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Jared Taylor and co-host Paul Kersey congratulate a fat BLM fraud on her appointment as “Dove Ambassador.” They also discuss slave narratives, niggardly Californians, peak insanity, and how cities are “coping.” Thumbnail credit: Instagram/zyahna bryant

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	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
	I'm your host, Jared Taylor.
	And with me, of course, is my indispensable co-host, Paul Kersey.
	Mr. Kersey, how are you today?
	It is finally fall in my neck of the woods, Mr. Taylor.
	I can only hope that at the worldwide headquarters of the New Century Foundation, it is as exceedingly nice there as it is here.
	It's beautiful.
	And it's September 14th.
	And we have several comments here, so let's get to them right away.
	This is really a rather broad question on which we can't spend that much time, but a listener writes, I'm considering running for city council in a moderately sized city in California with a not inconsequential disgruntled white population.
	Do you have any advice for running a pro-white campaign?
	I would say only this.
	Try to be as moderate and reasonable as possible.
	And let me remind this listener that there was a time, I believe it was back in the 1980s, when none other than David Duke was able to win a place in the Louisiana Statehouse because he had an extremely moderate campaign.
	He was against racial preferences for non-whites and against massive immigration.
	That was it.
	And that did the job.
	So try to be as unthreatening as possible.
	Remember, the first step is to get elected.
	Then once you are in office, then you can broaden your approach.
	That would be my advice.
	Anything concise to add to that, Mr. Kersey?
	Yeah, I think the most important thing is what you just said.
	Run a campaign, look at what has been successful.
	There's a great guy by the name of Ryan Gerduski.
	He's got a PAC and they help people out there run for school board.
	And I think that's one of the most important things you can do.
	Whether it's city council, school board, get involved locally.
	And just talk about the issues that are animating people.
	And as silly as it sounds, it's really the transgender stuff.
	And just making sure that children aren't going to be groomed.
	I think you're going to be pleasantly surprised by how many people are on our wavelength at the local level.
	I've got friends who are on school board and on city councils in small towns throughout the state that I live in.
	And yeah, it's the great first step.
	It's the great first step.
	Yes, this is a moderately-sized city in California, and he's running for city council.
	So, good luck to you.
	If you have any comments on this, listener, and you can let us—keep us updated, we'd be grateful to hear your adventures.
	Here's another comment.
	I'm taking a Russian history college class.
	Our assigned reading is a book called The Story of Russia by Orlando Fiegs, F-I-G-E-S.
	It's new, published just last year, and this passage caught my eye.
	The Soviet view of Russia's origins was entangled in a concept of ethnicity, in which the ethnos was regarded as an ancient core of national identity, persisting throughout history, despite changes in society.
	At a time when Western scholars were coming to the view that ethnic groups were modern intellectual constructions imposed on complex social groups, their Soviet counterparts were analyzing them as primordial entities defined by biology.
	Our listener adds, I was surprised by this.
	According to Marxist ideology, human history is purely a class struggle with race being irrelevant.
	Well, yes, that's certainly true about the theory of Marxism.
	However, the Soviets certainly were very, very quick to appeal to Russian nationalism when they were invaded by the Nazis.
	They still called it the Great Patriotic War.
	They were all fighting for the motherland.
	Also, I think it's worth pointing out that the Sino-Soviet split when the Chinese communists and the Russian communists were at daggers drawn.
	This, I would say, had as much an ethnic component as an ideological component.
	They never lost sight of who they were.
	Also, it's interesting to note that despite Lysenko, That famous Russian so-called geneticist who said that genes don't matter, that with the right environment you can create socialist man, a brand new socialist man to live from each according to his ability to each according to his need.
	The only actually successful effort in the modern era at eugenics was undertaken in eastern Germany.
	It happened for a while, not very well known, but those who wish to look it up can do so.
	So there are contradictions in the whole Russian Marxist communist business, but no, they never lost sight of their own ethnicity.
	Now, this is not so much a comment, and it's not entirely our beat.
	But someone just sent in a GPT chat result, which was the response to a command.
	Write a persuasive Dr. Seuss poem explaining why a trans woman is a man.
	Now, as I say, this is not our beat, but I just thought this was brilliant.
	And if this really is the way artificial intelligence is going, boy, I say hats off.
	And the poem goes like this.
	I see your hair.
	It is a wig.
	Your Adam's apple still looks big.
	You are a man, and that is clear.
	I do not see a woman here.
	I must admit it's rather odd to hear you say you're now a broad.
	You have no uterus, so no, you cannot bleed from down below.
	I do not like your padded bra.
	You should not use the women's spa.
	You tell me you had surgery.
	Your pronouns still are him and he.
	Your chromosomes are X and Y. That means you'll always be a guy.
	You gave yourself a girly name.
	That does not mean you're now a dame.
	A surgeon chopped your eggs and ham?
	I still won't call you ma'am.
	I am Now, for those who might not know, Mr. Taylor, ChatGPI, that's Artificial Intelligence.
	GPT.
	GPT, yes.
	GPT, yes.
	It's a widely available AI program.
	And apparently somebody just said, cook me up a persuasive Dr. Seuss-like poem explaining why a trans woman is a man.
	And I think it would be very difficult to find a human being who could do better than that.
	So, I'm very sorry to have jumped the tracks and gone off on some wild erections.
	Not usually our beat, but I thought that was a very clever, machine-made point.
	Now, Mr. Kersey, I'd like you to start with our first news story, and apparently a very important research institute is now being starved of funding, so we can expect a terrible dearth of wonderful, important new information.
	Before we get to that, if I could make a request to all of our listeners.
	We normally do this at the end.
	Let's do this beginning because we've gotten some great questions and some great stories recently, Mr. Taylor.
	So if you want to get in touch with us, we'd love to hear your comments, your suggestions, your story ideas, and your poems created by artificial intelligence.
	If they're good, if they're really good.
	Yeah, you can get in touch with me at the email address because we live here at ProtonMail.com.
	Again, that's ProtonMail.me.
	They've changed the way that it's done, so you can either do BecauseWeLiveHereAtProtonMail.com or BecauseWeLiveHereAtProtonMail.me.
	Or, you can go to the American Renaissance page, Ameline.com, click the Contact Us tab, and send a question, comment, correction, love letter straight to me.
	So, Mr. Curzon, yes, let us get on with this important research institute being starved of funds.
	Yeah, you might recall that we live under the tyranny of Ibram Kendi's ideas, his anti-racism tomes are some of the hottest selling books known to man right now in colleges and high schools all across the country.
	Well, Guess what's happening there at his little institute?
	Ibram X. Kendi's Anti-Racism Center at Boston University is laying off staff.
	As many as 15 to 20 staff members are being laid off at the Center for Anti-Racist Research, which is led by, as I stated, prominent activist and scholar Ibram X. Kendi.
	The person said the money that has been used to employ the staff members will be redirected to provide funding to visiting scholars who are already employed.
	The layoffs take effect later this year.
	Now, Boston University and Kindy founded the center in 2020 amid widespread protests over police brutality and a national reckoning over issues concerning race.
	The center grew to include multiple offices that span policy and data research and an archived version of the center's website from July listed 45 employees.
	Those staff pages, Mr. Taylor.
	That's a lot of people out there studying anti-racism.
	Studying institutional racism, something that doesn't exist.
	No wonder it took so many people to track it down.
	Well, they're studying institutional racism, structural inequality, they're studying food deserts, they're studying anything you can think of.
	They've probably got a great dissertation coming out on shade equity and what heat islands, I mean all the great terms that we've come to know and love and lampoon.
	Now we have to lament the fact that all these anti-racist crusaders, these anti-racist pedagogues, are now unemployed.
	The university didn't immediately comment on the layoffs.
	Boston University announced that Kendi was joining the faculty and launching the center back in June of 2020, just as protests began sweeping the nation following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
	The BU Center was pitched as a novel and progressive way for the university to contribute to ongoing conversations around race in America.
	Of course, Mr. Taylor, you and I are both aware it's not a conversation.
	It's a one-way dialogue where we can't turn the sound off.
	One-way monologue.
	Yeah, I'm sorry.
	One-way monologue.
	Yes, forgive me for that.
	Misuse of the term it is a one-way monologue.
	It's a it's a long soliloquy from which there is no mute button It has research anti-racist policies track data related to racial disparities in America and analyze racial justice advocacy efforts its website describes the center as a place where quote academic research meets anti-racist action in quote and The Center also collaborated with Boston Globe's opinion section to launch The Emancipator, a digital racial justice focused publication in 2021.
	The site has published independently of the Globe since the spring.
	Kendi has been known for years as a leading scholar in the field of anti-racism.
	In his 2019 book, Kendi wrote, the only way to undo racism is to constantly identify and describe it and then dismantle it.
	Well, Mr. Kendi, I'm sorry, it sounds like your little institute there at Boston University is being dismantled long before you can even find any racism to undo or identify.
	Ibrams, you're fired.
	Not yet.
	I think, didn't he get $100 million from Jeff Bezos?
	He only got $10 million, I think.
	Oh, I thought it was $100 million.
	Well, okay.
	You know who got, you know, got a hundred million?
	It was the guy who worked for CNN and on the night of the election back in 2016, he famously said the white lash.
	It was Van Jones.
	Well, you know, what's a, what's a few tens of millions here and there among friends and friendly anti-racists.
	Well, okay.
	Poor Ibram.
	Well, I'm sure you're right.
	He's not going to go on the chow line anytime soon, but, uh, I'm delighted to hear that.
	Oh, he's got a key.
	You know who it was actually, Mr. Taylor?
	It was the former CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, who in August of 2020 donated $10 million
	to Ibram Kendi's Center on Anti-Racism at Boston University.
	That was a nice...
	Go ahead.
	I got the donor and the amount wrong.
	Thank goodness you're here to keep me in line.
	You were off by one-tenth, but I'll tell you, that was a nice tax write-off for Jack Dorsey, but we can go ahead.
	I'm afraid to say Ibram Kendi is going to be invited to many more colleges in the foreseeable future than, regrettably, you will.
	I'm sure that's true, and I'm sure he charges a very fat fee, whereas I speak for free.
	Out there listening, you program directors, you won't have to spend a $5,000, $10,000, $20,000 speaker fee to get me to come.
	Now, let's actually go back to something that's more like a comment, but it's an interesting introduction to our next story.
	Someone wrote in to say, I'm curious if you've ever stumbled upon this little-known resource.
	It's called Born in Slavery, Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers Project, 1936 to 1938.
	Well, yes, I am familiar with that.
	This was part of the WPA, the Works Progress Administration during the Depression.
	What they did was get unemployed writers to go out and interview former slaves, living slaves.
	There were quite a few living slaves at the time.
	And our listener writes in to say, I was shocked to discover how many slaves looked back positively on slavery, and he gave us quite a few examples.
	I can't read them all, but here are just a few.
	Here is a living slave.
	People have the wrong idea.
	The slave days, we were treated good.
	I remember the days of slavery as happy ones.
	Them was good days.
	Us would be lucky to have them back.
	Our masters were awful good to us.
	They didn't treat us like we were slaves.
	Each one of these is an individual, different slave.
	We fared good in that day and time.
	Everybody around us fared good.
	My master always good to his slaves.
	If I could go back, I would go back to slavery and stay with my white folks.
	Old Master Stone was a good man to us colored folks.
	We loved him.
	I lived mighty fine in them days.
	Oh, that was happy days, I tell you.
	I sure would rather have slavery days back if I could have my same masters, because I never had no hard times than like I went through after they gave us freedom.
	Here's another.
	The white folks were good to us.
	Massachusetts is one of the best white friend a n-word ever had.
	Here's another.
	I cried a year to go back.
	It was a dear place to me.
	And I sure was born in slavery times and wish to God I could get now what I used to have then, because then was good times for us black folks.
	Another, I'll finish with this.
	Master was the best and kindest fellow that ever lived.
	He is in heaven for sure.
	And they go on and they go on and they go on.
	And of course, it's no wonder why almost no one has read these accounts.
	When you actually force a liberal to deal with the content of these, all they're left is spluttering, and they say, well, this is during the Depression.
	Everybody was having tough times.
	So it's only because we're during the Depression that slavery seems so good.
	These people were all beaten and battered and tortured and bloodied, and they just forgot about it because of the hunger pangs during the Depression.
	Well, that's their story, and they're sticking to it.
	But in this context of the way slaves, certain slaves, recalled slavery, here's a story about our British cousins.
	100 of Britain's most distinguished families have signed up to a campaign to provide reparations for slavery.
	Heirs of Slavery, that's the name of the organization.
	It was founded by Laura Trevelyan, the former BBC correspondent.
	She has pledged £100,000 of her own money.
	To fund projects aimed at helping the descendants of slaves in Grenada, where her aristocratic forebears owned plantations.
	The heirs of powerful and storied families from Britain's imperial past are soon set to convene in order to establish how they can atone for the actions of their slave-owning ancestors.
	The heirs of slavery aims to follow the lead of CARICOM, that is the Caribbean Community.
	A political and economic union of 15 member states in the region which has devised a 10-point plan for how reparations should be made by European powers.
	I bet they have a nice ten-point plan.
	That's like the Ten Commandments, right?
	Thou shalt!
	Thou shalt!
	And thou shalt!
	Well, Ms.
	Trevelyan, who has been enraged, observed how her financial pledge might be spent.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Go over.
	Take a close look.
	Just don't go after you've given it to them, because you'll see how it got spent.
	She said, it's no coincidence that wealthy families today are descended from those who gained their wealth through slavery.
	And an inaugural conference of heirs of slavery is set to take place in London in November.
	To help decide what these families will do.
	And, as it turns out, there will be guest appearances from the reparations commissions from individual Caribbean states.
	They will be there to offer guidance.
	More Ten Commandments.
	Boy, oh boy, they'll have guidance galore, I do not doubt.
	Now that's the Brits for you.
	Meanwhile, I've got a story about nasty white people in California.
	And not just nasty white people, listen to this.
	California voters oppose the idea of cash payments to the descendants of enslaved African Americans by a 2 to 1 margin.
	Haha, bigots!
	59% of voters oppose cash payments compared with 28% who support the idea.
	So that's 59 to 28.
	The lack of support for cash reparations was resounding, with more than 4 in 10 voters strongly opposed.
	That's 40% strongly opposed.
	So, Mark DiCamillo, who led the poll, said it has a steep uphill decline, at least from the public's point of view.
	Well, you know, Mr. Kersey, it could be an easy downhill glide for our rooters and their bootlicking journalists.
	You know, they'll think, well, to heck with what the public thinks.
	In any case, the conclusion of the task force's work puts political pressure on Democrats to deliver on a process they started.
	Yeah, they sure did.
	The Democrats and some of the Republicans—no, no, I'm sorry, not a single Republican, I believe, voted for this, but the Democrats are overwhelming in the State House, in the state legislature.
	They voted to do this.
	Gavin Newsom said, go man, go, and off they went, and boy, there they went.
	But the conclusion puts strong political pressure on them, despite the unpopularity of cash payments.
	They'll be in a tight spot.
	State Senator Stephen Bradford, Who served on the task force, so you know what his opinions are.
	I said he wasn't surprised by the poll results.
	It speaks to the miseducation of most Americans when it comes to slavery.
	Oh boy, they just don't know the truth.
	Well, I think State Senator Stephen Bradford, maybe you should read those slave narratives from the people who actually lived under slavery.
	Maybe you're miseducated.
	Black California votes are more likely to support cash payments than any other demographic.
	Isn't that a surprise, Mr. Kersey?
	Blacks want them.
	76% in favor and 16% opposed.
	Almost two-thirds of the white voters were opposed, as were 6 in 10 Latino and Asian voters.
	Now, I would have thought, let's go back to that, say 66% or almost two-thirds, let's call it 65% of white voters were opposed, But 60% of Latino and Asian voters were opposed.
	I would have thought Asians and Hispanics would have been more opposed than whites.
	Because, boy oh boy, if anybody can claim, hey, not our problem, it would be them.
	But you know, what do you think?
	Maybe they think there's a possible paycheck in store for them, too, if blacks hit pay dirt.
	I just don't know.
	But it's good to see that despite the constant media blather about how much we owe our African-American fellow citizens, the Californians are not buying it.
	So it'll be very, very interesting to see when this comes to vote.
	Now, Mr. Kersey, I think you've got a couple of stories on how cities Uh, you know, I wish I had a great Jeopardy style question, but you have to give the answer for it.
	But these are two very funny.
	They're not funny stories.
	They're just typical of just the just the absurdity of what we're dealing with and the.
	The view that we have to look at every problem through the lens of anti-racism, as if we know that the problem is axiomatically white people who've done something wrong, when it's the exact opposite.
	So, let's start with Philadelphia.
	This is from the Daily Mail, one of my favorite periodicals, digital periodicals.
	Philadelphia businesses are being forced to set up booby traps, like hidden sprinklers, as open-air drug markets take over the city and customers dwindle.
	Local activist Frank Rodriguez has revealed that business owners in the Kensington area of the city are having to devise tricks to keep addicts off their stoops.
	The neighborhood has become ground zero for the city's drug epidemic and is frequently seen strewn with trash and addicts injecting drugs in the open.
	Speaking to Fox News, he said, quote, businesses end up throwing soapy water on the ground just so it is wet and it is not a comfortable place to sit down.
	There's businesses that set up sprinkler systems.
	They have to set up these crazy little hacks and booby traps just to keep people off their stoops.
	He continued, businesses didn't last long.
	When they are put in the community, the community tends to tear them down.
	It's not a place for anything to thrive.
	Outside of the Cantina La Marta, outside of the Catina La Martina, outside of Catina La Martina, a James Beard award-nominated Mexican restaurant in Kensington, Rodriguez
	said workers had come outside to clean up needles, vomit, feces, and bodies.
	Bodies? Bodies. Yeah, he said bodies. He continued, quote, I couldn't imagine that customers to my business happy to
	come through all this chaos just to support my business.
	Chaos, that's a nice word for it.
	Feces, needles, bodies.
	Yikes.
	No, I don't think I'd step over bodies even for a Mexican dinner.
	Or even for a James Beard Award nominated Mexican dinner.
	Quote, who wants to come down to this neighborhood to shop here?
	Who wants to do that?
	Nobody.
	The disaster in the neighborhood has been fueled by the rise of the drug Xylosine, I think I pronounced that correctly, known as Trink.
	I'm not familiar with this drug.
	I'm not one to visit the Kensington area and partake in the vomit, feces, needles and bodies chaos.
	This is not one of the many drugs you use daily?
	No, no.
	The only drug that I use is coffee and a nice dose of creatine.
	It's known as Trink, Mr. Taylor.
	It's a lethal sedative that is used to enhance the effects of heroin, fentanyl, and cocaine.
	And I believe I correctly pronounced fentanyl.
	So one of our listeners actually sent me an email to make sure that I pronounced that correctly.
	Thank you, listener.
	Thank you.
	Yes, thank you, listener.
	That's why we love you guys.
	That's why we love each and every one of you.
	But I mean, again, I hope I hope none of our listeners are having to dodge these bodies, feces, needles and vomit.
	And you might slip on some of these booby traps if you're in the Kensington area.
	Philadelphia has been overwhelmed, overwhelmed by drug fueled crime under Democrat District Attorney Larry Krasner, a self-described progressive prosecutor.
	His failure to crack down led to his impeachment in 2022 for dereliction of duty.
	However, he remains in office after his trial was indefinitely postponed.
	Crime is soared by a fifth in Philadelphia compared to last year, with theft among the law breaking, which has made the problem persistent.
	Homeless people and drug addicts are often driven to petty theft as a way to find, uh, to sustain themselves or scrape enough money together to supply their addictions, to get more drink.
	Footage by Daily Mail back in May revealed the scale of Philadelphia's untamed tranq epidemic, which has transformed the city's streets into a drug-infested hellhole.
	GOP candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, who visited the area as part of his campaign earlier this year, said that the streets of Philly had turned into an open-air drug market.
	So I guess we need to update Bruce Springsteen's Academy Award-winning song, The Streets of Philadelphia.
	In a video of him walking around the city, he said, quote, look, there are needles lying on the left and right, just saw two rats running by.
	It's not just driven by poverty here.
	It's actually inflicted by drug users literally crossing our southern border.
	It's like open air drug market, end quote.
	And I just find it ironic, Mr. Taylor, that Philadelphia has such a historic part of the American experience.
	It's where so much of our history was.
	Was started and founded and created and to now think that you can watch these videos and I encourage all of our listeners to just go to YouTube type in Philadelphia Trank t-r-a-n-q and you can Watch as people drive around and in the in broad daylight and it looks something akin of a zombie apocalypse these these heroin fentanyl and cocaine users are just kind of Meandering around not just aimlessly, but they look like zombies and it's it's hard to know that our fellow countrymen are going through this and that You know, it's tolerated by this by these elected officials.
	Well, mr. Kersey, you're talking about the importance of Philadelphia in our history Do not forget that's where the words all men are created equal were first At least first put into one of our important documents.
	Thanks TJ and No, but you're right.
	These videos, they really are, they really are astonishing.
	And something that surprises me, there's a good number of sort of skinny, clapped out white people staggering around too.
	I'd say at least the videos I've seen, at least half of these staggerers are white.
	I guess they just love that, love that trank.
	Well, I believe you have another city, another coping story.
	Let's hope this one's more cheerful.
	It's not.
	It's actually, it kind of goes in line with what we've been talking about with Hyundai and Kia getting sued by all these leftist district attorneys since they're so easy to steal.
	But this was a weird story because you have so many examples of people claiming, hey, why is our city in decline?
	This might be the weirdest example ever.
	This is from Baltimore's WBFF.
	City councilman blames Baltimore's population decline on car dominance.
	Residents skeptical.
	This is this is the Fox affiliate at Baltimore City Councilman Ryan Dorsey is blaming Baltimore shrinking population on the city's abundant number of cars I would I would of course blame it on the abundance of primarily black crime But uh again my best Norm Macdonald impression, but hey guess we can't say that quote our population loss is directly aligned with their trajectory of Car dominance, and the city's investment to cater and shift to car dominance, wrote Dorsey in a social media post.
	Baltimore's population has dropped by almost 6% since 2010, and Dorsey, who has sat on the council for much of that time, is pointing his finger at automobiles.
	You cannot properly understand or effectively address population loss without directly confronting car dominance.
	Posted Dorsey, I guess I guess the next logical step in this nomenclature.
	Mr. Taylor's car supremacy.
	Yes, car supremacy. That's driving him out. Wow.
	His comments drew criticism in Brooklyn on Monday.
	How unprogressive!
	Gee, how conservative!
	was interrupted by a police chase through the community.
	Quote, that doesn't make any sense about cars, said one unidentified resident who blamed crime
	for the city's mass exodus.
	No, no, no, no.
	How unprogressive.
	Gee, how conservative, how racist.
	Well, long time Baltimore businessman John Sacks believes the city's population will continue to dwindle
	until city leaders face the problem head-on.
	Quote, I've never had, hey, I'm not going there because there's too many cars, said Sachs.
	I'm sorry, I've never said, hey, I'm not going there because there's too many cars.
	Quote, I have said, hey, I'm not going there because there's too much crime.
	And that's exactly what people say about Baltimore City, said said Sacks.
	Again, this is this is one of my favorite stories, because, again, they've they've tried to blame.
	It's just absurd.
	A couple of it might have been 10 years ago, Mr. Taylor, that there was this white, white lesbian business owner.
	She wrote a pretty famous essay called Baltimore.
	You're breaking my heart.
	I don't know if you remember this.
	And she got excoriated.
	Yes, yes, yes.
	A white lady.
	A lesbian?
	Yep.
	That's right.
	And she told the truth about what it's like to go outside of her little confined white neighborhood.
	You just step over the line and wow, it's a different world and it's no fun.
	Yeah, and that it was driving, it was driving away all of her friends.
	They were leaving.
	She wanted to be in Baltimore.
	She liked the city.
	And again, Baltimore, you can see the footprint.
	You know, Z-Man talks about Baltimore all the time.
	I can't remember if he calls it Mogadishu or what he calls Baltimore.
	But I've got one funny anecdote.
	I was there on September 11th, 2020.
	One, for the 20th anniversary of 9-11, my friend and I, we went and ran the M&B Bank Stadium steps in honor of the firefighters who climbed to the top of the World Trade Center to try and, you know, to try and save as many lives as they could and that were tragically lost on 9-11 back in 2001.
	And we went to a Baltimore Orioles game and we were told by cops, we were walking and they're like, hey, where are you guys going?
	I said, we're going to the baseball game.
	And they said, well, if you go that way, you're not safe.
	If you go that way, you're not safe.
	And if you go that way, you're not safe.
	And so I said, so basically we only have one direction to go, and that's the baseball stadium.
	And he's like, yes, everywhere else you're not safe.
	And I said, thank you, officer.
	You, you know, we did go to Federal Hill the next morning or on September 11th, but, uh, It is not a place that is pleasant to visit, unfortunately.
	And it is not because of an abundance of cars.
	It's because of an abundance of black criminals that the city just refuses to do anything about.
	That was potentially life-saving information from those officers.
	Boy, I guess they don't want to have to work any more homicides than they're already working.
	Very sensible.
	That's how they keep their workload down.
	Yeah, I actually had something similar happen.
	What's the horse race there?
	The Preakness?
	Is that the one that's in Baltimore?
	We were parking years ago and a white cop actually looked at us and we were like, hey, can we go this way?
	Can we take a left here?
	And he said, no, no, no.
	He goes, you don't want to go that way.
	That's the ghetto.
	Go park over there and your car will be safe.
	So I've actually had two encounters with police in Baltimore who said, don't go that way.
	Gosh, you should sue those policemen.
	That's obvious racism.
	I think you collect big.
	The city would just be shocked that their policemen are distributing that kind of biased, horrible, horrible white supremacist information.
	Good Lord.
	Anyway, I have another coping story.
	This is a story from Portland.
	It's slightly different, but it all fits a certain pattern.
	Nike says it is permanently closing its store on Northeast Martin Luther King Jr.
	Boulevard.
	So, no more shoes on Martin Luther King Jr.
	billboard.
	We care deeply about Poland's North and Northeast community.
	For nearly 40 years, our MLK Community Store in the historic Albina neighborhood has provided the community with access and connection to Nike while serving as a catalyst for change through volunteerism, investments, and partnerships.
	How come it's historic?
	Mr. Kersey, and you know, I looked it up.
	Apparently, it's pronounced Albina, so I shouldn't call it Albina.
	Why is Albina historic?
	Well, why is every rundown black neighborhood historic?
	It seems to me that blacks just have to move in and wreck a place, and that makes it automatically historic.
	But in any case, the ghetto is historic.
	Well, Nike had temporarily closed the store.
	We talked about this, actually.
	Oh, did we talk about this already?
	We talked about the temporary shuttering and all of the fun little details of the MLK aspect.
	Yes, but now it's permanent.
	Now it's permanent.
	Yes.
	And, you know, they shuttered it because they were looking for ways to improve safety for employees and customers.
	And I don't think they were worried about slippery floors and people falling down or black mold giving them coughing fits.
	No, no, that wasn't it.
	In fact, Nike had sent a letter to the city requesting that off-duty police officers work at the store, but the Portland Police said it was struggling even to fill regular shifts, and so the store is going to shut for good.
	Now, from photographs, it looks like a big place, and I wonder what they will do with it.
	Maybe turn it into a bum shelter or a needle exchange?
	You know, we've talked about all these shade islands or shade deserts and little Saharas and food deserts and library deserts.
	It looks like a shoe desert is coming.
	A shoe desert.
	And you know, they love shoes.
	The horror of it all.
	The horror of it all.
	They love Nike and Air Jordans.
	Yeah, that's right.
	The store was not only selling shoes, it was serving as a catalyst for change.
	And it still had to close.
	Golly, what went wrong?
	By the way, do you know—we used to call them Negro spirituals.
	I guess there are no more Negroes anymore, so they can be no more Negro spirituals.
	But you know, God's chillin' got shoes.
	Do you know the Negro spiritual, God's Chillin' Got Shoes?
	I must confess, I've never encountered that spiritual before.
	Well, I can sing you a few bars.
	I got shoes, you got shoes, all God's chillin' got shoes.
	When I get to heaven, gonna walk all over God's heaven, heaven.
	Gonna put on my shoes and I'm gonna walk all over God's heaven.
	Well, they all got chill and got shoes, but maybe not for much longer in Portland.
	That was a lovely, lovely- I just had that in me.
	Now, Mr. Kersey, you were talking about this crazy nonsense about Baltimore.
	Baltimore's got a car problem.
	A car abundance problem.
	Yes, a car abundance problem.
	I guess that's why so many people are stealing them because they're so abundant.
	They're just sitting around unattended.
	In any case, it makes you wonder, and this is a point that a listener made when he said in this story, and he says, have we reached peak insanity yet?
	I mean, you remember peak oil?
	We were all worried about peak oil.
	Well, I don't think we've reached peak insanity.
	For years, I thought we had.
	Every year reached peak insanity.
	But peak insanity, I believe, is yet to come.
	But that story about Baltimore suffering from an overabundance of cars, I thought that was pretty peaky.
	Well, here is yet another story.
	And this is the one that my listener proposes might be peak insanity.
	He says capitalism, white supremacy, and structural racism are to blame for the high rate of black maternal health problems, according to a new study out of Harvard.
	Black women have disproportionately high maternal mortality and hypertension rates because of systemic racism.
	Now, to solve the problem, Harvard fellow Brittany Francis wrote, We must truly dismantle structural racism.
	It is absolutely necessary to attend to the underlying ideologies that allow these inequities in resources and opportunity to continue, especially capitalism and white supremacy.
	That's doing it.
	Now, Brittany Francis goes on to write, black communities are plagued by policies and practices steeped in white supremacist and racial capitalistic ideologies.
	Racial capitalistic.
	Hmm.
	Now, do you know what she did for this study?
	This is about the most unrigorous thing I have ever heard of.
	She found 20 black women in Connecticut who had had hypertensive disorder during their last pregnancy and asked them about their neighborhoods, their interactions with health care providers, and quote, other experiences with structural racism in their day-to-day lives.
	And you know what?
	You know what?
	She found structural racism.
	She found these 20 black women.
	Gee, I mean, this is stuff that passes for science.
	Racial capitalist ideology.
	We've got to get rid of that before black women are going to stop having pregnancy-related hypertension.
	Like you said, there were 20 women that were part of this control.
	20 women!
	Yes, this massive study, this massive... I don't think there were, you know, there were no controls.
	Does that mean that black women who didn't have this hypertension suffered less structural racism?
	Somehow they escaped this ever-present horrible phenomenon?
	How'd they do that?
	That wouldn't be possible, right?
	Well, thus saith Britney Spears.
	Well, who be she?
	I looked her up.
	I was curious.
	She is a certified African-Americanist Ph.D., and she is at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies.
	And I'm quoting from her bio on her page.
	Her primary research seeks to document in combat how neighborhood-level inequalities are shaped by anti-black structural racism and create adverse perinatal
	impacts for black birthing people.
	Black birthing people?
	Yes, what are black birthing people, Mr. Kurz?
	I guess that's part of our LGBT-dominated vernacular.
	We have to say birthing people because you can't say female.
	You have to say people because in case a male identifies, in case a, in case a mentally, you know, mentally challenged male says, Hey, I'm actually a female.
	So I don't know.
	I don't know actually.
	Well, Brittany Francis insists that she is her and she.
	So, I don't know, maybe she, once upon a time, has been or will be a birthing person herself.
	Now, there's another bit of, now, but this is Harvard.
	What fun they have at Harvard.
	Great fun they have.
	Well, here's another piece of lovely Ivy League science.
	And before I go any further, please bear in mind, boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen, that this research was funded in part by the National Science Foundation.
	National Science.
	It's important for the country.
	For all the advances that have been made in computer animation in the last few decades, there are still some physical phenomena that are poorly understood and tricky to capture.
	And one of those, believe it or not, is creating different types of hair that look and move realistically as the character moves.
	At a time when there are calls for animation studios to have wider ethnic and racial representations in their stories, Diversifying hair types is critical.
	I guess you knew that.
	And therefore, Theodore Kim, an associate professor of computer science at Yale, wrote a new paper called Lifted Curls.
	A model for tightly coiled hair simulation describes how a new physical model that his lab developed for animating tightly curled hair, otherwise known as afro-textured kinky or type 4 hair, Boy, are you allowed to call it kinky?
	I'm amazed.
	Afro-textured?
	Maybe.
	Tightly curled?
	Maybe.
	And Type 4?
	That sounds, I don't know, extremely academic, but kinky?
	Oh my gosh.
	In any case, the problem is how it moves when it's stretched or bent.
	Like much of computer animation, capturing the physics of hair is achieved through a series of sophisticated mathematical equations.
	Before designing the math to describe the physics of type 4 hair, the researchers closely examined actual hair.
	These were contained in wigs with radii of less than 5 millimeters and measured things like the tightness of the curl and the distance between successive curls.
	And having got all that figured out, the researchers then found that some of the math that they developed for tightly coiled hair could be applied to other phenomena such as buckling soda cans.
	So, what fun they have at Yale!
	Jolly!
	You're in my tax dollars.
	Yes, you're in my tax dollars, going to fund this investigation in how to make realistic simulation of Type 4 Afro-textured, tightly curled, kinky hair, so that when our characters are doing acrobatics, whatever it is they're doing, their hair will bounce and weave and dodge and carry on as if it's really, really, really, really real.
	Doesn't that make you feel better?
	No, it doesn't.
	It makes me want to go to Philadelphia and get on some Trank.
	Sheesh.
	Oh boy.
	Yes, Trank, right?
	Yes.
	Well, okay, here's a story from New Zealand.
	And here's another model for America, I think.
	In New Zealand, the incarceration rate for Maori men Peaked in 2010 at just under 2% of the entire male Maori population.
	That's 1 in 50 in the big house.
	That's 2%, but just with only 0.28% for non-Maori men.
	Well, now the incarceration rate is down to 1.4%, but still it's seven times the rate of non-Maori men.
	What's to be done about that?
	Well, something called Te Pati Māori.
	And now, I think, judging from context, that's the Māori Party.
	Te Pati Māori, the Māori Party.
	I guess that's pidgin English.
	In any case, there is such an organization.
	It seems to be a party that speaks for Māoris.
	It's challenging the government to abolish prisons by 2040.
	What a great idea.
	Yeah, a co-leader of the party, Rawiri Waititi.
	He launched what he called a revolutionary plan to reform the justice system that has traumatized and failed Maori communities at every level.
	We are asserting our tino rangatiratanga to oversee our own tikanga-based models of restorative justice.
	Now, this article, it's in an English-language newspaper called the New Zealand Herald, and there are no explanations as to what these incomprehensible terms mean.
	I mean, are we to assume that every New Zealander knows what it means, what this sentence—we are asserting our Tino rangatangiratanga to oversee our own tikanga-based models of restorative justice?
	Are we all supposed to know what that means?
	Well, anyway, I'm sure that all of this abstruse stuff will end the trauma, and here's where I deserve a MacArthur Genius Award.
	I bet it would work for American blacks, too, because they are likewise seven times more likely than whites to be in prison.
	You see, they face identical circumstances.
	They do?
	Yeah, I think all they need to do is assert their Tino Ranga Tiratanga to oversee their own Tikanga-based models of restorative justice.
	I mean, gosh, they were Kangs, right?
	So surely they can cook up Tikanga Just as well as Māori can.
	Māoris can.
	So I wish them well.
	The Te Pati Māori, I don't know how many members they have in Parliament, but they're going great guns.
	Now, Mr. Kersey, I think you have one of these depressing stories about corporations going nuts and doing and honoring people they should be scorning.
	Well, it's hard to, uh, it's hard to, uh, score in someone who has such a big profile when we're talking about, uh, body sensitivity and fat liberation.
	Dove, Dove, one of the big beauty, uh, uh, giants out there is partnering with Black Lives Matter activists accused of wrongly getting a white student expelled Because she's going to help Dove promote fat liberation.
	Now, you might recall we had a long discussion about Zianna Bryant.
	She was a community organizer and student activist studying at the University of Virginia who got a white girl fired.
	And that white girl, of course, is suing the University of Virginia.
	I think you have to go back probably five or six episodes for the Shakedown and the melancholy that that story produced, because she was the one, Mr. Taylor, if you recall, who was instrumental in getting the Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson statues taken down there in Charlottesville.
	Beauty giant.
	She's really swinging that body positivity around, actually knocking down monuments.
	Boy, she's a substantial lady.
	She's more effective than Godzilla and King Kong combined.
	So beauty giant Dove has partnered with Black Lives Matter activists to promote fat liberation.
	Zianna Bryant, community organizer and student activist studying at the University of Virginia, made the announcement she was a Dove ambassador on her Instagram page at the end of August as she spoke about her goal of ending the stigma of being overweight.
	A dove ambassador.
	A dove ambassador.
	And she's going to go around and she's going to say, hey, when you're soaping up your corpulent body, there should be no stigma as you reach for your dove product.
	Well, Mr. Kersey, do you think immensely fat people use more soap because they've got more epidermis they've got to clean?
	This is probably a good deal for Dove.
	They not only use more soap, they use more water, so their footprint on the environment is just devastating.
	And you're right.
	But conversely, they have to use more soap.
	They have to use more products.
	So they're going to have to go replenish that.
	No wonder Dove is backing this girl.
	Yeah, capitalism fat fat liberation means means Exactly.
	Well, unfortunately, what was it last week?
	We talked about in Washington DC They're putting a number of products behind or they're getting rid of them at stores At that giant was it tied and some other body products the brand names all the brand name products because they walk in there just walk across the street and sell them at these Hairdresser in salons, you know, you're going and steal some sort of nationally known brand of shampoo and walk across the street and hawk it off!
	What a deal!
	So, yep, they're not carrying them anymore.
	Yeah, well, I'm sure Dove is part of that.
	So, Zianna Bryant might want to go down there and be an ambassador to that store to be like, hey guys, stop stealing these products.
	Come on, have a packet for free on me.
	Anyways, she said this on her Instagram as part of her fat liberation.
	Crusade quote my belief is that we should be and we should be centering the voices in the experience of the most marginalized People and communities at all times she said in the video At all times quote so when I think about what fat liberation looks like to me I think about centering the voices of those who live in and who maneuver through spaces and institutions and a fat body end quote she captioned her video by saying quote fat liberation is something we should all be talking about and Tell us what fat liberation means to you using the hashtag, quote, size freedom and tagging at dove to share your story.
	Well, Mr. Kersey, we are following her advice.
	We are talking about fat liberation, just as she said.
	Now, we're not going to be talking about it all the time.
	We've got better things to talk about it.
	But she got our attention.
	All right.
	I never want to talk about fat liberation again, by the way.
	This makes me want to do one of your 60-minute elliptical workouts.
	And if some of our listeners have never seen, Mr. Taylor has this fantastic exercise.
	Uncle Taylor, Uncle Jared, I forgot what the move was called, but it's where you do that tremendous push-up on your fingertips and your toes, which is just such a core blaster.
	Well, some people call that a Superman push-up.
	And you're kind to remember that your declining and frail co-host still has a few Superman push-ups left in him.
	I call it a move to liberate yourself forever from obesity.
	Anyways, Bryant, you know, she's been praised for her work with the Black Lives Matter and getting the Robert E. Lee statue taken down in Charlottesville.
	And she's also come under fire in recent months, but she's come under fire recent months for efforts to get a white student named Morgan Bettinger suspended from campus.
	She claimed Bettinger referred to BLM protesters as good speed bumps in the summer of 2020, only to later admit she may have misheard her.
	The incident began in July of 2020, when Bettinger mistakenly drove down a street where Black Lives Matter protesters had gathered.
	She told Reason Magazine she saw a dump truck partially blocking the road, but because the street was not completely blocked off, she continued driving.
	When she realized what was actually being why it was blocked off She decided to park her car and decided to see what was going on as she passed Bedinger said the truck driver began talking to her and the two had a brief conversation Of course as we all know she would be since she would be she'd get a lot of trouble for this because of the tweet that this now Dove ambassador for the liberation of obesity for fat liberation She was the one who got her.
	She was the one who doxxed her and went after her.
	It was shared thousands of times, and internet sleuths identified the driver as Bettinger.
	So, you can go back and you can talk about that, but... Well, it's a kind of a complicated story.
	It's a very complicated story.
	She was accused of saying something that she did not say, and the implication was that she wanted cars to come barreling through and smash the people who were BLM demonstrators.
	That was exactly the opposite of what she wanted.
	But didn't she get pushed out of UVA on account of this?
	She didn't get pushed out.
	They did the Office for Equal Opportunity and Civil Rights.
	They investigated her.
	And she got a mark on her, a permanent mark on her record, which is likely going to hinder her chances of getting into law school that she had dreamed.
	She wanted to go to UVA Law School.
	And she said, quote, the university has never had to answer for what their actions have done to me.
	So she's considering doing a lawsuit.
	I hope she does.
	And I hope that she never again uses a Dove beauty product, because she's actually quite a lovely female.
	And she's definitely not an individual who will ever be She would flunk the physical for a fat liberationist, huh?
	Good for her.
	Well, here I've got good news.
	Here's an R&B singer by the name of Akon, or Akon, I'm not sure.
	It's Akon.
	Akon, all right, thank you.
	He's got a great idea.
	He is hyping his centrally planned community in Senegal.
	That's where he's from.
	And he promises that every African American who invests with him will become a millionaire.
	Wow.
	In addition, he says, if they collectively leave the U.S.
	for Africa, they could do real damage to the country that has oppressed them for so long.
	Oh, don't throw us in the briar patch.
	Oh, please, African-American fellow citizens, don't throw us in the briar patch.
	Don't leave us.
	Don't damage us that way.
	In any case, the 50-year-old artist, whose real name is Aliaun Damala Badara Thiam, was born in St.
	Louis, Missouri, but he spent a lot of his childhood in Senegal.
	And he's a big believer in Africa.
	If you're coming from Africa or Europe or elsewhere in the diaspora, and you feel you want to visit Africa, we want Senegal to be your first stop, he said.
	Of the reported $6 billion project.
	I suppose, I'm guessing $6 billion is budgeted, not actually in the coffers.
	He launched the settlement in 2020 with the cooperation of Senegal, with hopes of creating a high-tech community with an economy based on his Akoin cryptocurrency.
	Get that?
	ACON has got an ACOIN cryptocurrency.
	Africa is in a position where if African-Americans take position now, every single African-American would be a millionaire without even thinking twice, because there's nothing that's not needed over there.
	I wonder why everything is needed over there.
	So you guys come with the discipline.
	You guys come with the knowledge.
	You come with the resources.
	I wonder what black people he knows.
	Black people are the driving force behind America's economy, and they could do the same for Africa.
	We literally built America with our bare hands, says he.
	Just imagine if we all just decided to pack all our bags, withdraw all our money, and go to Africa.
	Where would America be today?
	It would collapse overnight.
	Wow, as I say, Please don't throw us in the brown patch.
	I can imagine.
	I can imagine all of that.
	I can imagine.
	I can imagine the Nike store reopening in Portland if that actually happens.
	Oh, dear.
	Well, you know, it's going to be a bit of a surprise for all these African-Americans who go up over there expecting to be millionaires.
	Senegal is 96 percent Muslim and its official language is French.
	Not many people even speak English.
	But they'll be warmly welcomed, I'm sure, so long as they come with a million dollars and they don't come expecting to make a million dollars.
	What a bunch of crazy baloney.
	But I hope people listen to this Black Pied Piper.
	He is singing my tune, anyway.
	He's rapping your tune.
	He's a rapper, so... You're right.
	Well, no, he is an R&B singer.
	So there you go.
	He's not even a rapper.
	He's saying the kind of crazy things you expect from rappers, but he's not even one of them.
	Now, birthright citizenship.
	Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy says that as president he would deport American-born children of undocumented immigrants.
	He says the whole family unit will be deported.
	NBC asked him about this.
	Would that include American-born children?
	This is at a packed town hall.
	And he said yes.
	He stuck to his guns.
	Good man.
	Out the go.
	Soon.
	Now Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' campaign insinuated that birthright citizenship isn't necessarily a given for the children of illegals, calling it inconsistent with the original understanding of the 14th Amendment.
	I wish he were as stout as Vivek on this.
	Out they go.
	Zoom.
	Now former Donald Trump, former President Donald Trump, sorry about that.
	Former Donald Trump.
	Yes.
	He's always going to be Donald Trump.
	I don't think he's going to change his name to Akon.
	So former President Donald Trump also promised to end birthright citizenship for the children of illegals.
	He promised to write an executive order the first day in office, which he failed to do.
	Even after four years in office, he failed to do it.
	But that is the idea.
	OK, boy, we are running pretty late.
	Let's see if we've got a short story we can put in here.
	And this is pretty good.
	Nine Mexican cities ranked in the top 10 most dangerous cities in the world in 2022.
	Can you believe that?
	I can.
	Yes, you can.
	But I'm surprised there's only one American city on the list.
	Can I try and take a guess which one it is?
	You may guess.
	I think it's one of four.
	It's either St.
	Louis, Baltimore, Memphis, or New Orleans.
	It is New Orleans, New Orleans, your number four choice.
	That's number eight on the on the world, the top, the world top 10.
	Yep.
	So of the top 15 most murderous cities in the world, 11 are in Mexico.
	And then, as I said, number eight, number eight, New Orleans and number 11 is a place called Mosolo in Brazil.
	Number 12 is Cape Town.
	And then number 15 is Durham.
	So, you know, fellows, fellow African-American fellow citizens, you guys are not in the top.
	You're not anywhere near what we expect you to be.
	So there you go.
	That's Mexico.
	That's the place to go.
	If you, well, that's the place not to go.
	I believe, Mr. Kersey, we have run out of time, as we always do.
	And it's always a great displeasure when we do.
	And so, on behalf of my indispensable co-host, Paul Kersey, thank you all for your attention.

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