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Sanctuary Cities Say ‘Basta!’

Jared Taylor and Paul Kersey laugh at “sanctuary cities” that change their minds when the “migrants” come. The hosts also discuss European foolishness, tough times for DEI, Nelson Mandela, and another terrible dilemma for black people. Thumbnail credit: 7beachbum from Tsuruoka, Japan, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

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	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
	I'm Jared Teller with American Renaissance, and with me is my indispensable host, Paul Kersey.
	Today is July 27th, anno domini 2023, and we'll start, as we always do, with comments from listeners.
	I thought this was pretty amusing.
	He's commenting about the fact that blacks do not seem to care about that steady choop choop of a smoke alarm telling you that you need to change the battery.
	We had a story that touched on that amusing phenomenon that I call the Ghetto Songbird, where a commenter says this, I forget where I read this.
	Might have been Amran.
	But I seem to recall reading that blacks are much less likely to have smoke alarms installed and or operating in their homes.
	This is true even when controlling for age and income.
	It would be interesting to know the percentage of those blacks and whites who do have smoke alarms, but who have let them run down to the point they don't work.
	Comedian Adam Carolla would often rant about this.
	Have you ever heard of Adam Carolla?
	Adam Carolla's a very funny guy, yeah.
	Okay, well, I suppose I'd better catch him later.
	He did a show called Love Line.
	The idea was that he and a doctor would take calls and give advice to the lovelorn.
	The doc would dispense advice, and the comedian would provide the yucks.
	One common phenomenon was callers who had smoke alarms, low battery sounds going off in the background.
	This drove Adam nuts, and he'd rant about how stupid those callers were.
	It was highly amusing.
	Another comment.
	I just heard Paul Kersey tell people to check out Richard Lynn's books.
	And as though he was sure they were banned by Amazon.
	But they're not.
	You can still get them.
	We should not be exaggerating to people the oppression and demoralizing them by doing so.
	So there you go.
	Well, if I could, I don't think we were trying to be demoralizing at all.
	I think Richard Lind, not all of his works are on Amazon.
	That's what I was implying.
	Are you sure some of them aren't?
	Well, this listener seemed to think all were, but then that's a large number of books.
	In any case, we'll move on to our first story, and perhaps you can look this up while we talk about it.
	This is a rather frightening story out of California, but one that is entirely logical given the assumptions that are on the loose today.
	A bill that could soon become law requires judges to consider a criminal's race when determining sentencing for offenses.
	Effectively, the legislation would treat criminals of different races differently, even for the same offense.
	It was proposed by Assemblyman Reggie Jones Sawyer, I feel sure that he is part of Joe Biden's most reliable voting bloc.
	He's a scholar.
	He's a scholar indeed.
	I'm sure he's that too.
	He represents crime-ridden areas of Los Angeles.
	Bill aims to address racial disparities and inequalities within the criminal justice system.
	Well, there are disparities and inequalities.
	There are a lot of those.
	There are a lot.
	There are a lot.
	And this is not the way to solve them.
	But Bill 8562 aims to rectify the historical racial bias.
	that has permeated the criminal justice system in California, according to the legislation.
	I mean, that's the thing.
	They'll put some preamble in law and say, it's well known, or it is without doubt that there has been bias, bias, bias, and we need to correct it.
	All that's pure assertion.
	No data, no studies, no nothing.
	Proponents argue that acknowledging race during sentencing could help address the disproportionate impact of the justice system on minority communities and promote fairness.
	If it were not for the fact that the Assembly has already passed this legislation, that happened in May, and it's now under consideration in the State Senate, I would have thought, well, this is just a goofball story.
	This is going nowhere.
	This is an idea that some hopped up black person has had.
	But no, it has passed the lower house.
	Well, remember, the state legislature of California is completely dominated by Democrats.
	I think there's less than 10 elected.
	You can't quote me on that, but it's a super, super uber-majority for Democrats.
	And all of the nuttiness we're seeing across the country, really, the reparations stuff, which is increasingly getting a foothold and entrenched.
	Blue cities, blue states.
	It all started in California.
	So, you know, that old saying, Mr. Taylor, as California goes, so goes the nation.
	I think this is a harbinger of what we're going to see past in other states.
	Well, I don't know about this.
	This is really something else.
	We will have to see about that.
	Meanwhile, in New York City, Mayor Eric Adams is doing flip-flops.
	New York City has immediately begun discouraging asylum seekers for seeking refuge.
	It's distributing flyers at the southern border saying there are no guarantees that they're going to get room and board like they always used to.
	And according to the New York Times, I love their phrasing here, The city's move is a sharp and somewhat unexpected departure from its long-held status as a sanctuary city.
	I don't find it unexpected at all.
	When you actually force these people to live up to their assumed values, then it's not at all a surprise that they turn down these newcomers.
	And, according to the New York Times, it's unclear what would happen if there is no housing available.
	I guess you could say, sorry, fellas, but you're on your own.
	Of course, immigrant housing advocates say changes would lead to increased street homelessness.
	Well, I dare it would.
	More than 90,000 migrants have arrived in the city since the spring of 2022, and close to 55,000 are still in the city's care.
	Ah, boy, nice work if you can get it, huh?
	Living in New York City, yeah?
	Combined with the city's existing homeless population, more than 105,000 people are now getting three squares and a roof paid for by the city.
	And this is a record.
	The city, this is interesting, has opened more than 188 sites to house migrants.
	188 sites in New York City?
	188!
	Boy, you're bound to have one next door at that rate.
	Ted Long is the SVP of the agency that operates much of the emergency housing.
	He says, our compassion is infinite, our space is not.
	That's the problem!
	You can just keep building up, I guess, couldn't you?
	There's a lot of skyscrapers.
	I wonder what the occupancy rate of some of the commercial real estate is.
	Gee, that's the, our compassion is infinite.
	What a bunch of baloney.
	Compassion is never infinite.
	Boy, if compassion is infinite, how about housing half a dozen of them in his place?
	Our compassion is infinite.
	Boy.
	The flyer at the border that they're distributing, I wonder how many people get this, I saw a copy of it, it's nice yellow paper, and it shows arrows pointing north from the border to... North.
	South Dakota, Vermont, Wisconsin.
	But not New York.
	That's right.
	Anywhere, anywhere but here.
	The city, however, remains under a decades-old court order that requires to provide shelter to anyone who needs a bed.
	Did you know that?
	I suppose you could show up in New York, you know, on a business trip and say, hey, New York, I need a bed.
	It's time to update the lyrics of the YMCA.
	If you want a good meal and you want to get a clean shave and have it taken care of, all you got to do is say you're an illegal alien in New York City.
	I don't know if you even have to be.
	It doesn't say that in law.
	Anybody who needs a bed gets a bed.
	The mayor and city officials continue to criticize the federal government for not providing expedited work authorization and for not forcing other jurisdictions to help absorb the influx.
	It's all the federal government's fault.
	Why?
	Why doesn't it dawn on them to say it's the federal government's fault that they're even here to begin with?
	This is just so pathetic.
	The city has estimated that it would spend, guess how many?
	Billion dollars through the next fiscal year.
	Four billion.
	Oh, just four billion?
	Just four.
	Just four.
	I know.
	I was going to save you from an embarrassing error.
	Four billion dollars.
	About four billion dollars.
	And I bet that would fill a lot of potholes, even in overpriced New York.
	Also, believe it or not, Mr. Adams, Eric Adams, has asked a judge to relieve the city of its obligation to shelter people.
	Think of that!
	Wow!
	He doesn't want to be on the hook anymore.
	However, and this is typical Mayor Eric Adams, and of this, as I say, this reliable Joe Biden voting bloc, He is touting federal reparations payments as a solution to the wealth gap between blacks and whites.
	Somebody else gets to pay!
	New York Governor Kathy Hochul is weighing whether to sign a bill that would start work on a state reparation scheme.
	I'm sure Eric Adams is all for state reparations, too, as long as he doesn't have to foot the bill.
	I suppose the argument, of course, is New York state might have discriminated.
	I bet New York City never discriminated.
	Never, ever.
	So why should New York City pay?
	In any case, only 18% of whites support the idea of reparations.
	But who cares about what white people say?
	18%!
	So, wow.
	Less than 1 in 5.
	That's right.
	And that's still too many.
	That's still too many.
	But these days, with all of the propaganda about how bad we've been, that's a surprisingly low number.
	Yeah, what you just said is really fascinating.
	You think about the propaganda that people are subjected to.
	It is incredible on a daily basis.
	Daily.
	Everything that you encounter is propaganda for one side and one side only.
	And yet, like you just said, less than one in five white people favor reparations.
	They don't buy it.
	Talk about a sunk cost of a lot of this propaganda is that it's just not, it's no longer working.
	Well, the other thing is, imagine that the media were in sensible hands, even for a week, even for 24 hours.
	Gosh, I think people are dying to hear the truth.
	And so, as you say, they get pounded over and over and over and over and over.
	We owe these poor, poor, oppressed, enslaved people.
	And they say, not bad.
	Now, Mr. Kersey, I understand that a number of sanctuary cities are turning their back on their ideals, faced with reality.
	They are faced with reality, and I'm faced with reality because I did look at Amazon.
	I just want to clarify this for our listener.
	Thank you for pointing this out.
	Most of his books are available.
	The one that I mentioned, though, is not available.
	Race Differences in Intelligence, that's not available on Amazon.
	That's one that he wrote, Richard Wynn.
	That's a good one to get.
	That's a good primer.
	So, IQ and the Wealth of Nations, that's in there?
	Yep.
	So, The Global Bell Curve.
	Yeah, there are a number of good books that are available.
	But the one that is not available is Race Differences in Intelligence, an Evolutionary Analysis by Richard Lin.
	Highly recommend you guys find this where you can.
	It's a lot like the book that you claim is such an amazing book, the little small Rushton one.
	Yeah.
	What was Rushton?
	Race, Evolution, and Behavior.
	Yeah, the little small abridged version.
	It's fantastic.
	It's an abridged version.
	It's very simplified.
	No footnotes.
	But this race differences in intelligence, I remember when that came out, I thought, boy, this is the definitive word.
	Yeah.
	So that is in fact not available.
	That is not on Amazon.
	But the global bell curve, all of that, it really makes the same point.
	But this one is narrowed right down to race.
	Okay, well, so you were only slightly off.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, because that's the one that I'd recommended.
	So let's go to what you talked about.
	This is a story.
	We've already broached New York City, as you just mentioned, so I'll leave all this part out, but this is a story.
	From a website that I had not heard of, the Center Square, but leaders of major metros around the United States have pushed for more progressive immigration policies by declaring themselves safe haven for illegals.
	Now, however, the realities of the financial and social impacts of those policies have sunk in, and some local leaders are thinking twice.
	Quote, the policies of the Biden admin have certainly upped the ante on this sort of virtue signaling in recent years, Ira Melman from the Federation for American Immigration Reform told Center Square.
	referring to sanctuary cities, quote, some 2.3 million new illegals have entered the
	country since Biden took office, and a lot of them have wound up in these sanctuary jurisdictions,
	either on their own, transported by the federal government, or transported by other jurisdictions
	that simply cannot handle the influx. The Center for Immigration Studies, a fantastic organization,
	which we've touted many times, recently published a map of sanctuary cities, counties, and states.
	Yellow squares represent counties, red represent cities, and green represent states.
	Cities like New York, as we mentioned, and Chicago have dismissed concerns from border states in recent years, but now they're raising the alarm that they cannot handle the flood of migrants.
	The Chicago City Council and Black Mayor Brandon Johnson heard from Chicago residents who voiced concerns about the increase in migrants and taxpayer funds being spent to support them.
	Quote, what people are feeling is that the people who have been in these neighborhoods for generations, they have been treated inhumanely by the same government that is making efforts to provide good care to the asylum seekers.
	State Rep.
	LaShawn Ford, Democrat from Chicago, I think that's part of Probably an individual from Mr. Biden's preferred group.
	Well, you know, it's quite interesting.
	Blacks are finally waking up to what's really going on.
	But they're still blaming white people for the circumstances of their neighborhood and white oppression.
	Of course.
	But if handouts are being handed out, they want them, not these foreigners.
	So in 2020, Illinois taxpayers began to subsidize the cost of undocumented immigrant health care for those over the age of 65.
	In 2020, the state budget included subsidizing coverage for those over the age of 42.
	So yeah, if you're an illegal alien or if you're considering being an illegal alien to the United States, head to Illinois.
	See, they just don't understand.
	Or at least, I don't know if they don't understand, or they might want to thump their chest and say, look how virtuous they are, and then all of a sudden reality strikes.
	An endless flow of compassion is what I believe you said.
	Yes, our compassion is infinite.
	Well, that's stupid.
	Our pocketbooks are not.
	As part of the state's fiscal year 2024 budget that began July 1st, Governor Pritzker modified the program to cover those only over 65 for a total budgeted amount of $550 million.
	And that's just for illegal alien healthcare over the age of 65 in Illinois.
	That's... Wow.
	Read the next sentence.
	The program was scaled way back because costs were ballooning to more than $1 billion.
	That's right, in no time at all.
	So all of this phony chess being, oh, we're just so wonderful, we're so great, and then reality strikes, oh, we're not so wonderful and great after all.
	Again, I think that if, you know, We're not endorsing candidates, but if Trump can survive everything, I do believe immigration will be at the center of the 2024 election.
	And the question is, will he actually go with the promises?
	We've talked on this program, Mr. Taylor, about Ron DeSantis's fantastic platform that he put forward.
	And I really think it's just simply put American people first, deport illegal aliens, and close all these loopholes.
	I mean, we saw how well the Remain in Mexico policy worked during COVID.
	Well, even before COVID, as I recall, Donald Trump said, we're going to have economic sanctions on you Mexicans unless you hold these people.
	Well, it's not just that.
	It's really simply just tax remittances, too.
	And then, you know, the question is going to be... Well, he never did that.
	No, no.
	But DeSantis has said he'd do that.
	And, you know, there's some interesting things happening in this.
	And this influx, the moving illegals to New York that the governors of Texas and Florida did.
	And then of course, what's going on, we're not gonna talk about it,
	but the federal government suing Texas now over these boys in the Rio Grande.
	It's, you know, after they successfully sued Arizona to remove the, what was it that they put?
	Those mobile... No, they were containers.
	Shipping containers, yeah.
	Yes.
	No, no, this is a federal job.
	I mean, we're not doing our job.
	We are complete failures, but you can't step in.
	This is our responsibility.
	So it's our responsibility to fail.
	It's our right to fail.
	It's our job to fail.
	Boy, infuriating.
	Well, Mr. Kersey, you'll be distressed to know that black people are facing a terrible dilemma.
	Uh-oh.
	Again?
	A terrible dilemma.
	Well, that's right.
	What's new?
	But this is one amongst themselves.
	Okay.
	When Boston announced earlier this year that it would consider giving reparations to black citizens, it was heralded as another great victory, for goodness truth and beauty.
	But, as the mayor started choosing members for the Boston Task Force, the city quickly became one of the chief battlegrounds of a fight within the black community.
	It's not all brothers and sisters.
	What happened is, should reparations be limited to people who trace their ancestry back to American slavery, or should they include black immigrants?
	Now, somebody named Aziza Robinson-Goodnight, that's quite a name.
	Aziza is African.
	Robinson-Goodnight sounds, well, goodnight is kind of made up, I'm guessing.
	In any case, she says there's not going to be some Kumbaya moment.
	She calls for the reparations to be limited only to the descendants of slaves.
	We're going to fight, and we're going to have to make the strongest case possible.
	No handouts for immigrants, says she.
	Now this is quite an interesting observation.
	I wasn't aware of this statistic.
	Immigrants were less than 1% of the black population of the United States in the 1980s.
	Now, they are 10%.
	Wow.
	One in 10 blacks is an immigrant.
	Wow.
	I mean, they just must love coming here and facing discrimination and systemic racism and all that stuff.
	Exactly.
	And 75% of black Americans think the federal government should pay reparations.
	75%.
	Just 75?
	That's... Yeah, yeah.
	I mean, 25% who are reasonable.
	Yeah, I mean, 25% who are reasonable.
	And that means 77% of native-born blacks, but I found this figure quite interesting
	too.
	59% of foreign-born blacks think they deserve a handout.
	Isn't that something else?
	59%.
	That's nearly 60% say, hey, hey, hey, Gravy Train, boy, we want our spoon, too.
	Maybe the other 41% thought that it said repatriation.
	Maybe that's why the 25ers confuse reparations with repatriation.
	I don't think most blacks confuse those.
	In fact, the word repatriation is almost never heard in America today.
	No, it's not.
	It's not.
	So, as it turns out, reparations programs launched by Rhode Island and the state of Illinois have not made a distinction.
	So long as you be black, you can extend the palm.
	Now, under Pozo in San Francisco, this is interesting, they have a kind of a weighted point system.
	Descendants of slaves would get more points than others.
	They've got a formula to figure out who can cash in.
	Eligibility of up to $5,000,000.
	Wow!
	Up to $5,000,000.
	$5,000,000.
	Yeah, that puts you in, I think, about the top 2% of net worth if you walk out of a courthouse with $5,000,000.
	But of course, is it going to be tax-free?
	Of course, it'll have to make it tax-free.
	In Boston, the distinction could drastically impact what happens.
	Black residents make up 19% of the city's overall population, but of that number, 37% of the blacks are foreign-born.
	In the U.S.
	as a whole, it's 10%.
	I guess the ones who really want to suffer discrimination and police brutality and all that, they just flock to Boston.
	Black immigrant households have a median income of $57,200.
	That is about $15,000 more than a Native Black household.
	So that, of course, means that the people who are Native, they deserve the reparations.
	Now, there is a group called, I'm sorry, And let's see, but this is quite fascinating.
	Non-immigrant, native-born black families in Boston.
	Guess what their net worth is?
	Non-immigrant black?
	Yes, native-born black families in Boston.
	What's their net worth?
	$10,000.
	$8.
	Come on!
	Yes, $8.
	Okay.
	Eight dollars.
	Come on!
	Yes, eight dollars.
	Okay.
	For Caribbean black families, it's $12,000.
	So, I mean, that just goes to show you, they don't need the dough.
	Eight dollars.
	Eight dollars.
	That's a lot to pass on to your kids, isn't it?
	I'd hate to see that inherited tax bill.
	Well, but the freedmen activists are facing opposition.
	Some people say everybody's black ought to cash in.
	And some are even calling for reparations dollars to be sent to Africa.
	And so as Boston officials began planning the reparations task force, Ms.
	Robinson-Goodnight lobbied for seven of the ten seats on it to go to freedmen activists, including one for herself.
	She said, we don't need a task force full of academics or politicians or people with money.
	We want people like me.
	However, when Mayor Michelle Wu named the ten members, Robinson-Goodnight wasn't among And so far, this commission has not taken a stance on eligibility.
	And this, I think, is one of the most remarkable comments of all.
	Boston has a Chief of Economic Opportunity and Inclusion, and his name is Sigoun Idowu.
	Now, I suspect he's not a native-born black, but you never know.
	Names can change.
	He says, this is a huge debate within the black community.
	I don't think it's appropriate for government to make decisions about what reparations should be.
	It's not up to the government.
	I guess it's up to black people.
	It's up to the group in California and San Francisco, where they get in perpetuity for, what was it, until 2150?
	It was some insane amount.
	Like $200,000 a year.
	A big payment up front.
	Yes, on top of the $5 million.
	It's up to them to decide.
	What else are they going to decide for themselves?
	Which laws apply to blacks and which don't?
	I guess that's coming down the pike in California.
	Sentencing is different for us.
	Honkeys do hard time and we don't.
	In any case, there is one Boston-based activist that I think makes a point.
	If, if, The money's going to be splashed out.
	Jalyn Conway says, this needs to be lineage based.
	If not, you'd be giving away our money to immigrants who came here willingly.
	We came here forcibly because we were sold by our own people.
	Heheheheh.
	Uh-oh, uh-oh, keep that quiet, keep that quiet.
	So it'll be interesting, you know, I'm beginning to think, I mean, already, you know, there've been local initiatives about this, where people get, what was it, Skokie, Illinois?
	They voted money to give housing loans and who knows what all else to blacks who had been living in the area for X amount of time.
	So, this stuff is coming.
	I just hope that it's not going to be statewide or nationwide.
	Now, more bad news, I'm afraid.
	Even Europeans are getting on the reparations bandwagon.
	The European Union has acknowledged and expressed deep regret for the untold suffering inflicted by Europe's slave trade.
	Wow.
	The EU hinted at the need for reparations.
	It called slavery a crime against humanity.
	This admission came during a recent two-day summit in Brussels.
	EU leaders met with the community of Latin American Caribbean states.
	Some European governments were cautious about the proposed language on reparations, but ultimately the member states agreed to a joint statement that acknowledged the transatlantic slave trade was a crime against humanity and they expressed profound regret for immense suffering.
	However, there was some dissatisfaction.
	Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of St.
	Vincent and the Grenadines.
	He is, I guess we can't call him an African-American because he doesn't live in America.
	He is another diaspora African.
	He wanted the summit's final statement to include language on the historical legacies of native genocide and enslavement of African bodies.
	Those bodies, you know?
	I guess their spirits, their minds, were free?
	What's all this talking about?
	Bodies.
	Breaking black bodies.
	And he wanted reparatory justice.
	That sounds like dollars and cents to me.
	Reparatory justice.
	That's one of those crazy words that has entered our nomenclature.
	Sure has.
	Reparative.
	Ugh.
	Reparatory justice.
	He says, the ongoing racial victimization of the descendants of slaves.
	Now, if there is ongoing racial victimization of the descendants of slaves in St.
	Vincent and the Grenadines, which is run by blacks, who's doing it?
	Who's doing it, Ralph Goncalves?
	In any case, that's the root cause of continued suffering.
	His reparation plans include individual and national debt cancellation, I guess not outright handouts, and support for cultural and public health institutions, literacy programs, and modernization of Caribbean industries.
	Now, I guess, which is going to come first, though?
	Compensation for climate change?
	Or reparations for slavery.
	I guess that's going to be a debate within the black community and they get to decide.
	They do get to decide.
	What about colorism within the black community?
	When is that going to happen?
	That's a good question, but when do they get compensation from their black brothers and sisters?
	Oh boy.
	Well, Mr. Kersey, I understand you have good news.
	Lowe's has rehired somebody who actually tried to stop shopping.
	This was a story that initially garnered just shock and awe from across the country when it was originally presented because A white woman named Donna Hansborough was let go of her job at Lowe's because she tried to stop shoplifters.
	And she was beaten for it.
	You can see the image of the three black guys who beat her.
	Donna is a white woman.
	This is from OutKick.
	I've spoken a lot about how OutKick is one of those sites that OutKick.com, which is Clay Travis, radio host out of out of Nashville, Tennessee. They've done really great work.
	Again, all the ideas that we've talked about over the years here at American Renaissance, at VDARE,
	and I hate the term dissident right, but it's all seeped in now. And now Outkick, their currency is
	speaking in our type of stories.
	And this is one of them. It's an implicit white story that, again, we're reaching that stage,
	Mr. Taylor, where explicit whiteness is coming.
	Except did Outkick make anything of the fact that the people who were doing the shoplifting were black?
	They didn't write that, but they didn't write that, but it's in the image.
	It's in the image, which, again, it's...
	It's one of those things where when they're explicit about it, yes, that's when it's okay.
	The day is done, but you can see the image.
	That's what pops up on social media.
	That's on their story.
	That's what people see.
	Lowe's decided to rehire an employee it fired after she attempted to stop a group of shoplifters, the company said.
	After senior management became aware of the incident and spoke to Donna Hansborough, we are reinstating her job.
	We're pleased that she has accepted the offer to return to Lowe's.
	First and foremost, there's nothing more important than the safety of our customers and associates.
	Products can be replaced, people cannot.
	We continue to work closely with law enforcement to investigate and prosecute those who are responsible for this theft and violent attack.
	That was the statement.
	Now, she was a tenured employee who tried to stop a robbery at... A tenured employee?
	That's what it says.
	At Rincon, Georgia.
	I'm not sure where Rincon, Georgia is.
	I bet it's in Georgia.
	I'm not sure if it's proximity to Atlanta.
	There are shoplifters throughout the state.
	Again, it's a state that proudly has Ahmaud Arbery Day every February 23rd, where you're supposed to run 2.23 miles in honor of Ahmaud Arbery.
	Hey, try and do that in a small town, folks.
	Again, the black suspects repeatedly punched the 68-year-old white woman in the face once she intervened.
	Police identified the three black thieves as Takia Berry, Jarmar Lawton, and Joseph Berry.
	Those sound like the starting defensive backfield for the University of Georgia Bulldogs right there.
	Quote, Hansborough attempted to stop one of the subjects by grabbing the shopping cart.
	She did not at any time make any contact with any person.
	The cart that Donna grabbed was in possession of the subject, Takio Berry.
	After Donna grabbed the cart, Berry struck Donna in the face three times, causing Donna's right eye to swell and blacken.
	Now Lowe's prohibits associates from stopping shoplifters.
	According to the Rincon Police Department, Lowe's originally fired Hansborough for violating the company's policy on interfering with the theft of merchandise.
	In this case, the value of the stolen goods totaled approximately $2,100.
	But Lowe's isn't the only store with a no-intervention policy.
	Earlier this month, an employee from a major grocery store chain was fired for simply filming thieves stealing thousands of dollars worth of laundry detergent.
	to laundry detergent, gosh.
	I guess there's a black market for laundry detergent.
	That must be about 10 square yards, cubic yards, of laundry detergent.
	Thousands of dollars worth of laundry, you know, it's a- That wouldn't fit in a cart.
	You need a panel truck for that.
	You need a lot of carts for that one.
	I'd like to see that video.
	And of course, we talked about this in May.
	Lulu Lemon fired two employees in Georgia.
	I believe this store was in Buckhead, for confronting mask robbers,
	who also happen to be melanin-enhanced, melanin-enriched black individuals there in Buckhead.
	Um...
	Hansborough understood that she had broken the company's policies, but she didn't expect to get the ax.
	After working for Lowe's for 13 years, she described it as a perfect job.
	And again, for trying to do her job, you know, we've seen these videos.
	We're not going to talk about this story, but I believe you see it.
	We're going to talk about it because it's actually important.
	CNN actually went to San Francisco, Mr. Taylor, to do a story about are these, is it really
	as bad as we've heard?
	All these robberies?
	Is there a reason why all this... CNN did this?
	CNN did this story where they go into the store in San Francisco and they see almost every item behind not only plexiglass but there's like padlock, padlocks on the thing and then within the span of a few minutes being in the store they captured three people shoplifting.
	And it's like, no, this isn't happening.
	And then it's like, oh, wait, this is happening as we're doing a live broadcast about shoplifting.
	We're witnessing it.
	We're seeing it.
	It's like, nope, this isn't happening.
	It's not a problem.
	Did they fess up?
	At least they included the footage, I suppose, in their report.
	I'd have to go back and look, but there was a Daily Mail article, which I wish we had actually talked about, where an entire store, a Walgreens, the entire store is padlocked.
	You have to ask an employee, When you get something.
	Anything at all.
	Anything at all.
	Whether it's a Blue Bell ice cream.
	A Coke.
	Hey, all of a Coke.
	Well, I need to unlock this padlock.
	You can't run a store under those circumstances.
	It takes too long.
	Your turnover will be so small.
	You can't sell much.
	Here's a thought for you, Mr. Taylor.
	Rincon, Georgia, like I said, I don't know where that is in Georgia.
	Right now, the number two song in the country is, try that in a small town.
	I bet it's a small town.
	I bet that's a small town.
	And here's a white woman who tried to keep Lowe's, you know, as a Lowe's shareholder, I thank her for this, because I want to see Lowe's stock go up.
	But the point is, this disconnect, this cognitive dissonance that white people have, hey, you try this in a small town, you know, it's the number one song in America.
	But here's the story.
	Well, people are furious when they see people getting away unpunished with this kind of brazen flouting of the rules.
	Correct.
	But after your Lowe's good news story, here's a Wall Street Journal good news story.
	And this has to do with diversity officers.
	Two years ago, chief diversity officers were some of the hottest hires in executive ranks.
	in the cold. Companies including Netflix, Disney, and Warner Bros. Discovery have recently
	said that high-profile DEI executives will be leaving.
	Thousands of diversity-focused workers have been laid off since last year. Many companies
	started re-examining their executive ranks during the tech sector's shakeout last fall.
	Some diversity officers say their work is facing additional scrutiny since the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in college admissions, and companies say that there could be potential legal challenges, as there should.
	DEI work has also become a political target for this reason.
	The quick about face, it is quick, shows company enthusiasm for diversity initiatives wasn't durable, leaving some diversity officers now questioning their career path.
	Well, it's about time.
	Well, I'm glad it's happening.
	In the wake of George Floyd.
	Oh, I hate that.
	That's the worst phrase.
	Isn't that disgusting?
	Suddenly, you've got to change your policy because of this.
	Because of one accidental death and because Thousands, maybe millions of black people and hopped up white people went wild.
	You've all of a sudden got to change your policies?
	This is the stupidest thing.
	As I've said before, the only policy that I can imagine someone changing in the wake of all that is a reassessment of the value of the Second Amendment.
	But they're all going to change their corporate policies?
	This is just so pathetic.
	But in the wake of that, companies scrambled to change the face of the C-suite.
	In 2018, fewer than half of the companies in the S&P 500 employed someone in that role.
	By 2022, this is even within the year of the great George Floyd laying down his life for goodness, truth, and beauty in the American way, three out of four companies had created that position.
	Three out of four, fewer than half to 75%.
	But for these chief diversity officers, their job searches are taking longer.
	I got to 300 applications and then I stopped counting, says Stephanie Lubin.
	300?
	Boy, she's persistent.
	She was laid off her role as diversity head at Drizzly, an online alcohol marketplace.
	That obviously needs a DEI consultant.
	Yes, American Renaissance needs a DEI consultant.
	In the wake of George Floyd, yes.
	Yes.
	Well, and this is good too, the number of chief diversity officer searches They are down 75% in a single year.
	75%?
	But that means somebody's still looking.
	Somebody's still looking.
	So, you know, Stephanie Lubin, after that 300 applications, maybe the 325th is going to be pay dirt for you.
	Here's an idea, by the way, for a book title for you.
	It should be your next title just thinking about Google search optimization.
	Okay.
	Your book should be called, In the Wake of George Floyd.
	Oh.
	And then, obviously, then have, you know, colon, and then, you know.
	Yes.
	How a nation went mad, or something like that.
	What's the other thing?
	It's the racial reckoning.
	The racial reckoning.
	The racial reckoning that took place.
	Ah, this is just so, it just shows you how utterly superficial most people's thinking about practically everything is.
	Something like this happens, and oh my gosh, we've got to change everything.
	Well, now, last little story, last little item from this Wall Street Journal story about the decline in diversity officers.
	Some companies, it says, moved people into diversity leadership if they were an ethnic minority, even when they weren't qualified.
	Now, Mr. Kersey, I'd like to know what qualifies you to be a DEI person.
	I guess you have to be really slippery and pretend that you're not discriminating when you are.
	But what are the qualifications?
	I mean, I should think the only qualification really is that you're an ethnic minority.
	I mean, then you can prove you're in it sincerely.
	But in any case, some of them weren't qualified.
	Now, I remember reading someplace that there is a college in the United States where you can get an undergraduate degree.
	That prepares you for DEI work.
	I forget which one it is.
	Maybe one of our clever and on-the-ball listeners will know.
	Okay, moving on to a story about South Africa.
	This is really quite interesting.
	This is a New York Times story.
	New York Times, I think, who was it that said, the only way to read the New York Times is backwards?
	Start at the bottom, because that's where the really important information is.
	But in South Africa, according to The Times, Nelson Mandela is everywhere.
	The country's currency bears his smiling face.
	I believe he's on every bill.
	Every single one has got Nelson.
	Winnie isn't even on a single one.
	Wife Winnie.
	At least 32 streets are named for him and nearly two dozen statues of his image watch over the country.
	Every year on July 18th, his birthday.
	I mean, this just happened, by the way.
	And I was aware of this at the time, but I just learned it this year.
	South Africans celebrate Mandela Day by volunteering for 67 minutes.
	67 minutes?
	And you know why?
	It's because it's in honor of the 67 years that Nelson Mandela spent serving the country.
	67 years.
	So he did 67 years.
	So all you good South Africans, you are going to serve for 67 minutes.
	I wonder how many people do that.
	But 10 years after his death, attitudes have changed.
	For one thing, corruption, ineptitude, and elitism have tarnished the ANC.
	They've tarnished the ANC.
	I think they've tarnished more than the ANC.
	But we won't go into that.
	Mr. Mandela's image, which the ANC plastered across the country, has, for some, shifted from that of hero to scapegoat.
	Isn't this interesting?
	Especially young people believe he did not do enough to create structural change.
	Structural change that would lift the fortunes of blacks.
	Structural change.
	Hmm.
	That's already a red flag.
	And as it turns out, au fente tibi.
	Whenever he enters the courthouse in Johannesburg where he works, he must pass a 20-foot sculpture of the young Mr. Mandela as a boxer.
	Apparently, he was a pugilist.
	Now, young Offente Tebbe says he deliberately avoids looking at it for fear of turning into a walking ball of rage.
	Now why would that be?
	We eventually get there.
	Then the New York Times goes into a hand-wringing litany of corruption, crime, blackouts.
	Just a little gentle look at what's actually going on in South Africa.
	And it goes on to say faith in the future is collapsing.
	Of course it would.
	Only 26% say they trust the government.
	That's way too much.
	That's about the same as in the United States.
	Gee, wow, that's great faith.
	And that's a huge decline from 2005 when it was 64%.
	I mean, that's a pretty precipitous decline.
	In the U.S., it has declined far more gradually.
	My recollection is when Eisenhower was president, about 80% of Americans trusted the federal government to do the right thing all the time or almost all the time.
	Of course, they also sent in the 101st Airborne to integrate Little Rock.
	That's when it began to decline.
	That was 57, right?
	Yes, that was 57.
	Now here we get to the real message.
	This is, I don't know how many, 25 paragraphs deep into the story.
	We quote another young South African.
	His name is Desire Vaude.
	Desire Vaude?
	Desire Vaude.
	Boy, I guess that's probably an appropriate name.
	I bet Desire Vaude desires a great many things.
	But he belongs to the generation that knows Mr. Mandela only as a historical figure in textbooks and films.
	But he says the fight against apartheid was admirable, but the huge economic gap between black and white South Africans will be on his mind when he votes for the first time next year.
	Now, Mr. Voda, Mr. Dzar Voda, his complaint is he didn't revolt against white people.
	I would have taken revenge.
	Wow, the Truth and Reconciliation Committee didn't go far enough.
	Oh boy, it didn't go far enough.
	It should have been the Truth and Expropriation Committee.
	No reconciliation going on here.
	So, of course, this is just another way of blaming white people.
	Mandela, it's interesting that he's blaming Mandela.
	Apparently, Mandela didn't turn the country into Zimbabwe.
	Is that what he wants?
	That's what's going to happen.
	If he votes for revenge against white people, he's going to vote for Julius Malema and the economic freedom fighters.
	Yeah, yeah, kill the boar.
	Yes, kill the boar, take his farms, run them into the ground, make the country even poorer than ever.
	But there you go.
	It's fascinating to me that Nelson Mandela is now the scapegoat He was too nice to white people.
	Too nice to white people.
	You know, we talked about South Africa about two months ago, how they have actually beat their climate goals.
	Yes.
	Because emissions are falling, because power plant breakdowns are reducing industrial activity.
	As the country becomes blacker and blacker and blacker, the civilization that whites built and then handed over is basically collapsing.
	Well, as the nation gets blacker and blacker, the knights get blacker and blacker.
	Darker and darker.
	And still, through it all, white people are to blame because black leaders were too lenient.
	Too nice to whitey.
	I guess they should have killed them all and taken everything they had.
	In any case, now Mr. Kersey, I believe you have a story on how liberal suburbs are nevertheless keeping the BIPOC sound.
	Just for point of reference, how much time do we have left?
	How much time?
	We have about 14 minutes left.
	Okay, okay.
	There's enough time for this story.
	Gotcha.
	So rich white liberals use invisible border wall to keep out power.
	I'm sorry, to keep out poor minorities, report finds.
	A new think tank report shows how liberal New York suburbs use restrictive zoning laws
	to drive up housing prices and prevent poor minorities from moving into their neighborhoods.
	That's how they can stay liberal.
	If they keep the BIPOCs out, then they can remain all virtuous.
	Exactly.
	And then they can lament the fact that BIPOCs are subjugated by the bad white people.
	And they can complain about how little diversity they have, too.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	If only.
	The Century Foundation released a study about zoning laws and educational opportunities in Scarsdale and Port Chester, liberal suburban areas in Westchester County, New York.
	Located north of New York City, the study compares zoning laws, demographics, and public school performance.
	In the neighboring towns is a case study for how liberal suburbs prevent low-income people and racial minorities from moving in.
	Quote, today, among the most important government policies and practices driving segregation include, one, decisions about where to place public housing, and two, flagrant income discrimination through exclusionary zoning, which disproportionately hurts people of color.
	End quote.
	The study reads, Well, you know, if you want to have a nice neighborhood, probably prices are going to be a little higher.
	And they're going to be a little higher.
	It's going to be pretty much multi-family homes.
	There's not going to be apartment complexes where you have 10%.
	You mean single-family homes?
	I'm sorry, single-family homes.
	Yeah, there's not going to be.
	Unless, of course, you have a family that's moved in and then they're like, oh, we're going to have three or four of our family members and their kids move in
	to help us pay the mortgage. I've regrettably seen that. Anyways, Scarsdale has a median
	household income of $250,000 and its population is 71.2% white with 90.7% of adults having
	attained a bachelor's degree or more of education. A median household income of $250,000. Correct.
	That must put it just about the tippy top.
	Oh yeah, I'd imagine so.
	That's data from Newark University's Furman Center.
	Port Chester has an $88,093 median income.
	$88,093 median income.
	I assume that's the BIPOC area right next door.
	Yeah, and its population is 64.2 Hispanic, with 31% of adults attaining at least a bachelor's degree.
	So, poor public schools in Scarsdale have a higher expenditure per pupil, lower student to teacher ratio, And more experienced teachers.
	Students in Scarsdale graduate in four years at a higher rate and perform better in English and math than students in Port Chester.
	Well, of course, no surprise.
	No surprise.
	I mean, again, this is simple stuff.
	The study explained how Scarsdale fought public housing developments and uses single-family zoning to restrict development.
	As a result, minorities and poor Americans are unable to move to Scarsdale despite the town's liberal leanings.
	In contrast, Port Chester allows for multi-family homes to be built on its land.
	Again, kind of spoiled the story there.
	This is simply what every city should do.
	If you're thinking about what to do if you live in a city, run for school board.
	Don't be too over-the-top with your pro-white pronouncements and leafletting.
	Just run.
	Just run as a Republican and just say, We want to make our city safe.
	I want to fight this nonsense of all the stuff that's poured into schools, but also we want to keep our property values high.
	And so the most important thing to do, Mr. Taylor, I think you look at this story and you do what the white liberals do in Scarsdale.
	Fight zoning laws that are going to put in, you know, Multifamily dwellings.
	Well, of course, the Biden administration, with its affirmatively furthering fair housing, wants forcibly to put public housing in Scarsdale.
	Resurrecting the Obama plan that he introduced in his second term.
	Yes, of course, Scarsdale, probably a lot of lawyers live there.
	They'll find some way to keep them out.
	Those clever, rich liberals, you know, when it comes to their own backyards.
	They're not liberal at all.
	No, and again, I don't mind because I believe in one thing and one thing only.
	That's freedom of association.
	So the ability to discriminate, I think it's at the bedrock of what we are.
	You mean these poverty-stricken BIPOCs are not free to associate with you?
	You believe in freedom of association, Mr. Kersey?
	I do, but that also means that I believe in putting laws in place to protect your property value, whether it's a business, whether it's loans.
	Well, that was a trick question.
	It is a trick question.
	Yes, I guess when I go to Walmart, I guess I'm free to associate.
	That's right.
	Anyway, math in California.
	This is one of those great stories.
	The California School Board of Education has approved a new math framework and one opponent of the framework.
	He is a former teacher and now a private math teacher.
	He says, typically a curriculum framework would orient around the current standards and explain how they should be taught.
	This doesn't.
	The framework promotes the use of math to explore various social issues and encourages political activism by students.
	It hoops up racial justice, equity, gender inclusivity, and trauma-informed pedagogy.
	You know what that is?
	Trauma-informed teaching?
	Trauma-informed pedagogy.
	Pedagogy means that's a teacher.
	Well, trauma-informed.
	That's yet another invention.
	You know, you and I, you're already an old fogey if you don't know what trauma-informed pedagogy is.
	Anyway, apparently math is going to have trauma-informed pedagogy and will emphasize racial justice, equity, gender inclusivity.
	But, Linda Darling-Hammond, president of the California State Board of Education, says this new approach is great for its focus on excellence with equity.
	Excellence with equity?
	Yes, yes, yes.
	I think those are contradictions.
	Change is imperative, she says, because the U.S.
	has been ineffective and inequitable in teaching math.
	We're one of the lower-achieving countries, she says, and it's the fault of math teaching.
	California's below the national average.
	So, Ms.
	Darling-Hammond, I suspect that she is one of our African-American fellow citizens, but I don't have proof for that, but often these double-barreled names, Darling-Hammond, that's hyphenated, she says that this is an area of great need and change is imperative.
	Does she really think, does anyone really think That somehow turning math into all this hooping about gender inclusivity is really going to help people learn math?
	Yes.
	Do you think they believe that?
	Yes, because again, they have to continue to come up with new ways to explain away what Richard Lenn documents quite succinctly in Race Differences in Intelligence.
	So, yes.
	Well, boy oh boy.
	She says, the same old, same old will not get us to a new place.
	Well, her new, new, new, new is going to a new place either, and it's going to even be lower on the PISA international rankings, too.
	However, According to Bill Evans, Director for the Center on Educational Excellence, he says, they want the teachers to be social justice warriors themselves, and they want to turn out new social justice warriors and environmental activists.
	Now, there's really only one thing I needed to know about this document.
	This is the framework for teaching math, and that is, A thousand pages long?
	You could probably fit five math textbooks into that.
	Boy, but that's the way things work in America.
	Yeah, it's funny, the best textbook on math I ever read was, I think it was Mathematics for the Million?
	Uh, gosh.
	I forget the title.
	I'll try to remember it because it's one that a good friend recommended.
	Well, Tempus Shonoff Fugit.
	So we've got to move fast here.
	But the news from Oregon is that the top Japanese diplomat, he is the Consul General of Portland, was shoved to the ground without any provocation by a homeless woman.
	He is 62 years old and he was walking near a park and he was jumped and pushed to the ground.
	Police officers arrived to find Yoshioka Yuzo bleeding profusely from a wound in the back of the head.
	His assailant is identified as 23-year-old Arisa Robinson.
	She's booked on assault and hate crime.
	Hate crime, sure enough.
	The attack on the Japanese envoy was part of a broader pattern of Robinson committing acts of violence against people of Asian descent.
	Huh?
	Yes.
	In August 2022, she was arrested after she punched a 76-year-old Asian man in the head several times and put him in a chokehold.
	And a year earlier, she attacked a mother and child in Chinatown, kicking over a baby stroller with a one-year-old inside.
	What?
	What?
	Yeah.
	She's pretty vicious, and she does these things explicitly for racial reasons.
	Now, my question for you, Mr. Kersey, how come this 23-year-old is still on the loose?
	I guess you've got to actually knock down a diplomat in order to get any kind of real attention.
	I suspect she will probably go to jail this time.
	But the other thing is, can you imagine some white person being on the loose after having done attacks of this kind against Asians or anybody else?
	No, I can't.
	Impossible.
	And by the way, that book title, you were saying that excellence and equity, that math is going to be over a thousand pages.
	Mathematics for the Million, How to Master the Magic of Numbers by Lancelot Hogben.
	Have you ever heard of that book?
	Oh, yeah.
	Well, I've heard of Lancelot Hogben.
	Yeah.
	It's a very famous book.
	It's 650 pages.
	Good.
	And it takes the reader through the whole course from simple arithmetic to calculus.
	It's a phenomenal book.
	So, ladies and gentlemen, listen to this if you've never read this for your kids, your grandkids.
	Get them a copy of Mathematics for the Million, How to Master the Magic of Numbers.
	There's nothing woke.
	It's simply... Numbers don't lie, and it teaches you.
	Nothing woke?
	Yeah, nothing woke.
	I bet that book would put me... It might put you to sleep, though!
	I was gonna say.
	You might not be awake after reading two pages, but at least you won't be woke.
	Well, boy, we are really running out of time here.
	So, I think I will read to you a crime story.
	This was from Washington, D.C., just across the Potomac River from World Headquarters of American websites.
	This is word for word, verbatim.
	Police are investigating after two people were shot and killed in northwest DC Saturday night.
	Detectives have not confirmed the ages or gender of the victims.
	Police say to be on the lookout for a man in a white shirt and blue shorts.
	Anyone with information is asked to call detectives at 202 blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
	So, here we have a killing.
	Police say to be on the lookout for a man in a white shirt and blue shorts.
	That about covers it, doesn't it?
	I suppose nobody, nobody could tell what was inside that white shirt or those blue shorts.
	So, if you can find, and you know, sometimes they leave the area of the crime.
	This guy could be in Montana by now.
	So all you listeners out there in Montana, look out for a man in a white shirt and blue shorts.
	At least they did detect his gender.
	Well, Mr. Kersey, as our time draws to a close, we really should encourage our listeners to contact us.
	As you and I know, and I think many listeners by now know too, some of our comments are really wonderful.
	In fact, we learn a lot from what you tell us, especially if we've made some sort of error in a story.
	And some of you have called attention to stories that we've missed, that we really need to cover.
	So, in order to get in touch with me, Jared Taylor, directly, go to amren.com, A-M-R-E-N.com, and click on the Contact Us page.
	And while you're at the Amren page, look around.
	There are many interesting things to behold.
	The other way to reach us is Simply contact me.
	Email me at BecauseWeLiveHere at ProtonMail.com.
	Once again, that email address, ladies and gentlemen, BecauseWeLiveHere at ProtonMail.com.
	Yes, sir.

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