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April 7, 2023 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor

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Was It a Joke or a Crime?

Jared Taylor and his co-host explain how a meme led to a guilty verdict. They also discuss Alvin Bragg, Alfred Sharpton, “rural racism,” and the Hispanic craze for Islam.

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	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
	I'm your host, Jared Taylor with American Renaissance.
	And with me, of course, is my indispensable co-host, Paul Kersey.
	And today is April 7th, Year of Our Lord 2023.
	And I'd like to start with a comment from one of our observant listeners.
	This was in response to a request that I read out last time from a listener who said that I should not quote the foul speech of the people that we talk about in the podcast.
	Well, this listener disagrees.
	He says the AmRant podcast calls attention to events that are destructive to families, which may require discussing sensitive topics.
	Using veiled language or euphemisms could obscure the reality of a situation.
	The hosts of the podcast speak and think differently from the subjects of many of their stories.
	The language these different types of people use reflects this distinction, and changing the language would obscure that.
	If you quote a horrible person, it is dishonest to change his words.
	It seems duplicitous to detail violence and degeneracy, but whitewash the language spoken while doing it.
	Surely, the AMRAN podcast's audience is comprised mainly of intelligent adults.
	It should inform its actual listeners rather than pretending its audience is potentially made up of 15-year-old girls in a convent.
	Oh dear, what do you think of that, Mr. Kersey?
	Well, I think the most important thing to say is Happy Good Friday real quick to you and all of our listeners and your family, wherever you are around the world.
	Happy Good Friday.
	Secondly, that was a very erudite, hilarious comment from our listener, but I do think we should hold firm.
	Hold the line, as they say.
	Well, and in other words, not clutter the podcast with obscenities.
	Well, this listener goes on to say that in the very same podcast in which you said that we should clean up the language of the people that we quote, you yourself had used a phallic phrase, as he calls it.
	I noted that at the time, but I held my peace.
	In another comment, someone writes in to say, all non-whites are apparently people of color.
	And he goes on to say, I expect very soon that they'll start referring to us as people of power.
	People of power.
	So that could catch on.
	Yes, that's the kind of thing they would love to say.
	We are people of power, Mr. Kersey.
	Now, there was an unfortunate development in the case of Ricky Vaughn.
	I don't know how carefully you follow this, but Ricky Vaughn was an internet personality, mostly a Twitter personality, I suppose.
	During the 2016 election, he had some influence.
	Douglas Mackey is his real name.
	But he was convicted by a federal jury in Brooklyn of the charge of conspiracy against rights.
	And this was stemming from his scheme, apparently, according to the district attorney, to deprive individuals of their constitutional right to vote.
	His online personality, Ricky Vaughn, had a following of over 50,000 during the 2016 election and posted memes, including one depicting a black woman standing in front of an African Americans for Hillary sign.
	The meme then instructed people to vote by text during the 2016 presidential election.
	The ad said, avoid the line, vote from home.
	Text HILLARY to 59925.
	And then it said, vote for Hillary and be part of history.
	It also included fine print at the bottom that mimicked a real ad saying, must be 18-year-old to vote, one vote per person, must be a legal citizen of the United States.
	Voting by text not available in Guam, Puerto Rico, Alaska or Hawaii.
	Paid for by Hillary for President 2016.
	So there you go.
	Well, as it turns out, there was a white version of it, too, a white lady.
	And it said, vote for Hillary, avoid the line, vote from home.
	Now, the DOJ has prosecuted many other forms of election interference, mostly violence.
	And so the Mackey case is a historical first.
	He will be sentenced on August 16th of this year and faces a maximum of 10 years in prison.
	DOJ, based on that meme and records of online discussions between Mackey and others, charged him with conspiring against the right to vote.
	Now, if it were just the meme, I think you could argue that this was obviously a joke.
	This is satirical.
	Nobody really expected people to fail to vote ordinarily.
	But according to the prosecutor's evidence presented in court, He had other tweets, including ones that suggested limiting the black turnout.
	And that, according to the prosecutor, supports the charge that he intended to conspire to interfere with the election.
	On the witness stand, Mackey said that was an exaggeration.
	But according to the prosecutor, let's see, that was an exaggeration.
	But according to his defense attorney, That meme and Mackey's Twitter posts were obvious jokes and should not be taken as a serious attempt at depriving people of their vote.
	The defense lawyer also said Mackey's memes would be satirical in the eyes of a reasonable person.
	Although a material injury, in this case people's right to vote, a vote being taken away, is not required to establish a conspiracy charge.
	The government said during the trial that people's votes were vaporized by Mackey's digital flyers.
	What?
	Vaporized.
	Their votes were vaporized.
	What is this?
	Woodworlds?
	HG Wells?
	Sounds like it, doesn't it?
	According to the DA, on or about Or before Election Day 2016, at least 4,900 unique telephone numbers texted Hillary, or some derivative of Hillary, I don't know what else that would be, to the 59925 text number.
	Now, apparently the DA never proved that anyone actually did not vote in person on account of this.
	But apparently, close to 5,000 people actually did text something, whether they thought it was a joke, whether they thought it was going to work, I don't know.
	But Mackey will appeal.
	According to one commentator, one possible argument is that the First Amendment gives you the right to lie about elections and about how you can vote.
	But was this a lie?
	Was it a joke?
	This person says, a lot of people look at the poster and say, ha ha, obviously a joke.
	This is a law That was apparently passed in the aftermath of the Civil War designed to protect the rights of newly freed slaves in the post-Civil War South.
	And the statute's current interpretation which bans election interference through violence, physical obstruction, or threats.
	So, the question is, was it illegal knowingly to convey false information?
	And especially about elections.
	Is it possible to joke about them?
	Was the fact that he used a black woman part of the problem?
	So, this is really quite an interesting case, and as I say, the prosecutor has really stretched the law into something that it probably was not meant to be.
	It was meant to stop physical intimidation, physically preventing people from voting, that sort of thing, and did somebody conspire to deprive someone of their civil rights simply by coming up with this very jokey meme.
	We will see.
	We will see what happens with this.
	Now, if the judge takes, well, you have to be sentenced before you can appeal.
	And we will see what the judge will come up with.
	The judge could theoretically give him 10 years for this.
	It would be absolutely outrageous.
	As I say, the only aspect of this that would give me some pause is that he apparently said we need to limit the black turnout.
	That sounds a little dodgy to me.
	If it were just the memes, I would think this guy's obviously innocent.
	But what he'll get in sentencing, we will see.
	I'll go on the record.
	It doesn't sound dodgy to me.
	I spoke to Mr. Vaughn one time.
	Uh, and it was after he was kicked off of Twitter.
	If you recall, Mr. Taylor, he had one of the most influential accounts.
	There was some sort of, it was, I can't remember if it was a clinic, somebody documented who had the most reach on Twitter and he was above some of the largest media outlets in the world at one point during the election.
	And he was one that was nuked out of orbit, digitally nuked, digitally erased from Twitter
	when Twitter was so important.
	And we actually spoke, he agreed to come on this little podcast that I was hosting at the time.
	Had a great conversation, never met him.
	We didn't talk about anything except for what censorship meant
	and for the right and for our ideas.
	And unfortunately, I think we've seen over the past, can you believe it has been seven years now since that election?
	What censorship actually does to inflate the left and those who are pushing diversity, inclusion and equity as the end all be all of our of our country's modus operandi.
	So, you know, our thoughts and prayers are with are with Ricky Vaughn on on Good Friday.
	Well, we will see what the judge comes up with and whether or not he's successful on appeal.
	Here is a heartwarming story.
	I often introduce these stories by calling them heartwarming.
	Sometimes it's ironic, sometimes it's not, and I'm not quite sure which this is.
	Apparently, Latinos, Hispanics, are the fastest growing ethnic group that is converting to Islam in America.
	Now, I imagine the numbers are quite small, Mr. Kersey, but it's growing fast.
	Hispanics are taking the turban.
	In Colorado, Rudy Sanchez and Juana Serrano heard and answered the call.
	It just really started to pull at my heart, Serrano said.
	I feel like I just found my answer, Sanchez said.
	And they say Islam gives them peace.
	It gives me a lot of freedom that I didn't even know I had, Serrano said.
	My mom was in shock.
	She's a devout Catholic, but now she has been supportive.
	Both of them, and another person, say Islam and Latino culture have a lot of similarities, and that makes conversion easier.
	They both emphasize family.
	Looking deeper into Islam, all of a sudden you start finding out that, hey, This is the way you know I was brought up, and these are the values my family shared with me.
	So there's a lot of affinity.
	I wonder if one of his family values was cutting off the hands of thieves, stoning adulteresses, taking sex slaves.
	Sanchez goes on to say, a lot more Mexicans are becoming Muslim, and I think that's great.
	And yet another convert says, We actually can keep our culture intact and be a better version of what it means to be a Latino by converting to Islam.
	Now, honestly, I don't know what to make of this.
	I just don't know what to make of this.
	Why would a Mexican immigrant come to the United States and become a Muslim?
	I'm just bewildered by this.
	I guess they think that Islam is full of wonderful family values and this can affirm their being a Hispanic.
	This is the part that I thought was the best.
	Make you a better version of what does it mean to a Latino.
	I guess they're going to be missionaries and go to all of Latin America and convert the entire continent to Islam.
	Pretty strange stuff.
	Real quick, one thing I read is that Muslims are beginning to acclimate to the whole LGBT stuff.
	And you know, back in the aughts after 9-11, everyone was so worried that Sharia law was going to take over and all these conservative books came out.
	It's amazing that Islam in the West is now acclimating and assimilating to the prevailing
	orthodoxy, the new religion of the West, if you will.
	I don't know.
	I do know that in Paris, when they had a huge demonstration against same-sex marriage, Muslims were very, very active in that.
	It was a very strange and probably unprecedented I mean, they failed, of course, but well, we'll see.
	It's true that Muslims tend to be denatured when they come to the West.
	It sounds like Mexicans become denatured when they come to the West.
	Any kind of crazy thing can happen in the United States.
	In any case, Mr. Kersey, I think you have a couple of stories about roads and traffic enforcement and what Steve Saylor apparently calls deaths of exuberance.
	So, do tell.
	So these stories are so important because we are seeing so much insanity when it comes to this rise with the police just pulling back.
	And this is from NPR.
	This is from April 6, 2023.
	Their story was America's roads are more dangerous as police pull over fewer drivers.
	So the consequences of the George Floyd revolution, Mr. Taylor, Is that police are just no longer responding?
	I know that in some states they don't even check inspection tags in a number of cities we've talked about.
	I think Minneapolis was one of them.
	They don't check if you've got a tail light out.
	It doesn't matter if you've got an expired license.
	It doesn't matter.
	We're not going to pull you over because of racial disparities.
	So, some police think a pullback in traffic enforcement may be contributing to more reckless driving.
	American roads are deadlier than they were before the pandemic, and many are looking at changes in police traffic enforcement as a cause.
	Quote, a death spike during 2020 in the fatality rate, deaths per million miles traveled, is still about 18% higher now than in 2019.
	Quote, it is unfortunately an American phenomenon, says Jonathan Atkins, CEO of Governor's Highway Safety Association.
	Other Western countries did not see the same sustained entry increase in traffic deaths.
	And he thinks one important difference is a pullback in policing following the George Floyd protests of 2020.
	Quote, why do so many of us drive dangerously on the roads?
	Because we think we can get away with it.
	And guess what?
	We probably can't right now in many places in the country, said Atkins.
	And this is national public radio.
	Yes, yes.
	I know.
	It goes on to talk about, quote, a lot of that is decisions made by the officer based on staffing levels and based on call loads, says the Seattle Police Chief, Adrian Diaz.
	Now they're talking about how the traffic citations are just down 86% in Seattle.
	I mean, think about that.
	86%?
	86% traffic stops.
	86% traffic stops.
	I mean, again, think about that.
	Because of this pullback, because of all that's happened, Seattle's one of those cities that has seen an exodus,
	an exodus of police officers.
	I think they have an amazing number of positions available.
	But 86% drop in citations by police from 2019.
	He says the department lost hundreds of officers after the George Floyd protests of 2020, and one thing he had to cut were dedicated traffic patrols.
	Patrol officers now spend upwards of 70% of their shifts responding to more urgent calls for service.
	Similar shortages are hampering police departments around the country.
	In some cases, the reduced traffic enforcement is also a matter of policy.
	High-profile deadly encounters during traffic stops such as the 2021 shooting death of Dante Wright in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota have put pressure on many police departments not to pull cars over for minor violations.
	Susan Nimbard, Nim Hard, sorry, I don't know how to pronounce her last name, a research associate with the Urban Institute, has written about the argument for limiting those stops.
	Quote, for people of color, and specifically black people, they can actually be one of the most dangerous interactions that they have.
	And that's from experience of not only physical harm when something terrible happens, like a shooting or murder or something like that, but also emotional harm and mental anxiety and stress.
	This is so idiotic.
	If they just do what they're told, nothing is going to happen.
	Cooperate with police, you know, get your license, get everything set up, you know, make sure your tags are in place, make sure you do routine inspection to your vehicle.
	Well, even if you haven't done those things, if the police pull you over because you haven't got an inspection, say, yes, sir, officer, I will get the car inspected.
	Yes, sir.
	No, sir.
	Have a good day, sir.
	And nothing is going to happen to you.
	All of this absurd stuff about the idea that, oh, as soon as a guy in a uniform walks up, you could be dead in the next 10 minutes.
	This stuff is just so crazy.
	It's just beyond crazy, because Philadelphia, Minneapolis, and the home base of the New Century Foundation, the entire state of Virginia, have adopted formal policies limiting stops for minor violations, sometimes called pretextual stops, because they give police justification to stop a car they find suspicious for other less Articulable reasons.
	So this leads us to Mr. Taylor, another story.
	Congressional Black Caucus urges Buttigieg to address racial inequality and traffic enforcement.
	More than two dozen members of the Congressional Black Caucus sent a letter to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to address racial inequality and traffic enforcement.
	The group, spearheaded by Ayanna Pressley, a Democrat from Massachusetts, and Hank Johnson, a Democrat from Georgia, who of course famously said that Ships might cause Guam to capsize.
	Ships?
	No, no, no, no.
	A troop build-up.
	A troop build-up.
	That's right.
	Unload enough troops on Guam, and is there any fear that the island might capsize?
	I remember the guy, this is in a congressional hearing, and there's this uniformed officer in there.
	He says very calmly, didn't miss a beat, Congressman, we're not concerned about that possibility.
	Didn't crack a smile.
	I thought it was great.
	Anyway, I interrupted you.
	Yes.
	Good old Hank.
	Good old Hank Johnson from Georgia.
	Again, they called on the Department of Transportation to condemn the status quo of traffic enforcement and to create reforms to reduce racial inequality and traffic stops.
	They've raised concerns about traffic stops resulting in excessive force, saying that, quote, far too many black people have been killed by police in the name of traffic safety, end quote.
	How many would be just enough, I wonder?
	I don't know.
	Maybe they need equity by officers killing more white people.
	That's probably what they're insinuating.
	Quote, we write to express grave concern grave concern for the well-being of black drivers across
	the United States.
	The lawmakers wrote, on our nation's roads and highways, black motorists have experienced
	disproportionate scrutiny and excessive force under the guise of traffic enforcement.
	In quote, the letter references Bureau of Justice statistics that state black motorists
	are overrepresented in the more than 20 million people pulled over for traffic stops in the
	US each year.
	Cited data from the organization Mapping Police Violence that said police officers killed
	175 people after they were initially stopped for traffic violations in 2022.
	This letter comes more than two months after Tyree Nichols, a black 29-year-old man, died from injuries after he was pulled over in a traffic stop and beaten by a group of police officers in Memphis.
	Interestingly enough, they don't point out that those officers were all black, and they were largely hired after the George Floyd crisis saw competent, experienced officers flee for the white suburbs and all Manners in which one would be hired to be a police officer were let go in regards to qualifications, background checks, etc, etc.
	The lawmakers have urged Buttigieg to investigate public campaigns and grants designed to incentivize policing and traffic enforcement, and to ask the Secretary to make sure federal funds are not contributing to racist enforcement.
	The group also said that the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act should set aside funding for traffic light upgrades that can reduce enforcement demands.
	This is the key line of the whole piece, I believe.
	Quote, generations of black people have been unjustly subjugated to biased traffic enforcement
	and police interaction.
	While driving laws have been enacted at every level of government to safeguard the public,
	officers selectively enforce these laws to the detriment of black drivers.
	You know, every serious study that's looked into this has found that blacks get stopped
	because they're more likely to speed, they're more likely to have taillights out, they're
	likely to commit some sort of infraction, more likely to be driving erratically, or
	All of this is such baloney.
	The assumption always is, yes, blacks are more likely to be stopped.
	Asians are less likely to be stopped.
	Is that because the police are prejudiced?
	The fact is, next time you're driving down the highway and you see somebody go roaring by, see if you can even tell what race the guy is.
	This is just such lunatic stuff.
	And it goes utterly unchallenged.
	And as we'll find out, well, don't you have figures now on the number of the increases in blacks are dying of traffic accidents?
	The NPR story is just telling us that things are getting more dangerous.
	Well, if black lives really mattered, shouldn't we be interested in pulling dangerous drivers off the highway?
	No, they're not interested in that at all.
	They're just interested in yelling about racism.
	Yep, this is from Sailor.
	This is from Steve Sailor.
	He has a blog post called Deaths of Exuberance by Race.
	He notes that Charles Murray's 2020 book, Coming Apart, documented the white working class was doing poorly, but the real shocking news came in 2015 when the husband-wife team of Anne Case and Angus Deaton documented the increase in deaths of despair among non-college educated whites, suicides, cirrhosis of the liver, and overdoses from opioid painkillers and heroin.
	You might recall, Mr. Taylor and our listeners, that That study was, I believe, suppressed.
	Well, nobody was interested.
	It wasn't suppressed.
	Nobody wanted to publish it.
	That's right.
	They said, huh?
	White people dying?
	Who cares?
	They had a very hard time getting a publisher for this study.
	Yeah, that's right.
	And it's, yeah, that's heartbreaking to think that no one, you know, white lives don't matter.
	Sure don't.
	It's like, hey, Schrag, we're not, These rates aren't going up high enough.
	So anyways, he would go on to write that this was particularly striking because in contrast, black and Hispanic life expectancies were improving in 2000 to 2014.
	In the decade, however, as I've been documenting for the last three years, this is Steve Saylor writing, we've seen a surge in deaths of exuberance, homicides, traffic, fatalities, and overdoses on party drugs laced with fentanyl.
	These are hitting blacks and Hispanics especially hard during the de-policing of the racial reckoning.
	But young people are killing themselves more too, especially blacks, during the triumph of Black Lives Matter.
	He then has this amazing graph.
	Here are CDC wonder statistics for the increase in the death rate from 2019 to 2021 for people 24 and under.
	He notes that the growth in death rate from 2019 for those dates are broken out by black, Hispanic, white, and Asians.
	Homicides rose 43% for blacks, compared to 12% for whites.
	Motor vehicle accidents rose during that time period, 42% for blacks, 11% for whites.
	Overdoses and other accidental poisonings rose, 121% for blacks, 83% for Hispanics, 44% for whites, and 21% for Asians.
	83% for Hispanics, 44% for whites, and 21% for Asians.
	So there's that similar pattern, Mr. Taylor.
	It's the inevitable pattern.
	This is a very interesting line, though.
	Suicides from 2019 to 2021 for people 24 and under.
	Remember, this is the growth rate.
	33% for blacks, 7% for Hispanics, 5% for whites, 17% for Asians.
	And then Saylor says this.
	So for the first three, the deaths of exuberance, there seems to be a direct relationship between how exuberant each race has been during the current de-policing era.
	Well, no.
	I'm just thinking about the Black Congressional Congress.
	then whites and finally Asians. Again, that familiar pattern we see everywhere when it comes to
	how morality intersects with daily life for Americans.
	However, go ahead.
	Well, no, I'm just thinking about these black congressional congress.
	They're telling Pete Buttigieg to stop pulling people over because black people are being
	pulled over. I wonder if these numbers would affect them at all.
	What's the increase in traffic deaths for 43%?
	So, for homicides, 43%.
	Motor vehicle accidents was 42% for blacks, 30% for Hispanics, 11% for whites, 8% for Asians.
	No, no, for traffic.
	Yep, motor vehicle accidents was 42% for blacks, 30% for Hispanics, 11% for whites, 8% for
	Asians.
	And that was from just before COVID to right now or last year?
	Yes, sir.
	2019 to 2021 for people 24 and under.
	2019 to 2021.
	Those are huge increases for just a two-year period.
	Well, murder.
	Yes.
	Traffic deaths.
	Who cares, I guess, so long as we can blame white people for something.
	You know, that's far more important.
	This is just disgusting to me.
	What's really extraordinary is overdoses and accidental poisonings.
	121% for blacks, 83% for Hispanics.
	Those, those are extraordinary numbers in itself.
	I mean, and this just, this deaths of exuberance.
	I mean, it's, it's a lot of interesting things are happening right now.
	And again, everything bad is always blamed on whites when you go back to this, this congressional black caucus.
	But at the same time, NPR is trying to put out a breath of fresh air because all of these cities that are occupied by, you know, Yes, some of them are in a dust spiral.
	they're beginning to see the consequences.
	I mean, look what just happened in San Francisco.
	The guy who invented Cash App was stabbed to death.
	You know, he was a big liberal, but these cities are very dangerous.
	And these were once the jewels of America's metropolitan areas.
	Yes, some of them are in a dust spiral.
	Well, just the obsession that non-whites, especially blacks have with the racial aspect of things,
	is characterized also by the way Al Sharpton reacted to the Trump indictment.
	Thank you.
	He noted with satisfaction that he was arrested on 34 felony counts on the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968.
	He's always got that in mind, I'm sure.
	He said the arrest was spiritual payback for Trump's policies as president.
	And for his call for the death penalty in 1989 of five black and Hispanic teenagers who were wrongfully imprisoned and then later exonerated for raping a white woman in Central Park.
	Now, I never, you know, I followed that case pretty closely at one time, but then this whole business of finding them not guilty, I did not follow that very carefully.
	But at the time, Everybody thought that they were guilty, and Donald Trump put out a full-page ad, bought a full-page ad in the New York Times, as I recall, asking for the death penalty for these guys.
	It was the first incident of what was called wilding.
	In any case, there was this attractive white stockbroker who was out for a jog.
	She was raped and nearly killed.
	I think she was beaten into a pulp and had all sorts of damage done to her.
	In any case, this is now spiritual payback for Mr. Trump's policies as president, one of which policies as president is a spiritual payback for Mr. Kersey.
	And Reverend Al goes on to say, I am thinking of Dr. King as the first black Manhattan D.A.
	will deliver us justice and bring criminal charges.
	Reverend King, Reverend, not Reverend King, Reverend Sharpton's, Reverend Sharpton's audience laughed and applauded enthusiastically.
	Civil rights figure Jennifer Jones Austin, of whom I had never heard before, at the same event called Mr. Trump's arrest a real marker, a true indicator of progress.
	As we remember Dr. King on Tuesday and all that he stood for, the first black Manhattan D.A.
	is holding President Trump accountable for his crimes, she said.
	Nothing like innocent until proven guilty.
	Mr. Trump, of course, says he's a victim of racism by Alvin Bragg in New York, the Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fannie Willis, and by New York State Attorney Attorney General Letitia James, all of whom are black.
	Isn't that a strange coincidence?
	All of these blacks gunning for Donald Trump.
	Black run America?
	Well, increasingly so.
	Yes, they used to joke about that, but yes, they used to say it's run for the benefit of blacks.
	It's increasingly run by blacks, as you sell and as you predicted lo these many years ago.
	But Brother Al, he says today, We see progress with the arc of history bending towards justice.
	But we must remember, our work is not done.
	I guess they want some sort of death penalty charge for Donald Trump.
	But he expressed a great sense of vindication that Mr. Trump was being arraigned in New York, quote, by a black DA who got to Harvard only because of Martin Luther King.
	And he's being investigated in Georgia by a black woman D.A.
	I mean, just the racial spite involved in this is extraordinary.
	Just extraordinary.
	Can you can you imagine any kind of white public figure saying, hmm, yes, these white D.A.' 's, they're going to stick it to this black defendant?
	It's it's outrageous.
	But that's what we expect from Al.
	Yes.
	No, no.
	We cannot imagine that.
	Now, we have a spot of good news.
	Mr. Kersey, you and I are deep-dyed Confederates, and it's good to know that there are a few at least light-dyed Confederates.
	For the fourth year in a row, Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves has signed a proclamation declaring April as Confederate Heritage Month, keeping alive a 30-year tradition that former Republican Governor Kirk Fordyce began.
	After Fordyce became Mississippi's first Republican governor in a century.
	That was back in those days when, yeah, all you had to do was win the Democratic primary and it was a shoo-in.
	The South was that way for a long time.
	But this is 1993.
	He became the first Republican governor in a century and he issued the inaugural Confederate Heritage Month proclamation at the request of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
	And since that time, they've had one Democratic governor and three Republican governors.
	They have all followed his lead.
	In those 30 years, only one governor ever skipped issuing the Confederate Heritage Month Proclamation.
	That was a Republican governor by the name of Phil Bryant.
	During his first seven years, 2011 to 2018, he did issue the Confederate Heritage Month Proclamation, but his last year, he did not.
	He wimped out and said something to the fact that, well, in this day and age, it's just not appropriate.
	But very good to see that Governor Tate Reeves has gone back to tradition and his ties to the Sons of Confederate Veterans stretch back long before he was governor.
	In 2013, he spoke to the SCV's National Gathering in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
	He gave his talk in front of a massive Confederate battle flag, full of cheering Sons of Confederate Veterans.
	I've attended a national convention of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
	It was really quite a glorious time.
	That was when it was held in, I believe it was Frankfort, Kentucky, when I was living in Kentucky at the time, and was pretty active in the SCV.
	I'm afraid I've since let my membership lapse.
	As have I. Yes, yes.
	Now, here's a piece of news for you.
	All of you out there, all of our listeners who are thinking of new careers, there's a very promising growth area that you should consider.
	And that is the explosion of DEI, employment opportunities, and the growing budgets being spent And that means there has been a proliferation of DEI certifications, DEI minors in college, and now for the first time at the university level, you can major in DEI.
	Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts now has a degree program to train chief diversity officers and chief inclusion officers For these in-demand careers in a growing field, as they call it.
	Now, what are the introductory courses?
	This is reading from the course catalog.
	Students will understand and critically analyze issues of oppression, power, and privilege as they intersect with themselves as well as others.
	Now, do you intersect with yourself and others?
	Anyway, in a course about race relations, once again quoted from the catalog, students will leave this class with a heightened awareness of the racism in all of their own everyday lives and how to resolve it.
	The racism in all of their own everyday lives.
	Gosh, I guess our everyday lives are steeped with racism, Mr. Kersey.
	I guess I just wasn't aware of it.
	But I guess if I went and majored in DEI, I'd learn all about it.
	And then there's a course about the legal system that, quote, examines law as both an instrument of institutionalized oppression and a tool for liberation.
	These are sometimes pretty well-paid jobs.
	I read that the University of Virginia, I believe it is, has over 90 Employees who are explicitly in the business of diversity, inclusion, that sort of thing.
	And who knows how many other administrators who are supposed to be doing that kind of work too.
	In a lot of these places, every single department, I know at Stanford, every department on campus has got its own DEI statement.
	And so every teacher, administrator, student, every one of them is supposed to be part of the DEI religion.
	Bend their knee and devote their lives to diversity, equity, inclusion.
	Boy, it really is, you know, this is a religion that has got a whole lot more energy than any other religion in the United States, including Islam, I'd say.
	Certainly got more, more, more energy than mainstream Christianity.
	Oh, Mr. Taylor, on this good Friday, I think back to last week when we talked about that ridiculous piece in the Air Force Times by the cap, by the colonel.
	Who talked about how the Air Force, you know, they needed to accept, you know, think about what it meant to be a white colonel.
	Again, he's just resigned to give a space up.
	But I think about that Jesse Kelly tweet about DEI and the Air Force and how they were promoting positions, making up to $180,000 a year.
	Yeah.
	Being one of these, being one of these commissars for DEI.
	I think that's the best way to put it.
	This really is.
	Well, I was just going to say, for the BIPOCs, imagine what a thrill it is.
	You make a living going around telling white people how awful they are.
	Well, I was just going to say, for the BIPOCs, imagine what a thrill it is.
	You make a living going around telling white people how awful they are.
	That just must give them so much fun.
	Imagine waking up in the morning and saying, wow, I get to tell white people just how miserable
	their ancestors were, how miserable they are, how awful their children are going to be.
	Mmm. Mmm. Oh What a way to make a living.
	And I get paid to do it.
	Can you believe that?
	With an aggressive 401k matching.
	Of course.
	Now, moving on to New York City.
	This was really a startling bit of news, and it had to do with our buddy Alvin Bragg.
	But Musa Diara, age 57, was a New York City parking garage attendant, and he saw a man looking into cars in a suspicious way in a garage in Manhattan.
	He thought the guy was trying to steal things, and so he took him outside and he questioned him about what was inside a bag he was carrying.
	The man thereupon pulled a gun on Diara, who tried to grab the weapon.
	The gun went off, leaving Diara, the parking lot attendant, with a shot in the stomach and his ear grazed by a second bullet.
	Well, luckily for Musa Diara, he was able to turn the weapon onto the potential thief and shot him in the chest, unfortunately not killing him.
	Diara and the probable thief, a 59-year-old by the name of Charles Rohde, were both transported to the same hospital, Bellevue Hospital, in stable condition.
	I imagine they were not put as roommates in the same place.
	In any case, as would be normal, this 59-year-old, Rohde, was charged with attempted murder, assault, and criminal possession of a weapon.
	So far, so good.
	However, this is the part that's crazy.
	Musa Diara was also charged with assault and criminal possession of a weapon.
	Now, this was, of course, the District Attorney Alvin Bragg, and this reminds us of a case in July when a Manhattan bodega clerk, Jose Alba, was charged with murder after a confrontation in a store with an angry customer who attacked him.
	Alba stabbed and killed his attacker in self-defense, but ended up on Rikers Island charged with murder.
	He spent six days in jail until Alvin Bragg dropped the murder charges amidst very intense public pressure.
	Well, the same thing came to the rescue of Moussa Diara.
	He sounds like he's clearly somebody from Africa.
	In any case, after much opposition, his charges were dropped.
	But he had to get a lawyer and fight to get this thing dropped.
	Can you imagine that?
	A guy pulls a gun on you, you rustle the gun out of his hand or he shoots you first, then you manage to turn the gun on him and he gets shot and you're charged?
	What a place.
	This is Alvin Bragg.
	Good old Alvin Bragg.
	And more stories about Alvin Bragg here for you.
	This is the Daily News.
	Good old, this is the Daily News occasionally does a good story.
	Not quite as good as the Daily Mail in Britain, but New York City's more sensible newspaper.
	While Bragg's office was preparing to indict Trump, he let violent defenders continue to wreak havoc.
	In August, Mayor Eric Adams was even complaining about it.
	He said that there are 10 criminals out there who have committed nearly 500 crimes in their careers, and six of them are still roaming the streets.
	Adams promised New Yorkers when he was running for mayor that he would crack down on crime.
	And, of course, Alvin Bragg, the first day in office, he sends out a memo saying that any crime involving a firearm would not be persecuted as a felony unless the perp actually pulls the trigger and shoots somebody.
	Well, in February of 2022, he pulled that back and said, well, maybe he'll prosecute some of them as felonies after all.
	But here's some highlights of the lovely people that Alvin Bragg has let loose on New York City.
	Harold Gooding, arrested more than 100 times.
	He's got 15 convictions and he has 14 failures to show up in court.
	Now, you'd think if you start, if you show up in court over and over and over, they would make sure you show up in court by putting you in a place where you have no choice but to show up in court.
	But no, 100 convictions.
	And then here's another one.
	Michelle Kelly, a lady, age 41.
	She told the police that she is a professional booster.
	Do you know what a professional booster is?
	I do not.
	Please, please share.
	Boosting apparently is shoplifting.
	I wouldn't have known that either.
	But that's criminal slang for shoplifting.
	She says, well, on the occasion of her 97th arrest, she reportedly said to the police, y'all are stopping my hustle.
	Her favorite store was a Manhattan's Upper East Side Target, and she kept her crime to petty larceny, which was a non-jailable offense after that law went into effect in 2020.
	in 2020. But after her 101st arrest, she was finally held on $5,000 bail because she assaulted
	the arresting officers.
	Kicked, bit, scratched, and spat on two officers when she was trying to steal from a Duane Reade in Harlem.
	So she may be off the street at least for a little while for assault on police officers.
	For a little while.
	For a little while.
	On $5,000 bail.
	You'd think that all of this boosting she's been doing, she'd easily come up with $5,000 bail.
	And then there's another career criminal.
	Let's see, he decided to steal $2,000 worth of medicine from Duane Reade.
	$2,000.
	And he filled up a plastic bag, a female manager poached this career criminal, and he waved a pocket knife at her.
	He, and this is interesting, he was charged with first degree robbery and criminal weapons possession, and a judge told him.
	Right there in open court that he should feel lucky because of Bragg's new policies.
	I don't know if anyone would ever feel lucky standing in front of me in a courtroom, but you might reasonably feel lucky today, he said.
	Based on your record, you would have faced a long period of time in jail.
	The newly elected district attorney has new policies.
	You're not charged with robbery.
	You're charged with a misdemeanor.
	And then there's another guy, Jamel Pringle, arrested more than 150 times.
	On and on and on and on it goes.
	But, of course, Alvin Bragg took the time to come up with a 34-count indictment of Donald Trump, all having to do with allegedly falsifying business records.
	So these are strange times with strange priorities.
	Now, Mr. Kersey, I believe you have a story to tell us about movie roles.
	Once again, once again, racism has reared its hideous and ugly head.
	Whiteness will always be the problem that must be solved until the last of white voices is completely expunged.
	Even once we're gone, it'll be our legacy that's the problem.
	There won't be a single white man left, but we will be the Fonts and Origo of all things that go wrong for the remaining BIPOCs.
	But, yes, please, movie roles!
	Yeah, the Tigris and Euphrates of all problems for the whiteless world.
	I like that, yes.
	Biggest, uh, study.
	Biggest Hollywood films still go mostly to white men.
	As Hollywood emerged from the pandemic, its biggest film It's biggest film productions dipped in diversity after years of incremental progress, according to a new study by UCLA researchers.
	Opportunities were notably greater for women and people of color on streaming platforms—that's Hulu, Netflix, Paramount, HBO Max, and the Peacock Network—than in theatrically released films.
	The annual UCLA Hollywood Diversity Report, published Thursday, presented one of the most detailed looks yet at how the film industry was shaped and in many ways set back during the pandemic.
	Oh yeah, set back, that's right.
	Analyzing 2022 movie releases, academics found that ethnic and gender inclusivity in theatrical films reverted back to 2019 or 2018 levels in many metrics.
	The horror turning charge downward that had been slowly trending toward Greater equity on screening behind the camera, i.e.
	fewer white faces.
	As the film industry sought to claw back moviegoers in 2022, it did so by leaning more in film starring and directed by gasp white men, despite considerable evidence that more diverse films attract larger audiences.
	What, Marvel?
	Well, you see, that's an interesting thing.
	Hollywood is driven by money.
	And if they really did make a lot more money with the black or Hispanic or Asian leads, I'm sure that's exactly what they do.
	But I wonder where that information comes from, about more black leads, more diverse leads, more money, in any case.
	Yeah, you just have to look at the box office charts for every year and you could quickly deduce who were the main actors and actresses, the thespians, who were actually producing that.
	And invariably, it's going to be Marvel Cinematic Universe films that are in the top 10, or sequels of some sort.
	Black, Latino, and Asian American moviegoers make up nearly half of all frequent moviegoers, and for the biggest hits, often account for the majority of ticket buyers.
	What we have here is 67% of the pre-pandemic levels, seeing the box office return to about 67% of the pre-pandemic levels.
	Though the 2022 movie year ended in triumph for Asian-American representation at the Academy Awards with the Best Picture winning everything, everywhere, all at once, researchers see a potential turning point where opportunity for women and people of color is usually reserved for lower-budgeted streaming movies.
	The fear is that diversity is something that's temporary or could be easily cut at any point in either theatrical or streaming, says Ana Cristina Ramon, Director of Entertainment and Media Research Initiative at UCLA.
	She notes that after years of growth in the streaming services, they're now pulling back on original productions because A, they don't make any money and B, many people are starting to cut streaming services because a lot of people are complaining about it's kind of become a meme, Mr. Taylor, of how goofy some of these shows are with regards to just the animosity and the degradation of white men and the promotion of, you know, just every trope and stereotype you can imagine.
	In these films that are on streaming services, in theatrical releases, people of color accounted for 22% of lead actors, 17% of directors, and 12% of writers.
	Women were 39% of lead actors and 15% of directors.
	While roughly double the percentages of a decade ago, the numbers are closer to those of five years ago, and still easily trail U.S.
	population demographics.
	Women made gains in writing, composing 27% of writers in the 2022 theatrical releases, up from 17% in 2019.
	Yet only one woman of color penned a top theatrical film in 2022.
	We can leave it at that.
	Who is accumulating all these statistics, by the way?
	The UCLA Hollywood Diversity Report.
	It's their initiative.
	They put it together.
	I see.
	Well, they've just got to monitor this forever and ever and ever, I guess.
	But again, I would think that success accounts, I mean, if something works, they'll do it.
	And they must be making the movies they think will make money.
	But there you go.
	Well, Mr. Kurz, there was a gruesome headline this week, and it read like this.
	Florida mother was stabbed over 100 times before two-year-old found dead in alligator's mouth.
	Well, that's Florida for you.
	This was an episode of an all-black cast, and the two-year-old was the mother's child, as well as the child she was killing.
	And I won't go into this in any further detail, but the two-year-old was found in the alligator's mouth.
	Probably because the two-year-old had been pitched into a lake.
	Now, we don't know whether dead or alive, but that's how it ended up in the alligator's mouth.
	I don't think it was dropped into the open, yawning jaws of a handy alligator that happened to be by.
	So, enough of that.
	Now, we'll move on to Britain.
	And this is another one of these.
	Just got to string up the white man whenever we get the chance.
	This was a headline called, Hate Crime Experts to Rule Whether English Countryside Harbors Rural Racism.
	How do you think they're going to rule, Mr. Kersey?
	These experts are going to rule.
	Hate crime experts are going to rule whether the English countryside harbors rural racism.
	I don't think they even need to do a study.
	But the English countryside will be studied by hate crime experts to establish this problem.
	Academics specializing in British colonialism and hate studies have been conditioned to record the lived realities of ethnic minorities living, working, or hiking in the country.
	The study will gather evidence of rural racism in villages in England and the great outdoors.
	The great outdoors is racist, I guess.
	Establishing how minorities might be excluded And which policies could prevent exclusion?
	I mean, they've already got it all figured out.
	This is supposed to be, I mean, how they might be excluded?
	Gosh, they might as well say how they are excluded.
	Come on.
	The project is funded by the Leverholm Trust, a charity established by Unilever.
	Now, that's a great big company, and they are spending money.
	They are spending money to try to figure out whether the great outdoors in England is racist It vowed after the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 to, quote, help rid the world of the systemic injustices of racism.
	They're going to rid the world of it, and they're going to start with the British countryside.
	Jesus.
	Yes.
	The experts will canvas ethnic minority residents to see how those living and working in rural England may be made to feel unwelcome.
	Maybe made to feel unwelcome.
	I'm sure they'll find that they're just made to feel viciously unwelcome.
	In what ways this rural racism is expressed.
	The project will launch in October of 2023.
	Why is it going to take so long to get going?
	It'll be chaired by criminology expert Professor Neil Chakraborty.
	Chakraborty.
	What do you know?
	He is director of the University of Leicester's Centre for Hate Crimes.
	Very Anglo-Saxon surname there, Mr. Taylor.
	Chakraborty.
	Chakraborty.
	He will figure it out.
	And then there is a fellow hate crime specialist, Amy Clark, and a colonialism expert, Professor Corrine Fowler.
	A colonialism expert is going to figure it out, a hate crimes expert, they're going to go, this is just madness.
	Groups such as Black Girls Hike and Muslim Hikers have attempted to increase interest in the countryside among minority counties.
	And in the latter's case, Muslim hikers, that has included placing signs pointing to Mecca in sites along camping and hiking trails.
	Now, I think that might turn me into someone who supports a little countryside racism.
	Signs pointing to Mecca?
	If you were walking along and you saw a sign pointing to Mecca on a hiking trail, you'd think, what the heck is this?
	But there you go.
	And plans for the study came after a 2019 report from Campaign to Protect Rural England, which found that people from ethnic minority backgrounds account for around 1%, just 1% of visitors to England's national parks.
	And the only explanation, as we know, the only possible explanation can be that they are being excluded by rural racism.
	The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has previously reported that minority groups often view the countryside as an exclusively English environment.
	Well, there you go.
	It's just the environment itself is conspiring to keep them away.
	It is just so, so awful and pathetic.
	Ah, let's see.
	Well, Mark Kerkorian wrote an interesting account in National Review of a tour of the border that he took.
	And he's writing about the Biden administration's inauguration day stop work order on fence construction left many holes in the Yuma, Arizona sector, especially near the Colorado River.
	DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas promised Arizona the gaps would be filled.
	But when that didn't happen, The state's then governor, Doug Ducey, plugged them himself, the shipping containers.
	I remember seeing images of that.
	That did a pretty good job.
	But the feds sued, had to remove the shipping containers.
	The gaps are back open.
	And apparently, there is some leisurely work going on to plug the gaps.
	But now, in Yuma, more than 90% of Border Patrol arrests are non-Mexicans.
	They're from all around the world.
	Chinese, Uzbeks, Ghanaians.
	And Mark Corcoran says he saw an Angolan family who'd crossed in daylight waiting under a canopy for their taxpayer-funded ride.
	They'd been living in Brazil for years.
	So it's obviously a lie that they really need any kind of asylum in the United States.
	Could have tried to asylum while they were living in Brazil.
	And he says agents I spoke to are demoralized by policies that have turned them into the Walmart greeters of the U.S.
	border.
	The smuggler, yeah, the smuggler buses pull up on the Mexican side.
	They disgorge their customers who walk a few minutes across the border only to be loaded on the border patrol's counterpart buses.
	As a result of this, instead of working to prevent illegal immigration, agents are retiring as quickly as they can.
	Imagine, you're supposed to be controlling the border and this is what you have to do.
	Absolutely vicious, vicious, awful stuff.
	Which leads me to Zaina Azra Zakira Mavish Jameh.
	That is not an Islamic prayer.
	That's the name of a 38-year-old resident of a mourning house shelter in Brattleboro, Vermont.
	She's this homeless woman.
	And she bought a hatchet for $33.69 and used it to butcher a 36-year-old social worker.
	This is Zaina Azra Zakira Mavish Jameh.
	Is absolutely jet black and 36-year-old social worker is a nice-looking white girl and She I will have to I will I will not quote I suppose one of the witnesses said it was a effing brutal savage effing murder I haven't been able to sleep because every time I close my eyes I see it happening and apparently after hacking this poor woman to death the lady homeless lady says To another employee, I like you.
	It's Leah I don't like.
	And then she picked up a knife and started hacking away at the poor dead lady to make sure that she was dead.
	In any case, she will get a mental health evaluation.
	She's pleaded not guilty to first degree murder.
	So there you go.
	On that cheery note, we have to leave our audience, all the ladies, gentlemen, boys and girls around the world.
	But this is what's happening because of the border.
	Imagine she waltzed across the border in one of those buses.
	Or she rode across.
	She didn't even have to waltz.
	Or she might have been a refugee resettled to Vermont to increase the BIPOC population.
	Exactly.
	One of these welfare shoppers, you know, they go to where the welfare is the best.
	And she didn't like the lady and, well, she goes out and buys an axe for $33.69 and quack, quack, quack.
	Well, our time's up, Mr. Kersey.
	And rather than take the time to explain how to get in touch with us, we'll do that next.

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