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April 14, 2023 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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DIY Reparations

Black Target shopper refuses to pay; Jared Taylor and Paul Kersey predict more “Rosa Parks moments.” They also discuss "Worldz of Fun," Abby Zwerner, falsified data, and bad impulse control.

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
I'm Gerry Bender with American Renaissance.
And with me is my indispensable co-host, Paul Kersey.
Today is April 14th, year of our Lord, 2023.
So, you American listeners, you've got one more day to file your taxes.
I'm in no such mood today myself.
I've got spring fever.
It's a gorgeous day here where I am, and Mr. Kersey, I think we should just call off the podcast and spend the rest of our day sunbathing.
What do you think?
Oh, we don't want to get too much melanin, do we?
No, I'm joking.
I guess we can't get melanin by vitamin D, but no, a good vitamin D replenishment is a wonderful thing to prepare for the gorgeous upcoming weekend, I agree, and I hope all of our listeners around the world and in the United States of America are also experiencing a beautiful time, and have a wonderful weekend planned.
Yes, well, we can't drop the ball like this.
It's a bit of a busy week.
Of course, it's always a busy week.
And for those of us whose job it is to chronicle the follies of our fellow man, there is no prospect of unemployment now, is there?
Not in clown world.
Oh, well, let's see.
Let's begin with a comment.
A listener calls our attention to the following story.
Up to 150 teenagers were involved in a fight at an amusement park over the weekend at Whirls of Fun amusement park in Kansas City, Missouri.
The Kansas police moved the teenagers out of the park.
One teenage girl refused to leave and punched a deputy in the face.
She was arrested and later turned over to her parents.
Parents?
Do I detect the plural?
She has parents?
Well, you know, I wouldn't be surprised if they said to her, you go girl, that pig deserved it.
In any case, after the group was pushed out of the park, more fights broke out in the parking lot.
They managed eventually to clear the park, but this is not the first time teens have gone brawling at Worlds of Fun.
In April 2019, authorities broke up a fight involving 300 people.
Now, the listener who called our attention to this news story pointed out that there was no description of the perps.
He says, I suspect this was a bar mitzvah party gone wrong.
You know, we Jews are naturally argumentative, so this kind of thing happens often.
Yes, it does.
Fat mitzvahs, bar mitzvahs, yeah, exactly.
It's a well-known phenomenon.
Yeah, well, you know, I looked up the comments at the news site.
The commenters also were struck by the absence of description.
One guy did clarify.
He said, there is cell phone footage.
A dark day, indeed.
Another guy said, more fun than a barrel of monkeys.
Ooh, that was bad.
Another commenter wrote, they were later seen twerking on the counter of the Burger King.
Another commenter wrote, it's time the name should be changed from Worlds of Fun to Worlds of Fun Tribal Live Action Theme Park.
And somebody else says, they might as well change the name right now and stop spelling worlds, W-O-R-L-D-S, and spell it W-O-R-L-D-Z.
Like boys in... We was kings at the Worlds of Fun.
That's right, Worlds of Fun.
Dear me, dear me.
So, nobody is fooled.
Mr. Taylor, may I ask a question of you?
No.
When was the last time you went to an amusement park?
I, oh gosh, I used to take one of my daughters to amusement parks very frequently.
She loved riding roller coasters.
And we used to go quite a lot.
What struck me was, you know, you go in the summertime and people are wearing shorts and tank tops and things.
And I was absolutely staggered by the number of Americans who have tattoos.
Also, there were certain detectable group differences in behavior.
Who was likely to cut in line?
Who was likely to run around and scream?
But yes, I've been to amusement parks and I know just what they're like.
But I probably haven't been in probably at least 15 years, maybe more.
I'm no longer amused by amusement parks.
Well, I will say this.
I will give a hearty endorsement to Bush Gardens in Williamsburg, Virginia.
If anyone ever travels in this area, I highly recommend you spend some time in Williamsburg.
It's a city that is still It's not as, what's the word that some people on our side use?
Not as vibrant.
It's not as vibrant, but it's also, the history there isn't, the history is such a focal point of both the university and also the city.
And it's not as, what are some of the presidential homes where they're just apologizing for Jefferson and Madison and and Washington. Williamsburg is still worth visiting and
the beautiful thing about Busch Gardens, Mr. Taylor, is that all the areas celebrate Germany, France, Britain.
And so it's a very European experience. So very, and it's priced to a point where it keeps out, dare I say, the riffraff.
Well, all they need now to do is make sure that they've got polka music blasting through the parks.
They actually do in some places.
Okay, well that would keep out certain riffraff, too.
In any case, on to our first story.
New York City wants a federal bailout because approximately 32,000 migrants are now living in taxpayer-funded housing.
And the city says it can no longer shoulder this ongoing, massive, and unexpected burden.
Well, it turns out on February 28, the Department of Homeland Security announced it would make $350 million available through FEMA's Emergency Food and Shelter Program, quote, To help local communities around the country better manage the costs of non-citizen arrivals.
$350 million.
How about $350 million to keep them out?
Well, no, no, no.
We're just going to give them food and lodging once they get here.
Well, New York City has asked for all of it.
The entire $350 million.
Is that what's called chutzpah, Mr. Kersey?
Not just the original $350 million, they want an extra $300 million to plug the $650 million hole in their budget.
But that would be just a down payment, because the city predicts that the expense will grow to $1.4 billion by June 30th, and $4.3 billion by the end of 2024, and they want the Feds to cover it all.
That means you and me.
So far, the city has received only $8 million in federal funding after an initial request of, guess how much?
$1 billion.
They wanted $1 billion?
Yes, that's right.
$1 billion.
I mean, Uncle Sugar, you know, he's an inexhaustible source of money.
He just goes into the basement, prints up dollar bills, you know, so why not?
Now, the city has a four-decade-old right-to-shelter policy which says officials must provide a bed in a habitable facility to every homeless New Yorker.
They think this is partially to blame, especially because there's no timeline for how long you can sponge on the city.
Says a spokesman, our non-migrant shelter population has been staying longer.
I wonder why?
And now migrants are going to have great difficulty working, and that will increase their time in the shelters.
The crisis is now costing the city roughly $383 a night per household, for a total of $4.6 million a day.
Even if you've got a fat budget like New York City does, $4.6 million a day adds up.
And the number in housing will only grow.
You know, whenever I hear these stories, I don't understand why the New York Times doesn't go down to one of these shelters and find out if any of the people living in them for free ever say thank you.
Do they ever say thank you?
Do they ever say, gee, you Americans are pretty nice.
We sashay into your country completely against law and we find our way to this place that gives us free food, free housing.
Do they ever say thank you?
I would guess that the New York Times, because it wants us to love these people, could surely go down to one of these shelters and at least browbeat somebody into saying thank you.
But I've never seen such an article.
Not only would they not say thank you, they'd say we want we want more gifts, gifts in whatever language they speak.
That's the one word they know in English.
In any case, moving on to Detroit, another booming, successful city, according to a March survey conducted by the University of Michigan's Detroit Metro Area Communities Study.
About 63% of Detroit residents support some form of reparations.
What do you know?
And about 70% say addressing racial and ethnic inequality should be a high priority for elected officials.
And the survey comes after a successful 2021 campaign that I had not heard about, led by someone named Keith Williams.
He is chairman of the Michigan Democratic Party Black Caucus.
And this was a campaign to make Detroit the first city in the country to include a reparations initiative on a ballot.
The initiative was called Proposal R, and it would create a reparations task force to make recommendations.
Now, it passed.
Guess what the yes-no proportions were of this ballot?
Have a go at it.
I'm going to go 98% with a plus or minus of 2%.
No, it wasn't quite so bad.
It was an 80% yes vote.
80%.
Now remember, only 78% of the population is black, but there are now 500,000 of those black residents there.
It would be interesting to know what percentage of the black population voted yes, and there you might be right.
And of course, it's one of the poorest cities in the US.
Over a third of its residents live below the poverty line.
Now, this Williams guy.
Keith Williams, chairman of the Democrat Party Black Caucus.
He says, we didn't go to the legislative body.
We went to the streets and we got the energy from the streets.
I bet they did.
I bet they did.
What was the phrase you used just a moment ago?
It gives me that energy from the streets.
All right.
Williams is also co-chair of the Detroit Reparation Task Force.
And he says, now we've got to get everybody else to buy into what we're trying to do.
Buy into, in other words, Pay into.
The 13-member task force has now been charged with determining how the city will implement and fund the program and who will be eligible.
Among its responsibilities will be investigating the devastation tied to the legacy of slavery and the perpetual damage of the Jim Crow era.
Perpetual damage.
Perpetual.
And never ending.
I mean, as I say very frequently, all white people could be gone and dead, but the damage is perpetual.
So, William says, it's time for the country to come to grips with what happened to black folks.
So, here you have one of the poorest cities in the whole country, and they all get together, and they pass by 80% this Gives Me Bill, and now they're going to have to figure out how to fund it, what fund that will be.
Well, they've got, you know, the city has gotten whiter with Rocket Mortgage and Dan Gilbert coming back, but I believe they still have a white mayor, but, you know, Ford is still there, and there's plenty of corporations, there are plenty of white people in Michigan to soak with the, what was the bill called?
Bill R?
Proposal R. I guess it means R for reparations, or R for racism, or who knows?
R for revenge.
Oh, that's even better.
Yes.
Well, reparations are very much the thing these days, as you know, and we've discussed it several times.
And some people are into DIY reparations.
At a Target megastore in Blue Ash, Ohio, Karen Ivory asked a cashier for the manager.
She comes up to the cashier with $1,000 worth of groceries in her cart.
Now how do you do that?
Do you fill it with, I don't know, caviar?
At Target, can the Target even sell caviar?
How do you put $1,000 worth of grocery into a Target shop?
Well, they definitely don't have Beluga caviar there.
They might just have some of the fish caviar that's about $10 per couple ounces.
You can get that in public.
Even so, $1,000 worth of groceries.
Well, anyway, she managed it.
Well, she walks up to the cashier and says, I need to speak to a manager because I want reparations.
I want the store to pick up the tab.
Well, the manager shows up and she grew angry and she started berating the manager about reparations.
And the manager, who was white, she said she has a privileged life and she was owed this.
And the manager said that if she wanted a donation, she would need to call management the next morning.
Well, this just really set her off.
And that is when Zack caught her.
A loss prevention officer intervened and asked Ivory to calm down and leave the store.
She started screaming at Cotter now and followed him into his office.
When he tried to shut the door, she barged her way in and on surveillance camera, you can see Cotter, she just marches up to Cotter and Cotter threw a punch.
Knocked her flat.
Mr. Taylor, if I could ask real quick, a loss prevention officer, that's a very kind way of saying security guard to protect the assets within Target from being stolen, correct?
Exactly.
That's somebody to keep an eye on shoplifters.
Yes.
Now, this guy was not armed or uniformed or anything, but I guess he sort of cruises around the store making sure that when somebody's got $1,000 worth of groceries in her cart, she pays for them.
Doesn't stuff them down her pants.
In any case, after reviewing footage of the incident, thank goodness there was footage of it, authorities decided that Ivory was the aggressor and put her under arrest.
She was confrontational and did not want to explain what she did.
However, in a body cam video of the incident that is on YouTube, Ivory told an officer she wanted the cashier to contact the manager so, quote, we could have a larger conversation about how money works.
And how it's been working in our community in a very wrong way.
I guess money just flees the community.
Now this is, to me, one of the most remarkable sentences of all.
She claimed, this is my Rosa Parks moment.
And you know, she could be right.
She could be right.
She could go down in history as the lady who finally stood up for reparations.
Reparations now.
No justice, no peace.
No reparations, no paycheck.
I don't know.
This is the time to come.
Well, that was Proposal R in action.
Exactly.
I mean, cut out the middleman.
Gee, this is Proposal R. But poor Ivory, she was sentenced to a day in jail and charged $110 for disorderly conduct.
So yeah, this is just like Rosa Parks.
She is going to become an American icon in civil rights history.
I predict it with 100% confidence.
Is the next stage of civil rights, Mr. Taylor, the ability for a black patron of a grocery store to procure as many items as they desire and then to simply walk out and flash that proposal our victory?
That's right.
Well, you know...
Amiri Baraka, I was about to say Barack Obama, the one-time poet laureate of the state of New Jersey, did say, you can't steal nothing from the white man.
He owes you.
He owes you anything you want, even his life.
Well, maybe Ms.
Ivory is a fan of poetry, reads it in her off hours.
In any case, let's move on to Massachusetts.
Apparently, they are suffering from a hideous whiteness problem.
This is once again one of those stories that just shows you that whiteness has become a pejorative that must be corrected.
And this was one of those stories.
It just doesn't matter what you're trying to do for the betterment of the future.
If it's overwhelmingly a white endeavor, it is fundamentally against the zeitgeist and has to be discredited.
The headline of this story was, teachers in Massachusetts are mostly white.
A Lowell program is trying to change that.
And I'm just going to read some choice headlines again.
If you want to read this story, I encourage you go to your Google.
Search engine type in teachers and masks are mostly white.
A Lowell program is trying to change that.
On a recent March morning, students in Kendra Bower's 12th grade English class shuffled into the classroom and took their seats.
She asked them a question.
Who wants to be a teacher?
The response was lukewarm.
Two wavering hands and just one solid yes.
Now, Bauer is a Lowell High School teacher for more than 16 years, saw firsthand something happen across the country.
Scarce interest in teaching, fueled in part by low pay, and students of color in particular, see little of themselves and teachers they have.
Nearly 9 out of 10 teachers in Massachusetts public schools are white.
Those students of color make up roughly 44% of the state's total enrollment, according to state data.
Again, you read that sentence, and it's as if that's, you know, we have to castigate ourselves for the whiteness of public school teachers.
Clearly, that's a problem.
Yeah.
This means many do not see themselves reflected in their teachers and might not consider teaching as a future career.
Bauer said, well, hey, don't Don't go fly and look in the cockpit to see who's flying your planes, kids.
Quote, you can't be what you can't see, she said.
It's almost like they don't see that as a career path, end quote.
Lowell is the sixth largest public school district in the state.
Its students are among the most diverse.
Nearly 38% are Hispanic, 28% are Asian.
38%?
I'm sorry, let me clarify.
38%?
38%!
I'm sorry, let me clarify.
Nearly 38% are Hispanic, 28% are Asian, and 8% are Black.
You can do the math to see how few are actually white students.
Yet many of, a percentage are actually white.
Yet many of these students rarely see a teacher who looks like them.
District officials say that 7 out of 10 Asian students in Lowell Public Schools did not have a teacher of the same race during the 2021 school year.
I bet their scores on standardized tests didn't, or the AP exams didn't reflect that racial transgression.
Nonetheless, that gap was similar for Hispanic and Black students, Flourish data visualization shows.
State data shows 90%—oh, go ahead, go ahead.
Well, no, I was just going to say, Asians probably do not suffer from the fact that most of their teachers are white.
That doesn't seem to hold them back one bit, but it does have a paralyzing effect on the brains of Blacks and Hispanics, a known fact.
It is a known fact.
State data shows 98% of full-time teachers in the district are white.
Black, Asian, and Hispanic instructors make up just 1%, 4%, and 5%, respectively.
That makes students like Elizabeth Zahn, an Asian-American junior at the school, pause and think, quote, all of my teachers are white.
Including any staff and support that I know of in quote and that's a bad thing I mean again, it's when you read this story.
You're like wait a second whiteness is just deemed this just that's right Yeah, so when students of color have teachers of color they put more personal attention on school and have stronger post-graduation plans According to a Learning Policy Institute study released in 2018.
Mr. Taylor if you had a chance to look at this study to see if there's any merit behind it and Well, I have not.
I have not.
But I think I will, out of order, go into a different story.
Are we finished with Massachusetts here?
I've got to go two paragraphs to explain what they're going to do.
District educators teamed up with the University of Massachusetts Lowell to offer college credit and potential scholarships to high schoolers interested in teaching.
Obviously, this high school is overwhelmingly non-white, so it's to help out non-whites who want to be teachers.
It's a push for students to dream of becoming teachers.
This is the first year of the Education Pathway at Lowell High School, also known as the Grow Our Own Program.
Last fall, 13 high schoolers from the cohort taught in elementary schools.
They read stories to students and developed lesson plans.
Again, the Grow Our Own program is we need more non-white teachers.
Sounds like backyard marijuana to me.
Grow our own.
Get high on anti-whiteness.
But again, that's what the whole program is about.
It's trying to encourage students of color to return to their communities after college as educators.
So that's it.
The goal is simply that old adage, more diversity, less whites.
Well, you said had I looked into this study that seems to demonstrate that when non-white students have teachers that look like them, they do more better.
Well, that does remind me of a story that I was going to talk about, and it has to do with a criminology professor at Florida State University.
He suddenly left his $190,000 a year position.
$190,000 a year position.
His name was Eric Stewart, and he had six of his studies, one that dates back to 2006,
retracted among allegations that he fabricated the data.
This happens, you know.
In 2011, Stewart co-authored a study that claimed to demonstrate that as black and Hispanic populations grow, the public increasingly demands longer sentences for black and Hispanic criminals.
Well, it turns out a fellow named Justin Pickett, a criminologist at the University of Albany, notes that the original untampered data showed no such thing.
No such thing at all.
The data were altered.
Intentionally or unintentionally, he said.
Hmm, I suspect intentionally.
Later, five other articles, all co-authored by this now absconded Professor Stewart, have been retracted.
All distorted the data, and four did so in order to prove the existence of racism.
Well, Mr. Stewart is one of our African American fellow citizens, and he told his administrators at Florida State University that these claims, quote, lynched me and my academic character.
He said it was particularly significant because he himself is black.
So Yes, sometimes they cook the data.
They cook the data because, as we all know, the demand for racism far outstrips the supply.
So they have to make it sound like it's there even when it isn't.
And my guess is that the same mentality could very well participate in cooking the data in a study that is supposed to prove that when black people are, black children are taught by black teachers, they do much, much, much more better.
That's just my guess.
Just a guess.
But, in any case, let's see.
You were talking about white teachers in Massachusetts.
Well, maybe white teachers should clear out after all, if we have in mind what happened to Abby Zwirner.
You remember her, of course.
I do.
Yes.
She was the unwilling co-star in an event that occurred on January 6th.
She was a teacher at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, and on January 6th, At about 2 p.m., one of her first-grade students, a six-year-old, whipped out a gun from his front hoodie pocket, pointed it at her.
She was sitting at a reading table less than 10 feet away and fired a single round.
And the bullet went through Abby Zwirner's left hand, which she held up as the boy opened fire, and then hit her in the upper chest and shoulder.
And the bullet is still in her body because it would be too dangerous to remove it.
Well, now we know that the six-year-old used his mother's Taurus 9mm.
She legally purchased the gun, and he brought it to school in his backpack.
Now, apparently, there are proposals at the school that all backpacks be transparent, but in any case, you can always wrap up a handgun in a sock, it seems to me, but this is perhaps a first step.
Well, the mother, her name is Deja.
Deja Nicole Taylor.
Probably a distant relative of mine.
She was charged with felony child neglect and a misdemeanor count of recklessly leaving a firearm so as to endanger a child.
Now, I don't quite understand why it wasn't leaving a child to endanger the public at large, but that apparently is the crime.
And she has just turned herself in.
Well, the Newport News prosecutors are also asking a circuit judge and panelist special grand jury to continue the investigation into any security issues that might have contributed to this shooting.
This could include looking at the richneck school administrators, and a probe of this kind could take months and lead to more indictments.
Under the Virginia Code, used to charge my distant relative, Deja Taylor, with felony child neglect, prosecutors contend she has shown a reckless disregard for the lives of others, but the six-year-old is too young to have formed criminal intent and will not be charged.
Now, Taylor's lawyer, she's got a lawyer, has previously said that his client strongly maintains that she kept the gun secured by a trigger lock and it was stored on the top shelf of a bedroom closet and she has no idea how he got hold of the gun.
Well, that's obvious.
He leapt up, he can probably jump at least eight feet in the air, and he picked the lock.
Nothing to it.
Now, Zwirner, the victim, the white lady who got shot, contends that rich-neck assistant principal Ebony Parker.
Ebony?
Ebony Parker.
Aptly named.
You took the words right out of my mouth.
Ignored several warnings that the boy had a gun.
Two days before the shooting, the boy took and threw Zwirner's cell phone, shattering the glass, leading to a one-day suspension.
So the day of the shooting, that's the day he comes back, Zwerner told Ebony Parker that the boy was in a violent mood and had threatened to beat up a kindergartner during lunch.
But Parker had no response, refusing even to look up at Amy Zwerner when she expressed her concerns.
And this kid's six, right?
You said six.
Six, yes.
Six years old.
Yeah, yeah.
Probably big for his age.
Just my guess.
And a reading specialist approached Parker with concerns the boy might be armed.
And she replied, this is Ebony Parker replied, that his pockets are too small to hold a gun.
Another first grade teacher pulled another student aside after research, asked about a gun, and the student admitted that the six-year-old showed him a gun.
Well, this teacher called the school office, urgently telling a music teacher about the concerns, and the music teacher approached Ebony Parker.
Ebony Parker says, his backpack's already been searched.
No gun.
And then finally, a guidance counselor sought permission to search the boy again, and Ebony Parker denied the request, saying that six-year-old's mother would soon be picking him up Well, Ebony Parker has resigned.
Yes, she's resigned.
But so far, no arrest.
I don't know if she's been questioned.
In any case, this $40 million lawsuit in which Zwerner makes these claims, She accuses not only Ebony Parker, but the former Richneck principal, Breonna Foster Newton, another African American fellow citizen, and former Newport News school superintendent, George Parker III, of gross negligence on other African American fellow citizens.
So it may be that those students in Massachusetts.
I'm sorry, those white teachers in Massachusetts might be better off not in this business.
We shall see.
I think you're right.
Oh, dear.
Oh, dear.
But let's see.
I believe you have a story about Boston violence.
You know, this is one of those that you wish every city did a story like this, and I have to thank the good people at, I think, this is from the Boston Herald.
Boston gun violence concentrated in four neighborhoods.
Again, there's a lot to unpack here, so I encourage all of our listeners to simply go to their Google machine and type in Boston gun violence concentrated in four neighborhoods.
Read the whole story there.
I'm going to read the main points.
A week-long workshop aimed at reducing gun violence in Boston concluded that most of the crimes were occurring among a small number of people in four neighborhoods with primarily black men harmed.
Of course, we're going to learn that it's black men who are doing the harming of these primarily black men who are harmed.
The data compiled by the Boston Police Department shows serious violence was highly concentrated in Dorchester
and I'm sorry if I mispronounce that to all the people who live in that fine neighborhood of
Boston, Jamaica Plain, Mattapan and Roxbury from 2018 to 2022 according to a
presentation provided by the city.
Further, 84.6 or roughly 115 of the city's Now think about that, Mr. Taylor.
There were 136 homicide victims, but only 63 homicide offenders.
98 percent or 49 of 63 homicide offenders from 2020 to 2022 were black.
Now think about that, Mr. Taylor.
There were 136 homicide victims, homicide victims, but only 63 homicide offenders.
That's I believe well below a clearance rate of 50 percent for these homicides.
Some of them might have had multiple victims.
Correct.
majority of these crimes committed by or killing men in general.
Quote, we will not tolerate any neighborhood feeling like residents have to live in fear of violence or experience loss that ripples down generation after generation.
Mayor Michelle Wu said in a Friday press conference in Roxbury, we have the resources, we have the expertise, we just have to put it all together.
Well, of course, white people have put it together.
It's called white flight.
It used to be called restrictive covenants and segregation.
But again, we can't have that because it just ensures that.
But see, this is absurd.
We have the expertise, we have the resources to stop black people shooting each other.
Is that what she's really saying?
No, they don't have that expertise.
The only thing that stops them is locking them up.
I mean, it's nuts for her to make a claim like that.
That's right.
So just going back down, there's a lot of highlights of the data shows almost all homicide victims and offenders were known to the criminal justice system before the event occurred at 74.4% and 84.1% respectively.
Further, 36% of the 1045 shootings from 2018 to 2022 were gang related, which the Boston Police Department described as a very conservative estimate due to data limitations.
of the 1,045 shootings from 2018 to 2022 were gang-related, which the Boston Police Department
described as a very conservative estimate due to data limitations.
Again, that's for a gang activity for it to be 36 percent, that means that what, 64 percent
aren't gang-related?
That's actually really bad.
If BPD data suggests that there are 85 gangs with roughly 1,800 members, I'd love to know what percent are white in Boston, which is a majority minority city now, but it does still have a plurality of whites.
Again, we learned the community-led tour of these neighborhoods, which will launch in the coming weeks in partnership with the city, is about giving the community an opportunity to heal from things that we've yet to heal from.
Citing busing, the crack epidemic and unaffordable housing as past traumas impacting black residents.
Wait, wait, wait.
Busing is supposed to be making black people shoot each other?
The crack epidemic?
That was back in the 90s.
That was back in, well, the busing was in the 70s.
This is Don L. Singleton, Mr. Taylor.
He's the CEO of DS Consultants.
He says that, quote, I'm a black man who suffers from PTSD, which is real.
In case you don't know what that is, that's post-traumatic slavery syndrome.
We're still dealing with the aftermath of that, end quote.
Well, I don't think that's actually what PTSD stands for, Mr. Singleton, but yes.
It does for him.
Blame black people shooting black people on the harmful legacy of busing, the crack epidemic, and unaffordable housing, which, of course, unaffordable housing means White people and Asians primarily find a way to price out dangerous, dangerous minorities who have a propensity and proclivity to shoot one another.
So.
Well, it's also cuckoo.
Say I can't afford an apartment.
That means I'm going to go out and shoot somebody.
Maybe I'd shoot the landlord or I don't know.
But is that going to get me a cheap apartment?
Go out and shoot somebody?
No, all of this stuff is just utterly cuckoo.
Well, I'll tell you what's not cuckoo, Mr. Taylor, is this story that I read in Boston 25 News, which coincides with this.
A ceasefire.
Black reverend calls on Boston's black community to turn in guns after a man shot dead in city.
A religious leader in Boston is condemning the fatal shooting of a man in Roxbury last Saturday night.
Again, that's one of those four areas that has the majority of the violence in Boston.
And he's calling on the city's black community to cease fire and turn in their guns to stop
the violence.
The Reverend Kevin Peterson on Sunday said Christopher Shivers was gunned down on Easter
weekend and wants the community to step up and find his killer.
Remember, we talked about how more than half of homicides in Boston go unsolved.
We call on residents of the black community to turn in the murderer of Christopher Shivers,
who was victimized in Roxbury on the eve of Easter.
Our prayers are extended to the loved ones of the deceased, but we also call upon the
black community to cease fire.
So far, the vast majority of murders this year have occurred in the city's black community.
This has to stop.
We're at a point in Boston's black community where it makes sense that we call on all black people who have guns in Boston to turn them into local churches, post offices, or local police stations.
And we ask that the police increase its gun buyback program to $1,000 for each gun turned in with no questions asked."
That's probably a better solution than trying to say that you have PTSD, that busing, crack epidemic, and unaffordable housing is what's causing one another.
Yes, it's not going to work.
I mean, what's the lady behind the counter at the post office going to do if you walk in with an AR-15 and say, here, take this.
That seems a little weird to me.
You're supposed to turn in your guns at post offices?
Churches?
Put your Sig 365 in the offering plate?
How's it going to work?
Maybe you can go to Target and get $1,000 worth of groceries and $1,000 for turning in your You're, you know, more than likely they're carrying high .9 millimeters or, uh, uh, you know, I don't see him carrying too many glocks.
Uh, maybe, yeah.
Or a C365.
Yeah.
Probably a Raven Saturday night special.
Remember that expression?
Nobody uses that anymore.
Before my time.
Yes.
Yes.
As was busing in Boston.
But anyways.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, dear me.
Well, let's move to San Francisco.
As you know, there was a state initiative that was reconfirmed to ban race-based discrimination by the state in college admissions and employment, etc, etc.
But Californians, being resourceful people, have always found ways to get around this.
And here are just a couple of little examples.
There is something called the Clean Cars for All program in San Francisco, and it encourages low-income Californians to retire older gas-driven vehicles.
And the program gives you up to $9,500 to buy an electric car or to pay for public transportation.
How much money did you get for that?
$9,000.
$9,500.
Not bad.
Let's see.
A Tesla costs about $45,000 to $50,000.
So that's a nice little chunk of change down.
Well, I bet there are electric cars that cost less than a Tesla, too.
But now, it used to be just across the board.
But San Francisco has rejigged the program to operate on a zip code basis.
Ha, ha, ha.
Yes, what an idea.
So clean cars for all now excludes 86% of white San Franciscans.
Meanwhile, 42% of black San Franciscans live in qualifying zip codes.
That's two or three times more than any other group.
Just a little jiggery-pokery to make sure that the right people get the dough, even if they're all supposed to be poor.
Being poor and black is better than being poor and white.
Now, there is similar trickery for selection to Lowell High School.
This is supposed to be one of the better schools.
A 1999 settlement prohibited the district from using race, In admissions decisions, but what the San Francisco School District now does is have a race proxy known as the census tract integration preference, which gives priority to students living in an area where the average student scores in the bottom 20% on statewide math and literacy exams.
Yet another way to stick it to the white man and in some cases to the yellow man.
And of course, last year we recalled that San Francisco authorized an African-American reparations advisory committee.
It released its draft recommendations, about which we've talked many times on this podcast.
Five million dollars, just cash on the barrel head, for each qualifying African-American, and all debt forgiveness, including credit card debt.
So when the time comes, just run up every single credit card you own, absolutely the max.
It will be magic wand waved away, and also a $500,000 grant for home buying.
What do you know?
That's pretty nice.
So, this is the way San Francisco gets around any prohibition on racial discrimination and discriminates to its heart's content.
Now, we've got a couple of stories here on bad impulse control.
This was one of those stories that came out.
Lydell Grant, age 46, in 2012, was convicted of stabbing 28-year-old Aaron Sherhoun, who was white, outside a bar.
In Montrose, Texas.
Eyewitnesses said he done it.
But he was released from prison in 2019, nearly eight years into his life sentence, after the Innocence Project analyzed DNA evidence found on the victim's fingernails that pointed to someone else as the perp.
And police then arrested somebody named Jermaco Carto, Jermaco Carter, also melanin-enhanced, just like Lidell Grant, for the killing, tracked him down, and he confessed.
Alas, now that Lydell Grant has been released, just last week he and an unidentified woman were leaving a corner store on Thursday and he ran a stop sign.
Whiz!
Went right through and a Toyota came up and hit him.
Well, Lydell Grant.
Then, I mean, I suppose it is annoying.
You run a stop sign.
You think you're going to get home right on time for whatever home movie you plan to watch.
Somebody smashes you.
You get angry.
Well, what he did, he went out and he blazed away through the windshield of the Toyota, getting back into his car, driving off, and he killed the Toyota driver, 33-year-old Edwin Arevalo.
So now he is being held on $1 million bond as he faces murder charges.
You know, you think after having been sprung from jail, after serving nearly eight years of a life sentence, you might think twice about doing the kind of thing that might let you back in the big house.
But maybe he missed the place.
I don't know.
Maybe he got used to it.
One more story about bad impulse control.
A woman, this is quite a headline here, a woman charged in the weekend shooting death of a young family member outside a funeral home.
Her name was Queen Smith Jackson, age 67.
It's unusual for 67 year old ladies to be charged with murder.
HBD homicide.
This is Houston.
say it started with an argument between family members at a funeral.
It spilled into the parking lot and that's where the 22-year-old victim was shot and
killed.
Queen Jackson is a school bus driver and she admitted discharging the gun.
Yes, yes, she was a school bus driver.
You know, I'm not sure I feel about somebody like that being a school bus driver, but apparently
she hasn't gunned down any of her passengers.
She admitted shooting the gun, but claimed she just meant to fire it in the air.
Well, that's what you do in the parking lot of a funeral home, you know?
Bam, bam, shoot in the air.
Well, other family members say no dice.
One says it was murder.
She didn't shoot in the air.
She shot him in the back of the head.
Nice.
Well, Jackson's attorney said the victim was her great-nephew, and the funeral where the shooting happened was for her brother.
Well, I guess, you know, grief does strange things to people.
On the other hand, I guess for certain folks, a funeral is as good a place as any to settle an argument.
But there you go.
Strange doings.
Strange doings.
And I believe you have an impulse control story.
This time it's about being behind the wheel in Memphis, Tennessee.
Yeah, you know, this is one of those stories, and I believe you're still kept off of Elon Musk's Twitter, but this is one of those that I saw as an example of kind of post-America where This gang just blocks the street in midday and people aren't able to get past.
This is during the day?
In broad daylight?
Broad daylight.
I highly encourage everyone to watch this video.
It's broad daylight, very close to one of the whitest parts of, I think Memphis is about 65% black right now, but there are obviously enclaves of whiteness keeping the city from reaching Detroit levels of monoracialism.
Vibrancy.
Yes.
This is from WMC out of Memphis, Tennessee.
Watch.
Reckless drivers block traffic while doing donuts, hanging out windows with guns.
An 18 second video posted to social media shows only a small portion of the illegal
car stunts and burnouts that happened Saturday afternoon at the corner of Airways Boulevard
Boulevard and Carnes Avenue.
A local driver filmed the incident saying he was returning home from visiting the Memphis
Zoo with his family when the drivers began circling the area in front of him with passengers
hanging out of the windows with guns.
Quote, they were sitting in the window, guns up in the air and everything like that.
Definitely a different situation than just donuts, said Austin, who did not want to share
his last name, probably for fear of reprisal.
He was with his wife who recorded the incident, said they were driving back home from an event
at the zoo when his GPS rerouted him to take Airways Boulevard.
Quote, we've driven through there several times.
In this case, I see smoke ahead and guys are doing donuts.
I think it was three Dodge Chargers.
I think about three guys in each with guns sticking out.
At one point, they were sitting in the windows, guns up in the air.
Unfortunately, the dangerous yet uncommon performance occurs quite often in Memphis.
Already this year, Memphis police have responded to nearly 900 calls of reckless driving.
Action 5 News reached out to MPD at the City Council Tuesday about the ongoing reckless driving, but they declined to comment.
Again, the way that this story was posted on social media, Mr. Taylor, for those who haven't seen it, somebody postulated, is this what civilization has come to when a gang is basically able to commandeer a major thoroughfare in a very big city and had their guns out with no fear of reprisal from the police?
As we know, the police in Memphis are severely understaffed, as evidenced by lowering standards, which brought those five black officers on who I don't recall, but it was certainly earlier this year.
I forgot his name now.
We haven't heard much about him lately.
I guess it's no fun when the accused killers are black, after all.
And the main thing to say about this story, Mr. Taylor, is simply this.
The police are supposed to have the monopoly on violence, but we know that since May of 2020, when the 3rd Precinct was allowed to burn in Minneapolis, that scenario has been supplanted and usurped, as we see police just stand down.
And Steve Saylor's incredible data that he's put together at UNZ.com, where he talks about You know, deaths of exuberance.
Police are not pulling people over and black road deaths are just skyrocketing at the moment because there's nobody being pulled over.
Police are afraid of being the next white police officer who gets his two minutes of shame, of hate.
More than two minutes, gets his lifetime of shame and hate.
Well, do you remember some months ago, We had an item about a new overpass that had been built someplace in Southern California, I believe in Los Angeles County.
And somehow it had become such a popular place for drag racing that they had to close it down.
That's right.
Yes, I don't remember whatever happened to that, but again, this is to me an astonishing thing.
They got to close it to traffic because you get these people who are able to completely commandeer it, turn it into a drag racing track.
I don't understand.
They should arrest them, impound their cars, just do it enough to calm things down.
But apparently the United States is incapable of that these days.
And it's not just Memphis.
Los Angeles also.
It's nationwide.
It's an epidemic nationwide.
It's a lack of will to enforce society's and civilization's standards.
And so we regress to, dare I say it, the Negro mean.
Hmm, gosh.
Well, you said it, not I, sir.
Now here's a headline for you.
And I'll read it twice because it's a little complicated.
Intelligence shows how migrant smuggling groups use chartered flights from Damascus to lure Bangladeshis to Libya for the dangerous boat crossing to Europe.
Yes.
Chartered flights from Damascus to lure Bangladeshis to Libya for the boat crossing to Europe.
It's a multinational undertaking.
As it turns out, 24,647 Bangladeshis showed up in Europe, mostly in Italy.
Bangladeshis, for heaven's sake.
By Olivia, yeah.
Since 2021, yes.
They accounted for 15% of all the arrivals from the Mediterranean, 15% Bangladeshis.
Criminal groups are charging them about 1,500 euros each.
That's a little over, that's probably about $1,700, maybe $1,600 for the transfer between
Damascus in Syria over to Benghazi in Libya using flights operated by the Syrian airline
Cham Wings.
So these are Bangladeshis who have somehow gotten to Syria.
The article didn't explain how they got there.
I don't think they walked.
In any case, they got 1500 bucks for plane fare.
And then they're charged another, I'm sorry, 1500 euros.
They're charged another 500 euros as an administration fee.
So they've got 2000 euros in their pocket.
In Libya, the migrants are then assigned to boats.
Now, Cham Wings is owned by a Syrian businessman, and the airline is part of his family business.
He apparently is considered a miscreant by the American State Department, and he's under sanctions of some sort or another, but apparently he is minting money flying these Bangladeshis from Syria to Libya.
Who would have thunk it?
Now that's in Eastern Libya.
That's the only entry point by air used by criminal networks because it has something like a form of administration.
Eastern Libya is actually got an administration.
Western Libya is still in a state of complete chaos after we helped overthrow Muammar Gaddafi, who actually kept immigrants from crossing the Mediterranean.
He did a great job for Europe.
Yes, he did.
Yes, he did.
Well, some of the rescued migrants who the Italian authorities have fished out of the drink, they say that the whole journey from the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka to Italy can take about five days.
And clearly, it takes a fair amount of money.
You know, I remember being surprised.
Oh, it must have been at least 10 years ago when I first started reading about how much these allegedly poverty-stricken Guatemalans and Salvadorans were paying to get into the United States.
What is it, $3,000, $4,000 sometimes to make it?
I thought, good grief.
The National Public Radio insists that these people are just desperate, hard-scrabble poor folks, but no, they've got $4,000 in their pocket.
They're happy to pay it to get into the U.S.
I guess El Dorado is worth it, but no, the idea that they're somehow just absolutely desperate, starving, what a bunch of baloney.
Where do you think all the remittances are going, Mr. Taylor, for the Guatemalans who are already in the country and the Mexicans that they're sending back?
It's called colonization, and yeah.
It'll pay for more trips north, won't it?
It will.
Yes, sir.
Let's see.
Oh, gosh.
Tempest do fugit.
Sure enough.
But let's see.
We've got a little more time.
What else have we got here?
Oh, there was a story about the best place to live in America.
The number one neighborhood in America.
Has, second year in a row, been top of the heap.
It is a 5,400 person locale just outside of Philadelphia called Chesterbrook.
Can't say that I've heard of Chesterbrook, but apparently it's the best place to live in America.
Poverty rate, 1.5%.
Unemployment rate, 2.4%.
Oh sorry, for the fourth consecutive year, it's got the top ranking in a site called Niche.
Now, medium home value is $350,000, so it's not just outrageous the way my neighborhood is, Hollywood Hills, etc., and the residents tend to have moderate political views.
Several factors were considered by Niche in determining which of the no fewer than 17,932 American locales deserved top honors.
Wow, they go through 18,000 places and decide which is the best?
One is affordability, walkability, public schools, neighborhood diversity, and the local housing market.
And also, what the current residents think about it.
Now, it is 62% white and 32% Asian.
5% mixed race and 1% other.
32% Asian, 5% mixed race, and 1% other.
Now, I thought once again, the comments were quite illuminating.
Many commenters on this story wanted to know what has diversity got to do with making the place good?
Many people asked that question.
And some said, well, I guess if it takes 32% Asian to give it enough diversity to qualify, what about the wonderful 100% or overwhelmingly white places with no diversity that would have made the cut without those helpful Asians?
So it must be those Asians who rescued the place.
Let's see.
Oh, I believe you've got a story from Minnesota on the call to prayer.
Yeah, I think it was Life Magazine back in the 1960s, Mr. Taylor, Life or Time, that did this amazing profile of Minnesota, and it pointed out that the state was about 99% white.
It's got a white guy fishing, catching a big bass, you know, land of a thousand lakes.
Well, guess what?
Minneapolis, Minnesota is now, Mr. Taylor.
Well, I read the story, so I'm cheating.
If I answer, you tell them.
Yes, Minneapolis to make, this is from Axios, Minneapolis to make history with Muslim call to prayer action.
It's poised to allow mosques to broadcast Muslim prayer calls five times a day.
Why it matters, the change would make Minneapolis the first major U.S.
city to explicitly allow the full set of broadcasts all year, according to the Minnesota Chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations.
The City Council vote Thursday on an ordinance that would expand when the prompts to pray, known as adhans, I hope I pronounced that correctly, can be played via outdoor speakers.
Local mosques can already use amplified sound to play the announcements between 7 a.m.
and 10 p.m.
Religious leaders say the time restrictions curtailed the reminders for early morning prayers per the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
The proposed ordinance would change that by removing language, restricting the amplified sound overnight from city code.
So, this is in the words of Jelani Hussan, the CARE Minnesota Executive Director.
The change, quote, sends a message to the world that freedom of religion is practiced here, end quote.
Well, I believe it's just the expansion of one of the dominant religions.
So 7 a.m.
and 10 p.m., we could be blasted by the call to prayer.
Between 7 a.m.
gender movement, LGBTQ, and the Islam movement that somehow all unite, Black Lives Matter,
whatever is necessary for the moment to, you know, strike a balance for everyone's problems
against whites. Go ahead. So 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. we could be blasted by the call to prayer.
Between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m.
Well, they used to do it.
They used to have some leather-lunged muezzin at the top of the minaret who would shout the call to prayer.
I think if they want to let them do it, that's the way they should do it.
And I've heard the call to prayer in a Muslim country.
A guy gets up and he says, And it's really quite impressive.
And they get these guys who really can belt it out.
I think that's the way they should do it.
I think that's against you.
I think you just nailed it.
Well, I'm just the wrong faith.
I'm an infidel.
I wouldn't say it with the proper feeling.
But yeah, they should have them.
They can do it anytime they like.
They just have to have a human muezzin.
Who does it the old-fashioned way.
I mean, this is a tradition-based religion, so they should do it the tradition-based way.
But, golly, Mr. Kersey, as usual, we have run out of time.
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Even a caveman can do it.
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Once again, the email address to contact me.
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