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May 17, 2023 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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South Africa Leads the World!

Jared Taylor and Paul Kersey note that power-plant breakdowns are helping South Africa meet its green targets early. The hosts also discuss Zora Hurston, virtual racism, and the power struggle in Compton.

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance, and with me is my co-host, none other than Paul Kersey, and today is May 17th, Year of Our Lord 2023.
We've got a lot of material to get through, and so with no further ado, I would like to get to some comments from listeners.
We have some particularly interesting ones, I think.
Our first listener is an African writing from Africa.
And he says, while I disagree with a lot of your deterministic and deficit views about black people, I do agree that black people need to be held accountable for their own failures.
Stories like this one from the BBC, and then he refers to all the blackouts in South Africa.
He says, these are a good example of black failure that cannot be put at the feet of white people.
We, black people, did this to ourselves, not because we are intellectually inferior to every other race, as you posit, but our cultures are antithetical to the functioning of a Western civilization.
i.e., African cultures cannot create Western civilization in the same way Western cultures could not create African civilizations.
In essence, there are certain fundamental values that are required for a Western civilization to function.
such as rule of law, reason, decentralized power, individualism, etc., that are simply lacking or non-existent in most African cultures.
Until we Africans abandon our ancestral values, steeped in superstition, communistic tendencies, deference to power, etc., then we shouldn't expect functioning nations based on a Western standard.
Now, I find this a very interesting observation.
I mean, let us assume that this person is correct.
Then it seems to me that Africans would probably be better off not wanting to have Western-style functioning industrial societies.
They should maintain their ancestral values and maintain their ancestral way of life.
I think, on the other hand, that it is a mistake to assume that it's just a matter of culture and that the basic mental ingredients are the same with all races.
Because, after all, you find Africans who've been living in North America for 400 years now, they've been exposed to the culture of the West, but they still don't operate in a Western society in the same way that whites or even Asians do.
But what did you think of this comment, Mr. Kersey?
Well, first off, I want to Thank our listener for sending in that very thoughtful comment.
I don't agree with it at all.
And I do come up.
I had the same observation you did.
Why would you want then to have an entire civilization and culture ascribed to positions that are unattainable when left to their own devices?
I just go back to what you said.
I go back to what you said in your great piece on Hurricane Katrina back in 2005.
My gosh, that's 18 years ago, in August of 2005, when you said, when left to their own devices, Western civilization, or any civilization for that matter, disappears overnight.
And I think that's probably the most, I don't find it controversial at all, but I think that's something that Uh, when you wrote that, it probably got you more canceled than anything you've ever written, but it was a profound observation and it's one that we continue to see.
I mean, in South Africa.
Good.
Well, no, I was just going to say, let's assume that he's right and it's a question of culture and not a question of basic underlying intelligence.
But if that's the case, cultures are very, very difficult to change.
And then Africans, if they wish to embrace their culture, then they should embrace the kind of society that comes along with that culture and not expect electricity and paved highways.
And jet airplanes and cell phones and things like that.
You just can't have it both ways.
And this is why, I mean, even if he's absolutely right, and the average IQ of the South African black is 100, their society is crumbling around them because it's not a society that fits with their values, and their values and their culture seem to be very, very resistant to change.
I'll give you one quick story that illustrates what you just said.
Yep, this is from Bloomberg from yesterday.
South Africa beats climate goal as blackout slashes.
Hey, that's our next story.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
You're jumping the gun.
You're jumping the gun.
You know what?
I'm not jumping the gun.
I'm doing something to illustrate, you know, just the absurdity of, but, but truthfully, though, you know, that's what a program like ours, a podcast like ours, we should be having these conversations.
The most important conversations to have for both our future as a people and the future that Africans want to attain once they realize,
hey, wait a second, this is...
It's not working.
It's not working, and the condition of Africans, you know, around the entire world are the same wherever
they are found left to their own devices. And the question is,
why is that and what can be done to change these seemingly unattainable goals?
Well, in any case, we thank our African listener, and we hope we have many more,
and we are happy to hear from people all around the world.
Now here is another comment.
This person says, Last week you were struggling to remember the name of the black woman who said, Slavery is the price I paid for civilization.
Indeed I was.
I was very embarrassed not to come up with her name.
Our listener says, That was Zora Neale Hurston in her essay, How it feels to be colored me, published in 1928.
in 1928. Now, Zora Hurston lived from 1891 to 1960, and the listener goes on to send
some quotations from that essay, How It Feels to be Colored Me.
I am colored, but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief.
I think that's very funny.
I am not tragically colored.
There is no great sorrow damned up in my soul nor lurking behind my eyes.
I do not mind at all.
I do not belong to the sobbing school of negrohood.
Then here's another selection.
Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves.
It fails to register depression with me.
Slavery is 60 years in the past.
The operation was successful and the patient is doing well.
Thank you.
God, can you imagine a black person saying that today?
Then she goes on to say, yes, slavery is the price I paid for civilization.
The choice was not with me.
It is a bully adventure and worth all that I have paid through my ancestors for it.
No one on earth ever had a greater chance for glory.
Smart woman.
Very smart woman.
Yes.
Then she goes on to say, it is thrilling to think, to know that for any act of mine, I shall get twice as much praise or twice as much blame.
That's a remarkable insight.
And she's writing this in 1928.
Any achievement she makes, some people are going to say, wow, a black person managed to do that.
Or if something goes wrong, she's going to get twice as much blame.
Then she goes on to say, Sometimes I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry.
It merely astonishes me.
How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company?
It's beyond me.
Would you repeat that one line about twice the blame or double?
That was amazing.
Yes.
What she's talking about, she says, no one on earth, and she's talking about black people, and living in America is a bully adventure and worth all that I have paid through my ancestors for it.
No one on earth ever had a greater chance for glory.
It's thrilling to think.
To know that for any act of mine, I shall get twice as much praise or twice as much blame.
In other words, she's living this really vivid existence as a black woman in America.
And if she's a success, she's going to astonish people.
If she's a failure, people are going to dump on her harder than ever.
What a way to look at things!
It's really quite remarkable.
And then she says, she says elsewhere, This is interesting, too.
too. Suppose a Negro does something really magnificent and I glory not in the benefit to
mankind but in the fact that the doer was a Negro. Must I also go hang my head in shame when a member
of my race does something execrable?" Pretty interesting.
And no, there are photographs of her on the internet. She looks, she looks, she's not, you
know, You might expect this person to be quite light-skinned.
She's not clearly all black, but she's not particularly light-skinned either.
She looks quite intelligent.
She's very chicly dressed in a hat.
But yeah, Zora Neale Hurston.
I'm very grateful to this listener for having sent us these remarkable quotations.
I might have to do something about her, write, make a video about her or something.
I'm quite impressed with her.
Especially that last quote.
I love that.
Especially that last quote. I love that.
We are constantly bombarded with stories.
stories in the mainstream media, Mr. Taylor, about the first time that a black
accomplishes something, a black individual accomplishes something that a
white individual or a member of another race had done years, decades before, you
know, the first black person to climb some mountain or to swim across some
lake or something. It's, it's really that silly or the first black coach of
something. And what she said is, is so profound from the 1920s. Why should I,
That's right.
When, when the, when the, when the adverse, you know, when, when the opposite happens,
you know, it's exorable.
I mean, what the heck?
So, and, and that's something that you always hear, you know, Steve Saylor has always written
about that.
He's always said, well, why is a white guy, should I take pride in all this?
And, and, you know, it's the inverse of that.
It's like, well, you know, as part of a civilization, if you know, in a multiracial civilization,
you know what, it is somewhat impolite and it is somewhat, you know, um, racially, uh,
cheerleading, if you will.
And that, to me, is one of the reasons why a multiracial society just can't work, because of that constant antagonism.
Makes it very tough.
Well, we've got a lot of ground to cover here.
Yet another comment.
By the way, do you remember what your estimate of New York City population was last week?
Because somebody says it's wrong.
I wanted to say 13 million?
14?
Well, our listener writes in to say, I believe it's 8 million.
The internet says it's 8.8 million.
So he is more right than you, Mr. Kersey.
Wow.
I stand corrected.
Yes.
Well, I hope you're sitting down.
And he mentions Biden's mortgage innovation, in which people with good credit scores are penalized, so that people with lousy credit scores get subsidized mortgage payments.
He goes on to say, and this guy clearly knows what he's talking about, credit scoring is a well-proven, I know well-proven, time-proven predictor of the likelihood of repayment to the lender.
It's statistically valid and useful.
Merely three measures, the stability of income, Income to debt ratio and reserve assets go a long way in any credit transaction accurately to predict repayment.
With mortgages, past credit history behavior and handling money is important and the information is readily available.
Lots of credit card debt with spotty payment history is bad.
Credit cards paid off on time?
Good.
Same issue with car loans.
Unique to mortgages is the down payment.
The greater the down payment, the more the borrower has at risk, and therefore the less likely to default.
Conversely, small down payments put the lender at greater risk, as the borrower can walk away with minimal personal loss.
I believe that if the government had not allowed low down payment mortgages, but rather maintained the historical 20% down payment, the 2008 financial crisis would never have happened.
Saving 20% is an act of frugality and discipline.
It requires hard work, regular work.
20% down also limits the size of the debt you can qualify for.
And finally, should you fall on hard times, the bank need only foreclose and sell the house for 80% of original value because the borrower carries 20% of the downside risk in his down payment.
Simple, logical, statistically supported.
Now, of course, the reason they started pressuring the banks to make all these dodgy loans is the idea was to get more non-whites into homes.
And then they couldn't very well say to white people, well, no, no, no, you're going to have 20% if all the black people are getting zero down payment loans.
And this thing could be seen coming a mile away.
In fact, I knew a mortgage lender who said, hang on, hang on.
Now, I should have sold all my stock at that point.
I never did.
No, this is absolutely crazy, and this is just another policy, this business of penalizing the people who have worked hard and saved and paid off their debts so that you can subsidize the losers who don't pay their debts and want a free ride.
As our listener says, the government has ideas how to modify credit practices and insurance that are really welfare under the guise of equity.
Absolutely right.
Now, here's the story that you were going to mention.
Because, it turns out, South Africa absolutely leads the world in something.
Here we get all this bad news about South Africa.
Well, here is a congratulations South Africa story.
It's ahead of its target for cutting emissions of greenhouse gases.
Output of the climate warming gases from the world's 14th largest polluter, is already falling, even though its target, adopted by the cabinet in 2021, forecast a decline only beginning in 2025.
They are two years ahead of the plan!
Congratulations, South Africa!
Well, now why is this happening?
It's the regular breakdowns of the coal-fired power plants that supply more than 80% of South Africa's electricity mean that less carbon dioxide is being pumped into the atmosphere, and daily rotational cuts of more than 10 hours a day.
Can you believe that?
More than 10 hours a day, no electricity.
They are further limiting emissions.
Well, that's one way to do it.
South Africa aims to reduce its emissions to between 350 and 420 megatons of CO2 equivalent
by 2030.
Well, Crispian Oliver, the executive director of South Africa's Climate Commission, said,
We reckon we are well within the range of meeting the 2030 target.
Excellent news!
Congratulations, South Africans!
Yes, the 2021 goal was key, by the way, this reduction.
They made this promise in 2021.
It was key to South Africa securing $8.5 billion in climate finance from some of the world's richest nations.
If the decommissioning dates of some coal-fired plants are pushed back, it will make little difference to emissions as they produce little electricity in any event, the guy said.
In other words, we don't have to shut these things down.
They've already shut themselves down.
Keeping them open for another year or two is neither here nor there, Oliver said.
It's very difficult to recommend the decommissioning of power stations in the middle of an energy crisis.
So, exactly right.
I mean, everybody is without electricity for 10 hours a day, sometimes for 24 hours a day.
And so they got $8.5 billion to cut emissions, presumably not by just blowing up their electricity generation.
Where did the money go?
That's what I want to know.
And what fool governments would give a dime to these incompetents?
I suspect, Mr. Kersey, it was your government and mine.
But this is just incredible.
They promised to cut emissions.
And we give them $8.5 billion to do that, and they can't even maintain their power plants.
And so now they're saying, well, yeah, the plan was maybe to decommission some of these power plants, but we're not going to do that because we had an emergency in an energy crisis.
And in any case, we're generating so little energy that we're meeting our emissions targets without even trying.
And thus, access to more money, like you said.
Yeah.
Good grief!
But again, congratulations, South Africa, you are leading the way.
And you know, this is the African way, and it does make us think of our African listeners who said, well, is it a cultural problem or is it something else?
And Mr. Kersey, you and I have to agree that it is something else.
Now, Mr. Kersey, you had a story that I had not heard about.
A handyman has been killed under suspicious circumstances.
Yeah, before we get to that, I would just say I think we do have a way as the global elite want to see the de-industrialization of the West.
I think all you have to do is the Great Replacement in France, Germany, all these countries.
If you want to get their energy footprint lowered, just follow the South African model.
So get rid of the population that created the energy.
I don't think, I don't think the global elite want electricity cuts for 10 hours a day.
But anyway, let's get to our handyman.
I know, I know.
Alright, so this is right outside of New Orleans.
Kenner Police testified to potential racial component in killing of handyman Lawrence here.
A couple weeks ago we talked about the killing of two white guys in Tulsa, Oklahoma by a black guy who, it was all racially motivated.
He had hate crime charges.
Well, this follows about a week later.
Kenner Police on May 9th revealed new details on a possible racial component in last month's fatal shooting of Metairie Handyman Lawrence Heer, who was killed while working outside a Kenner house.
Police said one of the two suspects is admitted to his role in the crime, explaining they just wanted to go out and kill a white guy.
Taj Matthews and Maurice Holmes, both in their mid-20s, have been booked with first-degree murder in connection with the slaying of the white handyman.
The 66-year-old, also known as Peanut, was gunned down April 10th, seemingly without warning, while repairing a mailbox on Kenner's Georgetown Place.
Quote, we have not found any relation between the victim and the suspects, Kenner Police Chief Keith Connolly said on May 9th.
In fact, the victim's back was to the suspects, When the shots were fired at a preliminary hearing.
That seems to be the way they do it.
That was the two white guys that that black guy killed in Tulsa, Oklahoma, just walked up from behind and shot him in the back of the head.
Not the way white men fight.
Isn't that what Elon Musk said?
That's what Tucker Carlson said.
I think Elon Musk actually liked that.
Anyways.
They testified that the two black guys were captured on surveillance video taken at Clemson Drive apartment complex just two hours before the killing.
In the video, the detective testified Holmes can be seen passing a weapon to Matthews.
The detective also testified that a box of 9mm bullets were found on the floor of the car used in the deadly drive-by shooting.
Once again, both defendants worked at nearby IHOP.
The detectives said Matthews went to work that morning to present a doctor's note saying he was sick.
He was allowed to leave two hours before he was killed.
Well, this was premeditated, it sounds like.
Exactly.
They went out to kill a white guy.
So there you go.
Didn't it say there was a partial racial motive or something?
But wasn't there some modification in what was that first sentence or two out there?
Police said one of the two suspects has admitted to the role in the crime, explaining they just wanted to rob a white guy.
No, no, no, before that.
No, the headlines.
The headlines are something like a... Oh, a potential racial component.
Yeah.
Merely potential.
Merely potential.
He said he wanted to kill a white guy, but that's merely a potential component.
This story comes to us from Fox 8 Live, which is out of New Orleans.
So, yes.
Potential racial component.
Potential, okay.
Well, you know, we'll just keep our options open.
You know, it might have been, I don't know, it might have been a love triangle.
Maybe left a bad tip at IHOP.
Yes.
Now, George Floyd never dies, you know?
He just never dies.
He's never going to fade away.
The Justice Department plans to release its new anti-discrimination policy for federal law enforcement officers on May 25th.
That's just in a few days, boys and girls.
That's the anniversary of St.
George's death.
The announcement was deliberately scheduled to honor the great St.
George.
Under the new policy, federal law enforcement officers will be prohibited from using neighborhood crime statistics in law enforcement activities, and they will be banned from considering ethnicity when developing sources to try to learn about foreign terrorist organizations.
Can you believe that?
Law enforcement will be prohibited from considering a person's actual or perceived race, ethnicity, gender, nationality, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, sex characteristics, disability status, or gender identity.
These restrictions extended the use of facially neutral factors as a proxy.
In other words, if you are going out looking for people driving pimp mobiles because you know the perp has to be black, that's no good either.
That's no good either because that's profiling.
Nationality is being addressed in the Justice Department's list of protected characteristics, potentially reducing FBI agents—potentially, clearly reducing FBI agents—ability to counter foreign terrorist organizations.
Using sources of a certain ethnicity to gain information about a terrorist group is not permitted.
Can you believe that?
If there is a bunch of Muslims who want to slit our throats, you can't try to infiltrate it using Muslims.
Can you believe that?
But I bet they'd make a real exception if you're trying to infiltrate a white group.
No, you're not going to send some black lady lesbian in there to try to infiltrate some alleged white supremacist group.
Officers are not allowed to rely on general stereotypes, even in situations where an agent has been tipped off to a bomb threat and must quickly gather information to deter the attack.
This is an example that is actually set forth in the FBI's new guidance.
And I guess you can't, you can't use these, you can't even assume that the bomber or the murderer or whatever it is might be a man.
Can you, can you, this is, this is just such insanity.
Now, as far as neighborhood crime statistics are concerned, listen to this.
Officers and agents should not use statistics about arrest rates in particular communities when making decisions about where and how to focus their activities.
In other words, you've got to decide, okay, we've got to find a criminal or we've got to stop a particular crime.
They're not allowed to use statistics about arrest rates in particular communities.
The FBI goes on to say, current and historical patterns of discriminatory law enforcement have led to higher rates of arrest in certain communities, particularly African-American communities.
That's the only reason they're more likely to be in jail.
Crime statistics are inherently biased and unreliable, and using them reproduces the very discrimination that the DOJ policy is designed to eliminate.
This is deliberate blindness, deliberately closing your eyes to the reality of crime Because you really believe that all law enforcement officers all around the world, all around the country, have been falsely arresting blacks and so we completely ignore these data when you're going to try to stop crime or find a criminal?
This, this, this is just utter insanity.
This is Merrick Garland.
Merrick Garland runs steroids.
And this is all in honor of George Floyd.
George Floyd, that great hero, that great hero who brought us leaps forward to a happier, healthier, more equitable America by dying.
He died for your and my sins.
I just can't get over this.
All those statistics are wrong, Mr. Kersey.
They're just cooked up by racist police officers.
Wow.
Well, when the demand for racism outstrips real racism, did you know that we can go and hunt down virtual racism?
I did not know this.
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
I'm still trying to get over the story you just told.
I mean, what's the point of law enforcement?
Exactly.
What's the point of keeping any statistics at all?
What's the point of going on any kind of your own experience?
If in your own experience, every rapist is a man, and then it turns out that there's a rape, you're not supposed to distinguish on the basis of sex?
That's one of the things you can't have hunches based on.
You might as well ask all the FBI agents to turn in their badges or turn their guns on themselves and shoot themselves.
But anyway, Yes, here you can, you know, if you can't find racism, this is something that you can do if you're a black person or a Muslim or whatever it is.
Video game developers, including a team at MIT, are developing virtual reality games that simulate black people and Muslims suffering discrimination.
Yes, yes.
Developed by MIT researchers.
On the Plane is the name of the game.
It's designed to simulate the supposed horrors of being Muslim while airborne, enabling gamers to confront prejudice, such as racism and xenophobia, and potentially develop a more inclusive perspective about others.
Now, I think it's all supposed to go one way, of course.
It's white people who are supposed to play these games.
Oh, how awful we are!
But I bet you, you know, there's going to be people who wish there were more racism in the world, and they could be victims, and they've never had the experience, and they're just going to get on this game and say, oh, gosh, this is what it feels like.
Oh, boy, those white people are bad.
In any case, Caglar Yildirim is an MIT computer science.
He says, this project is part of our efforts to harness the power of virtual reality and artificial intelligence to address social ills.
Well, boy, I'm sure Kaglar Yildirim knows all about American social ills and how bad white people are.
Through the exchange between two passengers, players experience how one passenger's xenophobia manifests itself and how it affects the other passenger.
The simulation engages players in critical reflection and seeks to foster empathy for the passenger who was othered.
Due to her outfit being not so prototypical of what an American should look like, he says.
Okay, so you get this woman in a hijab, and I guess, and I don't know any more about it, but some white people say, are you a bomb carrier?
Boy, well, that's going to make us think critically.
Meanwhile, and here's another game, MIT is hard at work.
Barnstormers VR, it's called.
VR is for virtual reality.
It's designed to let gamers experience the triumphs and discriminations of a Negro League era baseball player.
I mean, aren't you just dying to do that?
You can experience a virtual world of segregation.
I am not.
You can experience it.
And the baseball players try to navigate this virtual world of segregation.
Players can see poverty and inequality in the urban areas around them.
Wow.
Wow, there's just not enough of the real stuff, so you're going to go back, when did the Negro League end?
About 1950s?
You know, go back half a century, so you can experience segregation, look at poverty.
But when's there going to be a video game for what happens to a young white woman if she wanders in the south side of Chicago, huh?
When are we going to see one of those?
Or, I don't know, if what happens to a white guy if he asks black people to stop misbehaving in public?
You know, is MIT going to cook up one of those for us?
I kind of doubt it.
But meanwhile, on the subject of perpetual insanity, it sounds like Baltimore is trying to sue car manufacturers.
It's not just Baltimore.
It's a number of American cities where this one car... This is actually a very funny story because, again, it's a high-trust society that builds these cars, and it's in America that is quite different than the one that produces these vehicles.
Baltimore is suing Hyundai.
I guess your point is these are these are Korean cars.
in KIA over massive spiking car thefts.
Yeah, those are both Korean manufacturers.
That's correct.
The city, yeah.
And a lot of these are manufactured in the United States.
Now there's a huge KIA plant outside of Atlanta.
I guess your point is, these are Korean cars.
They're just not built for black people.
Well, they're built for a high-trust society where TikTok isn't used to teach people
how to steal these cars easily.
So the city of Baltimore has filed a federal lawsuit against car manufacturers Kia and Hyundai, joining a number of cities who say the companies created a public nuisance by making cars that can be easily stolen.
Yande and Kia's decision to put cost savings and profits over public safety has had significant consequences for, insert racial data, 65% black Baltimore and its residents as it has in other cities, the lawsuit says.
Car thefts in the city have nearly doubled this year compared to the same time last year.
Part of a nationwide trend after videos showing how to easily steal the vehicles racked up millions of views on TikTok.
I'm sure you are one of the people who made those views TikTok up, Mr. Taylor.
I downloaded them.
I studied them for hours.
I can do that in my sleep now.
Oh, yes.
Certain Kia and Hyundai models can be stolen using a screwdriver and a USB charging cord.
Cleveland, St.
Louis, and Seattle are among the other cities that have started suing the car companies earlier this year.
Baltimore's lawsuit says the companies, quote, failed to keep up with industry standards, end quote, and claim it was a result of business decisions made to reduce costs and boost profits, quote, notwithstanding decades of academic Academic literature and research supporting the deterrent effects of anti-theft technology.
Well, you have to have an anti-theft population to ensure that you have social capital, which does not exist apparently in majority black Baltimore, St.
Louis and Cleveland.
The dramatically increased rate of Hyundai and Kia theft in Baltimore has required city and police resources that would not have been needed but for Hyundai and Kia's deliberate failures, the lawsuit says.
Car thieves, many of them teenagers, take advantage of these features and engage in reckless driving, creating substantial safety risks to themselves and Baltimore residents and their property."
I believe a couple weeks ago, maybe about a month ago, there was a story of two black kids who stole a Kia or Hyundai and they ran into a car.
I don't remember if it was St.
Louis or not, but they killed a little baby.
I'm not sure if you remember that story.
Yes, yes, and it's the fault of the car manufacturers.
Yeah, well, here's an example of what happens in Baltimore, and then we'll get to your point.
In February 2023, 54-year-old Alfred Fincher was killed in East Baltimore after a man driving a stolen Hyundai fled from police, ran a red light on North Avenue, crashed into another vehicle, and then smashed into Fincher, causing Causing a vacant building to come crumbling down on both vehicles.
Now, if you've not seen this video, I implore all of our listeners to go watch this, because if something truly sums up America in 2023, it's this video.
It's a terrible video, but at the same time, it shows the devastating consequences of ignoring the reality of race in every aspect of our lives.
A vacant building comes tumbling down On top of an individual who stole a car that the city of Baltimore is now suing the manufacturers because they're too easy for black people to steal.
That's a mouthful.
Yes, yes.
But it's just a mind-boggling thought that this is actually happening.
Now, I wonder what the design decisions were at Kia and Hyundai.
I mean, presumably you need a key, you need to have some sort of device even to get into the car, much less hotwire it or whatever it is.
I guess if I watched the TikTok video, I'd know all about it.
I'm sure it wasn't a cost-saving measure.
There are ways to secure cars.
I mean, my car is 28 years old.
You need a key to get into it, for heaven's sake.
A key to make it go.
You've got a great car that still works perfectly.
Yes, I suppose somebody could hotwire it.
And they're blaming the car manufacturer.
Well, this is like all of these black-run cities and various administrations that want to sue gun makers because black people are shooting each other with these guns.
It's just the most irresponsible kind of thinking.
But this is the way we're heading.
It's never, ever anybody's fault so long as the miscreant is a BIPOC.
Then, you know, the victim society.
The easiest solution to all of this would just have every car have facial recognition software where, you know, you set it immediately to be your face to start the car.
I mean, technology's not... Go ahead.
Could you have a blacklist?
In other words, if it's a certain face, the car blows up?
Huh?
I didn't suggest that.
I did not suggest that at all.
What do we have to do?
Enlist Q from the James Bond series to give us the latest anti-theft technology to ensure that your car is safe in a majority black city?
Oh my goodness.
Well, now here is a story that could be titled, Is it possible that even liberals are capable of learning?
And it's about Asheville, North Carolina.
Asheville, I was there a couple of years ago, a very pleasant little North Carolina mountain town.
And, as the article says, what had once been a lovely and idyllic tourist town of 90,000 people snuggled in the Blue Ridge Mountains quickly went to hell after the Democrats who run the place embraced the anti-police movement.
Downtown Asheville has been hit especially hard due to a lack of police presence.
During the BLM riots, Asheville lost nearly 100 police officers.
That means staffing levels are below 50%.
Yes, their city police force cut in half.
The city also lost half of its detectives.
Well, surprise, surprise, within two years, violent crime spiked to a level that put Asheville in the top 10% of America's most violent cities.
Now, I don't know what it used to be, but that sounds—that is very surprising to me.
Top 10% of America's most—this is a mostly white place.
Or maybe it's got black parts of town that I never found.
But they say fed-up merchants describe the city's downtown districts as nearly lawless.
Vagrants sleep and do drugs in the doorways, barge into businesses yelling, brazenly shoplifting, and frightening customers and employees.
Sounds like San Francisco.
Some longtime downtown workers are calling it quits, disgusted with having to clean up human excrement, needles, broken windows, and trash.
Aggressive panhandlers and transients, some appearing to be mentally ill, some appearing to just be perfectly normal, make them fear to walk alone to their cars at night.
They say they call the police, but the response is slow if the police respond at all.
After Believe it or not, after the police force was cut in half, break-ins increased by 200%.
Many businesses no longer bother to report break-ins.
They just report the loss to their insurance and move on.
The Democrats who run Asheville, unopposed, appear ready to cry uncle.
A May 1st, 2023 press release reads, City of Asheville announces downtown safety initiative kicking off.
And for three years they sat back and did nothing as their picture-perfect town went south, but now it seems they're going to bring back the police.
So, as I say, the title of the story is, Is It Possible?
Is it possible that if they have to step over too many piles of human excrement, clean off too many piles of needles, and they get broken into at a rate 200% higher than before, maybe they're capable of learning?
Yeah, you know, I've been to Asheville a number of times.
That's very close to the beautiful city of... I'm sorry, that's where the Biltmore is.
The Biltmore's not that far from Asheville, correct?
That's correct, yes.
I highly recommend that as a vacation spot for all of our listeners.
Well, maybe wait a while.
Maybe wait a while for the new police force to get back into action.
I was referring to the Biltmore.
It's a very hippie place.
It's unfortunately got a lot of the granoli white type of people who have made Denver and Boulder so inhospitable.
You know, the fact is, the fact is, if they actually maintained a police force, these sort of hippie, trippy, yuppie places can be rather pleasant.
All these kind of high toned restaurants and they also liberal, liberal, liberal, but there are no black people around.
You know, you go into one of these wave the homo flag and BLM banners all over it.
No black people there.
And but anyway, that is that is the way they behave.
All of this hypocrisy.
Now, there's a new a Navy ship has got a new name.
And this is an article from National Public Radio, my number one go-to source for balanced, thoughtful reporting.
The U.S.
Navy has finally shed the last two ship names that honored the Confederacy.
Oh boy, makes me want to sing Dixie.
The USS Chancellorsville is now called the USS Robert Small.
After a man who stole a Confederate steamer and delivered it to the Union Navy.
It's a move much more consistent with the Navy's values, said Captain Edward Angelinis, who commands the ship.
So stealing a ship is consistent with the Navy's values.
That was news to me.
Of course, it was General Robert E. Lee and General Stonewall Jackson who won a decisive victory.
At Chancellorsburg in 1863, Chancellorsville, I beg your pardon, Chancellorsville in 1863.
And you can just see NPR's eyes widening in astonishment as one of their typists typed this line.
As recently as 1989, the U.S.
Navy saw fit to name a warship for that battle.
Can you believe it?
Well, it was really one of the most remarkable achievements by American military men ever in the history of our armed forces.
Yes, they did see fit to name a warship for that battle.
Just seven years ago—again, now, you can see NPR writers' eyes are big as saucers—just seven years ago, there was still a portrait of Leon Jackson displayed in the ship's wardroom.
Can you believe that?
But, as NPR reassures us, the U.S.
military is in the process of renaming all bases and warships that are out of the Confederacy, including Civil War generals who enslaved people and fought against the U.S.
military.
All those generals out there, you know, they ran around Africa enslaving people.
The newly christened USS Robert Smalls may be the most direct repudiation of that legacy.
And, now this will be very heartwarming for NPR listeners, the first time the current captain walked aboard and was announced as the captain of the USS Robert Smalls, rather than USS Chancellorsville, the crew started cheering.
He said, they certainly weren't cheering for me, they were cheering for the namesake.
It's the first time I've seen that in three command tours and 27 years in the Navy, he said.
Ooh, what a virtuous white man.
The steamship's confederate owners, as it turned out—I mean, this is this Robert Smalls guy—he knew how to operate a steamship.
He was a slave, but he was a well-trusted, capable guy, and they trusted him so much that it never occurred to them that he would get together a crew of blacks and take the ship out of Charleston Harbor and go out to the U.S.
Union Navy blockade and turn the ship over.
Which is kind of a gutsy thing to do, but now we are naming a U.S.
Navy ship after a ship thief.
Well, I mean, this is a Navy, Mr. Taylor, that back in 2016, they named a John Lewis class oiler operated by the military seal of command, the USNS Harvey Milk.
So, Harvey Milk.
I think you have to remember that's the extent to which We're seeing just the transformation of the country.
And this was, this is 2016.
Remind our listeners, some of whom are not necessarily Americans, who Harvey Milk was.
Yeah, the ship was named after Harvey Milk, a gay rights activist who served in the U.S.
Navy during the Korean War.
He held the rank of lieutenant and was discharged in 1955 for his homosexuality.
The ship was officially named at a ceremony in San Francisco and is the first U.S.
Navy ship named for an openly gay person.
He represents a symbolic milestone for the military following a long history in which gay service members were unable to serve openly.
Don't ask, don't tell.
So he was he was a civil and human rights leader who who promoted I would say.
A gay navy.
Yes, a gay navy.
Yes, in the navy.
Go ahead and blast your village people, folks, in the navy.
You can sell the seven seas and you can know that the USS Chancellorsville is no longer protecting the American people.
At least they didn't just send it to the bottom.
They changed its name.
That was really very considerate of them.
Now, you know, but you know, this got me thinking, has there ever been a Navy ship named for a Union victory?
I mean, is there a USS Gettysburg or USS Battle of Atlanta?
That's kind of a curious thing, isn't it?
Of course, the Battle of Chancellorsville really was just an extraordinary achievement by these brilliant Confederate generals.
And I really can't think of a Union victory that quite compares with it just in terms of strategic maneuver.
Although the siege of Vicksburg was a pretty impressive victory by Ulysses S. Grant.
But anyway, just as a coda to the story about the Navy, let us remind our listeners which way the United States is heading by pointing out that only 12% of available American young people ranging from ages of 17 to 24 are eligible to serve in the military.
Only 12%.
The rest are disqualified because they suffer from mental illness, drug use, physical inabilities, or they are too fat, or they have a charming mix of a variety of illness.
There you go.
Only 12%.
Now, Mr. Kersey, you have a story about just the joys of diversity as Latinos and blacks vie for power in straight out of Compton.
All right, my NWA listening friend.
Yeah, this is one of those great stories to remind us all that in a multiracial society, democracy is merely a racial headcount.
This is from the Washington Post, and it's been getting a lot of play by goofy conservatives who are like, oh, see, this is what identity politics do.
No, this is what happens when you actually advocate for your people in a crumbling civilization where, again, It's down to the lowest common denominator, and that is race, especially as whites have just completely abandoned Compton.
The title of the Washington Post piece, and I implore all of our listeners to go read this, in black-led Compton, a Latino majority fights for political power.
Because this is a story that I think you could extrapolate out across the entire nation as the Great Replacement continues unabated, Mr. Taylor.
The city known for its black culture is flip majority Latino, but its leadership remains all black.
A group of Latino vaquero.
Again, I've never actually encountered this word.
My Spanish is back from high school and Littleman College.
Vaquero.
Vaquero.
Want to change that.
And for my ignorance, what is vaquero?
That is a Spanish or a Mexican word for a cowboy.
Ah, vaquero.
OK.
Yes.
Well, the riders on horseback clopped past corner stores and barking dogs through busy downtown streets and along a creek feeding the Los Angeles River.
Spurs on their boots, sombreros on their heads, and chaps riding up their calves.
This is the forgotten Compton, Rogelio Diaz said on a recent Sunday while riding his 12-year-old horse Yoli.
The city south of Los Angeles is known as one of the great hubs of black culture, producing countless black athletes, rap legends, and other celebrities, from Serena and Venus Williams to the NWA.
We know what that stands for.
Well, we won't say it.
This is a polite show.
We can say that WA stands for With an Attitude.
Yes, yes.
That much we can say.
Nike is With Attitude.
But Compton is no longer a black city.
Forty years ago, the city's population was 74% black.
If you were to actually take it about 60 years ago, I think the population would be about 80% white, but that's not mentioned in the story.
It's on the bottom.
Forty years ago, the city's population, like I said, was about three-fourths black.
Now it's nearly 70% Latino.
On Weekly Rise, Diaz and other members of his non-profit, Connecting Compton, want to remind the city's 93,000 residents that vaqueros, on horseback, a Mexican-American tradition, Are as representative of this community as the pop culture references for which it is better known.
Public perception isn't the biggest optical Compton's Latino activists say they face for gaining greater recognition.
The city's leadership still reflects reflects its demographic past with an all black city council and school board.
It has never had a Latino mayor.
Compton is part of a congressional district represented by a Latina lawmaker But its first and sole Latino council member was ousted last year after being accused of election fraud.
Now, Latino activists attribute their lack of representation in Compton's elected offices to a struggle to find candidates and traditionally low voter turnout, among other issues.
2021, during the city's last mayoral election, Latinos made up an estimated 38% of the votes cast, despite being 50% of registered voters, according to a WAPO analysis of voter registration data.
Black residents accounted for 45% of votes cast while making up only roughly 32% of registered voters.
The entrenched black leadership, Mr. Taylor, has also done little to engage with the Hispanic community.
No inroads in this post-racial society.
Latino activists say while clashing over the need for Spanish-speaking government workers, this has resulted in a lack of murals and monuments dedicated to Latino heroes, they say.
Oh, no wonder the black people in Compton are shooting each other.
No murals!
I'm sorry, no wonder the Hispanics are in trouble.
Yes, no murals.
They have to have murals.
That's a crazy thing about these Latin Americans.
They've got to have murals.
Apparently they just go into deep depression if they don't have murals of Sancho Panza.
You might be right.
There should be a study on that.
Let's see here.
It's a, quote, it's a very pro-black environment right now in the administration with Compton, Diaz said.
It's just constant events and movements that are pro-black and not necessarily for all in Compton, end quote.
Well, I mean, what percent of Compton is white at this point?
It's got to be less than what, 5%?
Anyways, Compton began voting in black leaders, including its first black mayor in the 1960s after the civil rights movement and the passage of the Voting Rights Act and a statement to the city's In a statement, the city's mayor, Emma Sharif, who is black, said she is proud of Compton's history as one of the first and only cities in the region to have as much black representation as we have had.
Being voted into public office while Black Americans fought racial segregation and discrimination, that has a special significance for me.
She, quote, cannot speak to why there's never been a Latino mayor.
I hope there will be Latino representation in our future.
In the meantime, she said, the city is doing quite a bit to engage with the Latino community, but we know there is always more to do.
Now, some Black residents say they fought too hard for political power to relinquish it just yet, and that Compton's Black leaders are still battling racism from other racial groups, quote, It's like Game of Thrones.
We have to keep this power.
We have to keep the little bit that we have, which is all we have, said Nina Child, a black local activist and filmmaker.
I would love to see her films, by the way.
And she finishes the quote with, and we're not giving it up, end quote.
Now, the story, go ahead.
No, well, I think it's probably going to be tough for those Hispanics.
The blacks will fight them tooth and nail every step of the way.
Yeah, just to put a bow on this story, Compton has been at the center of fights for power before.
It was once a predominantly white, wealthy community where actor Kevin Costner was born in the 1950s.
I believe, Mr. Taylor, that George P. Bush grew up, or that former President George Bush, the vice president to Ronald Reagan, I believe he grew up in Compton as well.
I wonder why.
Black people were kept out by racial covenants.
Gosh, let's bring those back.
That prevented them from buying homes.
As those restrictions were lifted, black families moved in and white people left in 1960.
I wonder why.
I wonder why.
Yeah, I- Pure, pure, pure, pure irrational prejudice.
We don't get into that, of course, in this article.
Yeah, the irrational prejudice is Latinos not being able to take over power yet.
In 1963, the city elected its first black city council member, marking the start of Compton's rise as an iconic black stronghold and signifying its decline also, which is left out too.
But as the city's crime rate exploded in the 1980s, some black families began to leave for wealthier, safer communities, i.e.
less black, whiter safety communities.
They were replaced by Mexican and Central American immigrants, some of them undocumented, seeking cheap rent and working class jobs.
The demographic of the city changed, but it remained poor with a 17% poverty rate compared to 11% nationwide.
Only 9% of residents have a bachelor's degree or higher.
Uh, and then, um, you know, it's just, it's just another story bemoaning the lack of Latino representation, but the writers, as you would say from NPR, whose heads exploded over the fact that in 1989, you know, you're, you're having a ship named for Confederate victory.
I don't know who the media, the mainstream media would side in the story.
You have to, you have to placate black power, but at the same time, Do a hat tip toward rising Latino, Latina representation due to the demographic majority they possess.
Exactly.
Who wins in this scenario?
This is just a grievous sight to see if you're a liberal.
You just can't explain it.
And you know what they would ultimately boil it down to is the idea that black people are behaving in this power-hogging way.
You know why?
Because they too are actually agents of white supremacy.
They have absorbed all of this illiberal gimme gimme gimme thinking of white people, and that is why they're hanging on to power.
Now you said it's 70% Hispanic now, and not one single, all the school board is black, the city council is all black, and it's 70% Latino.
Correct.
That's correct.
Wow.
Wow, they really are, and they know how to hang on, those black folks.
Wow.
Well, as that lady said, we ain't giving it up.
Well, here is a Joe Biden story.
In his commencement address to graduates of Howard University just on Saturday, he said, on the best days, enough of us have the guts and the heart to stand up for the best in us, to stand up against the poison of white supremacy.
Hmm.
Only on the best days?
I mean, on the best days, we can stand up against the poison of white supremacy.
I guess the rest of the time, not enough of us have the guts and the heart to stand up for what's best in us.
He goes on to single it out as white supremacy is the most dangerous terrorist threat in our homeland.
He says, I thought when I graduated we could defeat hate, but it never goes away.
It only hides under the Under the rocks, Mr. Kersey?
I'm sure he would think that we are malicious haters.
It only hides under the rocks.
Biden said, urging the audience to redeem the soul of this nation.
He says, it's here where I see the future.
And that's not hyperbole.
Well, alas, Mr. Biden, it's not hyperbole.
Things go as they are.
That is the future.
And he says, I'm not just saying this because I'm at a black HBCU.
What a dopey thing to say.
I mean, it gives the impression that's exactly the reason why he's saying it.
But once again, once again, white supremacy, most dangerous terrorist threat to our homeland.
But you know, I thought it would be easy to steal Kia Hyundai cars.
Well, no, we can blame that on Kia and Hyundai.
We can't blame that on white people.
That's really dangerous.
Nobody, nobody seems to be complaining about the fact that we got this old white man, probably going to go up against another old white man, or maybe a not so old white man.
Because when he first decided he was going to run in 2020, there were a lot of people saying that he shouldn't run because he was white.
Do you remember that?
The Daily Beast had this article called, to the white man running to be the Democratic presidential candidate.
Can you not?
And then TV host Trevor Noah asked the same question to Bernie Sanders.
He says, isn't this a time for you guys to step aside?
And then there was a column in the San Jose Spotlight called Step Aside, White Man, It's Time for Women of Color to Lead.
And even New York Times, it had a major article called Should a White Man be the Face of the Democratic Party in 2020?
Well, what's changed in 2024?
I wonder why they're not avoiding or why they aren't getting this stuff.
I guess because he's the incumbent.
Who knows?
Or it may be that Biden is engaged in this kind of crawling and constantly telling people that Paul Kersey is a public enemy number one.
He's probably doing it maybe to avoid this kind of attack.
He's crawling like this.
Who knows?
Maybe he can be more royalist than the king.
He can rail about dangerous white people more than any woman of color ever would.
Two quick thoughts.
One, the story that we did right before Joe Biden's comments at Howard, I think illustrates just the absurdity of the democratic coalition of the fringes that exists and just how sobering the reality that they're united by their animus toward White America, toward the historic American population, as Peter Brimlow calls it at VDARE.
And I think it is also very important to point out that in 1950 Compton, one-fifth of 1% of Compton's entire population was non-white.
Just 10 years later, the city was 40% black.
When you remove those structures that are in place to protect White civilization, Western civilization, i.e.
restrictive covenants, this is what you get.
And you have the tax base flee when a city becomes violent, that where violence didn't exist before.
And this is, you know, this is this is the reality of America in 2023, Mr. President.
And it has nothing to do with white terrorism and white supremacy.
Well, we are at minute 59, sir.
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