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June 21, 2023 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor

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No More DEI for Texas

Jared Taylor and Paul Kersey welcome Texas’s decision to follow Florida and rid its universities of DEI. The hosts also discuss Juneteenth, how to cure “hate,” the perils of mispronunciation, and why The Little Mermaid sank like a stone. Thumbnail credit: © Adam Davis/EFE via ZUMA Press

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	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
	I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance, and with me is my indispensable co-host, Paul Kersey.
	The date today is June 21st, year of our Lord, 2023.
	That means that it is two days after Juneteenth.
	Juneteenth, that wonderful celebration of blackness without which the nation could hardly survive.
	I hope all of you around the world had a joyful and reflective Juneteenth.
	I hope you all contemplated the sins of the white man and wondered how we could possibly have taken so long to abolish slavery Juneteenth is a wonderful day to feel good about feeling bad about being white.
	And Mr. Kersey, I'm sure, knows this, but Juneteenth, the official name of the holiday is Juneteenth National Independence Day.
	Correct.
	I guess it's supposed to replace that old phony Independence Day, Fourth of July, because the most important people in America were not free.
	They weren't independent.
	My gosh, so now we can really do it properly and celebrate the Independence Day that really and truly matters.
	Boy, oh boy.
	Well, we're going to talk a little bit about Juneteenth and how the traditional celebrations of Juneteenth have come to be de rigueur all across the country.
	But first, let's make sure that we can cover our comments.
	You know, we used to save the comments to last and we ran out of time, but we really like to have our comments available to the public.
	And this is an important one.
	It's a small correction, but it's a correction.
	And I mentioned yesterday that a certain Justin Hansford, he is a professor of blackness at Howard University.
	He'd gone to the U.N.
	and he had insisted that the U.N.
	should shake the United States down for reparations.
	And I said that he was the U.S.
	ambassador to the U.N.
	I have been corrected.
	The U.S.
	ambassador is Linda Thomas-Greenfield, a black woman.
	Justin Hansford apparently serves on the United Nations Permanent Forum on People of African Descent.
	So I gave a mistaken impression because I was myself mistaken.
	Another comment.
	This is from a lady who lives in Nottingham in the United Kingdom.
	She says, this week an African migrant murdered three of our people.
	Two young 19-year-old students were stabbed to death walking home.
	And a white male caretaker who was just weeks away from retiring.
	Already the family of one of the young men who was stabbed to death is advising everyone to hold no hate in their hearts relating to race or religion.
	Local social media pages where a few brave souls have dared to point out this African shouldn't even be here, that they do not live up to our Western morals, have been shot down by the mad lefty brigade, she says.
	Nowhere is safe.
	When are we going to stand up and call things as they are?
	Excellent question.
	Excellent question.
	This is the problem that white people face all around the world.
	And I'm very glad that we have listeners in Britain because our struggle is your struggle.
	So, let us get into the subject of Juneteenth.
	Well, if I could ask Mr. Taylor, how can people get in touch with us?
	Why don't we go ahead and give that out at the beginning as opposed to... That's a good idea.
	That's a good idea.
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	Once again, in the To field, whatever email provider you use, just send me an email at becausewelivehereatprotonmail.com.
	And as Mr. Taylor said, we encourage your stories, your feedback, Your criticism and your corrections.
	But most importantly, we encourage you to send your emails so you can sign up for that award-winning, once-a-week, New Century Foundation update that comes courtesy of Mr. Taylor and his great staff.
	Ah, award-winning.
	Were it only so.
	I guess we grant awards in our minds, Mr. Kersey.
	But, in any case, back to Juneteenth.
	Juneteenth has become a typical celebration of blackness in that our African-American fellow citizens seem to take this as an occasion to open fire upon each other.
	And mass shootings in communities across the U.S.
	killed at least 12 people and injured more than 100.
	And shootings with multiple people killed or wounded happened in suburban Chicago, Washington State, Central Pennsylvania, St.
	Louis, Idaho, Idaho, believe it or not.
	Southern California, Baltimore, and a number of other places.
	All told, there were 15 mass shootings over the weekend.
	It's a black thing, Mr. Kersey.
	I don't think you would understand.
	But one of the weekend shootings was in Willowbrook, Illinois, where at least 23 people were shot, one fatally.
	It's actually, Mr. Taylor, it's up to 29.
	It's up to 29.
	Oh, dear.
	Is that so?
	Is that so?
	Yes.
	In this one, in this one shooting.
	This one incident.
	Yep.
	But still only one death.
	Correct.
	Yeah, I'd love to know the number of casings that were found.
	That's unfortunately absent.
	Well, this is apparently in a suburban Chicago parking lot where hundreds of people had gathered to celebrate the 10th.
	And a motive for the attack wasn't immediately known.
	Surely it was the motive must have been exuberant celebration of the end of slavery.
	Isn't that worth a little festive gunfire, wouldn't you think?
	Oh, gunfire, fireworks, M80s, yeah.
	A Bud Light or two?
	No, I'm joking.
	Well, gosh, I'm not sure Bud Light's very popular amongst our African-American fellow citizens these days, but now you have a few more observations to make about Juneteenth.
	Yeah, I'll be quick, I'll be quick.
	The fascinating thing about Juneteenth is, as you mentioned, the cities where there was violence that happened.
	I mean, Asheville, North Carolina, they had to cancel a Hmm.
	No.
	a weekend two day celebration for Juneteenth.
	And I would imagine the black population of Asheville, North Carolina is probably under 5%.
	So you think that there's a shooting there that happens and sends everyone off scurrying and running away.
	But the one that happened in Milwaukee is really interesting
	because we have video of this, Mr. Taylor.
	I'm not sure if you've seen.
	Not sure if you've actually seen it, but it's just, it happens on,
	it happens on the corner of, of course it does.
	Martin Luther King Drive and Chambers, that intersection.
	Again, it's fascinating how this happens all the time.
	Basically, the black police chief of Milwaukee Jeffrey Norman said the shooting stemmed from a fight between several young females on Martin Luther King as they were gathering for the city's Juneteenth event, which had just ended.
	So they had been celebrating, what's the official name of it again?
	The Juneteenth Independence Day?
	Juneteenth National Independence Day.
	Boy oh boy.
	Yeah, so six kids were shot and then the police chief went on and on and on about how,
	Milwaukee, what's going on with their children?
	Eight years I've been a part of the Juneteenth celebration.
	This has never happened before.
	And I've been in this city all my life.
	This has never happened before.
	Well, Mr. Police Chief, Milwaukee has one of the highest rates of non-fatal shootings and homicides
	in the entire nation, courtesy of a population that represents just 40% of the city.
	I'm referring to Africans in America that comprise that percentage of Milwaukee.
	So again, this is.
	This is just amazing.
	And then of course you've mentioned San Diego.
	I'd imagine the black population of San Diego, Mr. Taylor, is probably under 5% as well.
	And I'm not sure what city it was in Idaho, but it's just fascinating that there were this many
	shootings across the country.
	Well, you know, we may be leaping to unwarranted conclusions.
	The Idaho shooting was not necessarily blacks.
	I just don't know.
	I didn't look up.
	I didn't find out for sure, but this was just a list of mass shootings.
	I mean, Idaho, there are a number of Indian reservations.
	There are not too many mass shootings on them.
	But in any case, we should not push the facts any further than they deserve to go.
	But I just looked up Asheville, North Carolina.
	It has nearly 9% black population.
	Well, I stand corrected.
	I've been there a number of times, and I just thought it was just a bunch of white people who drink craft beer.
	Yes, well I know.
	You probably spent the whole time and didn't see a single black person.
	I saw maybe one or two.
	Yes, they are there.
	It's like going to Frederick Merriman, one of these really cutesy, Bobo-type white people places.
	It's got about a quarter of the population is black.
	They just stay to themselves.
	I guess they just like being around black people.
	Isn't that amazing?
	Well, let's see.
	There was a remarkable article on curing hate.
	So all of you out there who are accused of being haters, listen up, because you could perhaps be cured.
	This is quite an interesting article.
	It has to do with the substance known as MDMA.
	I don't know what that stands for, but it's something of a recreational drug in certain circumstances.
	But in February 2020, a woman by the name of Harriet DeWitt A professor of psychiatry and behavioral science at the University of Chicago was doing an experiment on whether MDMA increases the pleasantness of social touch in healthy volunteers.
	Now what they mean by social touch is if you're just sitting there and somebody comes up and strokes your forearm, is that more pleasant to you after you've had a dose of MDMA?
	Well, The latest participant in this double-blind trial, a man named Brendan, wrote to her and said, this experience has helped me sort out a debilitating personal issue.
	Google my name.
	I now know what I need to do.
	Well, it turned out that this person, Brendan Sweeney, had been the leader of the U.S.
	Midwest Faction of Identity Europa.
	A notorious white national group rebranded in 2019 as the American Identity Movement.
	Now, as it turned out, after he had gone to the Unite the Right rally, then activists at Chicago Antifascist Action exposed Mr. Sweeney's identity and he lost his job.
	Well, the people who were doing this experiment thought, uh-oh, uh-oh, they looked him up and they discovered what a wicked, wicked person he is.
	And when he had said, I now know what I need to do, they thought he was just going to grab an AR-15 and go out and massacre minorities.
	Turned out not to be the case.
	He later told the baffled research assistant, love is the most important thing.
	Nothing matters without love.
	And so, these optimistic people think that MDMA and other psychedelic-assisted therapy could transform the field of mental health through widespread clinical use in addressing trauma and other conditions, substance abuse disorders, depression, eating disorders, and perhaps even racism.
	Did you know that?
	Wow!
	I read this story, and just so we're aware of all our listeners, you're saying the acronym MDMA, which is a synthetic drug that alters mood and perception.
	It's actually known as, you know, Ecstasy Molly.
	What?
	Ecstasy and Molly.
	Oh, that's Ecstasy?
	Yes.
	I've heard it referred to as that.
	I see.
	Well, I'm just not very hip on the drug scene.
	So, maybe while I'm jabbering, you can look up what MDMA stands for.
	It's probably something utterly unpronounceable.
	Yeah, you know, I know a pharmacist who would be able to enunciate this for us, but it's Methylenedoxia Methamphetamine.
	Also, it's an amphetamine.
	Well, well.
	And it results in ecstasy.
	Well, okay.
	But so the question is, can MDA transform people's beliefs?
	Some researchers have begun to wonder if it could be an effective tool for pushing people who are already somehow primed to reconsider their hateful ideologies towards a new way of seeing things.
	And let's see, it may help people see through the fog of discrimination and fear that divides us.
	I know you are very badly befogged, Mr. Kersey.
	MDMA might help you see clear.
	Oh, I saw clear long, long ago.
	And I think, uh, I think no, you know, no, uh, no MDMA is going to put me into a,
	you know, uh, rec, you know, I'm not gonna use recreational drugs to stimulate
	a fake, uh, you know, a fake, uh, a fake matrix.
	So it might not be fake.
	It might not be fake.
	It may turn you into just one of these hug everybody types.
	A docile creature, eh?
	In any case, a journalist wanted to hear more about what had happened.
	Directed from the horse's mouth, they say.
	So, she interviewed Sweeney.
	And he says, and this is the first person I have ever heard to say this, apparently he told the journalist he was emboldened by the populist rhetoric of Donald Trump during his presidential campaign.
	Gosh, I mean, I've really never heard of anybody who says, wow, because Donald Trump came down the escalator and he talked about Mexican rapists, it's okay for me to be proud to be white.
	I've never heard of anyone saying this.
	I've only heard of journalists speculating that people did this.
	But apparently, Sweeney says this is what happened.
	Now, he was After he was fired, after he was doxxed, he was fired from his job, ostracized by his family and friends, oh boy, oh boy.
	But then, in early 2020, he saw an ad for a drug trial.
	He figured it was something to do and to earn a little money.
	And after he took MDMA, it suddenly seemed so obvious.
	Connections with other people were all that mattered.
	Now, the journalist quotes him as saying this, this is stuff you can't really put into words, but it's so profound.
	And that night, that very night, Sweeney reached up to the Chicago Anti-Fascist Action and connected with the former activist there, whose name is not identified, who had gone undercover with Identity Europa and blown his cover and identified him, doxed him.
	He just wants to make peace with the man who doxed him.
	Sweeney hired a diversity, equity, and inclusion consultant to advise him.
	He enrolled in therapy, began meditating, and started working his way through a list
	of educational books.
	Wowie zowie.
	It takes a lot.
	It takes a lot to clear out that fog of discrimination, Mr.
	Kersey.
	But apparently, Brendan Sweeney is still struggling.
	There are moments when I have racist or anti-Semitic thoughts, definitely, he said, but now I recognize these thought patterns are harming me.
	Well, believe it or not, there's been a case study published about Brendan in the journal Biological Psychiatry.
	He is so important.
	Empathy is the one weapon in the human repertoire that can rid us of the curse of xenophobia, says this journalist.
	And people wonder about the possibility of using MDMA to facilitate a dialogue between Republicans and Democrats.
	What do you think?
	We ought to put MDMA in the water!
	Oh, I'm sure in a few years Alex Jones will be doing some rant, not about turning the frogs gay, but, you know, they're trying to turn us all into these Molly ecstasy-pilled, addicted individuals who are incapable of independent thought.
	No, this is a chilling story.
	I mean, look, in the past, I'm not so chilled by it.
	I think he must be a bit of a freak, this guy.
	That's what I'm referring to.
	That's what I'm referring to.
	This guy's life is ruined and he hires a DEI consultant?
	I mean, what the heck?
	Yes.
	Well, but that was after the MDMA.
	That was after he became ecstatic.
	That stimulated him to hire his own personal DEI consultant.
	Boy, imagine what a session like that would be.
	I think you'd need about 10 DEI consultants.
	They still might not penetrate your hateful core.
	Does his insurance cover that, I wonder?
	Good question.
	Soon it will.
	But apparently, Talibaners, Talibanis use MDMA to channel a connection to the divine during prayer.
	Furthermore, Brendan Sweeney says, a lot of guys who end up in these movements, meaning these hateful, hateful white people movements, have a history of doing MDMA.
	So there.
	So it's not a universal cure-all.
	He does think, though, that with the right framing and mindset, it could be useful for people who are already at least somewhat open to reconsidering their ideologies, just the way it worked for him.
	There you go.
	Ah, Brave New World.
	Brave New World will take the right drugs and will think the right thoughts.
	Isn't that what our rulers would love to discover?
	Well, here's a guy who I guess he should have taken a dose of MDMA, but this is longtime announcer for the Oakland Athletics.
	He mistakenly pronounced the n-word while he was talking about a game.
	He was discussing his visit to the Negro League Baseball Museum.
	But he got tripped up on that first word, that dangerous word that begins with an N. Mm-mm.
	That is pretty lethal for white people.
	I bet even if they take MDMA, they might mispronounce that.
	In any case... Yeah, exactly.
	Give him his dosage.
	Ah, yeah, yeah.
	Up his dosage, I should say.
	Sorry.
	That's right.
	Apparently Glenn Kuiper, or how do you pronounce his name?
	K-U-I-P-E-R.
	He apologized on the air.
	He caught himself later saying he said something that didn't come out quite the way I wanted to, and he issued a statement through the network saying, I could not be more sorry and horrified by what he said.
	By what I said, I hope you'll accept my sincerest apologies.
	Could not be more sorry and horrified.
	Wow.
	Boy, that's strong talk.
	You know, it reminds me of George W. Bush said that the worst part of his presidency, the worst part, was when Kanye West accused him of racism for not having correctly gone about salvaging the black people who suffered from Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
	Do you remember that?
	You said that I had completely forgotten about that because my dosage of MDMA is helping out so much make me forget so
	much stuff. So I've got a patch on my left arm. No, mr. Taylor. That's a
	fascinating point, which you just said because again Have you seen the clip of what this guy did
	Uh, which guy?
	The Oakland Athletics announcer.
	No, no, I haven't.
	Is there a clip?
	No, I haven't seen it.
	It's very hard to even tell what he says.
	Oh, is that right?
	It's not as if it's anything pernicious or anything that's done to demonize.
	It's just literally a mispronunciation that's barely negligible.
	You're like, wait a second, did he say what I think he said?
	And even the guy to his right, uh, didn't notice.
	Didn't miss a beat.
	I think he may have blinked a little bit, like, huh?
	Did he say what I think he said?
	But it wasn't like, oh my gosh, I'm going to admonish this guy for doing this.
	Well, yes, let's say he's sorry and horrified.
	Boy, oh boy.
	And like George W. Bush, you know, he had the 9-11 attacks under his watch and a few other things happened while he was president of the United States.
	But the worst thing, the worst thing, his worst memory of all is being accused of racism.
	What could be worse?
	Well, this Kuiper guy.
	He reiterated his apology as part of another statement released later, taking full responsibility for what he called a terrible but honest mispronunciation during his excitement to talk about his trip to the museum earlier that day.
	Wow.
	So excited he had gone to the Negro team's museum that his tongue got tangled up.
	This is really part of his statement, too, that is quite eye-opening.
	Racists know that racism is in no way a part of me.
	It never has been, and it never will be.
	I appreciate the Negro Leagues Museum President Bob Kendrick and Oakland A's great Dave Stewart's public support of me in light of this.
	I suppose they are African Americans, but I'm not sure.
	They are, they're both.
	Yeah, Dave Stewart was the pitcher for the A's.
	Okay, well apparently they stood by him.
	They said he's a good guy.
	Now, Kuiper goes on to say, I am an honest, caring, kind, honorable, respectful husband and father who would never utter a disparaging word about anybody.
	Those who know me best know this about me.
	An honest, caring, kind, honorable, respectful husband and father who would never utter a disparaging word about anybody?
	You know, I bet he has uttered a disparaging word about somebody in his life.
	I just bet you.
	I just bet you.
	But what an incredible full tilt grovel that was.
	But of course, he was fired.
	Did him no good.
	Did him no good.
	You know, the more they grovel, it seems the more likely they are to be fired.
	I just don't get it.
	These are sad and sorry times for white people who get their tongues tangled up.
	I mean, you and I get our tongues tangled up at least once or twice, maybe a dozen times during one of these podcasts.
	Thank goodness we don't get them tangled up the wrong way.
	And even if we did, there's nobody to fire you and nobody to fire me.
	We're safe.
	But Mr. Kersey, I think you have a story about ski masks.
	Yeah, you know, Philadelphia is always a city that provides incredible fodder for our ever increasing fire of insanity across the United States, or what was the United States of America.
	And this one comes to us from Zero Hedge, one of my favorite websites.
	Philly introduces legislation to ban ski masks in public areas.
	Turns out masking wasn't just totally ineffective during COVID.
	The remnants of normalizing this behavior are now coming back to bite United States cities, where the practice, which formerly was just for the wintertime and committing crimes.
	Think about the old West movies where people would wear a bandana over their face to camouflage and conceal their identity.
	Well, it's now being used effectively for the latter because of now normal is is as become wearing a mask in public.
	At least that's the case in Philadelphia, where the city council is now mulling a ski mask ban.
	Well, but this would mean ski masks, but not the usual COVID-type masks.
	Correct, but a lot of people are wearing those in lieu of it.
	Because the city has experienced such an increase in crime since COVID.
	Oh, have you not seen some of the monstrosities people wear when they're out in public to protect themselves from COVID-19?
	It's extraordinary, some of these massive contraptions.
	I've seen people wear ski masks.
	Maybe they're going to commit a crime, who knows?
	Maybe it's just cold.
	And Mayor April, now anyway, City Council Member Anthony Phillips has commented, quote, you cannot distinguish a misguided kid from a common criminal.
	We cannot ignore it because the neighbors feel unsafe.
	We can't ignore the police's struggle to identify suspects.
	This is a public safety ad and a quality of life issue.
	The legislation would ban masks in public places like parks and schools.
	Legislation would carry with it a $250 fine for anyone wearing a ski mask in rec centers,
	daycares, parks, and city-owned buildings, and a $2,000 fine for anyone wearing one while
	committing a crime.
	Now, the bill excludes, quote, costumes along with anyone engaged in religious holidays
	or wearing safety equipment for work, end quote, meaning that Philadelphia may soon
	see an influx of Halloween and July parties, as well as religions that call for covering
	one's face.
	That's what Zero Hedge editorial means.
	Well, is there some sort of religion that celebrates with ski masks?
	I've certainly never heard of it, but I guess you can't rule out anything.
	I mean, again, Philadelphia is one of those cities that has seen such Since the racial reckoning began roughly three years ago, Mr. Taylor, Philadelphia is one of those cities that has seen the records rewritten each year, like Indianapolis and Milwaukee and Minneapolis for Indianapolis, I should say Milwaukee and Minneapolis.
	They've seen record homicides and nonfatal shootings, and people are terrified.
	Recall before the events of what happened to George Floyd when he died of the fentanyl overdose,
	Philadelphia had actually passed a rule saying that bulletproof glass in stores
	and little bodegas and little grocery stores was dehumanizing to blacks.
	Because of the interactions they had.
	And I've been to Philadelphia a number of times and it is extraordinary going into a fast food restaurant
	or a place like that and you have a little lazy Susan, which is the only way you can interact
	with the clerk of the store.
	They put the little thing there and then it goes around because the bulletproof glass.
	Yes, I remember.
	I remember when they passed that ordinance.
	Now, did they really make everybody get rid of their bulletproof glass?
	I would have to go back and look at it.
	Yeah, I'd have to go back and look to see what the outcome of that was.
	I wonder if that increased the murder rate, now that they can't hide behind their bulletproof
	glass. I would think a lot of people, they really did have to take that stuff down. They just
	closed their shops and we get the food desert just gets bigger and bigger. But anyway, you know,
	I really don't think though that a ski mask problem is going to be a very big one.
	How many people just walk around in ski masks?
	I can't remember the last time I saw anybody in a ski mask walking around downtown someplace.
	Of course, this does remind me, when the masking requirements first came into effect, There are all these black people up in arms saying, no, no, no, you can't make black people wear masks because everyone will assume that they are muggers or rapists or whatever, and they'll get shot down in the street like dogs.
	Remember them worrying about that?
	Never happened.
	Absolutely never happened.
	But they like to worry a lot.
	So, well, ski masks.
	I'll have to just keep my ski mask in my back pocket if I ever go to Philadelphia.
	Now you get fined.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Well, all right.
	Now, here is quite a story about the world in which we live, at least the country and the times in which we live.
	The Army's top civilian leader is Army Secretary Christine Wormuth, a lady, of course, a lady leader of the Army.
	And she says, we are a ready army, not a woke army.
	She explained that to reporters.
	A ready army.
	The comments came as the military contends with its worst recruiting crisis since switching to all-volunteer over half a century ago.
	Every branch has come up short.
	The army has a particularly hard hit.
	It is 15,000 recruits short.
	And Wormuth, however, Secretary Wormuth did acknowledge in media appearances that there was no doubt that the perception the military has gone woke is contributing to military recruiting woes.
	Although she says the problem has been caused by political rhetoric and not any of the military's policies itself.
	So this is what she says.
	What I'm trying to do is talk about now how that drip, drip, drip of criticism about a woke military, I do think it's having some counterproductive effects on recruiting.
	So I hope that we don't see any more of this kind of talk.
	Well, well, well, okay, no criticism allowed!
	Boy, this is really the country we live in, isn't it?
	She says, no, no, stop talking about this.
	Stop talking about it.
	It's not our problem.
	We are not woke at all.
	We are ready.
	Well, ready, set, go.
	Meanwhile, Texas has joined Florida as a state that has done away with DEI officially.
	This is a very good news story, by the way.
	Yes, it is a good news story.
	We have so few of these, but occasionally one will come our way.
	Republican Governor Greg Abbott signed a bill that will ban diversity, equity, inclusion offices and initiatives all across higher education institutions in the state.
	DEI offices will close beginning January 24th, and activities that seek to promote certain groups of individuals over others based on race, ethnicity, and gender will stop.
	The bill also prohibits diversity statements for job applicants at Texas universities.
	As well as mandatory DEI training for any purpose.
	Now, I don't know if that applies only to universities or private places.
	Probably private employers can do all the mandatory DEI training they like, but certainly not at universities.
	And this idea about diversity statements for job applicants, this is just so sickening.
	You want a job teaching and you have to explain to somebody just how committed you are to DEI.
	Of course, if you're non-white, probably all you have to say is, well, I am diversity personified.
	But what does a white person got to say?
	He's got to say, oh, I'm so sorry, I'm white.
	As soon as I get the job, I'm going to resign.
	So you can give it to somebody who's not white.
	In any case, no more of that rubbish.
	Republican lawmakers have largely championed the elimination of DEI across the state, arguing they favor race over merit.
	However, Others have pointed out that removing DEI programs might negatively affect researchers' abilities to get federal funding grants because usually the application requires some kind of DEI commitment.
	That's probably true.
	But just because the universities have fired all its DEI officers doesn't mean that you can't say when you're talking to the feds, oh, I love diversity, and we're going to try to spend this money in some sort of way that's going to increase diversity.
	You might fail.
	You might not increase diversity.
	But this stuff has worked its way into practically every crevice in every field, in every aspect of American society, to the point where if you're going to study cancer, And you want $500,000 from the federal government to do this, you've got to explain that some of that money, or maybe all of that money, is going to help improve diversity, equity, and inclusion.
	Crazy.
	Now, earlier this year, Abbott's office warned state agencies that using DEI policies in hiring violates the law.
	And of course, as I say, this makes Texas the number two state after Ron DeSantis, Florida's Republican governor, signed into law a similar proposal.
	So yes, you're right, Mr. Kersey.
	This is excellent news.
	Excellent news.
	And it's great people are fighting back.
	Yeah, and hopefully we'll see this in other states that are completely dominated by a Republican legislation.
	I'm thinking of Missouri, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi.
	I agree.
	South Carolina, you know, Louisiana, Oklahoma, all these states need to follow suit and you know,
	do this. Yeah, I agree. Now, it seems to me that if you're talking about state universities,
	these are publicly funded universities. If I were part of the legislature, and where these
	Republican dominated states, I think I would start an initiative to remove funding not just from for
	DEI, but every ethnic studies or sexual orientation studies or gender studies program in the whole
	Just get rid of all of that stuff.
	Absolutely get rid of it.
	They could do it.
	They could say, nope, we're not going to have one of those departments.
	We are the piper.
	It's the piper who chooses the tune.
	And we ain't singing anymore black studies or homo studies tunes anymore.
	That could be done.
	We'll see if anybody's brave enough to do it.
	It's funny.
	A lot can be done.
	I mean, everybody despairs and wants to do it.
	Yeah.
	Chris Rufo has shown.
	I forget.
	Is it Rufio or Rufo?
	Rufo.
	Rufo.
	He's on the board.
	Here's a guy who was writing for City Journal and now he has been appointed by DeSantis.
	I think he's a head of one of the colleges or something down there in Florida.
	He's on the board.
	He's on the board.
	He's on the board, yeah.
	But the thing is, this is the type of stuff that is infectious.
	People want to fight back.
	And just to just to point out Stephen Miller's group, the advocacy group in law that's just trying to make it so that the Civil Rights Act protects white people, too.
	They're going after a lot of major corporations.
	And I mean, my goodness, Mr. Taylor, I've gotten emails from a lot of our listeners or a lot of readers of SBPDL over the years giving me the documentation of slides that they've had to see and be
	exposed to from these DEI activities which I've passed along to contacts within media
	that have gone very viral. It's like why would I just publish them? And I
	don't want to disparage all the work that you've done or that's at VDARE or
	that I've done, but I want to get the largest message out.
	Of course.
	You know perfectly well that Google has completely throttled search engine optimization for our sites.
	I've gladly passed along some of these incredible slides that these brave individuals working for Fortune 100 companies have sent to me.
	I mean, there is a lot to take away from the story and be happy about, but it's not enough yet.
	It's a start.
	It's a start.
	And of course, meanwhile, racism is everywhere, everywhere, everywhere.
	And this, I thought, was quite an intriguing story.
	And I'll have a question for you.
	It has to do with athletics.
	And you know so much more about that than I. And you will have to explain.
	But a pair of international men's soccer matches, two of them, were abandoned This Monday, after two teams refused to take the pitch, that is Brit talk for going onto the field, following instances of alleged racial abuse.
	Yes, the New Zealand football confirmed that its team, or as they say, this is a British story, its side, refused to take the pitch for the second half of its match against Qatar.
	In the other match, the Football Association of Ireland said that its under-21 squad walked off the pitch following an alleged racist remark made by a Kuwaiti player.
	Both matches were taking place in Austria, of all places, though in separate cities.
	Both of these alleged racists, therefore, one was a Qatari and one was a Kuwaiti.
	So these are Arabs insulting blacks.
	So boy oh boy, I guess yet more agents of white supremacy.
	White supremacy has poisoned the minds of Kuwaitis and Qataris.
	Boy oh boy, white supremacy is powerful.
	Now, my question for you, if one of your teammates is presumably insulted, and you say, we are so offended, we're not going to play the second half.
	Do you forfeit the game?
	I think you would.
	I would assume so, yeah.
	That's cowardice.
	So yeah, you lose the game.
	Yeah, and are they prepared to lose a game?
	Because one of their teammates, they think, was insulted.
	What if someone calls you a faggot, or someone says you're fat, or someone says your mama wears trooper boots and you get so offended you don't take the pitch, as they say.
	Your mom wears a ski mask in Philadelphia.
	Yeah, that's even better.
	This is really quite incredible.
	Are they really prepared to lose a game on account of that?
	Maybe they are.
	You know, as I say, racism is everywhere, even in Qatar and Kuwait, and racism is even in the air, in the air, wafting through the air, thanks to Canadian forest fires.
	Well, I'll tell you, this Canadian forest fire is still wreaking havoc on my sinuses, and I'm a white guy, not a member of a community of color, but why the wildfire smoke affects the health of poor people
	and communities of color the most.
	Now, this was an article that John Derbyshire brought light to that I saw over at VDARE.
	It was at Yahoo News and it was just seemed so silly, but let's just read some of the highlights from it.
	As millions of Americans across the Midwest and the Northeast last Thursday woke up to hazy skies
	and significant air pollution for a third straight day caused by smoke drifting from hundreds
	of Canadian wildfires, the impact of the smoke has not been uniform.
	Doesn't, again, poorer people and many communities of color already at a higher risk of particle pollution
	in their everyday lives, experts say, are disproportionately being affected
	by this latest wave of smoke infiltrating the region.
	It's only infiltrating regions where BIPOC somehow live, Mr. Taylor.
	This smoke is Get some sort of GPS embedded in it.
	Oh, wait, wait, wait.
	Let us be fair.
	Let us be fair.
	It's not saying the smoke only tracks them down.
	I know.
	Let us be fair.
	It says the poor and our pets are already predisposed because we have treated them so badly for at least 400 years.
	That's why the smoke is hurting them worse.
	I know, I know, I know.
	Hold on, I'm actually going to have to cough real quick here in a second, so I'm going to pull away.
	But this was written by Marquis Francis.
	He's a Yahoo News reporter.
	And again, this is just one of those situations where Derb, he joked that, you know, the headline writers for news outlets have the phrase, minorities hardest hit, set up in type or as a one keystroke macro to go on with these stories.
	He goes on to write that, quote, whether it's diesel trucks and buses in people's neighborhood, commuter cars or power plants, there are a lot of communities that have already been impacted by air pollution.
	Saccoby Wilson, a public health professor at the University of Maryland, told Yahoo News, this additional pollution from wildfires is making that situation worse.
	Well, Mr. Marquis Francis, I can tell you that my health, living in a whitopia here where I do, I've been hit very hard by this.
	My sinuses have been pretty Pretty messed up for going on 13 days.
	So yeah, for many city inhabitants, the article goes on without quality air filtration and access to adequate health care options.
	Living near sources of air pollution like major roadways, industrial facilities and ports can lead to a variety of health effects ranging from asthma to reduced lung function to cardiovascular disease.
	So again, it's just one of those clickbaity type stories.
	You know, the Northeast is heavily popular.
	You think about Maine and Excuse me, New Hampshire, Vermont, these are all heavily white states, and they're the closest in proximity to Canada where these fires were.
	And yeah, like I said, it was very weird.
	Did it impact you at all, Mr. Taylor, where you are?
	The sky looked a funny color, but there was never enough of it around to make me cough or make my eyes hurt.
	No, it all seemed really Rather overblown to me, so to speak, but I understand it was really a bother for a lot of people, but it's, well, I hope the smoke has cleared wherever you are.
	It has, oh no.
	Even if your sinuses haven't.
	Completely dissipated, it's just one of those just, not debilitating, but very exaggerated little battles with sinus problems and coughs.
	Dear me.
	I will hand, I will pass the baton back to you and let you roll with the next story, so.
	Yes, well, the American Medical Association has announced that it's going to de-emphasize the use of body mass index as a measurement in medicine.
	The AMA says it, quote, recognizes issues with using BMI as a measurement due to its historical harm, its use for racist exclusion, and because BMI That is, I suppose we should explain that that is the, that's basic, wait a minute, what does that stand for?
	Body Mass Index?
	Gosh, I've now forgotten.
	What does that stand for, Mr. Curtis?
	Body Mass Index?
	It's the ratio of your height to weight.
	In any case, BMI has done, it has been, because of its use for racist exclusion, And because BMI is based primarily on data collected from previous generations of non-Hispanic whites.
	Well, I have never heard of a body mass index being used to exclude people.
	It's apparently used to distinguish between fat people and not fat people, and I suppose you can have chronically undernourished and underweight people.
	You can tell them apart.
	It's an index of just how healthy your body status might be, but how it has been used in a racist way completely Baffles me.
	Now, also, the data collected from previous generations of non-Hispanic white populations, that means it's no good?
	Well, doesn't that suggest race must be real?
	Maybe if this, if these data collected from these wicked white people is not applicable to anybody else, that suggests race matters.
	And this is especially baffling and concerning because the AMA recently announced that race is biologically and medically irrelevant and should be ignored under all circumstances.
	But that's the reason BMI is no longer being used, because it's used to exclude, it's racist, and the data came from white people.
	So the group now recommends considering BMI, along with other factors, including visceral fat, Body Adiposity Index.
	I guess that means how much fat you have on your bones.
	Body Composition Relative Fat Mass, Waist Circumference, and Genetic Metabolic Factors.
	Well, all of that strikes me as much more difficult to collect than height and weight.
	BMI, that does stand for Body Mass Index, doesn't it?
	It does.
	Okay, very good.
	And I was stumbling around on that for a moment.
	I'm glad I didn't get it completely wrong.
	Another one of these embarrassing notes from a listener saying, you fool!
	Instead of realizing that BLM stood for Bureau of Land Management, I guess my mind is so focused on unpleasantness that I thought that stood for Black Lives Matter.
	Well, in the future, anything with the acronym BLM is going to stand for Black Lives Matter.
	So let's just let's just understand that.
	We'll have to rename the Bureau, I guess.
	Exactly.
	Meanwhile, In New Zealand, Auckland surgeons are now required to consider a patient's ethnicity when deciding who should get an operation.
	And priority goes to Maori and Pacific Islanders because they have historically had unequal access to healthcare.
	Now they say, don't worry, ethnicity is just one of five factors, but apparently it gets pretty heavyweight.
	And this has to do with a way to address the poor health outcomes, as they call it, for Maori and Pacific people.
	The equity adjuster waitlist score helps reduce barriers.
	What was that?
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	The equity adjuster waitlist score.
	Yes.
	You move up.
	You move up on the list.
	You come first if you are a Maori or a Pacific Islander.
	Because these people have inequitable health outcomes, says one of the health bureaucrats.
	Now, the number one inequity that they mention, the difference is that Maoris and Pacific Islanders don't live as long as whites do.
	You know what the obvious solution, of course, is?
	It's to withhold medical services from whites, operations, until they don't live any longer than Maoris.
	Isn't that the obvious solution?
	I mean, equity is what you want.
	You want equal outcomes, so yes.
	I mean, just forget about operations on white people.
	That will result in true equity.
	Well, instead of operations on white people, just give them the MDMA patch and tell them to go on their merry way.
	Presumably, if you give them enough MDMA, then that will end up with equity too, won't it?
	I mean, all of this is due to the wickedness of white people.
	It has nothing to do with the health habits of Maoris, whatever they are, or genetics.
	And so, presumably because it's all got to do with the bad, bad, bad things we've been doing for generations, if we are cured by MDMA, all that bad, bad, bad stuff will go away.
	Now, interestingly enough, some surgeons who spoke on conditions of anonymity, for reasons we can well understand, said that the new scoring tool is medically indefensible.
	They said patients should be prioritized on how sick they are, how badly they need the treatment, how long they've been waiting, not their ethnicity.
	One surgeon said he was disgusted by the new ranking system.
	Well, I suspect he's going to have to swallow his disgust, because they're not going to backtrack on something as obviously important as this.
	No, once you create this sort of incentive program, you incentivize race and ethnicity, that program's not going to go away.
	It's like the whole Juneteenth thing, going back to the beginning.
	As silly as this holiday is, Mr. Taylor, it's here to stay.
	Oh, it's absolutely here to stay.
	I mean, you would be just the worst sort of white supremacist if you said, no, no, I think we already have one holiday for black people.
	Do we really need two?
	We have a month for black people.
	Yes, we have a month.
	We should have a month of holidays for black people.
	But now, let's see, Mr. Kurz, you have a story about how difficult it is to tear down an ugly freeway.
	I looked that over and I didn't really understand it, so you'll have to explain.
	Yeah, this is one of those hilarious stories, and I'll go back because I had the great pleasure.
	Wish you could have been there.
	I had the great pleasure of seeing Steve Saylor in person for the first time in almost a decade.
	And he had one of these hilarious blog posts where it's one of these questions that we're not supposed to ask, but it's what he wrote.
	It's the umpteenth article that I've read about how a racist road destroyed a thriving black neighborhood in 1956 to 1966.
	But where now, he asks, are the thriving black neighborhoods that were spared?
	Every city has its own excuse for the collapse of its black districts.
	Rather than attributing each and every black business district's demise to some specific 1960s local urban renewal project, isn't it more likely the national cause was that lower class blacks became more numerous and criminal in northern cities and middle class blacks moved out?
	Now, again, that's a position you can't have because, you know, everything has to be the fault of white people and white racism.
	Well, you know, that's true.
	That's true.
	If it was all, if all these freeways and overpasses destroyed wonderful, thriving health, just wonderfully vibrant, beautiful places, Where are the ones that, where are the wonderful, thriving, beautiful, vibrant places that didn't suffer from this?
	Hmm.
	I guess the answer to that would be every single one of them was wiped out.
	Exactly.
	They all got tulsed and not just racialized, but they got tulsed in racial deconstruction so that, you know, white highways could be built.
	Every one of them, without exception.
	It's really sad, just a quick little anecdote.
	One of the sad things about these highways being torn down is that in the case of Birmingham, where I have deep roots, they actually destroyed one of the most beautiful train stations, Mr. Taylor, and I encourage all of our listeners to look this up.
	It was modeled after the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople.
	It was the most, I've heard stories about how opulent it was, and of course during Jim Crow segregation, there were certain areas of the Train station that blacks are not allowed to go into.
	Oh well, tear it down, tear it down.
	Exactly.
	So anyways, so here's the story.
	I'll just be brief on it.
	This is why it's so hard to tear down a crumbling highway nearly everyone hates.
	The interstate 81 viaduct in Syracuse effectively destroyed a black neighborhood when it was built and it has been falling apart ever since but getting rid of it is complicated.
	These days hardly anyone in Syracuse sees the hulking interstate 81 viaduct as anything but a mess or an ugly 1.4 mile overpass that spews noise and pollution
	and has steadily worsened race relations in the city. You know, it's funny, I've never heard of a
	bridge up until the Department of Transportation Secretary Buttigieg started talking about
	America's racist road problem, but again, I guess we can blame a 1.4 mile overpass as worsening
	race relations.
	So when the New York State Department of Transportation decided in 2019 that the crumbling roadway should be torn down and replaced with a pedestrian friendly boulevard, the kind of project that helped rejuvenate other American cities, a lot of people were excited.
	But again, actually demolishing a highway that nearly everyone seems to hate has proved more complicated than expected.
	Part of this stems from the fact that the area primarily affected is Syracuse's 15th Ward, a historically black neighborhood that abuts the highway and has long borne the brunt of its impact.
	Well, wait, wouldn't they want it gone if it's this horrible thing?
	You would think so.
	Why don't they want it gone?
	Well, residents in the 15th Ward, despite the promise of new development, are wary, Mr. Taylor, of gentrification and further disruption.
	City planners have also faced a string of legal challenges from suburban communities that say the viaduct's removal will harm businesses outside the city.
	So, again, if you tear this down, it's sort of like the case of Atlanta.
	This is sort of one of the stories we haven't talked about.
	Atlanta now is majority white, Mr. Taylor, and one of the reasons why that is is because a Georgia Tech student Created what's known as the Beltline which had which was an old railway that went around the entire city of Atlanta which has been the the source of massive gentrification all these little beautiful shops and restaurants and and little communities where people can go around because they've converted the railroad into this amazing bike and bike path and run and run path where people go and and
	You can get around the entire city very easily on it, and I guess that's why.
	I don't guess.
	I'm going to be very affirmative in my statement.
	Putting up something that is pedestrian-friendly is going to attract people that will create gentrification and will drive out the type of individuals, what Steve Saylor called lower-class blacks.
	It's going to drive up property value and taxes.
	Okay, then.
	The place, the neighborhood, was devastated by this thing.
	But they want to keep it, because if it ceases to be devastated, then white people will show up.
	Is that what we're dealing with here?
	That's 100% what we're dealing with.
	And that's the case all across the country.
	Oakland, California, whether it's New Orleans, there's a pretty famous video, I know you're not on Twitter, but there's a video of a white woman being harassed because she moved into a predominantly black area in New Orleans.
	And they're worried about property violence.
	I guess the attitude is, we love our misery so long as it's ours.
	And well, God bless them for that.
	They like it the way it is, so long as it's theirs.
	Ha!
	Well, all right.
	Some of these mis... Well, so you explained it perfectly to me.
	Now I understand.
	Everybody hates it, but apparently some people love it because white people might move in if it disappeared.
	Well, here's some more good news.
	Disney's live-action remake of Little Mermaid is slated to become a box office flop.
	Internationally, where Disney generally out-earns home markets, the film has been a bomb, making only $3.6 million in the vital Chinese market.
	The backlash in foreign markets has been attributed to the decision to cast Halle Bailey, a black woman, as Ariel.
	The choice of having a black woman portray a white character sparked widespread condemnation in China.
	Where Disney fanatics and movie critics alike consider it an insult to the spirit of Danish author Hans Christian Andersen's original Mermaid fairy tale.
	There was even an editorial on the movie in China's Global Times.
	Articulating the people's sentiment.
	Many Chinese netizens said they like Snow White.
	The image of the mermaid princess in the fairy tale has long been deeply rooted in their hearts, and it takes a leap in imagination to accept the new cast.
	That's what the editorial said.
	However, ordinary Chinese commentators on social media platforms like Weibo We're far less diplomatic, choosing to use much more direct racial language.
	I bet they were.
	Some Asian commentators have remarked that a secondary character in the feature, portrayed by a white English actress, Jessica Alexander, was far more beautiful and should have been cast as the title character instead of this black girl.
	Disney remains hopeful that audiences in Japan will break this Asian trend.
	So, I guess, Mr. Kersey, we're going to have to count on the Chinese to really complain about this mutilation and bastardization of our stories, our European stories.
	Well, good for the Chinese.
	It reminds me of the fact that it was the Egyptians who apparently yelled the loudest about this new Netflix series in which Cleopatra is an Africaness.
	That's correct.
	Yeah, you know, this movie has done, I believe, The embargo of Russia since the Ukraine conflict, Disney announced they won't even release these movies and the Russian Federation, because I'm actually on Box Office Mojo right now.
	And you're right.
	I mean, this movie domestically, it's done $255 million, but It's only done $468 million.
	I don't know the amount that it costs to make and then, of course, the cost to market it.
	And as a Disney shareholder, I'm very upset about this because their share price has gone down considerably since a lot of this whole woke craziness has impacted their Well, you have been punished.
	You have been punished for investing in a company that, as I say, mutilates our European stories.
	So I'm happy that it's gone down and that you have suffered.
	How dare you say that!
	Let's see, what else we got going here?
	Boy, there's just no end to glorious news.
	Oh, the cost of illegals.
	Here's a great story.
	Illegal aliens released in the United States are costing American taxpayers and the public hospitals they help fund billions.
	Illegal aliens almost always have no health insurance, and so they show up in emergency rooms.
	And this has led to significant costs for hospitals because providers aren't reimbursed.
	Of course, they're not reimbursed.
	What do they do?
	They raise costs for everybody else.
	Texas said its state alone had to pay between $60 million and $90 million every year to cover illegal aliens between 2006 and 2008.
	Uncompensated costs that ranged from, for the period, for that period, 2006-2008, $597 million to $717 million.
	That's as much as $1 billion in May 2023.
	Yikes.
	In Florida, for fiscal 2021, illegal aliens cost state hospitals about $312 million.
	dollars in May 2023 dollars. Yikes. In Florida for fiscal 2021, illegal aliens cost state hospitals
	about 312 million. In Illinois, Medicine for Illegals is a 1.1 billion dollar handout program.
	I guess that's part of the cost of getting illegals shipped in from out of state.
	And you know, I hadn't thought about it at the time, but that's another great reason for Florida or Texas, any of these people, to ship those folks north.
	Correct.
	Spread the wealth.
	Yes, yes, yes.
	Now, this is pretty interesting.
	In Illinois, an Illinois doctor says, we have had migrant patients on dialysis, cardiac catheterization, and in need of heart surgery.
	Many are very sick.
	They have long-term complications of chronic disease, not been cared for.
	Some of them end up in the ICU for 60 days or more.
	Gosh, imagine what that comes to on the bill.
	One of the main strains on hospitals is pregnant illegals arriving with little to no prior prenatal care, putting them at risk for potentially serious complications.
	Now, Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, who is a pretty interesting guy, he went to the US-Mexico border to warn of the massive waves of illegal immigration.
	He said hospital maternity wards are so packed with pregnant illegals that American women are having to reschedule their delivery dates.
	Now, we are going to not reschedule anything.
	We're going to schedule our date with our listeners, because our time is out.
	So we thank you, one and all, wherever you are, for spending this time with us.
	It is a pleasure and an honor.

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