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Aug. 8, 2023 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor

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Jared Taylor and Paul Kersey sympathize with Javonnta Murphy, who washed up on Malibu beach, dead in a barrel. They also discuss “Kill the Boer,” brave Tou Thao, illegals in college, and a boycott of Florida the state won’t mind.

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	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
	I'm your host, Jared Taylor.
	I'm with American Renaissance, and with me, of course, is my indispensable co-host, Paul Kersey.
	Today is August the 8th, Year of Our Lord 2023.
	How are you today, Mr. Kersey?
	You know what?
	It is a beautiful day.
	The hint of fall is in the air, and there's a lot to cover.
	We've got some good stories to share with our listeners who, Mr. Taylor, I think we'd be remiss if we didn't tell each and every one of them how much we love them and how much we enjoy coming to them every week.
	Yes, we are very grateful that they listen to us.
	I'm not one of these people who professes widespread love to people who I don't even know, but I understand and share your spirit, Mr. Kersey.
	Let us begin with comments.
	Last week, someone writes, Mr. Kersey spoke about Atlanta career criminal programs and mentioned resources and training that are supposed to turn the bad guys lives around.
	I love this.
	They're going to turn their lives around.
	You know, they're always about to turn their lives around before they get gunned down or they shoot somebody or get into a fight with a cop.
	In any case, You always have to think about the details of these resources and training programs that Atlanta is proposing.
	What are these resources?
	And where's the money coming from?
	What state programs have to take a hit if tax revenues are diverted?
	NGOs are always trying to get their hands on tax money to distribute it to the less fortunate through entitlements.
	And then these unskilled repeat offenders who either despise work or are terrified of it don't even use the resources.
	But that's the beauty of deals like this, isn't it?
	They never work.
	And we have to keep funding them because anti-racism is the key to life.
	Now here is a commenter from Africa.
	He says, I'm a melanin enhanced guy.
	I'm glad he's using our terminology.
	That's your terminology.
	I guess that's true.
	I have been listening to your podcast for six years.
	Please allow me.
	That's about as long as we've been doing it, right?
	Or longer than that, I guess.
	2017.
	I want to say we initially started in 2016.
	So yeah, about that time.
	Wow.
	Wow.
	A loyal and devoted listener.
	He says, please allow me to offer my opinion as an outsider watching the collapse of your civilization in real time.
	Boy, he's got it right.
	Western civilization survived countless threats throughout the millennia, from the Mongol and Arab invasions to the Black Death.
	It even survived the cataclysmic changes brought on by the double-edged sword of industrial revolution.
	The one thing it will not survive is leftism.
	I believe the source of leftism is two things, democracy and political centralization.
	It would have been interesting if he had elaborated on that.
	He says, with this in mind, I would recommend to you Hans Hermann Hoppe's amazing book, Democracy, The God That Failed.
	As it turned out, I reviewed that very book for American Renaissance, and people can find it on our website.
	It is really a remarkable and radical look at contemporary Western societies.
	I really can't recommend it more highly myself.
	Another comment.
	Last week, you quoted, and this time it was your servant, Jared Taylor, who quoted some of the idiotic commentary on the alleged racism of the black Memphis police officers who beat Tyree Nichols to death.
	We remember this was considered just another example of white supremacy run rampant.
	You know, white people just pump white supremacy into the air, and sometimes it actually affects the brains of black people.
	And when they do something bad, that's white supremacy hard at work.
	And the commenter says, you quoted Congressman Maxwell Alejandro Frost, who said, it doesn't matter what color these police officers are.
	The murder of Tyree Nichols is anti-black and the result of white supremacy.
	This guy says, I know Max personally as he went to my daughter's high school and he was in her social group.
	Maxwell Frost is 26 years old, has no college degree, no elected office experience, no relevant job experience, and has a police record.
	And that's why Orlando's 10th District chose him over his opponent, a decorated war veteran, former professor, and full bird colonel in the U.S.
	Army, Calvin Wimbush.
	Well, that's the way things go in democratic America, isn't it?
	He says Max was adopted by his white father and Hispanic mother, and he is Afro-Cuban.
	His birth mother was a drug addict who put him up for adoption.
	He is part of the Black Caucus and also the Hispanic Caucus in Congress.
	I won't go on because there's lots more, but trust me when I say this guy has always been unhinged, low IQ, and impulsive.
	So that's the inside dope on Congressman Maxwell Frost.
	Now to me, Some of the big news this last week was the kill the boar chanting that went on in South Africa.
	I'm sure you saw that video.
	I'm glad to see that video was really circulating.
	This is Julius Malema in front in this huge stadium full of people all dressed in the color red, which is the color of his party, Economic Freedom Fighters.
	And as the New York Times explains, the brash leader of a leftist South African party That's EFF.
	Grabbed the microphone and began to stomp and chant.
	Thousands of supporters joined in.
	And when he reached the climax, they pointed their fingers in the air like guns.
	Kill the boor, Julius Malema shouted, referring to white farmers.
	The crowd in the stadium roared back in approval.
	The New York Times doesn't mention that he also made machine gun noises, and he's always saying, shoot to kill!
	Shoot to kill!
	That we don't hear about from the NYT, nor does it link to the very widely available video either.
	We just hear that, you know, he said, kill the boo.
	New York Times goes on.
	The New York Times is doing its best to justify all this.
	Mr. Malema leads the Economic Freedom Fighters, a party that advocates taking white-owned land to give to black South Africans.
	This has made his embrace of the chant all the more disturbing to some whites.
	Some whites, not people like you and me, you know, the jumpy ones, the racists, who don't like the idea that he's talking about shooting white farmers.
	Despite the words, the song should not be taken as a literal call to violence, according to Mr. Malema and veterans and historians of the anti-apartheid struggle.
	It's been around for decades, one of many battle cries of the anti-apartheid movement that remain a defining feature of the country's political culture.
	Bongani Nkulunga, who teaches politics at the University of Johannesburg, says the phrase, kill the boor, And the word means farmer in Dutch and Afrikaans is not meant to promote violence against individual farmers.
	It was a call to mobilize against an oppressive system.
	Oh, yes.
	Just a harmless little thing.
	I've got a challenge for you, Mr. Taylor.
	A historian at Nelson Mandela University said of the chant, young people feel it rouses them up when they sing it.
	I don't think they intend it to mean any harm.
	You know, I've got a challenge for you, Mr. Taylor.
	Have you ever actually looked at the lyrics of the song?
	No, but that's all I know is the kill the boor.
	Yeah.
	What else is in there?
	There's a guy who was recently featured on Huffington Post, Richard Hanania, who did a hilarious tweet today.
	And if I may quote from it, he said, as experts point out, Kill the Boar is a lot more nuanced if you actually look at the lyrics.
	Don't listen to Elon Musk.
	This is sophisticated high culture with a complicated message.
	Now, Mr. Taylor, here's that message.
	He has a screenshot of the song.
	Are you ready?
	Mmm.
	Shoot, shoot!
	Mother, leave me be!
	Oh, mother!
	Mother, leave me be!
	Oh, mother!
	Shoot the boar!
	Shoot, shoot!
	Shoot the boar!
	Shoot, shoot!
	Shoot the boar!
	Shoot, shoot!
	Shoot the boar!
	The cowards are scared!
	Shoot, shoot!
	Shoot, shoot!
	The cowards are scared!
	Shoot, shoot!
	Shoot, shoot!
	Shoot the boar!
	Shoot, shoot!
	Oh, mother, leave me?
	What's that all about?
	Oh, mother, leave me be!
	Oh, mother, leave me be!
	Oh, mother, shoot the boar!
	I'm not a historian with a degree from Nelson Mandela University, but I would say to all of our friends, if you can get out of South Africa, do get out of South Africa.
	I know how hard it is, unfortunately.
	A number of Afrikaners applied for asylum in Canada and were denied.
	Well, racist reasons, actually, because they said that they were, their views did not, uh, um, they were incongruent with the views of now 2021 Canadians.
	So anyways, there's the song for you, Mr. Taylor.
	I see.
	Well, clearly, I mean, it does kind of just kind of pep you up, doesn't it?
	But it certainly doesn't.
	I am, I am, I am roused.
	I'm aroused.
	Yes.
	But how could anyone imagine that it meant any harm, especially when Julius Malema makes these machine gun noises?
	Shoot to kill!
	Shoot to kill!
	Well, this is very rousing.
	I agree.
	Well, and as you note, it was none other than Elon Musk who said, this is calling for open genocide.
	What are the South African authorities doing about this?
	And actually, Mr. Malema gave a news conference two days after this rousing performance.
	He said, why must I educate Elon Musk?
	He looks like an illiterate.
	The only thing that protects him is his white skin.
	What kind of remark is that?
	The only thing that protects him is his white skin?
	I will sing this song as and when I feel like, he said.
	Well, and as a matter of fact, when white South Africans took him to court, this was declared not to be hate speech by the South African courts.
	Well, he sang his little song, gave his arousing performance in front of an audience, an enthusiastic audience of about 10,000.
	That was on July 29th.
	On July 30th, Teo and Marlinda Becker were attacked on their farm.
	Teo's throat was slit after he was beaten with an iron bar.
	Marlinda was also beaten and Teo was declared dead on the scene.
	That was just the very next day.
	This guy.
	Then the 2nd of August, as I say July 29th, that was when the song was sung.
	Carol Nell was murdered in his home on his farm.
	Likewise, on the 3rd of August, on a small holding, a couple named Randridge and their two small children, aged 8 and 10, were attacked.
	The man was shot dead.
	And his wife was seriously wounded in the back.
	So we have three just immediately after this.
	And 35 farm murders have already been committed in the first seven years this year.
	That's compared to 24 murders in the same period.
	So it sounds like the idea of kill the boar is being put into practice.
	And when Cyril Ramaphosa, he's president of South Africa, was asked in Parliament what he planned to do about the slaughter of white farmers, He said, that's not the question.
	The question is, what do we do about whites slaughtering blacks under the apartheid regime?
	Now, as it happens, the young parliamentarian, the white who was asking him, was born since the end of the apartheid regime, but doesn't matter.
	All whites clearly are going to be guilty until the end of time.
	And what is anyone going to care about white farmers being slaughtered?
	So there you go.
	And I'm very glad, I'm thankful to Elon Musk that he's been calling attention to this.
	It's incredible.
	I mean, again, the most influential person on the planet who is setting trends in both multimedia and electric vehicles and space technology, space exploration, is now calling attention to what he rightly calls genocide.
	And to me, it is equally important in its own way.
	The New York Times is trying to justify this.
	No, no, no, no, no harm meant.
	This just excites the lads.
	No, no harm meant.
	No, it really makes you despise these people.
	I thought it was fascinating also that that New York Times article that was making Malema sound like a choir boy in his nice, nice baritone when he sings Kill the Boor.
	That article was not open for comments.
	Very unusual for the New York Times.
	I suspect even Times readers wouldn't too much care for the idea of people running around singing that song.
	But this apparently seems to be pretty much the end of the George Floyd legal saga, and it was the sentencing of the last of the four Minneapolis police officers convicted in state court In their role in the killing of George Floyd.
	This was Tu Tao.
	I don't know really how you pronounce his name.
	T-O-U-T-H-A-O.
	Now, poor boy, he did not show any repentance or admit any wrongdoing as he was sentenced on Monday to four years and nine months.
	Tao had previously testified that he merely served as a human traffic cone when he held back concerned bystanders.
	Concerned bystanders what they mean by people who are yelling at the police.
	That's all they ever are You know, they shout obscenities the police and they come surging around.
	They're just concerned bystanders Well, you've seen you've seen the videos of this.
	He's just standing there with this black back to what's going on He denied any responsibility for Floyd's death.
	I did not commit these crimes.
	He said my conscience is clear.
	I I say good for him.
	I think my conscience would be clear in his case.
	But Hennepin County Judge Peter Kahle, he's the guy who's been sentencing all of these people.
	Yeah.
	Once he, in a bench trial, he found him guilty of aiding and abetting second degree manslaughter.
	And he said he would like to have had some kind of repentance.
	Well, the guy doesn't think he did anything wrong.
	I sure don't think he did either.
	I think, I say, good for you, Toto.
	You don't think you did anything wrong.
	I'm glad to see you're not grumbling and pretending that you're regretful for something you think you did no wrong.
	Kale then sentenced him to 57 months.
	That's the top end of the range under state guidelines.
	And the sentence was even more.
	It was six months longer than the 51 months.
	The prosecutors have been calling for.
	Isn't that something?
	Almost never do judges hand down sentences longer than what the prosecution asks for.
	And I'm sure part of it had to do with the fact that Total didn't grovel.
	He said, I didn't do anything wrong.
	Held his head high.
	Oh, he didn't.
	None of the officers that day did anything.
	No.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Now, apparently the others though have played guilty and they've groveled.
	Tao's sentence will run concurrently with his three and a half year sentence for his
	separate conviction on federal civil rights charges.
	This is, this is one of the most disgusting thing.
	These guys get tried on federal charges, state charges.
	Boy, oh boy.
	The judge said Tao's actions separated Chauvin and two other former officers from the crowd,
	allowing his colleagues to continue restraining Floyd and preventing bystanders from providing
	medical aid.
	Pfft.
	Oh That's his job?
	To let the crowd come crowding in and deal with people who they're trying to restrain?
	Wow, this is just so topsy-turvy.
	And Lane and Kung, those were the other two, they pleaded guilty to state charges of aiding and abetting manslaughter.
	Lane and Kung received three and three and a half year sentences respectively, which they're serving concurrently with their federal sentences of two and a half years and three years.
	And now Tao is a Hmong, Kung is black and Lane is white.
	This is fascinating to me.
	That with all of this super diversity, everything is so hunky-dory, Minneapolis is going to be the rainbow coalition of the four people involved here.
	One is black, one is Hmong, two are white, and every one of them is guilty of civil rights charges.
	I just don't get it.
	I guess after all of that, billions and billions of damages, they had to make sure that every single one of those people got guilty on every possible charge.
	Oh boy, but I think this is the last of the sentencing we're going to have in this sickening episode in American history.
	Well, it's good though.
	Let's just, let's just end on, you know, a white pill for, for the Hmong.
	The fact that this guy got sentenced and he didn't acquiesce.
	He didn't acquiesce.
	He sat there and said stoically, no, I did nothing wrong.
	And I think that's, that has to be the mindset of anybody who ever faces Persecution by this ever increasingly totalitarian, anti-white state.
	I mean, here's a guy who, you know, made an oath, Mr. Taylor, to uphold law and order.
	And who would have thought that on a day when he woke up, he would, you know, basically change the course of Western civilization?
	I think he was essentially a rookie anyways.
	I believe this was maybe one of his first weeks on the force.
	And he's supposed to go to his boss, his commanding officer, and say, stop what you're doing and let this guy off the sidewalk do a better job.
	That's just preposterous.
	Anyway, Mr. Kersey, we need to move along.
	I understand that you have been counting illegals in college.
	Yes, I got my abacus out.
	This story is illegal immigrants in colleges soar to nearly 2% of the population.
	1 in 50 of American college students is illegal.
	A vast majority of 408,000 illegal alien college students arrived in the U.S.
	during their formative years, either as children or teenagers, and most often through former President Barack Obama's DACA program.
	Uh, now at least 408,000 students without legal documentation.
	They're enrolled in U.S.
	colleges and universities.
	Yet another system impacted by the surge in illegal immigration.
	A study put together by the American Immigration Council and President's Alliance on Higher Education.
	It found that, as we stated, undocumented migrants are 1 in 50 or 2% of the higher education population in 2023.
	The vast majority, the authors noted, arrived in the U.S.
	During the DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the program that blocked deportation of certain foreign youth.
	Let's see here.
	These students often referred to dreamers, have grown up in American neighborhoods and attended American schools, and now they are attending U.S.
	colleges.
	And they invariably get in-school, in-state tuition.
	Oh, gosh, yeah.
	Yes, that burns me up, too.
	If you're from out of state, you've got to pay full tilt.
	These guys who are from out of the country, shouldn't even be here, illegal immigrants, they get in-state tuition and a pat on the head.
	Bingo!
	So, we go on and we learn that these Recent data shows that taxpayers pay $182 billion each year
	to provide services and benefits to illegal aliens and their dependents.
	The current total of illegal alien college students actually represents a slight decrease from 2019
	when 427,000 undocumented students were enrolled in US college universities.
	The drop likely reflects overall enrollment decline due to pandemic and economic pressures
	as well as factors that specifically impact undocumented individuals,
	such as the continued legal challenges to DACA.
	Now the authors noted the number of young people with DACA protection or who are DACA eligible is on the decline from 182,000 in 2019 to 141,000 in 2021.
	Now one of the primary reasons for this involves the program's lack of updates to include individuals who arrived in the U.S.
	after 2007, which is the specified eligibility date.
	For example, someone arrived... Go ahead.
	Gee, why can't Joe Biden just unilaterally extend that date?
	I'm disappointed in him.
	Isn't that what he ought to be doing?
	I mean, that's all, that's all Barack Obama did, just a wave of the pen.
	He says, hey, come one, come all.
	I guess Biden could do the same thing, couldn't he?
	Anyway, sorry.
	Yeah, he could.
	And then again, if a Republican were to win, they could simply say, it's over.
	We're deporting immediately.
	And anyways.
	Just to put a bow in this story, Mr. Taylor, for example, if someone arrived in the U.S.
	at the age of three in 2008, they would now be of prime college age and eligible for DACA.
	Hooray!
	There you go.
	Wow.
	Well, that sounds like a job for Uncle Joe.
	It's just waiting for him to wield that pen.
	I wonder why he's not doing it.
	Well, in the meantime, while we're talking about university students, Uh, it's interesting to note that the University of North Carolina has absolutely vowed to end race preferences.
	They were co-defendants along with Harvard in this famous Supreme Court case.
	It will no longer use race as a factor in admissions or hiring, including in its applications essays.
	The UNC Board of Trustees approved a resolution that prohibits the university from using, listen to this list here, race.
	Sex, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, genetic information, or veteran status in admissions, hiring, and contracting.
	That's pretty interesting.
	I would think that they would be a little bit concerned about age, for example, in admissions.
	Are they going to admit a 95-year-old as a freshman?
	In any case, Hey, don't be an ageist!
	Yeah, it's significant to me that they want to include sexual orientation, gender confusion, all of this.
	That is not going to go into it.
	In addition, UNC will not quote, establish through application essays or other means
	any regime of or encourage heuristics and or proxies premised upon race-based preferences
	in hiring or admissions.
	In other words, they're not gonna allow any kind of this phony baloney stuff.
	Well, we're gonna consider deprivation.
	We're gonna consider zip code.
	And what they really are is trying to make an end run around this, say it's not got anything to do with race,
	but the whole point is race.
	See, we're not even gonna do that.
	Nor will it consider the personal experience of applicants for admission,
	unless each applicant is treated on the basis of his or her experiences as an individual,
	not on the basis of race.
	They're really going all the way, because as you'll recall,
	The Supreme Court decision said that if in an application essay, somebody says, well, you know, I'm Mohican and boy, all my life I struggled and conquered because I'm Mohican.
	That kind of thing is admissible.
	So UNC is saying we're going to take a very dim view of that kind of thing, too.
	However, in the meantime, at the same time, UNC School of Medicine, its executive dean, Christy Page.
	Christy notes that accreditation requirements for medical schools require a focus on understanding the impact of disparities in health care and learning approaches that eliminate health care disparities.
	And according to the accreditation agency, every medical school must have a diversity policy, engage in ongoing, systematic and focused recruitment and retention.
	So, there is this peculiar dichotomy here.
	The medical school is holding out, but it's interesting, in February, UNC, the university as a whole, voted to ban DEI statements and compelled speech.
	I think that's exactly what they are.
	When you wanted to be hired, when you wanted to be admitted, when you want to go to graduate school, you had to make a statement on DEI, just how committed to it you are.
	But in February this year, the UNC voted to ban that.
	Prior to that, certainly in the med school, any kind of applicant had to give the statement about his commitment to DEI.
	All of this stuff, let us hope, is going to go by the boards.
	But we will see.
	And in the meantime, there is this tricky way that they're trying a little bit of backdoor affirmative action.
	You've heard about these special privileges for people who are first-generation college students?
	I have not.
	Please, do tell.
	Oh, well, yeah.
	I had never heard of such a thing when I was a college student, but apparently that's the latest thing.
	This is a news article about it.
	The Supreme Court's recent ruling prohibiting affirmative action has renewed discussions about preferences for first-generation college students.
	Higher Ed administrators are now seeking alternative methods for enrolling diverse classes.
	In other words, how do we get around the Supreme Court ruling and stay within the law?
	First-generation cottage students.
	But the trick is, how do you define them?
	Now listen to this.
	Brown University.
	It broadly defines first-generation students as, quote, any student who may self-identify As not having prior exposure to or knowledge of navigating higher institutions.
	Anybody who self-identifies.
	Boy, Harvard has a narrower definition that considers students first-generation if they will be the first in their immediate family to graduate from a four-year college or the equivalent.
	Apparently, the thinking is a student may know that he will face challenges typically associated with first-generation status, such as navigating the academic and social dynamics of college, learning how to apply for financial aid, and figuring out the course load needed each semester in order to graduate.
	Gee, and if he feels that he's unsure that he can do all these things, then maybe he could pretend to be a first-generation student.
	Now, the term first generation was first codified in federal law in 1980.
	I sure hadn't heard of it.
	And it was developed to find a common eligibility criteria for federal support programs for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
	Did you know about that?
	I sure didn't.
	There's some federal handout programs for disadvantaged background, which mean one of the things is that you're the first in your family.
	The law says students are eligible if neither of the parents completed a baccalaureate degree.
	It also considers the education status only of the parent or parents with whom the child is living.
	So if they're divorced or daddy died, but he got a he had a PhD, then you could still be first generation.
	But what if parents attended a university but didn't graduate?
	There are other indirect factors, such as whether parents earned degrees at traditional college age, or in another country, or were part-time students.
	So you see, everybody's poring over the fine print, saying, ooh, can I qualify?
	Ooh, can I qualify?
	Even under broader definitions that considered a student first generation, even if the student had one parent who went to college, Those students are still at a significant disadvantage academically and less likely to go to college and graduate than students with two parents who graduated from college.
	Some people are arguing that, you know, if only one of your parents went to college, well then, you know, you might as well be a first generation too.
	Oh boy.
	Officials have noticed more variation in whether students embrace their first generation identity and take advantage of services that come with the label.
	We often spend a lot of our time destigmatizing being the first in your family to attend a college and letting folks know that it's okay not to know exactly where to go or what to do and to lean on some of the support structures.
	I mean, you know, this really got me thinking when you went to college.
	Uh, do you think the fact, I mean, did your parents sit you down and say, you know, uh, uh, you get, you pick your book up, books up here and you get your class assignments there.
	I bet you had no such conversation at all.
	They would have no idea where to go or what to do.
	No, because when I went to college, they had just stopped doing, um, in-person enrollment in classes.
	Uh, you know, there's some famous scenes in the eighties.
	Where all the people are trying to figure out how you go and you would have to wait in line.
	I'm sure that's how it was for you at Yale, where you had to go wait in line to try and schedule.
	Um, this was one of the first years where they, uh, unveiled online.
	Oh yeah.
	And you had this amazing printout.
	It was this massive printout.
	It was so easy, so easy to navigate if you had any computer literacy and it was, It was, uh, it was like, Oh, done five minutes.
	Okay.
	Get all my classes.
	And of course your parents had absolutely no way to help you do this.
	They would have had no idea how it worked.
	Exactly.
	This stuff is just so goofy.
	It's just one more way to try to do an end run around this racial preference stuff that all of our, All the wise and wonderful people who run this country are absolutely determined to stick with.
	But Mr. Kersey, I gather that there is going to be a black boycott of Florida.
	There is going to be a black boycott, but I wanted to give our listeners a simple Cheat sheet into when you ever hear the word destigmatize immediately run for the door because somebody is trying, somebody or an organization is attempting to do something to undermine every aspect of your community, your neighborhood, your church, or your civilization.
	So that's true.
	Those words that you just simply say.
	Nope.
	I like the stigma.
	I think we should keep it in place.
	That's exactly right.
	The only people who get destigmatized are the people you don't want in your neighborhood.
	Speaking of not wanting them in our neighborhoods, I'll tell you, this I consider a white pill story.
	Florida is... I spent many a spring break, I spent many a vacation growing up.
	I love going to the Panhandle.
	Mr. Taylor, I'm not sure if you've Spent much time in Panama City, or Pensacola, or Destin, or where Floribama is, where Gulf Shores and Orange Beach are, of course Orlando, Miami, Daytona, all very nice, Fort Walton, you name it, Sarasota.
	Well, here's the story.
	Stop bragging.
	I've never been to any of those places.
	That's where the next AR should be.
	I've read Disney's having pretty poor attendance this year.
	It should be the New Century Foundation visiting the Disney world there.
	Black fraternity to pull convention out of Florida over harmful, racist, insensitive policies.
	Gosh.
	Oh, is the economy going to survive?
	Well, considering that this past spring break in Miami, the mayor said they're considering getting rid of spring break because of all the black violence that came without mentioning that the violence was perpetrated by black individuals collectively.
	I think they're going to be fine.
	Black groups, including the largest black fraternity, announced that they will pull their conventions out of Florida.
	over its harmful, racist, and insensitive policies against the black community.
	The Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity general president, Dr. Willis L. Lonser III,
	announced on July 26 at a current convention on last Thursday, the relocation of the fraternity's
	99th general convention and 119th anniversary convention from Orlando, Florida, where it was
	scheduled to take place in 2025. APAF characterized the new controversial K-12 curriculum for
	African American history as erasing, quote, Florida's role in slavery and oppression and
	declaring that, quote, African-Americans who endured slavery benefited from the horrific and torturous institution, end quote, and blaming the victims of slavery.
	APAF made the announcement on the first day of its 97th General Convention and 117th Anniversary Convention, which is currently being held in Dallas, Texas.
	For a press release, the fraternity said the announcement amplifies their theme, strengthening the brotherhood and standing for social justice.
	Wow.
	They also reported the convention is estimated to bring $4.6 million in economic activity for the Sunshine State.
	They did not mention all, however, Mr. Taylor, that there would be a rash of towel theft at the hotels.
	No, that's not in the story.
	Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc.
	has an unmatched legacy of social justice, advocacy, and leadership for the black community, said Launzer.
	He went on to say, in this environment of manufactured division and attacks on the black community, Alpha Phi Alpha refuses to direct a projected $4.6 million convention economic impact to a place hostile to the communities we serve.
	Although we're removing our convention from Florida, Alpha Phi Alpha will continue to support the strong advocacy of Alpha Brothers and other advocates, fighting against the continued assault on our communities in Florida by Governor Ron DeSantis."
	I wonder how they come up with that 4.6 million figure.
	That's pretty good size.
	They must have a very, very large convention if you're talking about renting rooms and meals.
	I guess they left off tips, Mr. Taylor, to restaurants.
	They probably calculated a 30% tip on everything.
	There are servers at restaurants all across Orlando who celebrated this news with a drink or two.
	Police are happy too.
	The police are happy.
	Local officials are happy.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Let's just put it this way.
	According to Fox 13, other organizations are pulling their conventions out of the state, such as the National Society of Black Engineers.
	I bet they don't bring 4.6 million.
	I bet they don't bring 46 members.
	Oh, well.
	Black engineers, you know, that's a mighty force.
	You know what?
	Wakanda is somewhere.
	I keep hearing that.
	Anyways, this is one of those stories, again, you never know what's going to happen.
	And this is just, I think this is funny because there's this perception of Florida, it's a beautiful state, and, you know, they're in Texas.
	Texas is passing the same kind of rules.
	So it'll be interesting to see in the coming years as more and more red states pass these type of curriculum changes, what ends up happening.
	It'll be very interesting.
	This is the kind of natural sorting that is going to go on.
	If all the black people are boycotting Florida, then let's hope that the people who are more conservative are going to end up in Florida.
	And we get the kind of federalism with the kind of separate and different communities that the founders envisaged.
	So, OK, bye bye, Alpha.
	What is it?
	Alpha what?
	Alpha?
	Yeah.
	And just just to ask you a question, do you recall the massive controversies around The turn of the millennia when Daytona was the site of Black Reunion Spring Break.
	Did this ring a bell?
	Yes, yes.
	I would think that most people throughout Florida... Now, I don't know what this black fraternity is like, and these people are probably no longer cottage students.
	Maybe they're not quite as frisky as they were when they were in college, but my suspicion is if you've got 4.5 million dollars worth of black people, it's probably an episode or an event that the local folks are perfectly happy to have go someplace else.
	Yeah, and that's what happened with the HBCU Black Spring Break College Reunion.
	I mean, this was one of the biggest events in Daytona, and the locals soured on it, just like they have Black Bike Week in Myrtle Beach, or Freaknik in Atlanta.
	Well, it's a funny thing.
	You get these gatherings of our African American fellow citizens, and we just had one in New York City.
	I guess you probably read about this.
	Twitch gamer, as he's identified, Kai Sennett.
	He's one of these guys who has millions of followers.
	I don't follow him.
	I beg your pardon?
	I don't follow him.
	You don't follow him.
	You're not one of his 200, let's see, how many million followers does he have?
	He's one of these guys who plays games and does this and records himself.
	He must be quite a showy game player because people actually want to watch him play games, but he had scheduled a real-world meetup in the afternoon in New York City.
	He was going to give away 30 Playstations, computers, microphones, and other gaming accessories.
	As it turned out, about 2,000 youths Flooded the park where he had her for 30 for 30 you said 30 30 playstations 30 playstations But computers microphones, maybe other gaming accessories.
	Nobody actually seems to have clapped eyes on these things, but he advertised them and video online captured the youths screaming and climbing on what appeared to be vehicles and They look like vehicles.
	Well, I would add that the kids appear to show no diversity whatsoever.
	All melanin supercharged, look to me, and the situation described is a full-on riot.
	The NYPD was called in to disperse the crowd, but there were so many people roaring around that buses and traffic got stopped.
	Some of the crowd could be seen tearing down construction barricades, throwing things at the police, and one vehicle attempted to leave.
	It was believed to have been carrying Senat himself, and the crowd could be seen mobbing it.
	I guess they're looking for their Playstations.
	Throw them out the window!
	As it moved slowly through throngs of people and it eventually sped off with people clinging to the sides and back, at least three people could be seen tumbling off the vehicle onto the pavement as it sped away.
	Boy, they really wanted that PlayStation.
	It appears that Mr. Senat was taken into police custody for questioning.
	He did not have a permit for this little knees up.
	He boasts a following of over 13 million people.
	Not including you, eh, Mr. Kersey?
	I am not one of those people.
	You're not one of those 13 million.
	Neither am I. But that's a significant percentage of the United States population all tuning in to Mr. Sennett.
	Social media, including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitch, he is everywhere.
	He has been charged with inciting a riot and unlawful assembly.
	It seems to me inciting a riot is a little stiff.
	I don't think he wanted them to riot, but maybe the police know more about this than I do.
	But police chief of the department, Jeffrey Madry, said, we have encountered things like this before, but never to this level of dangerous, where young people would not listen to our commands.
	Really?
	I suspect you see that happen every day.
	But you see the typical video clips of maybe 30 or 40 people brawling?
	And I've asked this question to you before, Mr. Kersey, but how do you figure they know who they're supposed to be battling?
	Are there teams here?
	It doesn't seem to me they're teams.
	How do you tell who you're supposed to fight and who you're supposed to defend?
	Or do you just see fists flying and just want to dive in and land a few sucker punches yourselves?
	I just don't get it.
	But anyway, this seems to be African American behavior that's very common.
	Well, yes, this guy has got 299 videos on YouTube.
	I actually watched one for a while and I didn't see him play a single game.
	He and a group of people are sitting around.
	Most of the sentences they pronounce are incomprehensible to me.
	They speak a form of what is presumably English, but it goes right over my old geezer head.
	He has also been awarded the Streamer of the Year award by YouTube.
	Now, I guess, uh, really, if you want, you regrettably won't win.
	Well, I've never streamed anyway, so I'm not in the wrong running.
	An airdrop of employment applications could have cleaned up this disturbance in no time.
	Be that as it may.
	How many terrible jokes can we tell in one podcast?
	How many stereotypes are we hitting?
	All stereotypes are true, as you know.
	Is it Father's Day somewhere?
	So, anyway, this is my view as to what Florida is going to avoid if all these black groups stay away.
	It's going to be a blessing, an absolute blessing.
	There'll be a bunch of old people and young people playing pickleball.
	You've never played that, have you?
	No, I haven't played that either.
	Not even when I was young.
	But it's a relatively new sport, is it not?
	His popularity is truly taken off and it is one that I would actually recommend all of our listeners play with their families.
	It's a fantastic game.
	In fact, Michelle Malkin, who spoke at an AR event a few years ago, she's a Well-known pickler, and I wish her well in her retirement from writing polemics.
	Such people are called picklers and not pickleballers?
	Picklers is a fun way to use it.
	It's got kind of a fun little connotation.
	So you're a pickler.
	Sounds like you keep cucumbers in jars, but anyway.
	Now, this is one of these sad stories.
	Oh dear.
	The director of a Bronx anti-violence program, which is part of Mayor Eric Adams' plan to curb shootings.
	The director of this program was hit with drug and gun charges.
	No.
	Oh, it's to curb shootings.
	Michael Rodriguez, age 48, head of Bronx Rises Against Gun Violence.
	The acronym is B.R.A.G.
	Bragg.
	He was among 15 charged in the drug conspiracy case accused of supplying drugs to dealers in Middletown and Port Jervis to be sold on the street.
	So he is a big guy.
	He supplies money.
	He supplies drugs to dealers.
	They raided his Yonkers home and found the drugs and more than $165,000 in cash.
	That's quite a little cash hoard.
	Along with two... How much cash?
	165,000.
	165,000.
	Yeah.
	Along with two illegal firearms.
	Now, his organization, BRAG, is among the grassroots organizations listed as community partners in New York City's blueprint to end gun violence.
	And I would say, yep, yep.
	Well, he looks quite diverse, I'd say.
	I suspect he's half Mexican and half Afro-American.
	In any case, he is one of what I used to call my dusky brethren, until you suggested that that was a demeaning term, and so I've stopped using that.
	But, you know, you and I... It sounds a little crafty, actually.
	All right, no more dusky brethren.
	But you and I should be the last people To criticize.
	After all, isn't the best way to deter gun violence is to be armed?
	So if this guy is Bronx Rises Against Gun Violence, there is a certain argument to be made that he should be armed.
	Si vis pacem, para bellum.
	If you would live in peace, prepare for war.
	But I guess the authorities in New York City don't see it that way.
	And I guess Ah, spreading drugs around the place, that doesn't really fit in with your and my view of self-defense either.
	But anyway, I gather, Mr. Kersey, that crime is getting pretty bad in Oakland.
	You know, CNN for some reason is trying to do all these videos and Trying to document what's happening in San Francisco.
	Recall I told you that they went to San Francisco and they were trying to find out how bad and why all these stores had everything behind plexiglass and while they were in a Walgreens or in one of the CVS type.
	I could have told them why, but anyway.
	But when they were there, they saw three robberies take place.
	Just brazen robberies.
	People walked in, got a bunch of stuff and ran out.
	Well, now they go to Oakland.
	They go across the Bay, across the Golden Great Bridge.
	Air horns and moving trucks how Oakland, California?
	Residents are facing a surge in crime.
	Now.
	This is CNN.
	Okay, here we go.
	Well after After 60 year old retiree David Schneider was shot and killed here while trimming a tree in his yard his neighbor Tony Byrd said she retreated indoors Quote people aren't feeling safe out of their house.
	It makes sense that you would want to protect your house then, right?
	He would barricade it Sounds like a zombie apocalypse Amid a surge of crime in Oakland, California, police have advised residents to use air horns to alert neighbors to intruders and add security bars to their doors and windows.
	Wow.
	Air horns.
	I mean, those sound like, those are really loud.
	Those are these huge honking horns that 18 wheelers have.
	I knew a guy who had one on his motorcycle.
	He used to, he used to, he wanted to call attention to his presence on the road, but he said drivers, drivers would just jerk and jump nearly would drive off the road when he'd do his air horn at them.
	But anyway, I guess I've had, I've had, I've had incidents where I've had the air horn blasted at me and it is jarring.
	It does awaken you to whatever.
	Yeah, but I guess the theory is, this is how you alert everybody within hearing distance, which could be hundreds of people, that there's some bad guy on the loose.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Bird, this individual moved to Oakland two and a half years ago and said she took their advice to heart.
	She now has three air horns.
	Five security cameras around her home.
	So she's got an air horn hidden as some of us might have a firearm hidden in like a hidden little compartment or a drawer or a book you can open up or lock.
	I wonder if they're in different pitches so that she can play harmony with her air horns.
	Just like different caliber for firearms?
	That's right.
	Gosh, yeah.
	And then five security cameras around her home.
	Again, this sounds like a post-apocalyptic world.
	Oh, here she goes.
	She goes, quote, the types of crime that we're seeing feel much more violent and the consequences feel much more severe.
	And it feels like the people that are being targeted are people who are vulnerable.
	Oakland residents say they're unnerved and considering fleeing the state because of the rise in violent crime.
	That is community activists, including the local NAACP chapter, demanding urgent action from city officials.
	Now, our astute listeners will recall.
	Mr. Taylor last week read the letter from the Oakland NAACP, and I'll just read one of it, one of the lines real quick, because this is interesting, considering the fact that for the past three years, since George Floyd died while being detained by police, In Minneapolis, we've seen basically police stand down.
	In Oakland, there was a major push of de-investment and actual taxpayer dollars were funded to NGOs and organizations that called for community policing.
	So here we are now, three years later.
	And we get this letter.
	The NAACP Oakland Branch President Cynthia Adams and Oakland Pastor Bishop Bob Jackson demanded action from elected leaders to ensure public safety, especially in predominantly black neighborhoods.
	Again, I'm sure there are some CNN readers or watchers who who saw this and they said, my gosh, those white supremacists are at it again when we know that it's blacks preying upon black, Hispanics, Asians and white people.
	Yeah, I shouldn't joke about these air horns and about bars on doors and windows.
	It must be terrifying to have to live that way.
	And I believe even the NAACP blamed these lax prosecutors who don't go after these people.
	No, it's absolutely terrible to have to live that way.
	And I shouldn't joke about it.
	Air horns or not.
	Well, in some ways, I would say yes and no, because, again, we should be able to we should be able to stand up to criminals.
	But when you have a situation where you have Soros funded days who are going to do what happened to Dennis Perry in Manhattan when he's just riding a train and trying to make a city safer for law abiding citizens, again, of all races.
	I mean, we live in a multiracial democracy.
	We used to live in a republic.
	Now we live in a multiracial democracy.
	And you have these type of stories where People are told, no, don't shoot back.
	Don't fire back.
	Don't, don't fight back.
	Just, just, you know, honk your horn, honk your air horn.
	And, um, you know, I promise someone's going to hear it.
	Here's what this letter said.
	Quote, African Americans are disproportionately hit the hardest by crime in East Oakland and other parts of the city, but residents from all parts of the city report that they do not feel report that they do not feel safe.
	The statement went on to accuse failed leadership of creating a heyday for Oakland criminals.
	The letter would end with this, quote, we call on all elected leaders to unite and declare a state of emergency and bring together massive resources to address our public safety crisis.
	The letter from the NAACP said.
	The Almeda?
	I'm sorry, go ahead.
	The other great thing about that letter was it said, and you white people, you Asian people out there, don't be ashamed about complaining about crime.
	I thought that was one of the most remarkable lines in that letter.
	It is.
	It is.
	Yes.
	They seem to understand that Asians and white people get tongue-tied when they talk about crime because it's black.
	And these here's the NAACP saying white folks, Asian folks, come on.
	It's a problem.
	Speak up.
	I think that was remarkable.
	No, I think it is remarkable.
	But at the same time, I also believe that the story we talked about last week in Atlanta, I mean, live on air, we find out about this task force to try and get the thousand most the one thousand criminals who had the most arrests who are still out.
	And it turns out that ninety three percent are black.
	in a county that is almost half and half white black.
	And it's, you know, this special task force is then called racist for trying to get the
	most violent criminals and repaid offenders off the streets.
	So here's my question to you, Mr. Taylor, if say, you know, you and I were to go in
	and to start advising the police with a Will Bratton type strategy of broken windows policing.
	And we said, arrest here, here, let's actually go after the gangs.
	Where's the Oakland gang database?
	Oh, there's not a white face in it.
	We're going to arrest all these people and make the streets safer.
	I hate to say it, the same NAACP would call those actions racist and disproportionately impacting blacks.
	You know, I'm not sure.
	This NAACP sounds pretty desperate.
	And if you arrested every single black person on the gang database, crime would go down so precipitously that I bet everybody would be happy.
	I bet they would stay quiet about that.
	But we'll see.
	Remember, the story for later.
	Well, it won't happen, first of all.
	It won't happen.
	First of all, it's a hypothetical, but yeah, you know, it's a retort.
	Yeah, exactly.
	But in Atlanta, that story we talked about last week, what was it?
	40% of all crime was only by a thousand criminals.
	It was some outrageous story.
	I don't remember the exact details, but let's just finish this story.
	The Alameda County District Attorney's Office refuted the NAACP's characterization of the city's officials' efforts to stop the crime surge.
	Quote, we are disappointed that a great African-American pastor and a great African-American organization would take a false narrative on such an important matter, the D.A.
	said in a statement.
	While the sides appear to disagree on how the narrative is framed, one truth appears undeniable.
	Oakland is buckling under a rise in crime, although homicides are down 14% in the last year.
	Burglaries have increased by 41 percent and robberies by more than 20 percent, according to data from the city's police department.
	And also, Mr. Taylor, I know you don't pay attention to sports, but the Oakland Raiders have decamped from Oakland and they are now playing in Las Vegas.
	And the Oakland A's with the Major League Baseball, MLB, they are now also going to be relocating to Sin City in Nevada.
	Well, when did the Oakland Symphony shut down?
	I bet you don't know the answer to that question.
	When did the Oakland Symphony shut down?
	Yes, it used to be a major recording symphony.
	I can imagine with this location and it's just beautiful proximity to San Francisco and Sonoma and wine country.
	I am going to guess Well, the fact is, I don't know the answer to that question.
	Maybe we will release it.
	My guess, it was sometime in the 70s or 80s, but the Oakland Symphony.
	I don't know the answer.
	I wish I did.
	I'm going to find out as you move on to the next one.
	You'll find out.
	Okay.
	Then I will talk about the most dangerous profession in America.
	I frequently talk about this.
	And I was beginning to wonder if I were wrong, because there has not been much news lately about how dangerous it is to be a rap artist.
	But it's back in the news.
	Javanta Murphy, and Javanta spells his name with two Ns, Javananata Murphy, a 32-year-old singer-songwriter from Sylmar, California, his naked body was discovered inside a sealed 55-gallon drum floating in the water off Malibu.
	That's quite high-priced real estate.
	He had been shot in the head.
	Javanta was the older brother of Jaquan Murphy, who was one of five suspects arrested in the February 2020 slaying of 20-year-old rapper Pop Smoke during a home invasion.
	So, see, he's the older brother of a guy who apparently smoked Pop Smoke.
	Detectives are now looking into the possibility that Javanta Murphy's death was revenge killing for the death of Pop Smoke.
	Even though Giovanta himself had nothing to do with it.
	It was his brother.
	Now, Pop Smoke, he was killed in a home invasion after accidentally revealing the location of his Airbnb rental in a social media post.
	That always seems to be it, you know?
	They show these pictures and they're walking around in their jewels and they're having a great time and somebody somehow catches the appearance and they figure out where it is.
	Well, In the early hours of the next morning, five suspects broke into the house, and a 15-year-old boy confronted Pop Smoke, caught him in the shower, pistol whipped him, and then shot him three times.
	This is just brutal stuff.
	A 15-year-old kid did that.
	And the robbers fled with the rapper's diamond-encrusted Rolex, which they later sold for $2,000.
	I wonder what it retails for.
	No arrests have been made in connection with, nevertheless, the Javanta Murphy slang.
	So again, this is yet more proof that if you want to stay alive, this is not the profession to get into, this rap business.
	Now, our time is running out, as it always is, and while my indefatigable co-host Paul Kersey finds, when the Oakland Symphony shut down, I'm going to urge all of you to please get in touch with us.
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	So please do let us know.
	Please get in touch.
	And Mr. Kersey, have you found out when the Oakland Symphony shut down?
	Yeah, I actually found like five more rappers who've been murdered in the past three months, by the way.
	R.I.P.
	Tazari Butler.
	Um, no, uh, I'll give you, I'll give you a couple of guesses.
	Cause you may have been out there when you were working in Silicon Valley.
	Was that long ago?
	Yep.
	So when did it happen?
	Don't keep us in suspense.
	Same year the Challenger exploded.
	Ah, I couldn't tell you when that was.
	1986.
	Okay, 86.
	Well, all right.
	Well, Requiem in Potchum, Oakland Symphony.
	Now they got other things to worry about.

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