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Oct. 12, 2023 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor

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BLM Thinks It’s Hamas

Jared Taylor and Paul Kersey note that BLM Grassroots seems to think it would be justified to shoot whites in their beds. The hosts also discuss the dollar cost of free speech, good news on voter integrity, and Taylor’s new coinage, “degentrification.”

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	Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
	I'm your host, Jared Taylor, and with me is my indispensable co-host, Paul Kersey.
	Today, in the year 2023, it is October 12th, the day that used to be known as Columbus Day.
	Now, of course, it's widely known as Native American Day.
	And all those virtuous liberals out there can sit around feeling good about feeling bad about being quiet.
	Does that make you feel virtuous, Mr. Kersey?
	Well, it does not, but I'd be remiss if I didn't say, and a lot of times we hear Indigenous People's Day.
	They don't even want to have the word American, Native American.
	It's Indigenous People's Day.
	And I go out of my way to make sure to wish people a happy Christopher Columbus Day, a man who In your estimation, in a book review you did, was simply trying to find a passage away from the Saracens to retake Jerusalem in a great book.
	Was that called Conquest?
	I can't actually remember the title of the book.
	But be that as it may, Chris is badly, badly misunderstood these days.
	But we do our best to understand him.
	And we certainly don't celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day.
	But we have quite a few comments this time, Mr. Kersey.
	And let's start with this one.
	A viewer last week mentioned Alex Jones and some of his recent observations suggesting he's waking up to race.
	What this listener specifically said was that Alex Jones had showed about, must have been a dozen or so nonstop, these horrible videos of black people unprovokedly beating up white people.
	Our listener goes on to say, that may be, but he's also reasonably stated that if you get black Africans to become Christian, they're just as successful as Europeans, and that Europeans were living in caves, huts, and killing each other before we became Christian.
	In other words, we were just like the Africans of today.
	He seems to be utterly unaware of ancient Greece or Rome.
	I fear he is nowhere near understanding race.
	Well, I must say I pay no attention to Alex Jones, so I have to depend on my information about him from people who do.
	Another comment.
	I was amused by your story about blacks who say they suffer discrimination.
	Blacks who say they suffer discrimination are more likely to get fat.
	That was one I believe that you brought to our attention.
	I did.
	I did.
	Yes.
	And our listener points out this is all based on self-reports of discrimination.
	The late great Colin Flaherty loved to cite studies showing that blacks and whites self-report an equal amount of drug use.
	However, when you actually test for drugs, blacks are wildly more likely to be using them.
	It'd be interesting to study the blacks who do not claim to be victims of discrimination.
	I bet they're far more successful financially, socially, and legally, or whatever you call the ability to stay out of jail.
	And my guess is they're probably not as fat either.
	Now, this is really a fascinating thing.
	I remember reading for years all these people claiming, well, you know, white people take drugs just as much as blacks, but blacks are X times more likely to be arrested for it.
	Oh, police racism, horrible, horrible.
	But it's exactly as this person reports.
	And Colin Flaherty used to say, when you actually do tests, you find that many blacks are, to put it mildly, lying.
	Now, here is a comment.
	We had a story about Target closing nine of its stores, along with so many other big important stores all around the country, shutting down because of this terrible plague of shoplifting.
	They're not in business to give their products away for free, and they are closing the stores where too many people think that's what they're in the business of doing.
	And our listener goes on to say, the Harlem store is a fascinating case.
	You know the history of Harlem.
	By the early 2000s, crime was under control, and redevelopment was creeping north.
	Target had been looking to get into New York City for a while, but struggled to find appropriate real estate.
	At that time, there were only large stores, not the smaller, flexible format strategy that emerged later.
	This guy sounds very knowledgeable.
	I'd never heard of the smaller, flexible formal match strategy Target stores.
	Also, of course, New York City was begging, begging, begging.
	The Harlemites were just dying to have a Target.
	In any case, Target ended up finding a site in Spanish Harlem and spent five to six times as much money developing, as it would, a typical store that size.
	There was virtual unanimity within the company that this was not a good investment.
	Certainly not worth $120 million, but Target went ahead.
	Our listener goes on to say, I'm not at all surprised that after 10 years, this store made it to the chopping block.
	Of course, in areas like this, the scale of loss will be even higher because so much money plus decades of effort went into building up these newly gentrified areas with all sorts of planned mixed use and other developments.
	All of this is likely to be lost.
	Now, Mr. Kersey, I'm going to slap myself on the back in advance and brag about having invented a new word, de-gentrification.
	What do you think of that?
	De-gentrification.
	We've had all this gentrification going in, all these white people pouring into these once very, very dodgy places, and now the tide is receding because these once dodgy places are getting back to being dodgy.
	And I would call this de-gentrification.
	We'll have another story about it later on.
	What do you think of that term?
	I like it.
	I think you're onto something.
	De-gentrification.
	Yes, I'm proud of myself.
	Here's another comment.
	On your two most recent podcasts, the subject came up that there are often too many important news stories to cover in a one-hour program each week.
	How about two broadcasts a week?
	Or maybe an open-ended one that runs as long as it takes to cover the stories at hand?
	Well, if we covered all the stories at hand, Mr. Kersey, you and I would never sleep.
	Now, I think two broadcasts a week would be a lot of fun, but you and I would have to discuss that.
	That would be a considerable change in our work habits, I suspect.
	All I can say to that is, as we've been talking here, I've seen three stories on a Twitter feed pop up that are just mind-blowing and would be a lot of fun to talk about.
	Save them for next week!
	We will!
	There'd just be no end to it!
	We'd be here all day if we covered all the stories that deserve it.
	All right, here's one last comment, and then we'll move on to a few of our own story items here.
	Mr. Taylor, here's a fun one for you and Mr. Kersey.
	Came across this article today on near disasters from the air traffic controller staffing crisis.
	Now, as you all probably know, air traffic controllers, they're the people to make sure that airplanes don't smash into each other.
	It's called separating aircraft.
	And for years, of course, as our listener points out, there has been much wailing that controllers are horribly, terribly, awfully, hideously, much too white.
	And there have been efforts launched to improve diversity, equity and inclusion.
	Well, sure enough, I was looking to see if my biases would be confirmed by Googling the name of the person highlighted in an article about an air traffic control error nearly killing 140 plus people.
	Attached is the image belonging to his now-deleted LinkedIn page.
	I wish I could show you that image, Mr. Kersey.
	This guy, he looks like one of the most primitive, dreadlocked, low-IQ guys you ever saw.
	He's the one you'd expect to be wandering around, you know, talking to himself in the middle of some sort of Chicago slum.
	But this guy was separating aircraft, making sure you and I stay alive when we fly through the friendly sky.
	So his prejudices were confirmed.
	It's all a question of pattern recognition.
	Now, Mr. Kersey, given that what's going on in the Middle East, even at this very moment, and I'll talk a little bit about it later, I'd like you to tell me something about the possible terrorists who have been wandering into the United States.
	Yeah, you know, this story is one that I saw at Town Hall.
	I'd say that 20% of their stuff is worth reading.
	By the way, can you hear me, Mr. Taylor?
	Oh, I sure can.
	Okay, good, good.
	I just faded out.
	So, this is the headline.
	National security risk.
	New data on illegal immigrants from the Middle East is alarming.
	So, the crisis unfolding along the US-Mexico border is nothing new at this point, but as You know, you asked to figure out who Katie is.
	I believe this is an individual with, you know, this is the person, Mr. Taylor, who wrote that book about Fast and the Furious.
	I can't think of her name right now.
	I'll get it in a second.
	I've actually met her a couple times.
	She's a very, very good person.
	As she reported earlier this week, the Hamas terrorist invasion of Israel from the Gaza Strip highlighted the national security ramifications A border security, specifically the lack of critical infrastructure in the US government has about the individuals illegally entering our country.
	Go ahead, you were going to say something.
	No, no, no, no.
	There are obvious national security implications here.
	Just any clown can walk across the border.
	And these Hamas boys, who are certainly smart enough to figure out this remarkable invasion they made just over the last weekend, they would certainly realize that they can just sashay into the United States with a hey 90-90 and a hot cha-cha these days.
	But anyway, please continue.
	Yeah, by the way, the name of that individual is Katie Pavlich.
	So you probably remember that.
	She's she's actually infamously one of the individuals who signed that never Trump famous National Review cover piece back in 2016.
	But anyways, quote, Since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, more than two million individuals have entered the country as gotaways.
	Miss Pavlich reminded us the more than seven million illegal immigrants who have entered the country and been processed by Border Patrol have not been vetted.
	We know nearly 400 individuals on the terrorist watch list have been apprehended, attempting to enter, and the FBI is currently looking for potential members of an ISIS terrorist ring that was smuggled into the country.
	Her report emphasized, of course, that's when the FBI isn't going after the January Sixers, the grandmothers and octogenarians who enter the Capitol.
	In other words, the three FBI agents who are not on that job are spending a little bit of their time on these potential terrorists.
	Very good.
	I'm reassured.
	I don't think it's probably three.
	It's probably maybe one.
	But anyways, on Tuesday, Fox News channels Bill Mulligan, who by the way is one of the great reporters out there, he reported a new internal data from the U.S.
	Customs and Border Protection on, quote, special interest aliens, end quote, defined by the Department of Homeland Security as a non-U.S.
	person who, based on analysis of travel patterns, potentially possesses a national security risk to the U.S.
	or its interests, who are often employing travel patterns known or evaluated to possibly have a nexus to terrorism.
	That is, These SIAs, Special Interest Aliens, are the kind of illegal immigrants the U.S.
	should be especially aware of and strict toward.
	Well, of course, we should be strict and aware of all illegal immigrants, but nevertheless, according to the data reported by Moolajan, there have been tens of thousands of such individuals apprehended by border agents since 2021.
	Mr. Taylor, I'm going to repeat that again.
	There have been tens of thousands of such individuals who are classified as special interest aliens
	apprehended by border agents since 2021 and an unknown number of other people
	who would be considered SIAs, but who are among the millions of known and unknown
	gotaways who unlawfully entered the US.
	So according to the Biden administration data on countries of origin confirmed by the CPP,
	here's how many SIAs were apprehended.
	Once again, SIAs, Special Interest Aliens, and where they were from between October 2021 and October 2023.
	Syria, 538.
	Yemen, 139.
	and October 2023. Syria 538, Yemen 139, Iran 659, Iraq Afghanistan, 6,386.
	Lebanon, 164.
	Egypt, 3,153.
	Pakistan, 1,613.
	Uzbekistan, 13,624.
	Turkey, 30,830.
	Now think about this.
	Lebanon, 164. Egypt, 3,153. Pakistan, 1,613. Uzbekistan, 13,624.
	Turkey, 30,830. Now think about this, all those nations, Mr. Taylor, last time I
	checked, those are, um, big ocean called the Atlantic separates us from these, uh, from these
	nations in the Middle East.
	But not from these guys anymore.
	No, sir, you know, that's enough to start an armed insurrection.
	It seems to me Yeah, that's that's the that's a pop.
	Yeah.
	I mean that's an astonishing number You're talking.
	Yeah, I mean just quick back in the napkin math.
	I mean you're talking about 43 58 you're talking about just under 65,000 People, SIAs, and that's just who they know, who they've confirmed by CPP.
	And I know, I think we'll probably talk about, I don't want to step on any shoes here, any feet, but I believe tomorrow there's been this National Jihad Day called for October 13th, and there are a lot of people who are worried, including Department of Homeland Security, about what could happen.
	So, be safe out there, everyone.
	Well, in that context, I'm sure you saw the news that a pro-Palestinian mob took over Times Square just one day after the Hamas assault on Israel.
	Protesters gathered with megaphones and yellow signs reading, resistance against occupation is a human right and end all U.S.
	aid to apartheid Israel.
	And they chanted 5, 6, 7, 8, Israel is a terrorist state, and police had to keep several hundred of them apart from several hundred pro-Israel demonstrations.
	And there clearly would have been violence otherwise.
	Yes, lots of fun here in the United States.
	Footage emerged yesterday, that was actually the day before yesterday, showing a pro-Hamas mob in Tampa, Florida, mocking Jews with images of murdered Israelis.
	That's cute and charming.
	And of course, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has called on the U.S.
	government to withdraw its support for what it calls the apartheid state.
	Congresswoman Cori Bush is also calling for an end to support for the apartheid state, as does Rashida Tlaib.
	So it's now progressives—that's their favorite designation for Israel.
	Now, it does make you think diversity is a wonderful thing.
	And if tensions get sufficiently bad, maybe we can expect rocket attacks on the lower Manhattan Diamond District.
	What do you think?
	All of these little conflicts become worldwide when you let enough people into your country.
	And then we got an interesting little political vignette here.
	A major Black Lives Matter group has thrown its support behind the resistance in Palestine.
	BLM grassroots put out a statement saying we must stand unwaveringly on the side of the oppressed because the Palestinians quote have been subject to decades of apartheid and unimaginable violence.
	Their resistance must not be condemned but understood as a desperate act of self-defense.
	Now this becomes relevant in the American context in particular because it says BLM grassroots says that we as black people We too understand what it means to be surveilled, dehumanized, property seized, families separated, our people criminalized and slaughtered with impunity, locked up in droves, and when we resist, they call us terrorists.
	Well, I suppose this means that they would be justified in tracking us down in our beds and murdering us in our sleep.
	Isn't that the suggestion it makes to you, Mr. Kersey?
	100 percent, yes.
	Yes, yes.
	So I'm glad they have tipped their hand, but will anybody decide to withdraw their donations to BLM, all the billions that our corporate titans poured into that obviously crazy, anti-American, anti-capitalist, anti-morality organization?
	Nope, nope, nope.
	Nobody's regretting, I'm sure.
	And then finally, Henry Kissinger.
	He says, Hamas's attack against Israel being celebrated in the streets of Berlin indicates that Germany has let in too many foreigners.
	Well, Henry, it's about time.
	It's about time you figured that out.
	He says, it was a grave mistake to let in so many people of totally different culture and religion and concepts.
	It creates pressure groups inside any country that does that.
	Gee, Henry, have you ever looked at the United States?
	Well, I guess it's just as well that he wake up later rather than never.
	Well, all of this Hamas-Israel slaughter going on is not A matter of explicit concern to our view, but it does go to show you, once again, every time, diversity is a curse.
	When you have more than one group of people living in the same territory, claiming the same land, you are going to get conflict of the most fiendish kind.
	Moving on to one of these always fascinating debates over English language words.
	A scheduled picnic.
	that was sponsored by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Law School's Environmental Law Society, has been renamed Lunch by the Lake.
	The law group informed members that the word picnic has historical and offensive connotations.
	And it apologized.
	Yes, picnic, picnic, believe it or not.
	It apologized for any harm or discomfort caused by the use of this offensive word.
	The group's view, in fact, mirrors that of the University of Michigan's IT department from several years ago.
	Picnic was included in a words matter task force listing offensive words and phrases, along with Brown Bag.
	Brown Bag.
	I don't—well, are they thinking of the brown paper bag test?
	Well, I'm not sure why brown bag is so bad.
	Or blacklist.
	Blacklist.
	Things can't be blacklisted, because that might make black people—might remind them of slavery and Jim Crow.
	And then long time no see is offensive.
	I suppose that makes fun of Indians.
	Oh dear.
	In any case, the Michigan IT department had included picnic as one of these awful words.
	As it turns out, and I wasn't aware of this, picnic comes from a French word, pique-nique, which is more than 300 years old, meaning a potluck-style social gathering.
	Now, Mr. Kersey, I want you to put your powerful mind to work imagining what it could possibly be about the word picnic that could be insulting to our pets.
	Can you think of anything?
	A pickaninny?
	You know, that's the only thing I could think of.
	I put my powerful mind to work trying to think, gee, what could possibly wrong this word?
	But no, it's not pickaninny.
	According to Reuters News Agency, 19th and 20th century lynchings of black Americans often occurred in gatherings that could be referred to as picnics.
	I actually have, I actually have heard that.
	No, I didn't.
	You had heard that.
	I had heard that.
	And as we're speaking about this, by the way, I looked up and I've determined that you are correct.
	Surmising that it is the brown paper bag test that is the reason.
	It's problematic.
	This is from the Anti-Racism Action Committee to Chair Michael Oskin, the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of California, Davis from 2020.
	and they deduce that it's a racist and colorist practice of comparing a person's skin color to
	the color of a brown paper bag. Those whose skin was darker than the bag would be denied privileges
	afforded to white people. That's actually not true. The brown paper bag test is what is used for
	the elite sororities, black sororities.
	You need to be, if your skin is less dark than the brown paper bag, you're going to be let in.
	If it's darker, you are considered to be more African.
	That's right.
	Now this guy is not only wrong, he's wrong.
	Anyway, picnic has just joined another one of these offensive words.
	But if when you say something is in the black, that means it's making money.
	You think that's okay?
	Maybe they'll think that's no good either.
	But be all that as it may.
	Mr. Kersey, I was encouraged to read that a federal court says that Georgia voter integrity law is not racist after all.
	Yeah, you know, a lot of people get blackpilled.
	Can we use that term?
	No, no, no, no.
	If a blackpill is a bad thing, no, no, you better absolutely not.
	You can call it a poison pill.
	No, I don't know.
	Well, a lot of people think a lot of the news we talk about, it's despondent, melancholy, depressing.
	Whatever you want to say, but this is a good story.
	Court, no evidence of Georgia's election integrity law discriminates against black voters.
	So a federal court struck down Democrats' request for a preliminary injunction seeking to block provisions of Georgia's integrity election law on Wednesday, ruling the plaintiffs showed no evidence the statute discriminates against black voters.
	Writing for the U.S.
	District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Judge J.P. Boulier ruled that their
	lawsuit against Georgia state officials, the Biden administration, and Democrat-affiliated
	groups, quote, failed to show a substantial likelihood of success in the merits as to
	their claims that the provisions of a Uh-oh.
	Republican-backed election integrity law intentionally discriminate against Black voters in violation
	of the 14th, 15th, and Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
	Signed into law by Governor Brian Kemp in March 2021, SB202 mandated voter ID for absentee
	voting and set rules against giving voters gifts or money within 150 feet of a polling
	place.
	Uh-oh, uh-oh.
	That might discriminate against Blacks.
	I guess so.
	Maybe in Clayton County or Fulton County.
	I don't know.
	The law also increased security around and limited the use of ballot drop boxes.
	Clap, clap, clap.
	I say to that.
	That's fantastic.
	And limited use of ballot drop boxes tighten the time frame in which voters can request an absentee ballot before Election Day and increase regulations around preventional ballots.
	In their suit against Georgia's leading officials, Democrats contended the aforementioned provisions intentionally discriminated against black voters.
	Regarding the law's voter ID requirement for absentee voting, for example, plaintiffs claimed the provision disproportionately impacts black voters because the majority of registered Georgia voters without a valid driver's license or identification card are black.
	I wonder how many of them there actually are.
	Probably a very, very small number, and I bet they very rarely vote.
	They're the ones that are sleeping under bridges, probably, or in cardboard boxes in all those nice pup tents.
	But anyway.
	Yeah, and a larger percentage of black voters than white voters lack a valid ID.
	I mean, again, how difficult is it to get an identification card?
	To do basically anything in the United States, in Georgia, you have to have an ID.
	I mean, come on.
	Well, I think it seems to me it should be a requirement to vote, is to have enough brains to get an ID.
	I can think of a lot of other requirements to be able to have the franchise, but that's for another conversation.
	That's a first step.
	It's a first step.
	So in Wednesday's opinion, that was yesterday, the district court dispelled Democrats' argument that such statistical differences indicate an intent to discriminate.
	As Booley noted, plaintiffs presented no evidence that black registered voters fail to have the other acceptable forms of ID allowed by the statute at a statistically higher rate than white voters.
	So, the judge just dismissed this.
	It's like, no, there's no evidence to support that.
	These other forms of identification include utility bills, bank statements, paychecks, and other government documents that include a name and an address.
	Boulier wrote, ultimately without this additional evidence, the court cannot find at this time that the identification provision has a disparate impact on black voters.
	I wonder if some record of getting welfare payments, that'll probably do the trick, too.
	They're more likely to have that form of ID.
	So a couple more things from this story that I think are very interesting to point out.
	Despite previously issuing a preliminary injunction blocking the enforcement of SB 202's safeguards
	on giving voters gifts at polling places, Boullier argued on Wednesday the plaintiffs
	claimed that the provision disproportionately impacts black voters because black voters
	are more likely to wait in long lines at the polls falls flat.
	The judge wrote the differences in wait times between white and black voters are not statistically
	significant enough to demonstrate that black voters wait in longer lines at a meaningful
	higher rate than white voters."
	Again, this judge to his everlasting credit just simply said this evidence isn't there.
	You can't just make a claim and then expect the evidence to fall, you know, to fall out of the sky and to present itself in such a manner that, yeah, my God, you're right.
	This is discrimination.
	Nonetheless, even assuming these percentages point differences were statistically significant, plaintiffs expert concedes in this report that too few respondents reported wait times of longer than 60 minutes to make racial comparisons for those wait times reliable, Boulier added.
	The court also dismissed Democrats' claims regarding SB202's Dropbox regulations, absentee ballot request deadline, and provincial ballot rules.
	Mr. Taylor, I'd like to go on record and say that Brian Kemp won a very big victory in 2022 over our favorite black Democrat, Stacey Abrams.
	Now, Donald Trump's endorsed candidate, Herschel Walker did not win.
	He lost with a plurality of the votes and then he lost in a runoff because he was a terrible candidate.
	If they had had any just normal white guy, he would have won.
	But for some reason in the state of Georgia, there is there is a little bit of a pushback against Trump or his candidate.
	But again, Herschel Walker was a historically terrible candidate.
	And I think Georgia is a state that again, we're not endorsing candidates.
	I'm just making an observation, ladies and gentlemen.
	Georgia is of the states that are very close in 2024.
	Georgia is the most winnable for Republicans precisely because of SB202.
	Now, just to put a bow on this story, President Joe Biden referred to SB202 as Jim Crow on steroids and called on Major League Baseball to relocate its 2021 All-Star Game from Atlanta in protest.
	The MLB ultimately acquiesced, condemning the law and moving the game to Denver.
	This stuff is just so insane.
	Mr. Taylor, cost Georgia an estimated $100 million or more in revenue.
	Coca-Cola and Delta, who are two of the big Fortune 100 companies that are headquartered
	in Atlanta, were also among those to condemn SB202.
	This stuff is just so insane.
	As I say, people love to feel good about feeling bad about being part of the white race that
	is so cruel and unkind to black people.
	They'll find racism wherever ordinary people wouldn't even want to look.
	Crazy stuff.
	Well, I'm very glad about that court case.
	You know, I've been looking into some of the consequences of all this voter expansion stuff here in Fairfax County.
	In Virginia, there is a 45-day voting period.
	45 days.
	45 days.
	Yes.
	That means you have to have people at the polls.
	You have to have poll watchers.
	You have to have election officials.
	And somebody made a calculation on the number of people who actually came in to vote in this long period.
	And in some of these elections, once you have taken into consideration what you have to pay these poll watchers and election officials, it's costing about $50 per vote.
	To come in, just because this enormous long period, nobody's doing it.
	These voting stations have to be all around the county or the state.
	It's utterly, utterly insane.
	Nobody's thinking through this stuff.
	And of course, it always makes it easier to fake a vote or do something that is the kinds of things that the voter integrity people are trying to stamp out.
	And that's just one county, by the way.
	Yes, yes.
	That's just one county.
	Think about all that money.
	All over the country, these extended periods.
	Also, when you have people routinely voting by mail, and they'll vote, they'll get a ballot in the mail, and they'll come in and want to vote.
	They'll have forgotten they got one, or they'll send it in, and they'll forget, and they'll come in and want to vote anyway, in person.
	Then you've got to go through all sorts of folder, all trying to figure out, well, did this guy vote, or didn't he vote?
	Is this legitimate?
	Isn't it legitimate?
	Same-day voter registration—all of that just places a huge burden on all of these election officials.
	This is something nobody talks about.
	Just the human and financial cost on all of this.
	Crazy.
	But another casualty in the undeclared war.
	Hanford police—Hanford is near Fresno, California—have arrested 23-year-old Ryan Washington, After a stabbing at a 99 cent store left a man dead.
	This is just so heartbreaking.
	Officers discovered a male victim later identified as William Chartrand, 82 years old.
	Officers apprehended Washington at the scene.
	Now that was all I got out of one story.
	I had to sort of poke around to find a little bit more.
	Investigators described the incident as a random act of violence.
	Officials say Washington, and by the way, that name is 95% likely to be an African-American.
	Somehow that's the most common single name for our African-American fellow citizen, Washington.
	And if somebody's named Washington, chances are he's who you'd guess he would be.
	Officials say Washington did not know the victim, who was melanin deprived.
	Washington had a history of theft and battery offenses, but so far nothing violent the police were aware of.
	Poor Mr. Chartrand was a white Navy veteran.
	He was picking up birthday cards at the 99 cent store.
	Police say the victim was doing nothing other than shopping as he was walking down the aisle.
	He was followed by the suspect and was subsequently attacked for no apparent reason.
	Chartrand's stepson, Martin Devine, says there is no understanding to this.
	There are no words.
	It's pure evil.
	The suspect's mother says her son had mental health issues.
	Now, isn't that what they always say?
	Either he's a good boy, he would never do it, or if she really can't deny it, then, oh, he has mental health issues.
	It's always what it boils down to.
	I think, of course, and I suspect you do, too, that a lot of this has to do with this constant demonization of white people.
	Here's an old white guy.
	White guys have been genocidal maniacs.
	They enslaved black people.
	They did Jim Crow.
	They are the cancer of human history.
	And so why not stab one?
	So we have another dead white man, a Navy veteran, and this guy, 23-year-old Ryan Washington, I suspect it has spoiled his career.
	I'm sure he was turning his life around, all set to be a rap artist or a nuclear physicist.
	It's always either one or the other.
	Let's see.
	Perhaps this guy might have been the individual to bring peace to the Middle East.
	Ah, you're right, another unsung genius, you know, his life thwarted by just one of these things that happens to black people.
	They got to whip out a knife and stab a white guy, you know, and that really does, if you get caught, that does kind of change your life trajectory.
	Sometimes, sometimes they seem to get away with it.
	But Mr. Kersey, we had a story about how after the War of Northern Aggression, the defeated Confederates just spread the poisons of racism throughout America and perhaps the world.
	Yeah, that war for southern independence.
	Court, I'm sorry, this is from NBC News.
	How ex-Confederates spread racist attitudes far and wide after the Civil War.
	The Confederate diaspora has contributed to systemic racism in almost every area of life and continues to shape, quote, racial inequities in labor, housing, and policing.
	Wow.
	They've probably spread it to the moon by now at that rate.
	Well, of course, there have only been, I think, 12 white people on the moon who've walked to the moon.
	They're all white, so yeah, you're right.
	A new study outlines how white people's migration during and after the Civil War From the Confederate South to the West, bolstered white supremacy and institutional racism in non-slave states, helping create the vast racial disparities that exist today nationwide.
	It's always going to be white Southerners.
	Five researchers from separate colleges collaborated on this study called Confederate Diaspora to compile and study census data that tracked the migration to the West of white Americans, including 60,000 former plantation owners.
	Were there really 60,000 plantations?
	I mean, that's a huge number.
	There could have been, but I don't imagine they all buggered off.
	Some of them stayed around.
	One of my ancestors, actually, his father had been a plantation owner.
	Everything was destroyed.
	He went to Australia to seek his fortune.
	But he came back to the United States after having concluded that the Australians were, in his words, a low breed of cattle.
	So, he failed in his attempt to spread racism and hatred amongst the Australians and came back to North Carolina.
	Please continue.
	The former Southerners took on local positions of authority like police officers, clergy, and politicians, giving them influence to create a post-Civil War culture that continued to oppress black people even after slavery had ended.
	This results in structural and systemic racism in almost every walk of life today.
	Education, housing, jobs, healthcare, and wealth, among other areas, that continues to hamper progress for black people, according to a working paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research this month.
	The former Confederates, quote, continued to transmit norms to their children and non-Southern neighbors, end quote.
	The researchers wrote that, quote, shaping racial inequities in labor, housing, and policing, end quote.
	Researcher Patrick Testa, An assistant professor of economics at Tulane University in New Orleans said the impact of the Confederates on other parts of the country was deep and long-lasting.
	In the three decades following the Civil War, white Southerners were more likely than other white people to take on work in governance, he said, and former slaveholders were even more likely to assume those positions, he said.
	What we show ultimately is that these migrants, through these governance channels and channels of public-facing authority, help lay the groundwork for these types of symbols and racial norms and a broad-based Confederate nostalgia to really take off at a national level by the early 20th century.
	One of those norms was the institution of the Ku Klux Klan and the racial terror it inflicted in many parts of the country.
	In the report, the researchers identify over-representation of first and second generation migrants in the KKK, adding that the second generation of the Klan, established in 1915, helped to rejuvenate and mainstream Confederate culture.
	Those born in the South were 11% more likely to join the KKK in the Denver metropolitan area, for example, a major hub of Klan activity in the 1920s beyond the South.
	All of 11% more likely?
	Boy, oh boy.
	Boy, oh boy.
	That does it.
	That does it.
	I'm sure in Maine, they started the KKK.
	I'm sure, gee, everywhere.
	California, all of 11%.
	Well, that's just definitive.
	Without those guys, it never would have happened.
	Yeah, the harmful legacies of slavery persist beyond those that experience being slaves, but across generations and across places, Testa said.
	I'm sure if mankind ever colonizes Mars, They will say that somehow 11% of the colonists of Mars were more likely to have ancestors who fought for the South than they did other things.
	Or there's a disproportionate amount of boars from South Africa.
	It's never going to end, guys.
	I mean, that's the thing.
	Across generations, across places, across the galaxy.
	I mean, that's the way that this attitude is going to follow.
	That's fundamentally what has to be defeated.
	Or just ignored.
	Well, it's like everything that goes wrong in South Africa.
	No matter how badly the ruling blacks behave, it's the legacy of apartheid.
	And here in the United States, it's always a legacy of slavery.
	It'll never go away.
	But you're talking about black pill and perhaps white pill stories.
	This, I would say, this is sort of a somewhere in between kind of a gray pill story.
	Only because this is an article that appeared in the New York Times, and it writes about the recent turmoil at Ibram X. Kendi's Center for Anti-Racist Research.
	You and I have talked about this several times.
	More than half of its staff was laid off, and half of its budget cut amid questions of what it did with the nearly $55 million it had raised.
	The previous figure I'd seen was 43 million.
	So, boy, it just keeps growing all the time.
	With little administrative experience, Kennedy may simply have been ill-equipped to deal with a program of that magnitude.
	That's charitable.
	More interesting is that many major universities, corporations, non-profit groups, and influential donors thought buying into Kennedy's strident, simplistic formula In other words, racism is the cause of all racial disparities, and that anyone who disagrees is a racist.
	The idea that that idea could eradicate racial strife and absolve whites of any role they may have played into it.
	Boy, this is like indulgences back in the pre-Reformation church.
	You can pay money and you can do less time in purgatory.
	You can buy your way out of racial guilt.
	Kendi asserted that racist ideas are used to obscure the fact that racist policies create racist disparities and that to find fault with black people in any way for those disparities is racist.
	They are never to blame.
	Kendi even accused W.E.B.
	Du Bois and Barack Obama of racism for entertaining the very idea that black behavior and attitudes could sometimes cause or exacerbate certain disparities.
	See this in the New York Times.
	This is quite remarkable.
	Kendi said, the only remedy to racist discrimination is anti-racist discrimination.
	What we say about race, what we do about race, in each moment determines what, not who, we are, Kendi wrote.
	That sounds kind of like you, Mr. Kersey.
	What we say about race, what we do about race, in each moment determines what and who we are.
	Well, the times continues.
	The best that could come out of this particular reckoning would be a more nuanced and open-minded conversation about racism.
	Do you think we will be invited to that nuanced and open-minded conversation?
	I'm afraid our invitation is lost in the mail.
	Lost in the mail, yes.
	And a commitment to more diverse visions on how to address it.
	So the message is still, of course, that white people and white society are racist, but maybe we can tone down things a little bit and even entertain the possibility that not everything that goes wrong for black people is white's fault.
	Now here's a story that I put into the miracles do happen category.
	The headline Says this.
	Black pastor who formerly protested cops organizes massive nationwide pro-police event.
	That was from Fox.
	Reverend Marco Hutchins flew to multiple cities across the country over the weekend promoting a pro-police message.
	He's the organizer of National Faith and Blue Weekend.
	He previously led protests against police.
	He organized, on this occasion, a massive pro-law enforcement set of rallies through many cities.
	He is highlighting the need for more officers, stronger communication between police and communities, and an end to the stigmatization of law enforcement.
	Remarkable.
	Most people understand that most police officers go to work and do a good job every single day, says Reverend Hutchins.
	I used to lead protests against the police.
	Now I'm working with them to keep communities safe.
	Then, what he says is somewhat nuanced.
	Ultimately, when police officers are better trained, better equipped, they understand their communities better.
	That's the way in which we're going to see a decrease in attacks on our officers.
	Well, what about blacks?
	That they are policing being better trained, better equipped with brains, Well, apparently it's still the fault of the police.
	They have got to be better trained, better equipped, but at least this guy wants a few officers around.
	So, some people learn from their errors, and let's see how far he ultimately goes.
	Well, one last story before we put you back on, and this is the cost of free speech, Brother Kersey.
	This is quite an interesting story because it had to do with your servant.
	Arizona State University spent more than $11,000 on security for a speech on campus by white nationalist Jared Taylor last year.
	In September 2022, the far-right student group Arizona State University College Republicans United invited Taylor to speak.
	The event garnered controversy in the days leading up to it.
	Taylor has a history of racism going back to the 1990s.
	When he created a think tank that aimed to create research proving the superiority of whites.
	Well, always imputing motives, aren't they?
	The event where Taylor spoke was called, if we do nothing in defense of white politics.
	The Arizona Mirror, the name of the newspaper, requested documents about the event security shortly after the event took place.
	Arizona State University took 390 days to release the documents.
	That sounds like typical bureaucratic delay.
	Apparently, the college police rented equipment such as metal detectors.
	They paid for two members of the Tempe Municipal Police Department.
	And in total, it shelled out $11,294.64 to keep me safe.
	The fact is, I am deeply grateful.
	The cops were very good.
	I feel sure there would have been violence of some kind if they hadn't been there.
	The people who were out there howling and beating on pots and pans were not kindly disposed to me.
	If they had not, in fact, attacked me and let me limb from limb, I'm sure they would have just hauled me off the stage or at the very least had made so much noise if they'd been let into the auditorium that I would have been inaudible.
	So I am deeply grateful for the police officers who made the event possible.
	Now, the purpose of this article, I'm sure, is to say, think of that.
	The public had to spend no less than $11,300 to keep this swine safe.
	Think of that!
	We'd be so much better off if we had just told this horrible, wicked Nazi to stay home.
	But they didn't.
	So, Mr. Kersey, once again, you have a story, one of these baffling stories about ShotSpotter.
	Do tell about ShotSpotter.
	We've talked about ShotSpotter a lot.
	I'm a proponent of ShotSpotter.
	In fact, years ago, a reader of SBPDL thanked me for writing about ShotSpotter so much because he invested in the company and made a lot of money when they went public.
	So now we see this, though.
	This is courtesy of Steve Saylor's blog.
	And Mr. Taylor, I'd be remiss if I didn't point out that I had tweeted at Mr. Kirk and said, you need to have Jared Taylor.
	Peter Brimlow and Steve Saylor and James Kirkpatrick on your program and Charlie Kirk actually had the noticer of notices of noticing Steve Saylor on yesterday and Media Matters was quite upset but Steve got to speak for about 30 minutes and it was a very good interview so Not bad, excellent Hopefully the dam will break and Charlie Kirk will be extending an invitation to your humble servant Mr. Taylor soon so anyways We can always keep fantasy alive, the way Jesse Jackson used to say, keep hope alive, keep hope alive.
	Well, hey, Western civilization has got to have its defenders.
	So, again, U.S.
	Justice Department urged to investigate gunshot detector purchases.
	A new civil rights group has asked the DOJ to investigate deployment of the ShotSpotter gun fire detection system, which research shows is often installed in predominantly black neighborhoods.
	We've talked about this.
	Yeah, Mr. Cruz, well tell our listeners, those who perhaps don't really know what ShotSpotter is, what it does.
	Yeah, it triangulates where a gunshot was fired to help police figure out where a crime, whether a fatal or non-fatal shooting, Has happened.
	And obviously, you're gonna put ShotSpotter...
	This triangulation device that's going to figure out, you know, exactly where the shooting has happened in an area where there are a lot of shootings.
	I think, I think they can, with this triangulation, they can, they can track it down to very close to where the weapon was actually fired.
	It's a great tool.
	The police can get there before nobody calls.
	In fact, in many of those places, nobody does call anyway.
	They show up, bam!
	Right after the shot, bam!
	Pretty good.
	Yeah, exactly.
	So, the Justice Department, like I said, is being asked to investigate whether this gunshot detection system, and it's widely used all across the U.S.
	in major cities, is being selectively deployed to justify the over-policing of mainly black neighborhoods, as critics of the technology claim.
	Now, I'm going to stop here real quick and just say this.
	Yeah, you know what?
	I don't think shot spotters should be in these neighborhoods.
	If they're going to be mad that it's there, that this technology is going to disproportionately arrest the people who are pulling the trigger, And destroy the illusion that it's a bunch of MAGA hat-wearing white supremacists who are out there gunning down innocent black bodies.
	Sure, go ahead.
	If this is what you want, go ahead and have it.
	And, you know, police should just say, you know what, we're not going to go in that area.
	If you want to have black police, go ahead, sure.
	But if you're going to attack... Yes, we're going to wait for the 911 call.
	We're going to sit on our hands until somebody actually snitches and calls.
	That would be exactly what they deserve.
	If you're going to attack a technology that actually wants to prove that, you know what, hey, you know what, all lives matter, not just black lives, but you have to show as a community that you also believe black lives matter, not that black criminals lives matter, then OK, let's get to it.
	Anyways, attorneys for the nonprofit Electronic Privacy Information Center, a leading U.S.-based civil liberties group, Argue that substantial evidence suggests American cities are disproportionately deploying an acoustic tool known as ShotSpotter in majority-minority neighborhoods.
	What that means is that, ladies and gentlemen, white people aren't doing non-fatal and fatal shootings at near the pace that non-whites are.
	Citing past studies, EPIC alleges that data derived from these sensors has encouraged some police departments to spend more and more time patrolling areas This is just terrible.
	ShotSpotter is such a great name, too.
	live. An allegation disputed by sound thinking, the systems manufacturer. Now
	Mr. Taylor, I believe it was back in July, maybe June, maybe a little bit
	before then, they actually changed their name. ShotSpotter changed their name
	because of all the attacks that have happened upon it. I can't... This is just
	terrible. ShotSpotter is such a great name too. Yeah, yeah.
	And a letter... What do they Maybe I'll find out while you're, you keep going, I'll find out.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	So in a letter today to Merrick Garland, the U.S.
	Attorney General, this is the end of September, by the way, ladies and gentlemen, the U.S.
	Attorney General, attorneys for Epic call for an investigation to whether cities using ShotSpotter are running afoul of the Civil Rights Act, namely Title 11, which forbids racial discrimination by anyone who receives federal funds.
	State and local police departments across the country have used federal financial assistance to facilitate the purchase of a slew of surveillance and automated decision-making technologies, including ShotSpotter.
	Despite mounting evidence of ShotSpotter's discriminatory impact, there is no indication that its Title 11 compliance has ever been seriously assessed.
	And that, of course, is from our great friends at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, better known by the acronym EPIC.
	The Attorney General should take additional steps, EPIC says, to ensure agencies dispersing financial funds are careful to assess whether tech companies meet minimum standards of non-discrimination and that new police technologies are not only justified but necessary to achieve a defined goal.
	Now, this piece appeared in Wired Magazine.
	I believe Wired actually called for... I can't remember what they called for that we discussed.
	That was just so...
	Oh, you know what?
	Wired called for the dismantling, Mr. Taylor, of Ring doorbells.
	Remember we talked about that earlier this year?
	Yes, I do.
	They said that it was making neighborhoods too safe because it had a disproportionate impact on black criminals.
	So Wired reported yesterday that SoundThinking has been quietly acquiring parts of Geolitica.
	And by the way, Mr. Taylor, SoundThinking is what?
	ShotSpot, that's its new name.
	That's its new name, SoundThinking.
	So SoundThinking, which hey, that's a great name because it is SoundThinking if you deploy ShotSpotter into majority black areas.
	So anyways, quietly acquiring parts of Geolitica, formerly known as PredPol, the maker of an eponymous predictive policing tool.
	Researchers and critics have accused PredPol of perpetuating racial biases in policing by recycling historic crime data that was built on discriminatory police practices, or why did they just say it, the Confederate Diaspora?
	That's right.
	Since all these ex-Confederates found their vocation in police departments nationwide, the danger critics say is that the data and AI-driven policing may prove an effective tool for laundering racist police conduct, granting it a veneer of scientific authority.
	In 2021, Gizmodo and The Markup co-authored an investigation into PredPol and found that, in many cases, PredPol's predictions predominantly targeted Black and Latinx residents.
	In a majority of the jurisdictions where the tool is being used, PredPol had urged police to mainly patrol neighborhoods in which the city's poorest people reside.
	End of our story.
	I need to read more about PredPol, because this is the first time I've actually heard of them, so... Oh, really?
	Really?
	No, it's quite an interesting thing.
	Police departments buy this, and then they put all the past crime data in, and then this is an AI system that figures out, okay, on thus and such a street corner, on thus and such a time of day, just when the welfare checks come in, you're most likely to find a couple of shootings.
	And so they're on the lookout.
	Oh, it's great.
	It's a great system.
	And it's right.
	PredPol tells you that you're going to get more shootings where there are African-American concentrations.
	And that just can't be.
	That just can't be.
	Clearly, all the data—and this is the point that this idiot group that's trying to shut down ShotSpot are saying—all that data reflects racist Confederate jiggery-pokery anyway, so you can't trust it.
	The FBI has even fallen for this stuff.
	The FBI says to its agents, if you're called in on some local crime case, you must ignore the locally gathered police statistics, because that will head you into a non-white neighborhood.
	And all of those police statistics have been gathered by racist officers for racist purposes.
	So you've got to act as though the crime could have been anywhere in the jurisdiction.
	Amazing, amazing.
	But I promised a story on de-gentrification, and here it comes.
	Surging violent crime this year spread fear and frustration across the District of Columbia as police struggled to curb the bloodshed.
	In gentrified Shaw, the Shaw neighborhood, S-H-A-W, where trendy restaurants dot blocks with condos listing for more than a million, Unusually high levels of gun violence have longtime residents feeling under siege.
	Then it goes into talking about all the way, 70% of car theft, just 70% up.
	Murder, 38% up.
	of car theft, 70 percent of murder, 38 percent of robberies, 70 percent of etc., etc.
	Attorney Matthew Graves has taken flight for declining during fiscal year 2022 to charge at the time of arrest 67% of offensives that would have been sent to the D.C.
	Superior Court.
	He's one of these I never met a perp I didn't love kind of prosecutors.
	But in Shaw, for example, a group of youths aged 8 to 16 was asked what to do if bullets fly.
	The consensus.
	Ducking is generally better, because running could draw gunfire.
	Several children said the temptation to flee is strong.
	And listen to this from somebody between ages 8 and 16.
	I don't know how old.
	He said, twice I did what you said.
	I hit the floor.
	Oh, here it is.
	He's identified as 12-year-old Glenn Washington.
	Yet another Washington.
	But in one case, he went running.
	I was with other people.
	I saw them run.
	I got scared, and so I ran, too.
	So here's a kid, 12 years old, already.
	He has been around three times when shots rang out.
	Wow!
	And he lives in this de-gentrifying Shaw neighborhood.
	Shaw has had its recent revival, but now that turnaround feels tenuous.
	Longtime Shaw resident Leola Smith, age 73, said, I'm not safe.
	Nobody's safe here.
	Wanda Henderson said sales at her normally packed hair salon are down 45% from two years ago.
	Crime scares her clients and stylists alike.
	The owners of Right Proper Brewing, an anchor of the neighborhood for the past decade, said it's going to move the brew pub when the lease is up, unless there's a drastic improvement in safety.
	People don't want to come hang out in Shaw anymore, period, said Stephen Cassell, whose company developed the residential retail and office complex.
	There's just a ton of investment that is going down the tubes.
	This is all in The Wall Street Journal.
	Not a word in the journal about, of course, race of perp.
	That would just be too rude to talk about, but we all know what the problem is.
	And that's, of course, why I call this a story of de-gentrification.
	It's a constant struggle to keep the jungle at bay.
	And Shaw was returning to civilization, but it looks like it's being washed away back into savagery by relentless recurring blackness.
	Also, of course, on the subject of D.C.
	crime, this was a poignant story.
	Representative Eric Burleson, a Republican from Missouri, said he and other unnamed lawmakers have slept in their offices at the Capitol because of Washington, D.C.
	It's very dangerous at night, he says.
	I don't want to walk back and forth from an apartment in D.C.
	at night or in the morning, early morning, to get to work, he said.
	It's insane even to own a car in DC, because wherever you park, it's going to cost you a fortune, and it's likely to be broken into, and you're likely to get carjacked.
	This is our congressman having to sleep in the office because he's afraid he might get shot going home to work.
	Well, Mr. Kersey, And so, as we all know, we love to hear from our readers.
	cup runneth over when it comes to news stories. And so as we all know we love to hear from our
	readers and Mr. Kersey could I trouble you to tell our readers, our listeners,
	how to get in touch with us? Yeah it's easy.
	And everyone listen to this and make sure you get it right.
	It's an email to me at becausewelivehereatproton.me.
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