it.
	So she created this whole cloud room experience where the people of what it takes to create a black woman.
	Okay, I'll take your word for it.
	Well, she goes on to say, we don't have many spaces as black women that are just for us to feel safe, to feel seen.
	And to know how much of an impact we've had on this world, and so we're deserving of that.
	Now my question to you is, this safe space for black women and girls, do they let white people in?
	I don't know, but Mr. Taylor, I do know what type of impact black women have had on this world, because I've been to Baltimore and Detroit and Atlanta, and Washington D.C., and I've seen the impact.
	It's quite divergent from the way that this museum and some of the publications that probably promote these ideas would lead you to believe.
	It's not Wakanda!
	You mean their impact is not a cloud tunnel with black women being heavens in it?
	That hasn't been your experience?
	It's a cloud, no.
	You're just not blown away by black people, I guess.
	That's my Tucker Carlson laugh right there.
	It was a different laugh than I usually do.
	No, I'm not.
	I'm really not.
	Well, Mr. Kersey, regale us with the story of Silicon Valley Bank.
	What a fine expression of homegrown capitalism this has been.
	This is going to be a two-part because there are two stories I want to talk about, but I'm sure all of our listeners know, especially if you have retirement, if you're looking at your 401k, if you're trading If you trade in equities, I'm sure you've noticed that this past week has been absolutely abysmal.
	One of my buddies, I don't want to go into too much, but he told me that he's a high-ranking banker, and he told me that this was actually worse than what he lived through during 2007-2008, the credit default swap, collateralized debt obligation world that was brought about by The mortgage lending crisis that then just completely destroyed the economy.
	I'm sure you remember that all too well, Mr. Taylor.
	Oh, yes, I remember.
	This has been my 401k became a 201k as the usual joke was at the time
	Yeah, yeah, you know it This has been an interesting three-year ride because also today, Mr. Taylor, before we begin, this is the anniversary of when it was two weeks to stop the spread.
	And in a lot of ways, that action has now cascaded into what we're beginning to see all
	across the country.
	With regional banks, especially smaller banks, their balance sheets are looking pretty bad.
	And here we go with this story.
	So this is from The Federalist, another fantastic website.
	Silicon Valley Bank, from this point forward, I'll call it SBB.
	It's the second largest bank collapse in U.S.
	history.
	The biggest bank collapse, by the way, was Washington Mutual back in 2007 or 2008.
	2007 or 2008, it pledged $74 million to the Black Lives Matter movement back in 2020.
	So SVB might have been able to make good on $74 million promised to customers had it not
	pledged the money to leftist causes.
	According to a new database by the conservative Claremont Institute, the collapsed bank donated a pledge to donate nearly $74 million to groups related to the BLM movement back when our country was held hostage and I'd
	still argue we were held hostage by the BLM movement regardless of if these
	payments were made or not. We always will be. We always will be.
	Yes, we will.
	Yes, there are indulgences that unfortunately will never be forgiven for.
	Will Hill, the Executive Director of Consumers Research, told The Federalist that SVB's failure on the heels of its left-wing activism is, quote, yet another indication that SVB was focused on woke virtue signaling instead of protecting their customers' deposits, end quote.
	Time after time, we see the same pattern.
	Companies that are the most concerned with environmental society governance scores, or ESG scores, and woke politics do a worse job serving their customers.
	He said the rest of corporate America should learn from SBB's failures now before they are just the next company to make headlines for comically poor management.
	Public reports published on the company's website offer a window into the bank's leftist corporate apparatus.
	Again, this is no different than any other Fortune 100, Fortune 500, or probably any company that's traded on the NASDAQ or the New York Stock Exchange.
	As I stated, the leftist corporate apparatus prioritize Wall Street's As mentioned before, environmental, social and governance ESG standards over its fiduciary duty to shareholders.
	Again, what that means is that corporations have a fiduciary duty to maximize shareholders' profits.
	You and I are both shareholders of a number of companies, and we would hope that those individuals who have been Hired as C-suite executives would put our interests above all other interests, but of course that's not the sake of SVB.
	Two months after the racially charged riots led to the most destructive outbreak of American political upheaval in more than a century, the bank joined the chorus of corporate firms touting their commitment to so-called, gosh, we've used this word way too many times today, but we have to use it again, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
	Quote, innovation is global and is touching every aspect of our lives, which is creating
	even more need for inclusiveness of ideas and approaches, read a report from August
	2020 that SVB put out.
	We are on a journey committed to increasing, here we go again, diversity, equity, inclusion
	in our workplace with our partners and across the innovation economy.
	You know, anytime anyone says we are on a journey, I know that the next thing that's
	going to come out of that person's mouth is pure bull.
	They're always journeying these woke idiots.
	If only they'd sit down and eat the bologna and realize this doesn't taste that good.
	And they'd cease the journey.
	Just get to work.
	Get to work.
	Get off your journey horse.
	Yeah, because again, that journey is longer than Godot.
	It's never going to come.
	It's never going to end.
	Silicon Valley Bank's report highlighted the fact that 67% of its total workforce checks a diversity box.
	I'll read that again.
	Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley Bank, again, the second largest bank collapse in US history.
	67% of its total workforce was, I should say, I should state, individuals who checked a diversity box.
	Employees considered diverse included, quote, any woman, any person of color, veteran or person with a disability.
	When the report was published, half the bank senior leadership and 69% of board members met that criteria.
	I wonder if they go around checking which way you swing so they can claim sexual minorities, too.
	But I mean, this is California. They assume everybody's a sexual minority.
	Why not 100%?
	Well, I can't remember, but wasn't there a push that every board had to have a female and a member of the LGBTQ?
	That's right, that's right.
	AP, whatever.
	And you know, we joked about how you're going to check that, you know, and I can see the boys sitting around at board meetings saying, well, who's going to take a hit for the team, you know, and claim that you swing both ways?
	Come on, come on, Joe, you can do it.
	Who's the pansexual in the room?
	Yes, that's right.
	That same month, riots erupted in Kenosha, Wisconsin, wreaking havoc on communities that are still recovering in 2023.
	A corporate responsibility report in 2020 highlighted SBB's activist efforts in supporting people based on their race and sex.
	Quote, in recent months, we've expanded our philanthropic giving through corporate donations and employee matching programs, wrote CEO Greg Becker.
	In an introductory letter attached to the report, quote, these programs focus on pandemic response, social justice, sustainability, and supporting women, Black, and Latinx emerging talent and underrepresented groups, end quote.
	According to numbers emphasized in the report's fact page, SVB spent $2.8 million on gender parity innovation and diverse emerging talent, end quote.
	And of course, the narrator, the postscript of this story, despite all of these grand efforts on this journey to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion, Mr. Taylor, Silicon Valley Bank, the second largest bank collapse in US history, sending a domino effect across the entire global economy, especially wreaking havoc here for those of us who have equity positions or are wondering if this uh... economic situation might turn into recession now you
	sent over story that i think is very important to point out
	this is from fox news the head of risk assessment at silicon valley bank
	invested in l g b t q programs in months leading up to the shutdown
	i do not know if i'm proud opting her name correctly so mister taylor you'd uh...
	might wanna help out Well, frankly, I don't too much care, but go ahead.
	Yeah, she appears to be a high-caste Indian.
	Jay Araspha organized several LGBTQ...
	She organized several LGBTQ campaigns ahead of the bank collapse.
	She was the head of financial risk management at Silicon Valley Bank UK.
	She spent months leading up to the campaign.
	Again, like I said, all she cared about was LGBTQ campaigns.
	I'm sure she was also very much motivated by what was happening with Harry and Meghan Merkle as they tried to unmask the royal family
	as a bunch of racists.
	I'm sure she was tweeting and Instagramming about that.
	She organized a month-long pride campaign, a space for employees to share their coming out stories
	and co-chaired the European LGBTQ Employee Resource Group as the bank was on the verge of collapse.
	Just four months before the shutdown, who, by the way, she labors herself
	as a queer person of color and a first generation immigrant from a working class background,
	she was included on SBB's Outstanding LGBTQ Plus role models list of 2020.
	Well, Mr. Taylor, by the way, there will not be a LGBTQ outstanding role models list of 2023 for Silicon Valley Bank.
	Well, I don't know.
	I can tell you there will not be such an award given by American Renaissance.
	That's true.
	But as for Silicon Valley Bank, who knows if they've been cured?
	And now let us emphasize that she, her job was risk analysis.
	Isn't that what it was?
	Risk analysis.
	And she's putting on these month-long festivals for all of this craziness.
	She was the head of financial risk management.
	Financial risk management.
	Yes.
	Here's what she wrote in the most recent diversity equity inclusion initiative from August of 2022.
	I'll finish with this, quote, the phrase, you can't be what you can't see resonates with me.
	As a queer person of color and a first generation immigrant from a working class background, there were not many role models for me to see growing up.
	I feel privileged to co-chair the LGBTQ plus ERG and help spread awareness of lived queer experiences, partner with charitable organizations, and above all, create a sense of community for LGBTQ plus employees and allies, end quote.
	Well, I can tell you.
	Do we have to listen to her talking about her lived queer experiences?
	Maybe if you're not an employee.
	Silicon Valley Bank failed.
	Well, she'll just take her risk analysis and her lived experience elsewhere, I suspect.
	How can you possibly be unwilling to hire such a gem of a risk analyst?
	I don't know.
	Maybe Bear Stearns or Lehman Brothers or Colonial Bank will bring her on.
	Oh wait, those are all gone too, like Silicon Valley Bank.
	Well, here is one of those great stories that makes you wonder whether only white people can be racist after all.
	I just wonder.
	This is about Tunisia.
	Tunisia has a president.
	His name is Kais Said, and he delivered a tirade about undocumented migrants from sub-Saharan Africa.
	He described illegal border crossings from Black Africa into Tunisia as a criminal enterprise hatched at the beginning of this century to change the demographic composition of Tunisia.
	And he called on security forces to expel undocumented migrants.
	Now, CNN, of course, is outraged.
	It says that this caused fear and insecurity to ripple through migrant communities in the country who say they have faced racist attacks, evictions, firings, and dehumanizing treatment by the authorities.
	Darn it.
	They're illegal immigrants, remember?
	They're illegal immigrants.
	They got the right to be there.
	Many, apparently, have camped outside the embassies of their own countries or UN agencies seeking safety or flights back home.
	Well, that's a good way to round them up.
	You know where they are.
	Tunisia's Foreign Minister Nabil Ammar scoffed at allegations of racism.
	Of course, nothing is wrong, he said, referring to President Saïd's comments.
	The Tunisian government is in the right to say what it said.
	Several African countries, including Ivory Coast, Mali, Guinea and Gabon, have helped repatriate their citizens as a result of these remarks.
	Well, it's working!
	Now, this is something that quite interested me.
	CNN has managed to track down somebody by the name of Henda Chenoweth, who is the coordinator of, they managed to track down, Tunisia's anti-fascist front.
	I guess, Mr. Kersey, fascism is on the march in Tunisia, just like in America, and Tunisia has an anti-fascist front.
	She told CNN that Saeed's comments and racist social media posts caused a historic shift in the country's discourse that would be hard to reverse.
	There's a viral video from late February showing a man decrying the incompatibility of black African values with those of Tunisians.
	I've seen this video.
	It's all in Arabic, so I couldn't understand a word he says.
	But he looks like a very well-put-together, very presentable, grandfather-looking guy, well-dressed, a nice little trimmed mustache.
	And this is one of these man-in-the-street interviews, and he's talking into a microphone held to him by some lady journalist, asked by the interviewer if he had ever met any Africans.
	He replied that he knows them very well, quote, because my grandfather used to buy and sell them.
	Dear me.
	Well, this is what this is what Monica Marks, a professor of Middle East politics at New York University Abu Dhabi, who specializes in Tunisia, says.
	I'm sure Monica knows all about it.
	She says Saeed, that's the president's speech, injected the great replacement theory and racial hatred Into the bloodstream of Tunisia's political mainstream and we are witnessing its effects.
	I guess there was the slightest concern.
	Nobody ever noticed that they were black before.
	No, it had never occurred to anybody.
	I guess they weren't fitting in.
	But now he has said the magic words and look what's happening.
	Oh boy, oh boy.
	The UN said it was very concerned about the latest rise in hate speeches anti-migrant narratives and the surge in violence against
	migrants. Condemnation of President Saïd has been swift, including a rare rebuke from the
	African Union, whose chairperson called the comments racial and shocking. So there you go. But so
	far as we can tell, President Saïd and his foreign minister are not backing down.
	They say that sub-Saharan blacks are not compatible with Tunisian culture, and I suspect they are dead right.
	I would go one farther and I would say that sub-Saharan blacks are not compatible with founding fathers thought.
	Yes, they certainly did think that.
	And we certainly see evidence of that.
	All we need to do is look around.
	That story about the 12-year-old hijacker, you know, as I say, I just had a sneaking
	suspicion that he was not an immigrant from Europe.
	And he wasn't.
	Oh, dear.
	And he fell in with a bad crowd.
	He fell in with his older brother.
	These things happen.
	Now, here's a story about IQ scores.
	scores in the US.
	have dropped for the first time in nearly 100 years, according to research.
	The researchers set out to find evidence that each generation is smarter than the previous one.
	This is known as the Flynn effect.
	But they found the opposite.
	Well, I could have told them the Flynn effect has really shot its wad.
	Europe, United States, if they really thought that they kept going up, they were just goofballs to begin with.
	This has been well established.
	In fact, there's this curious phenomenon that IQ scores keep going up, but it doesn't seem to me that people of 100 years ago were just abysmally unintelligent by comparison to us.
	But this is a whole story that we could look into at greater length elsewhere.
	But scientists at the University of Oregon and Northwestern looked at nearly 400,000 online IQ tests done between 2006 and 2018.
	Now, I don't know if that's a scientific sample, but that's the way they did it.
	The biggest decrease in IQ scores was in people aged 18 to 22 and those who are less well-educated.
	Past research had suggested one of the reasons could be technology's increasing dominance over our daily lives, shortening our attention spans, making us less inclined to think deeply.
	On the other hand, some experts—I remember when the Flynn Effect was first being discovered—experts were arguing that leaps in technology mean we have access to more information.
	And increases our opportunities for learning and may make us smarter.
	So yeah, that's what they thought then.
	No, no, it's not raising our IQs, it's lowering our IQs.
	The study was published in the journal Intelligence, which is generally a well-respected journal.
	And in Finland.
	Apparently, IQs have dropped by two points between 1997 and 2009.
	In France, they have dropped from 1999 to 2009.
	That's a period of only 10 years.
	3.8 points.
	That's quite a lot.
	Other places, including the United Kingdom, Norway, Denmark, and Australia have discovered similar findings.
	A previous study Suggested that children who spent less than an hour on iPads and other gadgets each day developed better brains than people who spent more time on them.
	It is thought, Mr. Kurz, that playing outside or with traditional toys floods the brain with blood.
	I've never heard that.
	Increasing blood vessels and strengthening the neuron connections allowing children to more easily gain cognitive development.
	Well, all the folks out there with children, I don't know if it floods the brain with blood, but traditional toys and playing outdoors, it's well known.
	That is a great way to develop healthy, good, on-the-ball, intelligent children.
	Staring at electronics does not stimulate the brain.
	It's believed to thin the brain's cortex.
	Wow, I look at electronics a lot myself.
	I look at a computer screen hours a day.
	My cortex must be thinning, Mr. Kersey.
	And the cortex, yes?
	As your hair, you mentioned?
	Just like my hair!
	Terrible joke.
	I'm going back to the alopecia.
	No, no, I'm losing my hair.
	My cortex is thinning.
	Oh boy.
	Ooh, those computers, I tell you.
	Well, toddlers in the U.S.
	spend two and a half hours a day watching TV, iPads, mobile phones, and video games.
	Two and a half hours.
	In Great Britain, it's estimated that three to four-year-olds spend three hours a day watching screens.
	Now, when it comes to declines in IQ, why do these people never mention the obvious?
	And it is that smarter people are having fewer children than stupid people.
	That's obviously going to bring down average IQ.
	At the same time, immigration from third world and all of these countries, Denmark, Australia, Norway, UK, that too is going to bring down average IQ.
	But no, they don't ever dare talk about that.
	And I'm sure these days at med school, they're never going to talk about that sort of thing either because they're making sure that, well, they're sacrificing certain things to achieve certain other things, are they not, Mr. Kersey?
	Oh my goodness, this is from naturalnews.com, another fantastic website.
	But I do want to say one thing before we move on.
	Talk about intelligence.
	There was a sad passing this past week.
	Roger Pearson passed away.
	He was the former, was he the editor of Mankind Quarterly?
	Oh, he edited so many things.
	At one time I believe he was the editor of 3 or 4 or 5 different publications.
	The Journal of Social, Political, and Economic Studies.
	He edited Mankind Quarterly.
	I can't remember.
	Some very scholarly publications.
	I think one about Indo-European studies.
	A very, very learned, committed, hardworking, and very admirable man.
	Roger Pearson.
	He ran Washington Summit Publishers and a lot of really good books.
	If you get a chance, try and track down some of those.
	In fact, I think there was what?
	Shockley on Race is a fantastic book.
	I think he was one of those who definitely attacked that whole Flynn concept.
	One of his most impressive books, I think, is one that he edited some time ago called War and the Breed, or maybe he just reprinted it, but it was a study of the dysgenic horrible effects of the First World War.
	He had profiles and photographs of the really, really fine, fine people from Great Britain who died in that horrible white civil war.
	It's a heart, heart, heartbreaking book.
	Yeah, I've got a copy of it.
	It's by David Starr Jordan, who has been completely depersoned from Stanford University.
	In fact, we're not going to talk about this, but I just have to ask, have you seen the video, Mr. Taylor, of what happened at Stanford when the federal judge tried to give a talk and the head of diversity got up there and started bemoaning what he was talking about?
	No, I haven't seen this video.
	So I suppose we'll have to talk about it.
	We'll talk about it next week.
	I'll tell you what, I'll send it over to you, because it's very important because of how many of the law students who protested the apology.
	It's an incredible story, and it just shows you how terrifying this IQ situation is, and more importantly, this is a great segue into what we're talking about here.
	Medical schools are lowering standards in the name of equity.
	Gosh, here we go again.
	If we only had five Five cents for every time we said the word equity, we'd have about a dollar.
	To boost minority acceptance while abandoning quality of care.
	Again, naturalnews.com is a great website.
	They were one of those who were very COVID skeptic.
	They got booted off of Google, just as American Renaissance is no longer, it's very hard to find amarin.com on Google when you search various things.
	You can't find Amarin on Facebook, just as you can't find Natural News on Facebook.
	So America's top medical schools, including Columbia, Harvard, and the University of Chicago, Stanford, Mount Sinai, and the University of Pennsylvania, are all lowering their academic standards for admission in order to boost minority acceptance and graduation rates.
	The loosening of standards is being conducted in the name of equity, diversity, and inclusion.
	Gosh, here we go again.
	That's like our buzzword today.
	This is like Sesame Street.
	Whenever you hear these words, we get a cheer, apparently.
	No, no.
	This is the religion.
	This is the Pledge of Allegiance.
	It's beyond that.
	You're right.
	This is the religion.
	is the religion.
	You know, you're exactly right.
	So lowering medical school standards will have profound consequences in the years to
	come, especially in a medical environment that is already overrun by corruption and
	malpractice, our friends at Natural News editorialize.
	So, academic achievement is a critical component of medical education.
	Students who have excelled academically are better equipped to handle the rigorous coursework and demanding workload that comes with a medical school.
	Obviously, that has a correlation with IQ.
	They are also better prepared to provide high-quality care to patients once they enter the workforce.
	The Medical College Admission Test, the MCAT, is a standardized test that is used by medical schools to evaluate the academic readiness of prospective students.
	It's designed to assess critical thinking, problem solving, and knowledge of scientific
	concepts.
	Lowering academic standards for admission will have a detrimental effect on the quality
	of education that medical students receive.
	Students who are not adequately prepared may struggle to keep up with the coursework, leading
	to a lower quality of education and potentially compromising patient care.
	But, Mr. Taylor, I mean, this story, again, it goes with everything we've talked about
	over the past couple of years.
	We see law schools now getting rid of the LSAT.
	We see colleges, I believe Columbia or one of the Ivies is one of the first to basically say, hey, you know what?
	The ACT, the SAT, we don't need that anymore.
	You know, because we've got the impending action by the Supreme Court, which is going to more than likely knock down affirmative action.
	So this is a, uh, This is action to basically offset this.
	So the top medical schools are beginning to make the MCAT optional or dropping the test requirement entirely.
	You know, I've said this many times.
	I always thought that, very quietly, the two areas in which they would not get rid of qualifications were flight schools for commercial airlines and medical schools.
	I was wrong.
	I am so often wrong when I think that common sense will ultimately prevail.
	This is just so astonishing.
	People want their doctors to be competent, but no, it's more important that they be black, or that they be gay, or that they be women, or whatever else.
	There are competent women doctors.
	In fact, I think the best doctor I ever had was a lady doctor.
	But then she transformed her practice into one of these boutique services, and I was going to have to pay $5,000 a year for the privilege of being her patient, which I was not prepared to do.
	But she was a great doctor, and she was a lady, and I was loyal to her.
	But just choosing them for these crazy reasons, incredible, incredible.
	And this is institutionalized!
	Yeah, you know, it's funny you say that.
	The best doctor I ever had was a white Southern Male who was part of the HealthSouth organization that collapsed back in the the aughts and he is probably one of the best orthopedic surgeons in the world.
	In fact he's renowned for Dr. James Andrews is his name.
	He's perfected a number of unbelievable surgeries where people have Torn their quads or hurt their arm and they thought they'd never be able to perform again at a high level and he's not only patched them up, but he's come up with new techniques that have now been replicated and That has enabled athletes or individuals who who suffered an injury to basically have a great life again And you know perhaps he wouldn't be able to go to medical school now because this place would be taken by a diverse candidate
	Well, that's, that's more important than proficient and outside the box thinking surgeons.
	And I mean, this is the type of role we're headed to.
	And in fact, it's funny, you said that about flight school.
	If you remember about a year ago, I think it was April of 2022, there was a New York times.
	Headline story about cockpits being too white and it had to it.
	I think the picture on the New York Times It had two female two black females In the cockpit and I think Ann Coulter has that great joke where she's always she's always said Gosh, if you ever see a black pilot get off the plane By the way, I'm not sure if you notice this but in Ann Coulter's latest column.
	She mentioned your your your your books Oh, did she?
	No, I hadn't seen it.
	She talked about it She talked about how Amazon.com has banned white identity and if we do nothing.
	She's right.
	Yeah.
	Wow.
	Well, thank you, Ann Coulter.
	Gosh, I guess I'm famous now.
	Now Amazon will be shamed into putting them back on their sales list.
	Well, okay, medical school, watch out.
	Well, we have another heartwarming human interest story straight out of Newark, New Jersey.
	It has to do with the imagined country of Kailasa.
	You know this story.
	It has an elaborate webpage, and it was created by a fugitive from justice in India.
	Apparently he's a bit of a sex pervert.
	He's been on the lam since 2019, but he's holed up in this imaginary country.
	We're not entirely sure where it is.
	It might be an island someplace.
	So not off Ecuador.
	The Galapagos are off Ecuador.
	But in any case, I don't think he's on Galapagos.
	In Newark, on January 12th, there was a ceremony in which Mayor Ross Baraka signed a cultural and trade deal, an agreement with the nation of Kailasa.
	In a statement, the City of New York now acknowledges that it was hoodwinked.
	Newark City Hall reiterated its dedication, however, to fostering foreign relations.
	It says, let's see, although this was a regrettable incident.
	In other words, getting a trade and cultural exchange with a non-existent imaginary country.
	The City of New York remains committed to partnering with people from diverse cultures in order to enrich each other with connectivity, support, and mutual respect.
	Well, there you go.
	I'm surprised they didn't send emissaries or ambassadors and try and get it all written off.
	I mean, this is one of the more hilarious stories I've ever heard.
	This is a hilarious story, yes.
	Now, if somebody had said, you know, the emissary from Kailasa is here to see you, I would tell you right away, I've never heard of Kailasa, and I doubt there is such a thing as Kailasa, but apparently nobody in Newark ever thought to wonder or care.
	Kailasa, Kailasa.
	Well, I saw a photograph on the BBC website There was a very cute Kailasan lady in a sari with a red dot on her forehead.
	I guess this was just irresistible to Mayor Baraka.
	And so they happily signed the agreement, and now months later they've got to eat crow.
	Well, this is the way things work in the United States today.
	As I say, another heartwarming story from African America.
	And I guess we've got time just for one last story here.
	This is a public school teacher, Rebecca Rothstein.
	She works at North Bethesda Middle School in Montgomery County.
	That's just a few miles from where I live.
	She was an avid TikTok poster until Fox Digital reached out to her and her TikTok account just disappeared.
	These are some things she used to say.
	As a teacher, I wish we could do more with our students, like teach anti-racism and how to be kind to people.
	Does anyone else feel like, we can skip the math, skip the science, we'll do that next year.
	Maybe this year we focus on teaching our youth how to be anti-racist.
	Yeah.
	She also posted about providing Marxist literature to children.
	And she said, and I'm just quoting her, sorry boys and girls, she says, fuck capitals.
	She said in one instance she was tired after a long day of indoctrinating students.
	She also says, these kids think they're going to get candy tonight.
	What I've really done is hand out Marxist literature.
	She says, I had to unbrainwash myself from capitalism in order to fall in love with socialism and communism.
	If everyone had the same amount of money, then money wouldn't be worth anything.
	Wow.
	This is profound economic theorizing, Mr. Kersey.
	Boy, she solved the problem.
	If everybody had the same amount of money, money wouldn't be worth anything.
	Capitalism must go, she says, and revolutions involve violence.
	As for the pro-BLM riots, she said, there are so many, and once again I apologize for quoting her directly, there are so many assholes in my comments saying, but what about all the burning of the buildings and the looting and the rioting?
	Why do you care more about buildings than human lives?
	It's like you're stomping around being like, all buildings matter?
	No, they don't.
	And the fact that you don't understand where the rage is coming from, why there's so much rage of burning buildings, that's the problem.
	Now, wouldn't you love to have this woman teaching your children?
	No, not at all.
	She says, I'm fucking angry and it's weird as fuck that you're not.
	I wonder if that's the way she talks in class.
	Probably.
	When I'm talking about the patriarchy or racism or police brutality, why the fuck would you not be angry?
	Well, why the fuck, Mr. Kersey?
	She goes on to say racism is a white person's problem.
	It's white people who are racist.
	It's not the job of people of color to teach us how we are being racist.
	We have to be responsible for our own selves, and we must do better.
	She goes on to say, I'm proud of my ability to recognize white privilege.
	She's proud of her ability to recognize white privilege.
	Boy, oh boy, what kind of pride is that?
	I'd call it foolish pride, freak pride, the pride of the insane, but she is proud that she can despise white people.
	And you know, the funny thing is usually these freaks are, they're homely, obvious misfits.
	This lady was surprisingly attractive.
	Just going to show that you never can tell.
	Usually women who are attractive are more or less happy being who they are.
	They don't walk around saying, fuck capitalism and swearing.
	I don't know.
	But there you go.
	If she were attractive in 2023 and she wanted to utilize her where, she'd have an OnlyFans page.
	Not a TikTok.
	But that's capitalist.
	That's capitalist.
	I would agree.
	I would agree.
	Mr. Taylor, if you don't mind, I would like to just quickly finish with one quick story.
	Okay.
	We're the only people who are going to discuss it.
	If you remember a few years ago, there was something called the Milwaukee Homicide Commission.
	I'm sorry, the Milwaukee Homicide Review Commission that was actually funded by this by the city to break down every non-fatal and fatal
	shooting, and they would actually break it down by race of the suspect, race of the victim.
	Now they no longer have city funding, but they've continued to go along and they just
	published their latest findings.
	And in 2022, I believe amren.com, the great Gregory Hood, did a great replacement article
	It's now 37% white because so many people seeking welfare from Chicago moved there and flooded the city.
	So it's only 37% white now.
	Mr. Taylor, according to the MHRC, People of color were responsible for 96% of known homicide suspects and 95% of known non-fatal shooting suspects in 2022.
	and 95% of known non-fatal shooting suspects in 2022.
	Remember, the city's 37% white.
	So basically 96.4% of known homicide suspects in 2022 were people of color, 88% being black,
	and 95% of known non-fatal shooting suspects in 2022 were people of color, 93% being black.
	You know, whenever people talk about gun violence, gun violence, gun violence, gun violence, what they're really talking about is black violence.
	I wish the country would wake up to this fact.
	At least we have woken up to it, and many of our listeners have too.
	And thank you for ending with that story, that very sobering story, but we have to call it a day, Mr. Kersey, as we so often do.
	And ladies and gentlemen, it is our privilege and our pleasure to spend this time with you, and we look forward to doing the same next week.
	Thank you very much, and thank you, Mr. Kersey, for your always stimulating commentary.
	Pleasure's all mine.
	Ladies and gentlemen, next week we'll be here.

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