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Aug. 2, 2023 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor

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‘Race Change to Another’

Jared Taylor and Paul Kersey talk about white people who think they can get slant eyes by watching videos. The hosts also discuss Columbia Law School, what whites think of racism, the “life of crime” in Atlanta, and why California is losing people.

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	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
	I'm your host, Jared Taylor with American Renaissance, and with me is my indispensable co-host, the one and only Paul Kersey.
	Today is August 2nd.
	We have already raced into the month of August, and it is the year of our Lord, 2023.
	We're going to start with a comment from listeners.
	We have only one this time.
	This is very surprising.
	Usually we have quite a plethora.
	And this is from the same person that sent in a comment earlier, when Mr. Kersey had looked on the internet and found that he could not buy, or he thought he could not buy, Richard Lind's great book, Race Differences in Intelligence.
	Well, it looked all over on Amazon while we were on the podcast and still couldn't find it, but there it is.
	And our listener sent me a screenshot.
	It has a new cover.
	And Mr. Kersey, that's my guess as to why you missed it, but there it is.
	Screenshot and all.
	Race Differences in Intelligence.
	Bravo.
	I'm glad it's there.
	Now, our first story is quite an astonishing one.
	Since before she hit double digits, Alyssa, age 15, said that she has felt a special connection with Japan.
	She now goes by the Japanese name Miyuki and listens to subliminal videos that promise she'll wake up and be Japanese.
	So far, she believes that by listening to YouTube videos with lo-fi music, lo-fi music, I'm not quite sure what that is, and photos of East Asian facial features while she sleeps, Her vision has cleared.
	Her eyelids have become smaller.
	I guess that means more Japanese.
	And her hair is just a bit darker.
	This all sounds magical to me.
	Practitioners of what they call Race Change to Another, or R-C-T-A, purport to be able to manifest physical changes in their appearance and even their genetics to become a different race.
	Boy, Rachel Dolezal should have got herself some subliminal videos to help her turn black.
	In any case, folks, tune in to these videos that claim that can give them an East Asian appearance and even Korean DNA!
	Wow, you can change your DNA through your ears!
	A number of racial subliminal creators have popped up on YouTube in recent years with videos racking up an average of over half a million views apiece.
	This is a popular thing, Mr. Kersey.
	You, too, could become Japanese.
	Just listen to these videos.
	Oh, I'm already turning Japanese, like that great song by the Vapors from the 80s.
	Well, you can speed it up.
	You can speed it up.
	Media experts point to the potential dark side of the exoticization of Asian culture.
	That's right.
	Anything people do has got a dark side.
	Don't you worry.
	Saying it could be a form of modern yellow face.
	Modern yellow face?
	What was the old time yellow face like?
	I've never heard of yellowface, really, but this is modern yellowface.
	Or an act of non-Asian people making their appearance more Asian-like.
	Well, I mean, if other people can make their appearance more Caucasian-like, what's wrong with that?
	But experts agree, now this is really the most astonishing part, race is not genetic.
	But they contend that even though race is a cultural construct, it's impossible to change your race Because of the systemic inequalities inherent to being born into a certain race.
	How about that?
	What if there were no systemic inequalities?
	Then could you change your race?
	This is just such astonishing baloney.
	Really.
	I mean, it's a cultural construct, but you can't change because there are systemic inequalities built into this optical illusion that we call race.
	Utterly illogical.
	David Freund, I don't know how you pronounce his name, F-R-E-U-N-D, a historian of race and politics, an associate professor at the University of Maryland, he said, the modern concept of race is inseparable from the systemic racial hierarchy hundreds of years in the making.
	Simply put, changing races is not possible because biological races themselves do not exist.
	Now, isn't that an internal contradiction?
	If there are no biological races, if there's no biology involved, can't we just wave a magic wand and say, I'm an African now?
	They just tie themselves into such pathetic knots when they deny the obvious evidence of our senses and pretend there's no such thing as biological race.
	Well, this R-C-T-A, racial change to another, it's got its own nifty acronym, R-C-T-A.
	And transracialism have been compared to transgenderism, not surprisingly.
	However, Tick Milan, a black transgender activist and writer, said it is a disservice to transgender people to compare the two.
	Well, everything is a disservice to transgender people, especially black activist transgender people.
	Race historically emerged as a social construct to establish a racial hierarchy with the white race at the top.
	They go into that baloney all over again.
	Whereas, variances in gender identity have existed for thousands of years.
	Another utterly illogical argument.
	I mean, even if that were true, which it may or may not, gender identity, variances in gender identity, well, perhaps they have.
	Some people are men and some people are women.
	That's a gender identity.
	Have been around, maybe if they've been around longer, then even the idea of race doesn't mean that one you can change and the other you can't.
	I mean, the obvious point is, Everyone agrees that race is biological.
	I would think that changing biology is more difficult than changing a social construct, but that just goes to show how slow and how dim we are, and behind the times I am.
	Subliminals, which are audio files or videos intended to evoke certain outcomes, such as growing taller or getting good grades, exploded in popularity during the pandemic.
	You know, I must have missed them, Mr. Kersey.
	Were you aware of that?
	You could listen to something and grow taller.
	I was not aware of that.
	Apparently, they just took off during the pandemic.
	Wow!
	Maybe, gee, can I listen to one and get smarter?
	Can I listen to one and get better looking?
	I hope so.
	You're already good looking enough.
	Come on now.
	Oh, I don't know.
	Never good looking enough.
	You know, one of my favorite remarks about one's physical appearance Was Cassius Clay, Muhammad Ali, used to say, I just can't wait for tomorrow because I get bitter looking every day.
	In any case, back to these people who want to change race.
	Now, here's another lady, Aaliyah lady.
	Well, she's 14.
	She asked to be anonymous for fear of being dodged.
	She was born Egyptian, but she wants to be Japanese or Korean.
	Even the Egyptians are fawning for this.
	She said that after she let YouTube videos featuring images of monolid eyes, that's with the epicanthic fold, and ambient music play on repeat while she sleeps, she says her eyes have developed monolids.
	Her TikTok account, called at5starbunny, at5starbunny, is full of reflections on her progress towards becoming Japanese and dreaming about being in Japan.
	Now, this is the part of the analysis that I found particularly interesting for white Americans.
	Racial trauma can take the form of being ashamed for engaging in racism, having failed to stop others from engaging in racism, and not having lived up to a non-racist ideal.
	That racial guilt can lead white people to want to escape from the guilt through R-C-T-A, or transracialism.
	A lot of people try to find refuge from that.
	Shame, says one expert.
	Well, so here we get, and then we get a whole bunch of objections from Asians who say, no, this is no good.
	They've got no right to pretend to be us.
	These awful white people get out of our bailiwick.
	Now, of course, no person they interviewed says the solution is not to cease to become white.
	The solution is to make these people understand it's OK to be white.
	That is the dramatic and utterly unacceptable cure.
	But there you go.
	This is a big article on CBS, the television network, telling us all these poor, deluded, unhappy white people, mostly, and on occasion, Egyptian, trying to become Asian.
	Well, Mr. Kersey, I think you had a great story from last week that we didn't have time to fit in, and that is Trump voters on racial discrimination.
	Yeah, we didn't, and we'd be remiss if I didn't ask you if you had any quick thoughts about his, uh, what, his another indictment coming his way last night?
	Well...
	I mean, this just goes to show you what an incredible banana republic we've come.
	And I can't believe that the Democrats, they just can't restrain themselves.
	Here's the guy who's going to be the top, he is now the top contender, very likely to be the nominee, and they can't hold off.
	They're piling one indictment on top of another.
	It makes us look worse than Niger, where they just had a coup, or the Central African Republic,
	or Guatemala.
	I mean, what a crazy loser country.
	You've got the party in power prosecuting one after another, bing, bing, bing, bang,
	bam, bam, the guy who is their foremost challenge.
	If they had any kind of sense at all, these things don't have any kind of statute of limitations.
	Wait till the campaign is over for heaven's sake.
	This is only going to make his supporters completely disbelieve in the system, if they ever had any doubt about disbelieving the system, and make so many millions and millions and millions of Americans just turn their back on the whole idea of the way the system works.
	Now, those are my thoughts, but I don't want to spend too much time on that.
	Maybe we can, would you have anything particularly pertinent and acute to add?
	No, just kind of interesting that the individual who's leading by double digits is just under incredible indictment by the opposition party.
	And I think that's one of the more fascinating things that makes this such a incredible case.
	I think that's the right word.
	And even weirder, so many people who are so close to Trump are also under indictment or having their homes raided.
	As weird as it may sound, Vince McMahon, the CEO of the World Wrestling Entertainment, whose
	wife Linda was part of Trump's cabinet, he just had his home raided and he's now taken
	an indefinite leave of absence from the WWE.
	So basically it's almost as if anybody in the orbit of Trump is, is, you know, under
	the eye of Salon or under the eye of Biden, whatever you want to call it.
	As I say, this makes us seem like the most pathetic two bit tin hat banana republic.
	And as I say, Trump supporters, the people who really believe in Trump, they are going to completely disbelieve in America, the deep state, the government, the FBI, every Democrat alive.
	It is just crazy.
	In any case, let us move on to your Trump voters on the question of racial discrimination.
	Yeah, this was a story that we were going to talk about last week.
	I'm glad we're going to talk about today because the title is Trump voters say racism against white Americans is a bigger problem than racism against black Americans.
	Now, the polling follows the dismiss.
	Here, scratch that part.
	As public support for reparations for African-Americans remains stubbornly low, a new Yahoo News YouGov poll reveals one major roadblock.
	Donald Trump voters believe that racism against white Americans has become a bigger problem than racism against black Americans.
	I'd call that a white pill, Mr. Taylor.
	The survey of 1638 U.S.
	adults, which was conducted from July 13th to July 17th, shows that among 2020 Trump voters, 62% say that racism against black Americans is a problem today, while 73% say that racism against white Americans is a problem.
	So yeah, 27% of Trump voters don't see racism against white Americans as a problem.
	Asked how much of a problem racism currently is, just 19% of Trump voters describe racism against black Americans as a big problem.
	Twice as many 37% say racism against white Americans is a big problem.
	Trump voters and self-identified Republicans, overlapping but not identical cohorts, are the only demographic groups identified by Yahoo News and You Who, I'm sorry, You Who, YouGov, who are more likely to say racism against white Americans is a problem than to say Then the same about racism against black Americans.
	A majority, 51% of white Americans, for instance, think racism against people who look like them is a problem.
	But overall, far more white Americans, 72%, say racism against black Americans is a problem.
	Wait, so 51% of whites say racism against whites is a problem, and then 70 some odd percent say racism against blacks is a problem?
	Well, they're all saying racism is a hell of a problem.
	Yeah, but again, this is, this is, uh, this is Trump voters.
	So, but again, I want to know what other voters think.
	Yeah.
	So white people as a whole, 51% say racism against white people is a problem.
	That's good.
	They're right.
	But then a larger number say racism against black people is a problem.
	Well, uh, they are still no, at least I think that's progress.
	The number of white people say, yeah, white people are taking it on the chin.
	About time they noticed.
	Yeah, and again, this was this was done because the follow the dismissal of the lawsuit put forth by three remaining survivors.
	The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
	Seeking reparations for ongoing harm caused by the racist rampage that, this is Yahoo News' words, destroyed their once thriving majority black community a century ago.
	The trio of survivors had sued under Oklahoma's public nuisance law, claiming that the ripple effects of the massacre continue to affect the Greenwood community today.
	I would say that it being the majority black community is what affects the community today, and it's why it has never recovered.
	Have you ever looked into the Tulsa Massacre?
	Yeah, I have.
	It is a rather more complicated situation than is generally described.
	We could do a segment on that one of these days, but now is not the time.
	But we'll hear about the Tulsa massacre, as it's called, to the end of time, no doubt.
	Here's a little item.
	For the third straight year, California has experienced a decline in population.
	I wasn't aware of that.
	I wasn't aware that California is losing people, all told.
	I knew that natives are moving out and immigrants are moving in, but I didn't realize now that there's an overall net decline in the number of Californians.
	Census Bureau data says many of those packing up and heading east are some of the state's wealthiest.
	So they get penniless so-called refugees and the billionaires are moving in.
	A study of IRS migration data by an online real estate portal found that no state experienced a larger loss of tax income as a consequence.
	California lost more than $340 million in 2021.
	That doesn't seem like a whole lot to me.
	But 40% of Californians have said that they had seriously considered leaving the Golden State, mainly due to cost of living.
	I bet there are other things, too, that they don't dare tell the pollsters about.
	But the migration of high earners is more mysterious, say the mainstream media.
	Elon Musk, at one point the richest man in the world, made a highly publicized move from California to Texas.
	I think he finds it politically more congenial.
	Entertainers such as Joe Rogan and Rob Schneider, who have been openly critical about California policies, packed up and moved.
	Guess which state is the biggest winner when it comes to IRS tax revenues because of internal migration within the United States?
	I've not read your story.
	I've not looked at the storyboard too much.
	So I'm going to guess it's either Florida or Texas.
	It is Florida.
	The Sunshine State experienced a $12.4 billion increase in tax revenues.
	Those are representing losses in other states.
	So the top winners are Florida, Texas, and Arizona.
	And the biggest losers are California, New York, and Illinois.
	Wow!
	Taxpaying people saying bye-bye, bye-bye.
	But again, the fact that California is sure enough losing population.
	They say, wheresoever California goeth, there goest the rest of us.
	But I don't think we're all going to go into some tragic population decline, much as there are additions to the population that I wish I could put a stop to right now.
	In any case, we had an interesting bit of news about how one institution is going to try to skirt the laws banning so-called affirmative action, which is really racial preferences against society's racial preferences in favor of society's pets.
	Columbia Law School.
	It said on its website that it would require all applicants to submit a 90 second video statement.
	When they're applying to Columbia Law School.
	This is in the immediate wake of the ban on race-based college admissions.
	So, what did Edward Blum, the founder of Students for Fair Admissions, the plaintiffs in the June case that outlawed affirmative action, what did he have to say about this?
	The video statement, oh no, sorry, the college says, the video statement will allow applicants to provide the admissions committee with additional insight into their personal strengths.
	Well, Edward Blum, he has a different view.
	He says, Colombia's decision has all the hallmarks of a willful effort to evade the requirements of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
	What is a 90-second video supposed to legitimately convey that a written statement could not?
	Well, I think you and I know very well what it's supposed to convey.
	It conveys what you look like.
	And oddly enough, this social construct is something you can tell at a glance.
	Yeah.
	And then reach for comment.
	A spokesman for the law school said, that's all a big misunderstanding.
	And the very evening after the law school was reached for its comment, it had scrubbed that language from its website.
	I mean, all of these efforts are fine, but If a college wants to find out your race, and if you want to let the college know what your race is, there are so many different ways to do it.
	So many different ways.
	I think, you know, something that if I were somebody applying to a competitive school, I would say that as one of my activities, I'd say I joined the local NAACP.
	White people can do that, you know.
	You can join, you don't have to attend meetings, you don't have to do anything like that, but you can say you joined the NAACP.
	And in this otherwise race-blind application, the eyes of the admissions officers will get as big as saucers and say, whoa, wow, this kid who plays the harp and got straight A's and has got a 4.5 GPA is One of our preferred minorities.
	So all you folks out there, join the local NAACP.
	You don't even have to attend.
	Just join.
	They'll take your money.
	Now, Mr. Kersey, I believe you have a story about Atlanta and the life of crime.
	Yeah, you know, this is one that kind of slipped our minds and I've seen it go viral on Twitter.
	And I think a lot of these stories, people are looking up and they're finding them because of what's happening in El Salvador where, you know, the president there is just rounding up the gang members and, gosh, murders down 92%.
	Shocking what happens when you lock up the people who are habitually committing the crime.
	Who would have thought of such a thing?
	In fact, I actually Googled how many cities have declared their gang databases racist, and I'm up to about seven right now, including Boston, New York, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Chicago, and Philadelphia.
	Interesting, again.
	Pattern recognition.
	The truth is racist.
	Yes, it is.
	I think Memphis also is on there as well, which I believe we're going to talk about in a few minutes here.
	But here's the story from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
	A life of crime, Fulton officials create repeat offender tracking unit.
	The black mayor, Andre Dickens, 1,000 people are responsible for 40% of Atlanta's crime.
	So if you lock up 1,000, these One thousand people, Mr. Taylor.
	Forty percent of Atlanta's crime mysteriously disappears.
	That's true.
	That's true.
	And you know, you know, that's probably actual arrests because I think I remember reading someplace the average felon commits seven or eight or nine crimes for every crime for which he's arrested.
	In any case, yeah, yeah.
	Most of them get away with it, but please, please proceed.
	This is very interesting.
	Fulton County's law enforcement officials have been trying for years to identify repeat offenders and keep them from committing additional crimes, but this time they say they mean business.
	Yes, this time.
	Joint press conference.
	Atlanta's mayor, the police chief, the Fulton sheriff, the district attorney, and the county's chief judge, all black, mind you, announced they are joining forces to target the city's most egregious offenders and keep tabs on them.
	Repeat offenders are defined as those who have been convicted of three or more felonies.
	Law enforcement leaders say they account for a disproportionate share of Metro Atlanta's crime.
	To address the scourge of... Of course, you know, the question is, if you've got three felony convictions, why are you still walking around?
	That's what I'd like to know, but I'm not.
	Well, I mean, again, why are the Brunswick... Why are the Brunswick Three in jail, Mr. Taylor?
	They're not far from Atlanta, Georgia.
	Repeat offenders are defined as those... I'm sorry, I read that.
	Um, to address the scourge of repeat offenders, Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens said local county and federal law enforcement agents are combining resources information to identify such people and track their cases through the court system.
	Each week, 30% of arrests made by the Atlanta Police Department are of men and women who have already been convicted of at least three felonies.
	There you go.
	30% of arrests made by APD are men and women who have already been convicted of at least three felonies.
	I thought that was worth repeating.
	Quotes?
	Go ahead.
	Well, you know, they have this expression, known to the police.
	That's a polite way of saying habitual criminal.
	Known to the police, yes.
	How do people get to know the police?
	Over a background barbecue, I'm sure.
	Known to the police.
	Yeah, they bought him a donut at the donut, at the Dunkin' Donuts or the Krispy Kreme here off of Ponce de Leon.
	Quote, that's pretty much a textbook definition of a life of crime, the mayor said.
	We catch them, we arrest them, we convict them.
	But somehow they're back on the streets and often they're back to criminal behavior.
	The repeat offender track force unit will share information between police, prosecutors, and judges who can choose to keep certain offenders behind bars longer as they await trial.
	The unit is starting off relatively small with just a handful of employees and is being financed by a combination of public and private sector funding.
	Again, this is a situation where Atlanta's trying to get tough, so that Buckhead, which we've talked about many times, will not try and secede and create their own town, their own city, incorporation, incorporate their own city and take so much of the tax revenue away.
	Now the unit's lease furniture and technology is being paid by the Central Atlanta Progress.
	What?
	Is that a non-profit or something?
	Yeah, and the Buckhead Coalition.
	Oh, so Buckhead people are bribing the city to do its job?
	Basically so.
	You've got three non-profits that exist that are out there advocating on behalf of their area, the Midtown Alliances.
	If you know anything about Atlanta, Midtown is where all the new skyscrapers are building.
	That's where they've built a lot of the Condos, high-rise condos.
	So again, they've got to stop crime or else you're going to see people head out to the suburbs and not want to live in downtown Atlanta or Buckhead or Midtown.
	So according to Dickens, just 1,000 people are committing an estimated 40% of Atlanta's crime.
	The new unit, he said, is going to change that.
	The tracking unit is designed to get these serial repeat offenders off the city streets.
	He said there are resources and training programs available for those willing to turn their lives around, but those who choose to lead a life of crime must be punished accordingly.
	He said, Mr. Taylor, in the past four weeks alone, Atlanta officers have charged 75 people with more than 1,800 combined arrest.
	With more than 1,800 combined arrest.
	70?
	Read those figures again.
	Atlanta officers have charged 75 people with more than 1,800 combined arrests.
	I guess those are all their lifetime arrests.
	Correct.
	That's quite the aggregate.
	75 people with 1,800 arrests?
	Wow.
	What's the average number of arrests?
	Let me do that quick math.
	That can't be.
	1,800 divided by... The article says... Yeah.
	70 people.
	75 people.
	75 people.
	Alright.
	That's 24 arrests apiece.
	That's pretty good.
	And that's just the average.
	You probably have some real heavy hitters out there with maybe 100 arrests.
	What if they have baseball cards?
	Sheesh.
	Yeah.
	That'd be a nice little mento to trade.
	Hey, I'll trade you Deontay Hall for a DeMontre Carter.
	He's got 85 arrests.
	Look at this rap sheet.
	Sheesh.
	Get a stick of bubblegum with that too.
	Yeah, wow, that's a great idea.
	That's a real money spinner.
	So, is there any more on this fascinating item?
	Nope, that's it.
	It's again, but the thing is, in a year or two, Mr. Taylor, we're going to see this new offices they've created, which, you know, it's the
	repeat offender tracking unit.
	It's going to have to be disbanded.
	Yeah, there'll be a similar article on the cover of the Atlanta Journal of Constitution
	saying the repeat offender tracking unit is disproportionately targeting people of color.
	That's right.
	It's got to be disbanded.
	So, but you know, the idea of treating people with, what do we say, an average of 24 arrests,
	treating them a little bit differently at sentencing, isn't that what perfectly ordinary
	policing is all about?
	Why do you need some special unit paid for by desperate white people to get the black run police department to pay attention to those people?
	They know how many times they've been arrested.
	They should take that into consideration at sentencing.
	It's pretty simple.
	And just because you've got them all in one database, every time they come up for sentencing, count the previous convictions.
	That, to me, is the most obvious, straightforward, bonehead approach to policing.
	Anyway, I guess it's a whole lot harder than I thought.
	But in the meantime, the Oakland NAACP seems to be following in Atlanta's footsteps.
	They, just like these black people who are running Atlanta, are sick of what's going on, and they're doing something about it.
	And what Atlanta sounds like it's doing makes perfect sense.
	And listen to the Oakland NAACP.
	This is a July 27th announcement.
	Oakland residents are sick and tired of our intolerable public safety crisis that overwhelmingly impacts minority communities.
	I mean, I guess you do wonder would it be okay if the victims were all white, but still.
	I mean, they are They find the public safety crisis in top.
	It says, talking about murders, shootings, violent armed robberies, home invasions, car break-ins, sideshows, and highway shootouts.
	Sideshows, of course, when you get all these cars screeching their tires and blocking off intersections and making a mess of things.
	Then the NAACP goes on to say, and this I suppose is why they are finally moved to act, African Americans are disproportionately hit the hardest.
	Well, that's true.
	They should say African-Americans are disproportionately the perpetrators, but they can't bring themselves to say that.
	No, they can't.
	Failed leadership, including the movement to defund the police, our district attorney's unwillingness to charge and prosecute people who murder and commit life-threatening serious crimes, and the proliferation of anti-police rhetoric have created a heyday for Oakland criminals.
	That's a pretty doggone good sentence.
	They're all hopped up about the race angle, but that was a great sentence.
	Failed leadership.
	Defund the police.
	Unwillingness to charge.
	All of that is a big problem.
	Anti-police rhetoric.
	They're sick of it.
	They're going to say progressive policies and failed leadership have chased away or delayed significant blue-collar job development.
	Well, that's true.
	If you can't walk down the street without being mugged, then there's not going to be much blue-collar job development.
	We also encourage Oakland's white, Asian, and Latino community to speak out against crime and stop allowing themselves to be shamed into silence.
	Boy, there's a lot between the lines there, isn't there, Mr. Kersey?
	The NAACP goes on to say, there is nothing compassionate or progressive about allowing criminal behavior to fester and rob Oakland residents of their basic rights to public safety.
	It is not racist or unkind to want to be safe from crime.
	Again, what's between the lines?
	The lines, of course, that what's between the lines is the people doing this are over the people are the criminals are overwhelmingly black.
	And at some basic level, the Oakland NAACP realizes that this fact means that the whites and Asians and Hispanics are intimidated into shutting up.
	And they're saying, come on, guys.
	It's awful.
	Speak up.
	But I wonder if they would see how they would like it if people already started talking in terms of statistics, not victims, but actual perpetrators.
	In any case, it's good to see both Oakland and Atlanta trying to take crime seriously.
	But let's hope that doesn't turn around and bite them, because all the people who get targeted by these initiatives are going to be Mostly black people.
	You know, I've got to put a bow in this conversation because there was a mistake made, and I apologize for this, this article appeared In 2022.
	Again, this is how crazy the country is, ladies and gentlemen.
	In the post-George Floyd era, this is one story that should be big news.
	We should have talked about it last year.
	I can tell you we didn't.
	And they actually, I was Googling as you were talking about the Oakland situation, Mr. Taylor.
	They actually put out a progress report.
	In March, I'm sorry, in May of 2023.
	And as you can imagine, it was attacked because some organization called the Southern Center for Human Rights said that it recycles the tactics of failed past initiatives.
	It's disheartening.
	Uh, it's, you know, it's been funded by well-funded entities in Buckhead and Midtown, which demonstrates our government's violent efforts to further stratify Atlanta by raising the glass.
	Wait, wait, okay.
	You're talking about people who are smashing or complaining about this gang database or this repeat offender database that they're putting together.
	Their report, the report was issued in May of 2023.
	So only a couple months ago.
	And it was excoriated by the Southern Center for Human Rights.
	And they attacked it because, as you can imagine, the overwhelming majority of people dehumanized as repeat offenders in this program are black.
	Wow.
	Well, you know, you had predicted pretty much to a day that's a year later or not even a year later.
	And they're whooping and hollering because the people that turn up in these life of crime sagas are overwhelmingly black.
	Well, but according to that article, I gather, they have not disbanded this life of crime.
	No, it is not.
	They've not.
	Again, this is a very interesting story to watch.
	But again, it was attacked.
	Of course.
	Well, this is about Memphis and a long, fascinating New York Times article.
	I'll read a few key passages.
	The Justice Department said it has begun a sweeping civil rights investigation into policing in Memphis, digging into allegations of pervasive problems with excessive force and unlawful stops of black residents that were amplified, that's a funny word to use, amplified by the fatal beating of Tyree Nichols in January.
	You of course remember poor Tyree Nichols.
	This guy really was Pretty much a black model citizen.
	He had a child, he was taken care of, he was living with his mom, no record of crime.
	But Memphis police officers arrested him, detained him, allegedly for some traffic violation that they could never prove afterwards.
	Then they kicked him, pepper sprayed him, pummeled him, even as he was trained with his cuffs on, and then failed to render him aid after they had injured him severely, and later he died.
	And it was all caught on police camera.
	Well, residents and activists argue that Mr. Nichols' case was anything but an isolated example, and was instead reflective on an aggressive approach that officers routinely took with black people.
	This is still the NYT, New York Times talking.
	Black residents across Memphis were three times as likely as white residents to be subjected to physical force by police officers.
	Now, my question to that is, really?
	Only three times?
	I bet black people are more than three times as likely to be arrested, maybe four or five, six times more likely to be arrested.
	And I bet once they're arrested, they're more likely to require physical force.
	So only three times more likely than whites?
	I'm quite surprised by that.
	But that's what the New York Times says, and the New York Times never lies.
	Now, a preliminary review by the Justice Department lent credence to these claims of systematic mistreatment of blacks.
	The investigation, by the way, is the ninth so-called pattern or practice inquiry launched by the Biden administration.
	That's what happens when the administration decides, ooh, these police are awful bad, and the Civil Rights Department of the Department will go in and sometimes take years going through every piece of paper, interviewing everybody in sight, and then they'll come up with some consent decree that says that the police department can't move a muscle without Department of Justice consent.
	These things are absolutely awful and crazy.
	Of course, federal officials said that this civil rights investigation was separate from a continuing criminal investigation related to Mr. Nichols' death.
	And the Times says five Memphis police officers have already been charged.
	Now, guess what?
	This long, long New York Times article, which I have summarized briefly, never mentions the fact that all five of these people arrested In the context of this hand-wringing story about mistreatment of black people, every one of the officers is black, all five of them.
	Good grief.
	I mean, you would expect, of course, in the context of this story about the mistreatment of black people, that every one of them would be white.
	Nope.
	All five are black.
	Remember Freddie Gray?
	That was a bit of a surprise for the anti-whites.
	Well, on that occasion, there were five arrests and three of them were black, but they did manage to scrape up two white people that they could presumably hang this problem on.
	But this time they couldn't even do that.
	All five are black.
	Now, At the time, I wrote a little bit of a commentary about this, from which I will quote, or at least paraphrase.
	The beating, January 7th, was caught on video, but only on January 20th, nearly two weeks later, did the Memphis Police Department explain that every one of the people involved was black.
	For those two weeks, everybody assumed they were white.
	The Memphis PD got involved in it, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, the Justice Department, all of them were whooping about this, and the media were whooping about this, and the authorities must have known that they were all black, but for whatever reason, they withheld that detail for two weeks.
	Now, what was going to happen now, after all the whooping, and it turns out the racial angle was upside down.
	The story by then was much too big to be brushed aside.
	And good old Joe Biden, dear darling Joe Biden, what did he have to say?
	It's yet another painful reminder of the profound fear and trauma, the pain and the exhaustion that black and brown Americans experience every single day.
	Every single day?
	Does that mean every black and brown person every single day?
	Who knows?
	In any case, that's Joe Biden for you.
	But how were they going to handle the race angle after they had really made such a hullabaloo about this poor, unoffending black guy beaten to a pulp and later dying at the hands of the police?
	Well, MSNBC, they were right out ahead.
	They had an article by a guy named Nyree Oster.
	He says the racial identity of Tyree Nichols' killers is irrelevant.
	White supremacy is still to blame.
	That's because those five black officers, quote, were trained in a system rooted in anti-blackness.
	And it means they were, quote, operating in the same racist system with the same racist ideals as their white counterparts.
	I guess, you know, every time you join a police department, there's this special session on how to be bad to black people.
	You know that, don't you?
	All the police academies, the whole unit on how to be bad to black people.
	And the black people go to the go through the how to be bad to black people, a unit, and they just absorb all this badness, just like white people.
	And this Tyree, I'm sorry, this Nyree Osterguy from MSNBC, he goes on to talk about these five black police officers.
	They wrongly believed that their white adjacency gave them the license to do what they did.
	White adjacency?
	White.
	Now, if you've seen the photographs of these five guys, I think you've seen they are all very black.
	But I guess by being in a white supremacist police department and having gone through with Flying Colors, the how-to-be-bad-blacks unit, in their training, they achieved white adjacency, and they thought they could kill a black person with impunity.
	But they were wrong.
	Now, there's Jemele Hill, who boasts on her Twitter profile that she's a contributing writer for The Atlantic.
	And she explained it all to her 1,400,000 followers.
	That's quite a few followers.
	She says, the entire system of policing is based on white supremacist violence.
	We see people under the boot of oppression carry its water all the time.
	So those five people were under the boot of white people carrying white people's water.
	Jamel Hill went on, policing has everything to do with white supremacy.
	It's about protecting white folks' property and shielding them from us.
	And I guess black people take to that like a fish to water.
	Then there was Congressman Maxwell Alejandro Frost, one of our African-American fellow citizens.
	He says, it doesn't matter what color these police officers are.
	The murder of Tyree Nichols is anti-black and the result of white supremacy.
	You know, I'm often baffled by this.
	White supremacy just must be a hugely powerful, subtle, just irresistible, insidious thing when it creeps into the minds of black people and makes them kill black people.
	What do you think?
	Boy, we white people, we really opened up Pandora's box when we set foot on this planet.
	God, the things we know how to do.
	Now, here is a guy.
	He is a Dwayne Loynes, Jr.
	Senior, sorry.
	He's an assistant professor of urban and Africana studies at Rhodes College right there in Memphis.
	Says, here's a dirty little secret.
	Studies indicate that black officers are just as brutal.
	And at times even more brutal against black bodies as their counterparts.
	Uh-oh.
	Uh-oh.
	Don't dare say that.
	If a system is problematic, it doesn't matter who you plug into it.
	You'll get the same result.
	It's the system.
	The system is involved in finding the people committing the crime, arresting them, and putting in jail.
	Right.
	The system.
	He goes on to say, black police officers can be subject to the same stereotypes that white officers are.
	What?
	This is just so idiotic.
	They are subject to the same facts.
	They very quickly discover who's committing the crime.
	They very quickly discover who fights them when they try to arrest them.
	And I bet in the case of black officers, it's even worse.
	They get called bitch, Uncle Tom.
	What are you doing?
	There's all sorts of worse names.
	And they very quickly discover what the real problem is, who the real problem is.
	But they're subject to the same stereotypes.
	Oh, poor babies.
	Well, as we all know, the real problem, these five were probably low IQ, highly impulsive blacks who should never have come anywhere near a badge and a gun.
	And, you know, I had some of my police sources take a look at those videos and they say these officers are pathetically incompetent.
	These five big guys, they couldn't get the cuffs on one perp.
	And they were all in a bunch and they started pepper spraying him.
	Well, you don't use pepper spray in a bunch of people because you're going to spray each other, which is exactly what they did.
	And then they had Nichols on the ground, but he managed to get up and run away.
	And when they finally caught him, I bet those bunglers were probably so angry at being humiliated that that's another reason why they beat him bloody.
	But the most important thing is that in the early 2020s, the Memphis PD decided to waive pre-employment requirements for a person who had been convicted of pleading guilty to or entered a plea of nullicontendering any felony charge relating to force or violence.
	Can you believe that?
	You could join the force if you had been guilty.
	Pleaded guilty, convicted of, or at a nulla contendere against a felony violence charge.
	You can still make a great policeman.
	And, you know, the fact is what those officers did to Tyree Nichols looks a whole lot worse than anything Derek Chauvin did to George Floyd.
	And, of course, Derek Chauvin went to the big house for, what, 23 years?
	In any case, this is going to be fascinating.
	And, Mr. Kersey, ordinarily, When the Justice Department says, OK, we're going to look for patterns and practices of racism in the police department, I say, oh boy, another police department is going to be hamstrung.
	It'll be impossible for them to get their jobs done.
	I will be fascinated to find out what the Justice Department finds.
	I think they're going to find out exactly what I said.
	They had these completely incompetent, unqualified, low IQ, low impulse control black people running around wild doing things a policeman never should do.
	That's the problem.
	And how is the Justice Department going to blame that on white supremacy?
	Well, I'm sure they'll have no trouble doing it at all.
	By the way, the mayor of Memphis is a white man.
	But the chief of police is a black woman and 60% of the officers are black.
	Eight out of 13 city council members are also black.
	And so again, it will be very, very interesting just what sort of pattern and practice of anti-black racism the Justice Department will find when it investigates the city of Memphis.
	Anyway, I have jabbered on for long enough on this question, but I think it's really, really interesting.
	I'll tell you, we jabbered on it.
	I love it because that's such an amazing article because, again, the most important stuff in that New York Times article, as is normally the case, is buried 23, 24 paragraphs down.
	It wasn't even there!
	They never said, after all this hand-wringing about the terrible things that black people go through at the hands of the police in Memphis, they never said that the five men arrested for killing this guy are all black.
	Now, don't you think that'd be relevant?
	Not the New York Times!
	They are going to very carefully suppress that.
	But anyway, Mr. Kersey, yes, go ahead.
	Before we go, I've got to say we've got to reopen the Atlanta story, because I just, as you were going over the Memphis stuff, I looked over the report that they put out in May, and I can probably say that we're the first News entity podcast to actually broadcast what I'm about to tell you, Mr. Taylor, and that is the overall statistics from the 1,000 cases of repeat offenders.
	What percentage do you think were black?
	Of the people who made the list?
	All these heavy hitters?
	Let me say, I'd say 88%.
	94%.
	93%.
	934 cases involved either a black male or a black female.
	Uh, white.
	White people were 6% of the cases, 63 cases, and Asian or Hispanic repeat offenders accounted for just three cases.
	So, yeah, it's fascinating what this came out with.
	And again, I guarantee you, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution never reported this.
	WSB-TV didn't report this there in Atlanta, the ABC affiliate.
	Well, but Mr. Kersey, Mr. Kersey, if they report it, the purpose will only be to say that this is a terrible racist thing and it's got to come to an end.
	But in the meantime, while they're making up their minds, you know, it's sort of a decision they've got to make.
	Do they really want to call attention to this?
	Just how almost overwhelmingly and uniformly black the problem of crime is in Atlanta?
	Or do they want to burnish their anti-racist credentials by trying to shut down something that is so obviously and clearly racist?
	This is going to be a dilemma for them.
	But my guess is they will overcome their scruples and they'll say, no, no, no, we've got to stop this.
	We've talked about this before.
	Think about what happened with ShotSpotter.
	They had to rebrand themselves because of the negative publicity that, oh my gosh, this technology is all centered in majority BIPOC areas.
	But again, our leaders, we could have safe streets.
	So simply.
	We know who's committing the crime.
	Again, this study, 40% of Atlanta crime is committed by these 1,000 people.
	And of those 1,000 people, 93%, or again, as this report states, 934 of the people of the cases are black.
	And as this report states, 934 of the people of the cases are black.
	And that's just astonishing.
	I'm a little bit surprised.
	I would have thought, frankly, that if you took the 1,000 top heavy hitter criminals in a city like Atlanta, they would account for more than 40% of the crime.
	But I guess it's a little bit more widespread than I thought.
	Be that as it may, tell us about reparations for the bad health of New York City black people.
	New York Post story.
	You know, it's always fun to think where we're sourcing our material from.
	The New York Post does great work.
	New York City Department of Health backs reparations to boost health for black New Yorkers.
	Mayor Eric Adams' administration is promoting reparations in a bid to curb health and wealth disparities of black New Yorkers.
	But the effort is being met with accusation that it's sowing racial divisiveness.
	The Post has learned.
	The proposal for federal reparations is spelled out in a bombshell report from the city's Department of Health and the Federal Reserve Bank entitled, Analyzing the Racial Wealth Gap and Implications for Health Equity.
	The goal of a federal reparations program would be to seek acknowledgment, redress, and closure for America's complicity in federal, state, and local policies that deprive black Americans of equitable access to wealth and wealth-building opportunities, the report said.
	The city's health commissioner, Dr. Ashwin Vassan, And his team offered three key recommendations, including A, a fresh approach to public health policy, B, how to improve data collections on wealth and health outcomes, and C, getting the community more involved with healthcare decisions.
	Moderate and conservative politicians opposed to reparations accuse Adams' health minions of turning into ideologues and social justice activists, Instead of doing their jobs quote add
	reparations and sewing racial divisiveness to the list of greatest palsy hits by Commissioner Vassin and
	His health department right alongside the crap the crack pipe vending machine
	heroin empowerment signs on subways firing unvaccinated city workers supporting government drug
	dens and banning Unvaccinated kids from sports few Holland Council
	Republican minority leader Joe Borrelli. He sounds like a good guy
	He's a Republican from Staten Island.
	Heroin empowerment?
	I wonder what that's all about.
	I've not been to New York since, uh, since pre-COVID.
	So I've, you know, I, I've never, I never got to see the crack pipe vending machine.
	I didn't know there were heroin, heroin empowerment signs on subways.
	And, um, it's, it's, uh, I, I, and I've never seen a government drug den.
	Wow.
	Boy, boy, you're missing a lot staying away from the Big Apple these days.
	Gee.
	Hmm.
	Well, you know, there was an interesting story in another part of the country.
	A five-year-old boy who was high on cocaine, five-year-old, shot his six-month-old toddler brother in the head.
	Toddler brother.
	The boy, the shooter who's not been named, shot and killed his little brother, Isaiah Johnson.
	It turns out Isaiah Johnson had marijuana in his system.
	Now, I was wondering how you'd find that out, but apparently one of my police contacts says any murder victim is always given an autopsy, and they do a routine toxicology test, and so the 16-month-old is found to have marijuana in his system.
	As it turns out, Deonta Jermaine Johnson, age 27, and Shatia Tiara, they have been charged with neglect and various drug charges.
	Initially, Deonta Jermaine Johnson told police that Isaiah fell or was injured by his brother and denied owning a gun.
	This is a 16-month-old with a bullet hole in his head.
	He fell.
	And he also claimed that Isaiah had not been shot, but police found a gun in a safe under a bed, but also a gun in the drawer of a dresser.
	This guy claims to have no guns in the house, So, Johnson is facing a charge of obstruction of justice for removing marijuana from the apartment before police arrived.
	They called 911, you know, get the marijuana out of the car, out to the car.
	Surveillance footage caught him placing a bag into a car after the shooting.
	Police searched the vehicle and found the marijuana.
	Now, I have a question for you, Mr. Kersey.
	Both the five-year-old and the 16-month-old were tested for drugs.
	I guess that's kind of life in certain parts of the city these days.
	But what I don't understand is how come the five-year-old was tested for drugs?
	How come?
	Did I mention this?
	He was high on cocaine.
	I guess I forgot to mention that.
	The five-year-old was found to have cocaine in his system.
	But in my experience, every five-year-old acts as if he's high on cocaine.
	So I wonder how they decided to test this five-year-old kid for cocaine.
	But there you go.
	I guess they're starting them young these days.
	So this is a bit of a mysterious question for me.
	All of it is a little mysterious in its own way, but why the police decided to test this kid, five-year-old, he's high on cocaine.
	Now, gosh, we don't have that much time left.
	But I did want to touch on Derek Chauvin.
	And I think that this is an important aspect of our really lopsided legal system.
	He is planning to appeal his conviction for the murder of George Floyd to the U.S.
	Supreme Court.
	He plans to appeal after the Minnesota Supreme Court, that's a state Supreme Court, threw out his case in a one-line rejection.
	But the general approach, I think, is a good one.
	His lawyers say this criminal trial generated the most pre-trial publicity in history.
	Probably true.
	All around the world.
	Chauvin's attorney, William Moorman, said, more concerning are the riots after George Floyd's death, which led the jurors to all express concerns for their safety in the event they acquitted Mr. Chauvin.
	Now, is that jury intimidation or not?
	Safety concerns which are fully evidenced by surrounding the courthouse with barbed wire and National Guard troops during the trial and deploying the National Guard throughout Minneapolis prior to jury deliberations.
	Now that's going to scare the bejabbers out of the jury.
	They know perfectly well if they jump the wrong way, the city could burn down, their houses could burn down.
	And as it turned out, yes, Hennepin County Judge Peter Kahle sentenced Derek Chauvin to 22 and a half years after the jurors found him guilty of second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter.
	It's amazing to me that one guy can kill a guy in three different ways.
	Second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter.
	Boy, there you go.
	Boy, he's a really, I don't know, a resourceful guy, this Derek Chauvin.
	But I'll see.
	It'd be very, very interesting to see how this appeal goes to the Supreme Court.
	I think if there ever was a case that should have had a change of venue, they should have gotten it the heck out of the whole state, for heaven's sake.
	But there you go.
	And now, of course, as is usual, Mr. Kersey, before we, I don't know, I think we still have a little more time.
	Maybe one more, one more story, one more piquant little story.
	This is the University of Southern California School of Social Work.
	It has an Office of Field Education, but it's been renamed the Office of Practicum Education.
	It's making this change to be more inclusive.
	This change supports anti-racist social work practice by replacing language that could be considered anti-black or anti-immigrant in favor of inclusive language.
	I guess fieldwork.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Cotton fields.
	I guess strawberry fields for the immigrants.
	I guess every time they hear about fieldwork, you know, they just think, oh my gosh, my aching back.
	So, I guess phrases like going into the field or fieldwork, as they say, they have connotations for descendants of slavery and immigrant workers that are not benign.
	I wonder how many of them actually complained.
	That's my question.
	And Mildred Joyner, the president of the National Association of Social Workers, said she applauds the USC office for its change.
	It has publicly, the National Association has publicly acknowledged the role of social work profession plays in perpetuating racism.
	Now, clearly, this to me is just nothing more than idiot white people congratulating themselves on how wonderful they are.
	I guess, you know, I wonder if, this is the University of Southern California, I wonder if there'll be no more track and field events there.
	What do you think?
	I mean, gosh, you can't ask a black person to be in a field event.
	Good grief.
	Yeah, his back will ache immediately.
	And I guess, you know, science will have to come up with a new name for an electric field.
	Man, I'll tell you, if I were an electron, I'd really be insulted by the name electric field.
	Working in the field, that's like picking cotton.
	This stuff just amazes me.
	Or playing on the American football field.
	They are known as shields in the United States.
	I would venture to say that I would bet the majority of the black male students at a school like Cal Berkeley either play for the basketball team or the football team.
	I'd love to find that.
	I bet I could easily.
	Actually, I know that because 10 years ago, UCLA black athletes, they tried to sue the school because they found that I think 65% of the black male students at the school were football or basketball players.
	What's wrong with that?
	Some of them actually probably were on the track team and were involved in field events.
	Well, anyway, our Fund of news items always runneth over, but our time runneth under, and so we must bring this podcast to an end.
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