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July 20, 2023 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Richard Lynn, Rest in Peace

Jared Taylor and Paul Kersey react to the sudden news of the death of a great scientist. They also discuss ShotSpotter, Pamela Smith, red-lining, sarcoidosis, and the people collecting millions for being black or brown.

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Lady of Renaissance.
I'm your host, Jared Taylor with American Renaissance, and with me is, of course, my indispensable co-host, none other than Paul Kersey.
Today is the 20th of July, year of our Lord, 2023.
And as is usual with us, we're going to start with a comment by a listener.
This is a particularly interesting one.
This person writes in to say, hello, this message is for Uncle Jared.
I'm a 32 year old melanin enhanced man from Cincinnati who is gradually becoming a fan.
We'll just have to speed that up.
Yes, we will.
I originally noticed a hit piece from the Young Turks that labeled you a terrible white supremacist.
Honestly, many of us who are seekers of the truth have grown weary of the term.
Boy, I sure have.
White supremacist.
So I investigated your content and have found you to be a genuine, sincere individual.
I would have no qualms living in your neighborhood.
You're not the evil man many have claimed you to be.
Also, he adds, my girlfriend is a melanin-deprived South Asian who passes for white.
So many amongst my kindred have been vocally disapproving of our relations.
This has opened my eyes further to the fact that even amongst the melanin-enhanced, there isn't as much tolerance as perhaps we demand of others.
Now this is kind of an amusing thing here.
I was looking through my girlfriend's Pandora radio stations the other day, and I saw James Taylor in her list of favorite artists.
Initially, my mind processed only the Jay Taylor part, and I thought my progressive girlfriend had been swindled over by you.
Another glance registered that I had misread the first name.
It made me think, though, that a clever way to reach a broader mass of people would perhaps be to advertise yourself as Jay Taylor rather than Jared Taylor.
People might innocently think it's James Taylor, and when you show up, they won't know the difference because, frankly, you people all look alike.
Not to mention, only white people go to James Taylor concerts, so it'd be a perfect opportunity to get to the heart of your desired demographic I wish you the best in your endeavors.
Now, I suppose this guy seriously, but at least has a sense of humor.
I can tell you this white guy's ever been to a James Taylor concert, but I'd like to
go see a Jared Taylor concert if you're, uh, if you're banned, if your quartet was still
doing stuff.
Oh boy, I used to play in a symphony orchestra and a dance band and a wind quintet, but I just got too busy for all that stuff.
If I could real quick, I'd like to also point out, Mr. Taylor, that today is the 54th anniversary of Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin, and Neil Armstrong walking on the moon back in July 20th, 1969.
So, here you go.
A small step for a white man, a great step, a great leap for mankind.
Now, let's start with this New York City teacher's test.
This was really quite a remarkable story.
We now know that roughly 5,200 black and Hispanic ex-Big Apple teachers and once-aspiring teachers will collect more than $1.8 billion in judgments after the city stopped fighting a nearly three-decade-old federal discrimination lawsuit that found a certification exam for teachers was racially biased.
Oh boy.
It's the largest legal payout in the city's history.
And as of just last Friday, 225 people so far who had failed what was called a liberal arts science test used for teacher licensing from 1994 to 2014 had already been notified they were getting settlements of at least a million dollars.
Gosh.
Yes.
I wish I'd failed that test.
Yes, yes.
But you see, if you failed and you're white, too bad.
It's only if you failed and you're not white.
Court rulings found the exam violated civil rights laws and allowed more white candidates to pass.
Boy oh boy.
Judgments are based on what the teachers and teacher candidates would have earned if they had passed the test and kept working in the city's public school system up until the present.
The further back they failed, the more they collect.
The case will generate hundreds of other future million-dollar or greater awards.
So Herman Grimm, 64 of Queens, was awarded the biggest judgment to date, a jaw-dropping $2,555,383.
having $2,555,383.
That is more than one and a half million back paid for time he never clocked, the lost interest
accrued and yet other compensation.
Under an agreement ...
And he didn't have to do any teaching.
No, not one lick.
He didn't have to show up.
All he had to do was sit at home.
And now he collects more than $2 million.
Under an agreement ironed out in November 2021, during then-Mayor Bill de Blasio's final weeks in office, the city agreed to set aside more than $1.8 billion to pay off the plaintiffs.
The cost is gonna be higher, though, because, listen to this, they'll be paying money for the plaintiffs to collect pension checks until they die, based on the time they never worked, including health insurance.
Can you believe this?
You're gonna get pension, pension, as well as back pay and interest.
Plaintiff's claims are being assessed by a court-appointed special master who has already racked up more than $8 million in fees.
What a gravy train this is.
The city is also on the hook for plaintiff's lawyer fees.
That's a sum totaling more than $43 million.
A 2003 trial, the first trial having to do with this, ended in the city's favor.
But in 2012, In the third Manhattan federal judge to take a look at this case, the tests were found to be discriminatory.
The federal judge was Kimba Wood, who ruled that requiring teachers to pass the Liberal Arts and Sciences test violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 because it had a disparate impact on blacks and Latinos.
It had a disparate impact, as every legitimate ability test does.
Yes.
And it wasn't a proper indicator of better performing teachers.
This has to be a bona fide occupational qualification.
She says, no good.
The test really doesn't tell whether you're going to be a good teacher or not.
But more than 90% of the white test takers passed the 80 question multiple choice and the essay.
And that's 90%.
But black applicants passed only 53% of the time and Latinos just 50% of the time.
I guess you had to speak English.
And the failures resulted in full-time teachers getting devoted to substitutes, and it kept aspiring educators from being hired.
What makes this even more absurd, Mr. Kersey, the city was simply following the teaching licensing requirements mandated by the state, and they didn't have any authority over the test.
It's been decades fighting the case, and that, of course, raises the cost, too, because the city had to pay its own lawyers.
But back to Kimba Wood, the federal judge who made that initial ridiculous ruling in 2012.
You don't think about Kimba?
Well, I'll tell you.
In her younger days, she was a playboy bunny.
She was?
Yes.
She was hopping down the bunny trail, hippity hoppity, Kimba's on her way.
I hope somebody, I hope someone splices that into something.
That was an amazing rendition.
Thank you for that.
Well, now don't get me wrong, Mr. Kersey.
I have nothing against a shapely young lady making a couple of extra bucks wearing a fake bow tie and a cotton tail.
I know that it is an unusual resume item for a federal judge.
You know, I say hats off to Kemper, but keep the rest of your clothes on, Mr. Kerr.
Well, you know, that's up to her.
If she wants to make more money now, she can just take a picture in her black little robe.
I don't know.
Well, in any case, she later caught the eye of none other than Bill Clinton.
Gee, I don't know why.
And he wanted to make her Attorney General.
But she got in trouble because although she was supposed to be the top federal law enforcement officer, she had some live-in nanny or something, wasn't paying the taxes on that.
And so she got nixed.
This was a series of events called Nannygate.
Bill Clinton's nominees.
Another one was Zoe Baird.
She couldn't be Attorney General either because she wasn't paying the taxes on her nanny.
But Kimba Wood ended up being a federal judge.
So there you go.
Now, as far as this Herman Grimm guy, there has been an interesting interview with him And I'll see if I can make this work.
We've never tried this kind of thing before, but I'm going to turn the mic around and see if we can listen.
And now, you let me know if Mr. Wood is—no, I'm sorry, not Mr. Wood—Mr.
Grimm is not coming through.
So, here we go.
I think he has some interesting observation to make.
And listen to a certain repetitive high-pitched squeak in the background.
Here we go.
Yes, I'm looking forward to this.
Hey, you were supposed to be talking.
We're going to start again.
Here, listen to this.
Oh, that's probably coming out... I'm not getting this right.
Well, I should probably not attempt to do this after all.
I'll try to be a more better technician in the future.
The fact is, this guy, when he speaks, I can't understand a word he says.
And the idea of this guy being a schoolteacher is just astonishing.
Besides which, in the background, while he's talking, every so often you can hear a
weep, chirp, weep. You recognize that sound?
Yeah, we've never actually talked about this phenomenon, but it's something that
is hilarious. It's actually become somewhat of an internet meme and an internet sensation,
that so many people that are melanin enhanced seem to be indifferent to a chirp, which I
believe signifies that the batteries are low in your smoke detector.
Am I correct?
That's right.
That's absolutely right.
That's absolutely right.
Now, when you hear that little chirp, you probably get up on a ladder, and you open up the smoke detector, and you change the battery.
But you've got to have one of those square batteries, you know?
You've got to really think ahead.
This is real deferred gratification, future time orientation stuff.
But yes, a lot of TikTok videos apparently that our Melanin Handsome brethren are making have this little ghetto songbird in the background.
But this guy is likewise the case.
Now, I really should get my act together and learn how to put these recordings together, because the way this guy talks, I couldn't understand a word he says.
But there you go, he has collected more than two million dollars for not teaching.
It's an extraordinary, illuminating interview that I encourage all of our listeners to go out of their way to find, because again, it's like you said, we live under the horror of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Anything can be, you know, From the bench can be stated that, hey, this has a disproportionate impact.
Why are there no, you know, Walgreens anymore in this black area?
Well, that's racism.
Everybody who used to shop there is going to get a free Walgreens card for life, where they get all groceries for free moving forward.
I mean, there is no logical end to this.
There's no end to this.
No, absolutely no logical end.
And here's a little spot of logic, however.
As we all know, there was a significant rise in homicides in 2020, particularly in major urban areas, as police pulled back in the wake of the George Floyd riots.
And a certain professor, Dae Young Kim, has just published an article in Police Practice and Research.
It's called, Did De-Policing Contribute to the 2020 Homicide Spike?
He says, yes.
He concentrates in particular in New York City, and his paper divides homicides into six different categories.
Gun and non-gun.
Domestic and non-domestic.
Gang and non-gang.
Now when you think about it, those are interesting differences.
Gun and non-gun.
Domestic, non-domestic.
Gang, non-gang.
And he studies the connection between homicide rates in these categories and a significant drop in NYPD police stops of pedestrians.
Now, New York City, this is stop and frisk.
It fell from $13,500 in 2019 to $8,400.
$13,500 to $8,400.
That's a pretty significant drop.
in 2019 to 8,400.
13,500 to 8,400.
That's a pretty significant drop.
And also that drop for 2020 includes the first few months before May 25, when, after all,
they were going lickety-split, as same as before.
May 25, of course, is the moment that George Floyd—that's the very day he became a secular
saint.
And there was a simultaneous significant increase in homicides in the gun, non-domestic, and gang categories, but not in the others.
Not in the non-gun, not the domestic, and not in the non-gang categories.
In other words, people who are going to go after each other with knives, or killing a spouse, or this non-gang, that was utterly unaffected by the drop in these police stops or whatever other Police behavior might have followed in the wake of all of this.
As Mr. Dae Young Kim points out, pedestrian stops can be used to stop and frisk anyone, but mostly it's for known gang members on the street who the police suspect might be carrying a weapon.
And given the goal of pedestrian stops, the effects of de-policing of this kind should be more pronounced on gun, non-domestic and gang homicides.
And of course, that was the case.
And as I say, de-policing probably involved a whole lot of other things, not just fewer police stops, and all of that kind of crime increased.
Interesting thing here, Professor Kim, he tries to figure out the size of what he calls the Minneapolis effect for the whole country, for the whole country, due to this pullback that he figures took place across the country.
Just for the months of June and July of 2020, remember May 25, that was the magic day.
I remember it was yesterday.
Yes, that's what touched off the powder keg.
In just the months of June and July of 2020, he estimates there were 710 more homicides and 2,800 more shootings Digest that.
710 more homicides in the country just in those two months, and 2,800 more shootings.
Now, here is a serious attempt to figure out what happened.
Will the big media talk about this?
Of course not.
Of course, they always blame the murders on the pandemic.
Well, how come the pandemic didn't increase?
Apparently, at least in New York City, you'd expect the pandemic and all this social isolation might have increased in more domestic homicides, but it didn't have that effect either.
But, of course, most of the extra deaths are those of black people, but black lives, under certain circumstances, just don't seem to matter at all, do they?
Yeah, heck of a job, Black Lives Matter.
Mr. Taylor, I'd be remiss if we didn't mention something.
I hope we can, I hope I'm okay in mentioning this, but there was, speaking of deaths, and I hate to bring this up, but I would like to say, rest in peace, Professor Richard Lynn.
What?
Did he die?
He's passed away, yes.
Oh, for heaven's sake, I hadn't heard that.
Yeah, Ed Dutton just tweeted about it.
I know some people were waiting to hold off on the announcement, but he died on July 17th at the age of 93.
Gee, I've been in communication with him recently.
He said he was slowing down, but I didn't realize he was slowing down quite to that point.
93 years old.
Well, no, Richard Lynn was a wonderful, wonderful man, a great scholar, active right up until the end.
That guy's written so many books, and he was writing them into his 90s.
Really an extraordinary guy.
Wow.
No, I just heard about this.
I'm so sorry to hear that.
Richard Lynn.
Gee.
Well, gosh, and everything else everything else seems somewhat trivial by comparison, but Mr. There's a life lived in his books are are invaluable to Western civilization, trying to find the full, you know, To get rid of the flotsam and jetsam of this broken ship, and his books, I think, will illuminate a path forward.
People talk about the Flynn effect.
This is this rather unaccountable increase in IQ scores over the decades.
It really should be called the Flynn-Lynn effect or the Lynn-Flynn effect because he
was certainly writing about it independently at the same time as Flynn, James Flynn.
But because he takes unfashionable views on many extremely important things, his name
has been dropped off of the phenomenon, so we call it the Flynn effect.
But golly, no, I did not.
Boy, we could spend the whole program talking about Richard Lynn.
I am so sorry to hear this.
I suppose we knew it was coming, but as I say, he's been so vigorous for so long that
This is really terrible.
I assume there will be a memorial for him someplace in England, a nation from which I am banned.
I would otherwise get on a plane and go.
I think he is really a remarkable man, and I would really hate to miss it.
Wow.
Well, okay.
You have spoiled my day, Mr. Kersey.
If I could just throw out one idea for all of our listeners, definitely check out his stuff.
I'm sure it's all banned on Amazon, but one book that I would recommend if you want to have a window into his thought and to his work.
It's Race Differences in Intelligence, an Evolutionary Analysis by Richard Lynn.
That's a book that I'd highly recommend you all seek out and try and find a copy of.
Again, that title is Race Differences in Intelligence, an Evolutionary Analysis by Richard Lynn.
And again, you know, Charles Murray wrote that book in answer to the Black Lives Matter Wow.
Noah, as I say, you have spoiled my day, but we must move along.
I believe, Mr. Kersey, that you have, there are two stories I'd like you to cover.
Murray, you know, they stand on his shoulders.
So.
Wow.
Now as I say, you have spoiled my day, but we must move along.
I believe, Mr. Kersey, that you have, there are two stories I'd like you to cover.
One has to do with Shot Spotter, and another has to do with how structural racism causes
black people to shoot each other.
These stories are just incredible.
This one comes to us from Chicago.
We all know that Chicago barely elected this black mayor.
He was heavily, heavily promoted by the by the black areas of Chicago.
Chicago's a very segregated city, and this story is one of the reasons why.
This is from The Guardian, published July 16th.
Progressives press Chicago mayor over pledge to end controversial policing tool.
One of the campaign pledges Brandon Johnson had is that he was going to break the contract with the quote-unquote controversial gunshot detection contractor ShotSpotter.
He gave the keynote speech this week in Netroots, the largest gathering of progressives in the country, which took place in Chicago and amplified his campaign talk about a wider approach to safer streets.
Quote, Many people will make you believe that the only way in which you can have the safe communities is by simply engaging in politics of old, by believing that the only answer to public safety is policing.
That's a failed strategy, he told the gathering.
But he did not repeat his campaign trail commitments to pull the plug on ShotSpotter when the city's current contract is up next year.
For more than a decade, Chicago has used the company's nearly 30-year-old gunshot detection system, which is deployed in high-crime areas, i.e., black and brown areas of Chicago, and designed to direct police to shootings.
But that in recent years has faced intense criticism for its methodology and the impact of its technology, Mr. Taylor.
Well, that's right.
Yes, it actually detects when people shoot their guns, and it sends the police to where they are heard.
It uses this echolocation triangulization system to tell you pretty much within a couple of blocks where that gun was fired, and off go the police.
And gee, they actually sometimes find the killers, they actually sometimes find somebody who's been shot and they save his life, and we just can't have that, can we?
No, because again, it's just further proof, more anecdotal evidence, actually a lot of evidence, as to why Chicago is such a segregated area.
We'll talk about this in the CNN story here in a second.
I'd like to point out that Johnson, the black mayor of Chicago, again, he was the unlikely winner.
He was very, very, very far left.
He defeated the Chicago Public Schools CEO, Paul Vallis, a white man who had received an endorsement from the right-leaning police union, the Fraternal Order of Police there in Chicago.
And those police know what's going on in Chicago, and they know what could be done to quickly make the streets safe for all law-abiding people.
But that's not the case here.
That's what I'd like to know.
What are the data on this?
He just says, no, it's unreliable, human error.
People are whining about it.
I'd like to know what the real facts are about this.
clear evidence it is unreliable and overly susceptible to human error.
That's what I'd like to know.
What are the data on this?
You know, he just says, no, it's unreliable, human error.
Boy, that I really, I mean, people are whining about it.
I'd like to know what the real facts are about this.
But anyway, let him whine.
Well, what's fascinating is ShotSpotter has come under a lot of attack in other cities
as well for the exact same reason.
The phenomenon of ShotSpotter technology not being deployed in white areas, but in heavily black and brown areas.
And lo and behold, they're able to get police into the area.
But as you talked about in that study by the Asian gentleman, The de-policing, you know, people aren't going in these areas because no one wants to be the next Darren Wilson.
No one wants to be the next cop whose life is ruined over all of this.
Well, you know, it would be an expensive solution, but I suppose they could stick shot spotters all over the city in a grid, including all the places where people don't discharge firearms, if that was what it took to make them happy.
But obviously, you stick them where people would like to shoot.
Otherwise, it's ridiculous.
But yeah, these objections are I mean, somehow human error.
Okay, what's the human error?
What's wrong with the technology?
Tell me that.
That's what I'd like to know.
Yeah, ShotSpotter.
It's in 120 cities, including Boston, New York and Denver.
They've rebranded as SoundThinking just because ShotSpotter has kind of become synonymous with what do they call it now?
It's called SoundThinking.
SoundThinking?
Yeah, boy.
All right.
Well, I mean, again, they've come under such assault.
I mean, right now they're facing a federal lawsuit from the MacArthur Justice Center at Northwestern University's law school over Chicago's police use of ShotSpotter.
One of the plaintiffs in the class action lawsuit alleged the deployment of ShotSpotter in predominantly black and brown neighborhoods infringes on civil liberties and breaks the Fourth Amendment, said Alejandro Ruiz-Sparza, co-director for Lucy Parsons Labs.
We are using that racial justice lens in our litigation to look at how cities that have contracts with private entities use this technology in a way that is particularly harmful to people of color and also poor people.
Maybe these companies should be paying reparations every time they hurt black and brown people.
How about the people who shoot the black and brown people?
This is just so sick and silly.
And I wanted to make sure I read that quote because, again, this is the mindset that motivates the people who attended this This conference in Chicago, and who elect men like Brandon Johnson, and who force a company that is simply trying to make life safe for all citizens, and to be able to locate criminals who are discharging guns in fatal and non-fatal shootings.
Who cares?
The technology doesn't exist to be like, oh my gosh, that was a black person who shot, who just pulled the trigger.
Let's make sure they get arrested and put in jail.
So it's disproportionately black They're trying to make the city safe for everyone.
So these communities aren't food deserts.
They're trying to make this, you know community safe so that It's it's safe for everyone and and at the end of the day and their eyes shot spotter or sound thinking as the bad guy and that I think Encapsulates what's wrong with our country is we can't pull black people accountable.
We can't We talked about Ring telephones.
Yes.
Ring videos.
It's exactly the same thing.
The Wired doesn't want you using that because you can easily send your video to the police.
And who's going to be caught committing crimes?
Oh, we can't have that.
It is an utterly fantastic and crazy assumption that, oh boy, anything that helps catch criminals, if more criminals are caught are black, that is racist.
It's just, anyway.
No, I mean that's actually one of the reasons why I even wanted to talk about this story because this that this comes on the heels again shots butter technology trying to make life safer ring all you're doing is trying to identify criminals to make your community safer to raise property values you know broken windows policing works William Bratton is it was right you know Um, and, and what they implemented.
Uh, but unfortunately we live in a society where to notice is to commit the greatest, uh, to notice, you know, pattern recognition, Mr. Taylor is to engage in the greatest crime.
So, which brings us to the CNN story, structural racism, structural racism to mass shootings.
Mass shootings in major metropolitan areas disproportionately affect Black people, and structural racism may play a role, according to a study published on Wednesday in the journal JAMA Surgery.
Researchers at Tulane University analyzed data relating to the 51 largest metropolitan areas, including demographic and income data, as well as reports of mass shootings from 2015 to 2019 compiled by the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit organization that tracks gun violence in the U.S.
Now, a mass shooting is defined as one where injured or killed four or more people, not including the shooter.
The study found that in areas with higher black populations, mass shootings are likelier to occur compared to communities with higher white populations.
Boy, that must have taken a lot of research to figure that out.
There are also more black people injured and killed when mass shootings take place, the findings say.
That's not usually, that's not my understanding.
When white people go on a rampage, their aim is better.
But maybe that's what they found.
Well, we've talked about stories where there's nobody shot and police find 100 to 150 bullet casings littering the ground where these guys, you know, shoot.
That's not a mass shooting.
Nobody got hit.
That's just a mass celebration.
It's, uh, yes.
So, the study examined 865 mass shootings between 2015 and 2019, which resulted in a combined 3,968 injuries and 828 fatalities.
Researchers intended to find whether mass shootings are a consequence of structural racism, which they described as the normalized and legitimized range of policies, practices, and attitudes that routinely produce cumulative and chronic adverse outcomes.
That's a mouthful right there.
That's a mouthful right there.
It's hot air, it's pure hot air too.
Anyway, the attitudes, attitudes and practices make them shoot each other.
Okay, you got that.
They correlated the city's black and white segregation index, demographic data, poverty rates,
educational attainment, and crime rates.
Chicago had the greatest number of mass shootings during the period with 141, which led to 97 deaths and 583 injuries.
But again, ShotSpotter's the bad guy!
Not the black people.
Brown people pulling the trigger.
Shot spotter is the bad guy.
According to the study, Milwaukee, which is not that far from Chicago, had the highest segregation index, which tracks racial disparities in schools and neighborhoods, while Baltimore had the highest unemployment rate.
Cleveland had the greatest income inequality.
Researchers said the study did not find a link between income and mass shooting events, but further research may be needed to define how income Any income equality and poverty have an influence in mass shootings.
And I thought Steve Saylor put it best when he wrote this on his blog at UNS.com about this story.
In other words, they mostly just found out that the more blacks, the more mass shooting events.
That's right, that's right.
I mean, what about the segregation index?
What were the other indexes they had?
Education?
Do those account for anything at all?
Obviously, all they've really found was the more blacks, the more mass shooting.
And they're somehow trying to blame this on structural racism, and their data apparently don't justify that view at all.
But what else is new?
Well, I mean, again, there's a reason segregation exists.
There's a reason that, again, freedom of association is the ultimate manifestation of liberty, I believe, and we just can't have that.
White people must be forced to live in areas where these mass shootings occur.
Well, he's not saying that specifically, but it's certainly true if you dilute black people with non-black people, you're going to have fewer mass shootings.
Anyway, well, the whole thing is just such, they set up a goal that they intend to prove and they jiggle the data and they push the data and prod it and poke it and still can't get it to support their view.
In any case, Washington DC's got a new police chief.
Oh yes!
I hope you're happy about that.
Mayor Muriel Bowser.
She's, of course, an African-Americanist, has named Pamela A. Smith, a fellow African-Americanist, as the next Chief of Police of the Metropolitan Police Department.
Now, Ms.
Smith served as Chief of Police of the United States Park Police.
I hadn't heard about that.
But after retiring from the Park Police, she joined the D.C.
Police in May 2022 as the department's first Chief Equity Officer.
So the chief equity officer is now the chief of all.
She is the big boss.
Now, I looked her up a little bit, and it was in 2021 that she was named chief of the United States Park Police.
Boy oh boy, Sean Ebenge, who was acting National Park Service director, a white man by the way, what's he doing here?
He's the single blot in this all otherwise black cast.
He said at the time, the National Park Service will explore opportunities with Chief Smith Designed to strengthen our organization's commitment to transparency.
Gosh, did they have muddy windshields on their cars or something?
In any case, she lasted only a little over a year as head of the National Park Police.
I guess she cleaned those windshields up.
Then, just a little over a year, then she joins the Washington Police in May 2022.
As first chief equity officer and she made a significant impact in that brief time span.
Again, just about a year on the job.
I guess she learns really quick and gets things done in a big hurry.
I wonder what her significant impact was.
How many white men did she manage to fire?
But Smith's appointment is a result of Muriel Browser's nationwide search, which was launched after Washington Police Chief Robert Conte retired in April to go work for the FBI.
Now, he had the job for only two and a half years.
Of course, he's a fellow African-American, but Smith will replace Interim Chief Ashan Benedict, also African-American.
As I say, this is really an all-black cast, except for this white guy who first appointed Smith as head of the Park Police.
Anyway, I guess there just aren't any white men who can do this job.
But by this spring, The size of the DC police force had shrunk to a half-century low, with officers leaving faster than they could be replaced.
Now, you and I have spoken many times about why that might be.
And Chief Conte, who has finally thrown up his hands and gone to work for the FBI, and Muriel Bowser often lamented the terrible challenges they faced in staffing and hiring.
But they've got a new lady on the job.
So, Pamela Smith said on Monday at a news conference at the Martin Luther King Library, as I say, boy, this is just blackety-black all the way, that she brings a fresh perspective, a different kind of energy, and a different level of passion to what she's going to do.
Well, she better, because crime is going through the roof.
Good luck with that different kind of energy.
I wonder what that means.
Lots of coffee?
I don't know.
But let's... I wonder how long she'll last at this job.
As I say, she doesn't have a record of lasting long.
So we'll keep an eye on Pamela Smith.
You know, one of the ways you can counter, and again, you shouldn't even have to counter criticisms of structural racism, you know, implicit bias, blah, blah, blah.
It is extraordinary the amount of major cities, these major metropolitan areas, Mr. Taylor, that have a black female police chief.
That's right.
You know, if you fail in one city, it's as if there's headhunters who are like, oh, gosh, this city is this city is is is just so excited to have the first black female police chief.
Do you want to have that honorary title and come in and gosh, you're going to do great.
Yeah, it's just amazing to see.
I know, I know.
White men, black men even, just can't do the job.
Got to have a black woman running the police force, and boy oh boy, you can see how that has brought crime to new lows, Mr. Kersey.
But, moving to Amtrak.
Amtrak, Michigan.
Population 27,000.
...is completely surrounded by Detroit.
Now, more than 40% of the residents... The way you said that, it's as if it's some sort of monstrous entity, this blob.
Well, no, no.
I don't know, just stating a fact.
More than 40% of the residents were born in other countries and a significant share are Yemeni and Bangladeshi.
And it became the first city in America to have a majority Muslim population.
That was in 2015.
And lo and behold, Just seven years later, it became the first city in America to have an all-Muslim city council and mayor.
Wow.
Across the board.
Clean sweep.
This is Mayor Amer Ghalib.
Now, as it happens, in mid-June, just a few weeks ago, the council voted to ban LGBTQ plus flags from publicly owned flagpoles.
This decision was reached at after a tense, hours-long meeting that unanimously approved, uh, whoops, uh, uh, let's see that, sorry, I beg your pardon, this hours-long meeting that raised questions about discrimination, religion, and the city's reputation for welcoming newcomers.
Anyway, I guess they've welcomed so many newcomers that they have got a majority that does not want to wave the LGBTQ plus flag.
Well, in any case, Just last Tuesday, the council unanimously voted to remove Russ Gordon and Kathy Stackpole, though they don't sound like Muslims to me, from the Hamtrak Human Rights Commission because they flew the rainbow flag over a public sidewalk.
Councilman Khalil Rafai said, we passed a resolution and two of our sworn commissioners defied it.
Well, Russ Gordon, he was the chair of the commission whose purpose is, and I quote literally, to promote mutual understanding and respect for multiculturalism and diversity, advocate for peace and justice.
Now, my question for you, Mr. Kurz, is why does the city council need a commission like that?
You'd think it must have been a pretty rabid, hostile place to have even set up a council like that.
Residents, of course, are not prohibited from waving whatever flag they like on their own property.
Just on city property, they ain't gonna do it.
Now, in January, the All-Muslim City Council also voted to allow religious animal sacrifices in the home.
I guess that had been illegal up until that point.
So you can slit a sheep's throat in your own home.
Yes, there's a certain libertarian position to promote that.
And two months later, the city passed a resolution supporting Palestine and opposing military aid to all repressive governments, which presumably includes Israel.
But you know, this is taking diversity boosters at their own word.
This is diversity in action.
If they don't want to fly the flag, if they want to let people slaughter sheep in their backyards, well, you know, that's diversity.
Also, it's federalism and local decision making.
It's just not the kind of federalism that the founding fathers anticipated, I suspect.
In any case, Mr. Kersey, you have yet another study.
This one is equally, equal flim flam, it seems to me.
It's about redlining.
You know, CNN is the gift that keeps on giving.
Black people in redlined neighborhoods face higher risks for heart failure.
Black adults living in zip codes historically impacted by redlining have an 8% higher risk of developing heart failure than black adults in non-redlined areas.
This was a study that was published Monday in the American Heart Association's
Scientific Journal Circulation.
During the 20th century, US banks routinely engaged in racist lending practices
known as redlining, which denied loans and insurance to people of color
seeking to purchase houses outside undesirable areas of cities.
The practice began in the 1930s, amplifying segregation,
and was eventually banned in the late 1960s.
Quote, among black adults living in historically redlined communities,
approximately half of the excess risks of heart failure appear to be explained by higher levels
of socioeconomic distress, end quote.
The AHA said in a news release.
Increased risk for hypertension and type two diabetes.
are among the other ailments that disproportionately affect black residents in these neighborhoods,
according to prior AHA research. It's as if all these institutions just have scientists that are
just, hey, let's make sure this study, let's make sure this ailment, does it disproportionately
impact blacks and or brown people?
And if so, we just have to make sure to blame it on white people.
So that's right.
Well, and 60 years later, boy, this it's like slavery.
You know, the legacy just goes on and on and on and will linger in the air and infects people's circulatory system.
Yeah.
Quote, although discriminatory housing policies were effectively outlawed nearly a half century ago, the relationship between historic redlining practices And people's health today give us unique insight into how historical policies may still be exerting their effects on the health of many communities.
Nearly a half century ago, the Civil Rights Housing Act of 1965, that strikes me as more than a half century ago.
How's my math?
But anyway.
Yeah, that was 58 years ago.
Fascinating.
That quote is from Dr. Shayra Rayo, a cardiologist and assistant professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
Well, Mr. Taylor, just to put a bow on this, researchers analyzed data on more than 2.3 million residents who are enrolled in Medicare between 2014 and 2019 by linking it with residential zip codes across the U.S.
The analysis included Just over 800,000 participants who identified as black adults and nearly 1.6 million participants who self-identified as non-Hispanic white adults.
Unlike black adults, the study found that white adults living in communities with a higher proportion of redlining didn't have a higher risk of heart failure.
See, it's astonishing they even included that rather perplexing fact.
Here we get the impression that the redlining affected only black people.
Well, gosh, were these white people living in exactly the same neighborhoods?
Were white neighborhoods redlined?
You know, redlining is something that everybody jabbers about so much these days.
Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy.
It's as bad as slavery in terms of its effect on what black people live in today, we're led to believe.
I really need to look into this and find out how it worked, how extensive it was.
My understanding is that redlining is simply a practice of not wanting to land in certain run-down, lousy neighborhoods because people don't keep their houses up, the surrounding area is bad, And if you're going to foreclose on a dump in a dodgy neighborhood, banks don't want to do that.
How much of it really had to do explicitly with race?
How much of it was coincidental?
These are things I'd love to know.
And if, as a matter of fact, there were certain neighborhoods that were redlined, they probably were full of people who didn't look after themselves, generally low-grade, low-IQ people living in these awful neighborhoods.
But it's the redlining 60 years later that's to be blamed.
This is the kind of thinking that is just inescapable in the country today.
Well, remember, we've talked about the Department of Transportation under Pete Buttigieg, who claims that the National Highway System under Eisenhower that was implemented was also racist.
We have racist highways, racist air, shade equity.
Oh my, I mean, come on, we could go on.
That's right.
Boy, well, you know, when you absolutely refuse to even consider the idea of racial differences biologically, psychologically, and in terms of IQ, then you're left with scrabbling desperately for absolutely anything you can lay your hands on.
Meanwhile, I had never heard of a rare inflammatory disease known as sarcoidosis, but there is such a thing.
And this is from an article on the disease in 23andMe sent in by a listener.
Charcoidosis is a condition that leads to the clumping of inflammatory cells in different organs.
While it primarily affects the lungs, it can affect any organ and symptoms include fatigue, swollen lymph nodes, and painful swelling.
As it turns out, African Americans are 12 times more likely to die from the condition than whites.
Well, that's racism staring you in the face, isn't it?
Yes.
Well, slapping you in the face.
Oh, yes, yes, slapping you in the face.
Well, apparently sarcoidosis has a very strong genetic component.
Many genetic variants associated with condition have yet to be identified, but there you go, it's highly genetic.
So, occasionally, occasionally, the mainstream, in this time, in the case of 23andMe, points out that there are genes involved.
Now, they don't go into the question of whether the black and white genotypes are different, but I'd bet you the next 12 mortgage claimants that they are.
Speaking of which, if you do want to look into redlining, Mr. Taylor, I didn't get a chance to tell you this, but I have read a book.
Gosh, it was about five years ago now.
It's called The Color of Law, A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America.
It's by an author by the name of Richard Rothstein.
It's one of these, it's in the same vein as the New Jim Crow type books.
This is one that is... I've heard about that book.
I just wonder how reliable it is.
If it's like the New Jim Crow, it probably cherry-picks just the most horrifying incidents, uncharacteristic statistics.
I bet you probably can't trust that book.
But maybe I'm being unnecessarily skeptical.
Skepticism is a good thing, but it's also, sometimes when you read these books, it's astonishing.
It's like, wow, we actually had some great policies put in place that are now being attacked as to how we kept Chicago and Milwaukee and Cleveland and Baltimore safe places for civilization that never needed anything called ShotSpot or SoundThink.
Well, they probably would have been useful tools even before they were invented.
Crime has always been non-uniformly distributed.
Well, Mr. Kersey, I'm sure you have seen a country music video by a fellow, of whom I had never heard, named Jason Aldean.
Jason Aldean, I have, yes.
Yes, it's called Try That in a Small Town.
Somebody sent that to me, and I watched it with some interest.
It includes such lyrics as, Cuss out a cop, spit in his face, stomp on the flag and light it up.
Yeah, you think you're tough.
Well, try that in a small town.
See how far you make it down the road.
Around here, we take care of our own.
You cross that line, it won't take long for you to find out.
I recommend you don't try that in a small town.
Those are typical verses, and it is interspersed with news clips, some of which I recognized, some of the awful things that happen in our country.
Well, lo and behold, country music television has decided to stop airing the music video, and the network stopped showing it after Jason Aldean faced backlash for the song.
Which many perceived as being in favor of gun violence and lynching.
He never talks about shooting anybody.
He never talks about anything racial at all.
But, listen to this.
Viewers noted that scenes in the video were shot at the Mowry County Courthouse in Columbia, Tennessee.
Well, what does that fact evoke in your mind, Mr. Kersey?
Well, apparently, for many viewers, all they could think of was, a black man was lynched there in 1927!
Boy, oh boy.
I'm sure that's exactly why he chose that place.
But, what, this, what?
Ridiculous.
Just because, okay, maybe somebody was lynched there.
I assume that happened nearly 100 years ago.
And so, that means that Jason Aldean is singing about lynching.
Boy, oh boy.
He released this video in May, and only now is it attracting all of this kind of attention, but Tennessee State Rep.
Representative Justin Jones, another one of our African American... I believe he was one of the ones who got expelled from You know, I don't know.
I haven't followed his career with the detail it deserves.
He could very well have been.
In any case, yes, he is one of our melanin-enhanced fellow citizens.
He said, as Tennessee lawmakers, we have an obligation to condemn Jason Aldean's heinous songs calling for racist violence.
Boy oh boy, you can't sing about trying to keep your place safe.
Now, it is true that some of the people in these news clips that he interspersed throughout the song were likewise melanin-enhanced, but boy oh boy, this is calling for racist violence.
You heard it straight from the lips of Representative Justin Jones.
Now, Mr. Kersey, you have A story on a phenomenon that we were covering earlier in the year that has dropped out of the headlines but should stay in the headlines.
Just this extraordinary wide open opening of the gates and letting people who don't deserve to be the United States in.
Yeah, it's real funny about the whole controversy just brought up.
I recall two decades ago, real quick, Mr. Taylor.
Sorry about that.
My headphones were coming off.
Toby Keith had a song, a duet with Willie Nelson called Beer From My Horses, and it was attacked because it had these lyrics in it.
Grandpappy told my pappy back in the day, my son, a man had to answer for the wicked that he'd done.
Take all the rope in Texas, find a tall oak tree, round up all them bad boys, hang them high in the street for all the people to see.
There was no controversy.
This was a very popular song.
They went on the Jay Leno Show, they went on the Colbert Report, they went on a number of major programs and performed this song.
And then about five years later it was attacked by a guy named Max Blumenthal in Huffington Post for being racist and for venerating the Jim Crow South when lynching was an institutional method of terror employed against blacks to maintain white supremacy.
I think just to, just to being a Southerner and being, uh, not from one of these small towns, but I don't really like country music, the new country music, but I love songs like this because it does show you that mindset that is there.
Uh, and it's one of the reasons why our military is seeing such low enrollment.
Um, because white Southerners are staying away from the military, which I applaud each and every one of you for doing.
Um, so.
But that song, apparently, it took them five years to discover that it was promoting lynching of black people?
Yeah!
They are slow on the uptake, aren't they?
I mean, again, this was a great song.
I remember it came out and I loved it.
I actually met Toby Keith a couple times.
He's a really good dude.
But anyways, let's go back to the story you were talking about so our listeners can understand just what is happening.
I, you know, we'd be lying if we called it a border at this point.
It's basically open.
U.S.
has welcomed more than 500,000 migrants as part of historic expansion of legal immigration under Biden.
This is from CBS News published two days ago.
The Biden admin has welcomed over half a million migrants under programs designed to reduce illegal border entries or offer a safer haven to refugees using a 1950s law to launch the largest expansion of legal immigration in modern U.S.
history, unpublished government data obtained by CBS Show.
This is in addition to all the ordinary ways they get in here, illegal, legal or otherwise.
41,000 migrants to enter the US through the Immigration Parole Authority, which gives
federal...
This is in addition to all the ordinary ways they get in here, illegal, legal or otherwise.
This is a half a million, just an extra bonus.
And the Immigration Parole Authority gives federal officials the power to authorize the
entry of foreigners who lack visas according to internal government statistics, court records
and public records.
The unprecedented use of the parole authority has allowed officials to divert migration away from the southern border by offering would-be migrants a legal and safe alternative to journeying to the U.S.
with the help of smugglers And entering the country unlawfully.
It has also given the administration a faster way to resettle refugees as it attempts to rebuild a resettlement system gutted by drastic Trump-era cuts.
Officials have invoked the Parole Authority to welcome roughly 168,400 Latin American and Caribbean migrants with U.S.
1,400 Latin American and Caribbean migrants with US sponsors
141,200 Ukrainian refugees sponsored by Americans 133,000 asylum seekers who waited for an appointment in
Mexico 77,000 Afghan evacuees and 22,000 Ukrainians processed at
the US southern border.
The data shows that's when he talks about a new astonishing amount of I mean, where
do Ukrainians did they fly to Mexico City?
I mean, how did they get to the US southern border?
I mean, this is this is this is this is one of those exceptional stories that it's it's
hard to process what's actually happening with the Biden admin and and why I believe
in 2024 immigration will be at the center of the debate between whoever gets the Republican
nomination and whoever has the Democrat nomination.
I hope it will.
I fear it will not.
But 24,000 Ukrainians who go to Mexico and then they try to barge across the border.
You'd think, I mean, the polls are pretty well welcoming them.
There are lots of places in Europe they can go.
Gee, I guess they just want to take a sunny tour through Mexico before they come to the United States.
This is very strange.
It'd be interesting to know what their motives are.
But in any case, please continue.
Yeah, taking together the immigration parole programs created by the Biden admin amount to the most significant expansion of legal immigration in three decades.
And to the dismay of Republican critics, the admin has done so unilaterally, without explicit consent from Congress.
Which has not expanded legal immigration levels since 1990 amid decades of partisan gridlock.
This is called unprecedented.
Doris Messner, a top U.S.
immigration official during the Reagan and Clinton admin, said there's precedent for using parole to resettle refugees.
It was during the Cold War Republican and Democrat admins paroled hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing communism in Cuba, Eastern Europe, and Southeast Asia.
But Messner said the Biden admins use of parole is historic at this scale in the same period.
It's unprecedented.
So this is something that we've never seen before.
It's something that we're not talking about.
And it's just another reminder that, you know, the whole word, the great replacement, it is it does seem to be a policy, although.
I've actually seen some Ukrainians near where I live, at the gym I go to, and I've always wondered, how did they get here?
And I'm wondering if they were part of this program, because it's just...
It's a fascinating world we live in, and we are more fascinated and beguiled on a daily basis, Mr. Taylor.
This is typical Democrat behavior.
They don't care what the rules are.
They're just going to wave the magic wand.
We want another 500,000 of these people.
Issue parole.
Parole.
The idea in those days was to get people into the country who were fleeing the Soviet Union, fleeing communism.
It's still in the books, alas and lack, and basically, as far as I can tell, there's no limit.
The president can decide, ooh, we love these people.
We love Haitians.
We love Guatemalans.
And in they come.
And this time, apparently, some Ukrainians are benefiting from it, too.
Meanwhile, in Britain, something interesting is going on.
Banks face losing their license if they discriminate against customers based on political beliefs.
Ministers have ordered the officials to start drafting legislation to give banks new free speech duties after it turned out that Cootes Bank closed Nigel Farage's accounts because his views didn't align with its values.
This would mean any bank that discriminates against a customer because of political beliefs could have this banking license revoked.
Payment service providers will be told as soon as next Thursday they must not discriminate against customers on the basis of their beliefs.
So, the British Treasurer is preparing to enforce this by strengthening the Financial Conduct Authority's Principles of Business, Principle 6, and they will add that you cannot ditch somebody on account of what he says politically.
This comes after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak vowed to crack down on banks who were removing customers for non-commercial reasons amid growing backlash against Coutts, that's the And its parent company, NatWest.
The government also began working on reforms for payment service providers earlier this year after PayPal had been accused of shutting down accounts for political motives.
Wow, well I'd say Britain's way ahead of the US.
Way ahead.
We should certainly be doing this.
And of course, the censors and the little dictators always go too far.
You know, if they'd stuck with Tommy Robinson, for example, and Britain, nobody would care.
But of course, this reflects badly on the people who are complaining today.
They complain only if somebody they might have had dinner with gets his bank account shut down.
Anybody else?
Well, you know, that's probably okay.
But no, that's great.
We, as is well known, we have had problems with payment processors.
In fact, we don't have a payment processor at all these days.
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