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Nov. 2, 2023 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Black Hebrews Battle Palestine Supporters in Chicago

Jared Taylor and Paul Kersey marvel at the glories of diversity. They also discuss “equity” in AI and parking tickets, treasonous border “control,” bird-brained bird names, and whether Democrats can actually learn.

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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, none other than Paul Kersey.
Today is November the 1st, the day after Halloween, Year of Our Lord 2023.
I'd like to start the podcast, as usual, with comments from listeners.
One of our commenters writes in to say, Two weeks ago, you were talking about the terrible burden to election systems of extended voting.
I believe you said that in Virginia, there are 45 days of advance voting.
Yes, that is true.
In addition to the extra burden that parties, volunteers, election officials, and others have to undertake when votes are allowed to be cast too far in advance, the unspoken risk of intervening adverse news has to be taken into consideration.
At the extreme, somebody votes X days prior to election day, and in the interim, the candidate commits a heinous crime or dies.
It could mean that a dead person is elected.
What happens then?
If it were a presidential election, I believe it would be the dimwit VP candidate that's automatically elected.
Interesting point.
I really wonder what happens in a state election.
Say people are voting for some guy, and he's the big frontrunner, and he dies.
What then happens?
Who knows?
Now, another listener writes in to say, listening to your story of Baltimore public school students getting a minimum score of one just for signing their name reminds me of the New York City school system from which I have mercifully retired.
Teachers would grade the math section of the standardized tests on a zero to four scale.
A completely blank answer would obviously get a zero.
However, any pencil mark in the answer space, whether just a line or even a dot, or a blank answer with a visible erasure, would get a score of one.
The reasoning was that an attempt to answer a question deserved credit.
Isn't that the American way?
I guess the New York City school system is more rigorous than Baltimore's, because to get a one rather than a zero required some mark, no matter how insignificant, in addition to just signing your name.
Well, welcome to the United States of America, in which we have to make every effort so that our pets will succeed.
Well, the first story I want to talk about Was the rather mild grilling that I thought Alejandro Mayorkas got when he was testifying for the Senate on yesterday.
That is our dotty and indefatigable Homeland Security Secretary.
She, I'm sorry, she, why am I calling her she?
The Floridian slip.
The Floridian slip.
I'm really going into this gender fluidity in a bad way, Mr. Kersey.
Shut my mouth.
He said the Border Patrol saw, but was unable to arrest, more than 600,000 illegals who bounded across the border over the past year.
That is in addition to the two million people that the agents officially encountered.
That's the new lingo, of course.
They arrest somebody, or they take somebody into custody, or somebody just marches up and says the magic open sesame word, refugee!
Refugee!
And they have encountered him, and he gets in and goes home free.
Now, not home free.
Comes to the United States free.
That was 2 million of those.
So, over the last year, we have 2,600,000 officially counted people who came to the country, got in here illegally.
And that's not counting the getaways that they never even saw.
This 600,000 assumes that everybody who sneaked in, the Border Patrol at least got a glimpse of.
Who knows?
Maybe 100,000, 500,000, maybe another million slipped by and they have no idea.
In that sense, they're worse than getaways.
They're utter invisibles.
Now, Mayorkas was asked about the countries of origin of the 169 known and suspected terrorists whom the Border Patrol arrested at the US-Mexico border in the last year.
169 of them.
Mayorkas declined to provide the information publicly.
He said that he could speak about it only in a private setting.
I wonder why that is.
Why can't he just say?
That seems very suspicious to me.
He could say they're Iranians, they're Houthis, they're Bulgarians.
Who the heck are they?
He won't say.
Now, my question is, if the spied, if the seen but uncaught, unquestioned, unencountered getaways are just as likely to be terrorists as the one that were encountered.
My calculation is that that would mean an additional 51 of these known or suspected terrorists slipped into the country.
We have no idea who they are or where they went.
And if they're an additional unknown number of not only encountered, not only gotaways, but people that we don't know about, the invisible infiltrators, of which I'm sure there are a great many, Who knows how many real or potential terrorists we have got.
I must say, if the Department of Homeland Security were a private company, it would be such a failure.
It would have gone out of business on its first day of operation.
This is just lamentable.
This is a contemptible performance by the guy who is supposed to be guarding our borders.
It's not lamentable.
You should have utter contempt for this.
This is Inspector Clouseau from the Pink Panther in charge.
It's an entire department full of Inspector Clouseau's.
But it's not funny because the joke's on us.
No, the joke is absolutely and utterly on us.
And Mr. Kersey, I understand that there is a near record-breaking caravan marching our way, bringing us yet more diversity as if we needed it.
Yeah, well, we're going to be enriched whether we like it or not.
This is from the Daily Mail, one of our favorite publications.
The story has the title of U.S.
Migrant Crisis.
5,000 marched toward the border in the biggest caravan of undocumented immigrants, illegal immigrants, invaders, whatever you want to call them, in more than a year amid delays at immigration centers in Mexico.
As many as 5,000 migrants are marching from the southern Mexico state of Chiapas, Chiapas, Chiapas, Chiapas, Chiapas in hopes of reaching the northern border region with the United States.
Migrants from Central America, Venezuela, Cuba and Haiti initiated the trek Monday after they had grown frustrated with the long wait times the Mexican government was taking to process their refugee or exit visa applications at the main immigration processing center in the Chiapas town of Tapachula near the Guatemala border.
I'm sorry?
Yes, tapachula, that sounds good.
Your Spanish is getting better and better.
Chiapas, tapachula, yeah, give me a burrito after that.
Actually, those are probably Indian words, so you're a mixtic, or you're a Nahuatl, whatever it is.
Mexico's National Migration Institute, which is taxed with approving or denying the applications, has been backed up with requests.
Migrants normally wait weeks or months to have their status legalized, which allows them to work and move freely in the country, which is mind-blowing.
Yes, that's mind-blowing.
Weeks or months.
They know if they show up at the U.S.
border, they don't have to wait at all.
They just show up and say, here I am.
So, no wonder they're spoiled.
Weeks and months, huh.
Gosh, can't stand that.
So, sorry.
Please continue.
Yeah, the march is said to be the largest since June of 2022, when 6,000 people, many from Venezuela, took off from Tapachula.
See, we all remember those images in the video of that march.
Single adults and family units were seen traveling along the highway under the sun Monday as police served as escorts.
How lovely.
The group traveled close to nine miles reaching the municipality of Alvaro, Obregón, whatever, some municipality within Mexico, where they camped out overnight, according to Mexican-American activists, Irino Mujica, one of the caravan organizers.
They were back on the road Tuesday by 5 a.m.
and plan to advance another 15 miles, according to Univision.
So this is organized by Mexican-Americans are leading this caravan?
Correct.
Boy, aren't they good, loyal Americans.
They are.
Or their own kind.
You know, how do you feed 5,000?
Where do they sleep?
Imagine you're the town of whatever it was that we couldn't pronounce, and you've got 5,000 people camped out.
I mean, on the roadside?
In the downtown parking lots?
Gee.
I mean, you're talking about water.
You're talking about having to walk.
You're talking about shoes, clothing, sanitation.
You know products for for the females, you know baby formula This is an invading army and you know, I love reading about the Civil War Bruce Catton books and a lot of the books Mr. Taylor those books are just about the logistics of how do you feed?
how do you keep an army fed and clothed and it is astonishing to think about the amount of money and the the supply chain that has to go to facilitate this and Probably.
Probably this Mexican-American leader has got money from the Ford Foundation, maybe from George Soros, maybe the MacArthur Foundation.
Yes, let them all in.
Who knows?
But somebody's got to be funding them.
In any case, I keep interrupting.
I beg your pardon.
Yeah, no, this story just gets crazier.
Venezuelan national Daniel Gonzalez said that he had been on the road for three months and was not planning on returning home because of the dire economic situation back home.
Oscar Gutierrez also abandoned Venezuela's wife and two daughters and hopes the administration of President Joe Biden Well, of course, you know, the article goes on to end with this U.S.
Quote and Venezuela things are very tough. We can't live with the money we get it's not enough for us
And that's why we're going to the United States. We're gonna keep going and top of chula. Nobody helps us end
quote Well, of course, you know the article goes on to end with
this US Customs and Protection recorded
269,735 encounters along the southern border region in September the most since December 2022 when
in 2500 2000. I'm.
I'm sorry, 252,315 interdictions were registered.
Overall, there were 2,475,000 interdictions in fiscal year 2023, surpassing the previous fiscal year when 2,378,944 encounters were recorded.
I mean, again, it's hard to it's hard to read these stories and really put these numbers into perspective.
fiscal year when 2,000,000,378,944 encounters were recorded.
I mean, again, it's hard to read these stories and really put these
numbers into perspective. I don't have the state populations in front of
me right now, but I'd say that that number is probably bigger than, I don't
know, 10, 15, 20 states populations, and that's just the interdictions
reported in fiscal year 2023, and it's just, it's not laughable, it's not lamentable,
it is treasonous, and it is...
It is just disgusting.
This is dereliction of duty.
I mean, it's worse.
I think treason is absolutely the right word.
You get a quarter of a million people marching into the country, utter illegals.
We don't know what they're up to.
We will.
We have a pretty good idea what they're going to be like when they get here.
And just waving them in.
This is outrageous.
Absolutely outrageous.
I'm not generally a vindictive guy, but people who've letting this happen, they really deserve the worst we could possibly give them.
But I have a semi-good news story, Mr. Kersey, and I think I would title it, Can Democrats Actually Learn?
Ah!
Yes.
Because, I mean, they're coming from a very low bar, mind you.
But believe it or not, in California, under current law, prosecutors must prove that a vehicle was locked In order to convict a suspect of auto burglary, that's stealing something from an auto, and a broken window is not sufficient evidence.
In other words, if you just take something out of somebody's car, that's basically decriminalized.
If somebody takes something that's under $1,000, nobody's going to care.
But if your car has been burgled, that is forcible entry and somebody might actually be prosecuted.
But to prove forcible entry, the fact that there's a broken window, doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter.
If you can't prove that the car was locked, or if the police show up and the window's broken, but the burglar or the thug broke the window and rifled the car and then did not think to lock the door before he shut it, then you can't prove that there was forcible entry.
Is that the most astonishing, queer, utterly Democrat thing you ever heard of?
It's very Californian.
Very Californian.
I mean, how many guys are going to break your window, go through your car, and then say, oh, well, I better lock this up, because somebody else might want to get into the car.
They're not going to think of that for a moment.
They're just going to leave the door wide open.
And so that means you can't prove it was locked, and so this isn't forcible entry.
Well, so believe it or not, a Senator Scott Weiner, Democrat of San Francisco, would end that requirement and allow forcible entry to be sufficient evidence.
In other words, if they're broken window or if they have blowtorched a hole through the roof, then they will figure, OK, hmm, I guess there's somebody burgled the car, burgled the car.
Incredible!
But, I mean, let us count every baby step forward.
That might result in some kind of conviction.
Phew!
If they change the law, but they haven't changed it yet.
Furthermore, listen to this, the big kahuna himself, California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, Democrat of Hollister, also announced the formation of a select committee on retail theft.
He says, Californians have had enough of these shameless shoplifting incidents.
Well, how long has it been going on?
Two years?
Three years?
Am I dreaming?
Is this a Democrat talking?
Has it actually occurred to him that it's not a good thing when countless stores in the Bay Area are closing because of rampant, brazen, industrial-level shoplifting?
Pinch me, Mr. Kersey!
Pinch me!
I never thought I'd see the day!
But I bet, well, you know, maybe these Dems will be expelled from the party for taking a position like this.
This is really so much against the party line.
But it is reassuring that there might be a few of them who, in the face of the outrages with which Californians have to live every day, have decided, well, you know, maybe, maybe we should make it easier to lock these people up.
And in the meantime, in the meantime, While the Middle East is embroiled in this all-out war between Palestine and Israel, the Middle East comes to America in a way that is possible only, I believe, in the United States.
Because listen to this.
Black Hebrew Israelites and pro-Hamas Palestinians duked it out on the streets of Chicago over the weekend.
Yes, pro-Hamas protesters, Hamas, with their Palestinian flags, they use them as clubs to beat up on the black Hebrew Israelites.
There's an interesting video.
They're whanging away at the black Israelites.
One of the flagpole breaks over the head of one of the black Israelites.
Both sides flung bottles and sticks at each other, while Chicago police struggled futilely to keep the warring parties apart.
No, the same thing happened on Saturday.
Police couldn't keep them apart.
They are so eager to get at each other's throats, resulting in tense times along Michigan Avenue.
The black Israelites, they're not exactly the most numerous group in the country, appeared to be outnumbered.
But that did not deter them from trying to attack the Palestine supporters who were chanting, Palestine will be free from the river to the sea.
That's pretty radical when you think about it.
That leaves no space at all for the state of Israel.
And these black Hebrews, boy, I guess they are true blue Zionists.
They are going to duke it out with anybody who says Palestine will be free from the river to the sea.
Now, Mr. Kersey, I don't know if you know much about the black Hebrews, but I doped them out a little bit.
They're quite a fascinating bunch.
This is a religious movement claiming that African Americans are descendants of the ancient Israelites.
Some believe that they are the descendants of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.
Remember, they did meet, and there is some speculation as to what they might have gotten up to in their off hours.
Black Hebrew groups were founded in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
And there were two original groups, both blacks of West Indian immigrant.
And some members call themselves, call Jews, white interlopers.
And apparently the founders, both at about the same time, got this image.
They got a vision from God saying that they themselves are the only true Hebrews.
Amazingly enough, in 2009, a fellow named Eliakim Ben-Israel became the first black Hebrew to get Israeli citizenship.
The Israelis are usually savvier than that, but as you know, they have accepted these Ethiopian Jews, and there are a certain number of people from India Way up in the north, close to the Chinese border, who also claim to be Indian—I'm sorry, claim to be Jews, and some of them might get citizenship, too.
But the Israeli government said more black Hebrews may be granted citizenship.
But according to the SBOC, which can be trusted, On all details, at all times, no matter what it says, it says the extremist fringe of the Hebrew Israelite movement has a black separatist outlook.
Members of such groups believe that Jews are devilish impostors, because they're the real Jews, you see.
And they openly condemn all whites, and they include Jews among whites, as evil, deserving only death or slavery.
So those are the real hardcore, heavy-duty, rock-ribbed black Israelites.
Now, I have a practical question for you.
Go ahead.
Now, are they saying blacks everywhere are descendants of the ancient Israelites or only black Americans?
And my question is, if it's only black Americans, how did they get here?
And when?
I mean, these are really naughty problems.
To me, it just shows you what utterly crazy, cuckoo, wacko things some blacks are willing to believe.
But is there not a practical question here, Mr. Curzon?
If they were the ancient Israelites, how'd they get here?
And did the rest of them spread south as well?
But I do wonder if Israel is happy with its black allies here in the United States, maybe a little government funding?
But as I said before, this sounds like a story.
Here we are, the United States of America, thousands of miles away from the Middle East, and we have Palestine supporters and we have black people who claim to be Jews fighting in the streets of Chicago.
Wow!
Boy, I'd say this is pretty much diversity at its best and most beautiful.
Or it's most tragically hilarious.
It's just watching this all unfold.
You know, you think about, you know, long time listeners of our podcast know that, you know, we're, we're, we're in a new epoch.
Like it's year of our Lord George Floyd, I guess, what third year after?
Um, and it's just, it's, it's fascinating to see all that's happening and to kind of be like, eh, whatever, I'm going to go have a Coke.
Let me go get a hot dog.
You guys can duke it out.
Well, but the Chicago police don't care for that.
It makes them look bad when people are going at each other's and breaking flagpoles over each other's heads.
So they're trying to stop it.
But you know what, Chicago is not really run by the brightest bulbs in the country.
Well, Mr. Kersey, I think you have an intriguing story about ornithology.
Ornithology, you know, we had to go back a couple years ago.
We talked about what was happening in the ornithological community where there was a rebellion because too many white people in the past had named birds and had named the species of birds and they had connections, gasp, to racism.
You know, it's kind of like with Madison Grant, Madison Grant, the great author of Passing of the Great Race.
Mr. Taylor, he almost single-handedly saved all the Redwoods.
That's right.
And you would think that the left now would say, we need to chop these all down despite this evil racist who saved them.
Instead, of course, they just forget anything that he had to do with the environmental movement.
So they can save the Redwoods and still despise Madison Grant.
That's true.
Because they have severed the one from the other.
So this is from the Washington Post, and this is the headline from the Washington Post.
Ladies and gentlemen, I hope you're ready for this.
I'm not making this up.
Dozens of bird names honoring enslavers and racists will be changed.
You know, before we go any further, Mr. Taylor, I actually want to make a request to our readers out there, our listeners out there.
I don't know how to do this.
It's called an engram, an engraph, where you put a word in and you can type in like New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal.
I would love to know how often the word enslaver has ...entered our lexicon, especially from our elite.
Have you ever seen those charts, Mr. Taylor, where people talk about white supremacy?
Oh, yes.
White supremacy, systemic racism, institutional racism, all of that stuff.
Implicit bias, heat islands, yeah.
But enslaver is one that is uniquely found in the pages of Jeff Bezos's Washington Post.
Do you think so?
No, I've seen it.
I've seen it plenty of other places.
Any, any owner of a slave is now an enslaver rather than a slaveholder, because it makes it sound as though they chartered a boat and they went off to darkest Africa, they leapt into the jungle and captured some guy with a great big butterfly net, brought him back to America.
Anybody who owned a slave is an enslaver, an active, wicked enslaver.
That's the whole implication.
But you're right.
No slaveholders anymore.
They're enslavers.
Yeah, it's as sinister and nefarious as an adjective as possible.
Wait, is that a noun?
Are you an enslaver?
Yeah, it's a noun.
I guess, yeah, you're enslaving, so person, place, or thing.
Yeah, I guess it's the act of, though.
Anyways, not an English lesson, ladies and gentlemen, but I'm just curious to know how this word... Oh, I'm sure, I'm sure.
It just came out of nowhere.
Came right out of nowhere.
And the whole business of, they're not slaves anymore, they're enslaved persons.
I would be sure that one of those graphs that talked about elite media frequency of the use of enslaved person and enslaver has just shot up over the last four or five years.
Yeah, probably the past two years, really.
Back to the birds.
That's for the birds.
Okay, well, here we go.
The American Ornithological Society says it will alter the names of North American birds named after humans, starting with up to 80 of them.
After two years of discussion and debate, the nation's premier birding organization has decided that birds should not have human names.
The AOS, the American Ornithological Society, announced today, actually, November 1st, that it will remove names given to North American birds in honor of people and replace them with monikers that better describe their... Gosh, I'm horrible with enunciations sometimes.
Plumage?
Is that correct?
Plumage?
Plumage.
And other characteristics.
Uh, the group said that it will prioritize birds whose names trace to enslavers, white supremacists, and robbers of indigenous graves.
Gosh, imagine, imagine having that on your curriculum vitae.
Hey, I see that there's a, uh, what were you doing between 2022 and 2023?
There's a gap in your resume.
Well, I was a robber of indigenous graves.
That's what I was doing anyways.
Um, Among them is one of the most famous birders in U.S.
history, John James Audubon.
There is power in a name, and some English bird names have associations with the past that continue to be exclusionary and harmful today, the Society's President, Colleen Handel, said in the statement.
We need a much more inclusive and engaging scientific process that focuses attention on the unique features and beauty of the birds themselves.
Well, they're going to eliminate every single bird species that has got a human name attached to it, whether he was an enslaver or a white supremacist or an indigenous grave robber or not.
So he could have been an abolitionist, and they're going to lose his name, too.
Yeah, yeah.
Sometime next year, the society is expected to appoint a committee to explore up to 80 new names.
The move at an organization known for its reluctance to rename birds was surprising to the activist.
I would think so.
I mean, you go to, you go to bird school and you learn all these names.
Now you got to relearn them all.
Well, anyway, it's in the interest of equity.
So everything, everything goes, anything goes in the interest of equity.
Ornithology has been racially reckoned, Mr. Taylor.
The move at an orgaz- okay, um, was surprising even when activists from the group requested it after a white woman in Central Park falsely accused a black birder of assault in 2020.
That was actually before George Floyd, by the way.
That's when you knew the nuttiness of 2020 was coming, because that story, I want to say it happened in February or March of 2020.
And then that was in the front pages of the New York Times, the Washington Post, for a couple months.
I think that actually predated Ahmaud Arbery, so it might have been in January, but anyways.
And a racial reckoning that shook the field of ornithology, the activists, most of them white, argued that the names of some birds were offensive to people of color.
Well, they're particularly thinking of the red-breasted jigaboo, you know, that's a famous American bird.
I've never had the opportunity to see a red-breasted jigaboo.
Boy, it's a beautiful creature.
I look forward to seeing it.
I look forward to seeing it before it's renamed for its plumage.
Plumage.
Plumage.
I'm sorry.
Plumage.
Plumage.
Get the correct enunciation.
Quote, we have seen a lot of changes in our world in the recent past.
Sarah Morris, the society's president-elect, said in reference to racial justice protests that followed George Floyd's murder by a Minneapolis police officer in the Central Park incident involving murder Christian Cooper.
I believe that is the black homosexual who claimed he was assaulted.
Racial insensitivity in the overwhelmingly white field of ornithology and birding should be rejected, Morris said.
Hey, I get an idea.
Why don't we just get rid of ornithology?
Because I'm sure if you were to actually look and see how many black members there are, there probably, you could count them on my hand.
Recent reports projected that North America has lost 3 billion birds in the last 50 years, and quote, we need to engage as many people as we can in the enjoyment, study and conservation of birds.
We need to break down as many barriers to participate as we can, Morris said.
Well, yeah, I mean, I guess birds will go extinct without people of color.
Well, if they've got these racist names, they sure will go extinct.
That'll save them.
That'll save them by the handful.
Not every birder in the 2,700-member society is expected to welcome the news.
Some who've memorized names established for more than a century are likely to push back.
Are we expecting that people won't agree with the decision?
Sure, Moore said.
But we're proud of the decision.
As we talked to people, many of them changed their minds.
Jordan Rudder, a Berger who organized a petition with her fiancé, Gabrielle Foley, said the society's action left her speechless.
Quote, That's everything we ask, said Rudder, who co-founded the group.
Let's take a pause real quick to think about what an incredible moment this is for the birdie community, Mr. Taylor.
their racist past. Quote, I never thought this would be happening. What an
incredible moment for the birding community. End quote. Let's take a pause
real quick to think about what an incredible moment this is for the birdie
community, Mr. Taylor. What a bunch of bird brains. You know what, it's uh, yeah, I'm not even
sure what to say about this.
So for the time being birders of colors who spot the Townsend warbler and the Townsend's solitaire might be startled by the history of its namesake John Kirk Townsend.
His journals describe his collection of skulls stolen from the graves of native people in the 1800s to promote his theory that they were racially inferior.
North America where indigenous tribes in what are now the United States and Canada Encountered and named wild birds centuries before the arrival of European settlers surprisingly these were colonizers there by the way Quote white people are accredited for discovering the birds white people are the ones to name the birds after other white people and white people are still the folks that are perpetrating Perpetuating I'm sorry
I need to make my screen a little bigger.
That are perpetuating these names, Rutter said in a 2020 interview with the Washington Post.
Again, this is an example, Mr. Taylor, this whole story is an example of what Gregory Hood calls the media run state.
Literally no one in the world cares about what the names of birds.
They enjoy birds, they enjoy watching birds.
But because this nutball, Jordan Rutter, went to the Washington Post back in 2020 and said, Well, what it boils down to is all these names have white people's names.
grotesquely white and and guess what all these names are celebrating racist white people we gotta get rid of it
That's how this all started. Well, what it boils down to is all these names have white people's names
I suspect if they had I don't know the the Tanaka warbler or if they had the
Muhammad Ali Woodpecker. I wonder if that would be okay.
But probably all of them have got white people's names, so they've got to go. Yeah, that's exactly
right. Just to conclude, let's see here.
Let's see if we can find one more good story part of this.
Black birders who trace the Bachman's sparrow and Bachman's warbler to the man they immortalized, John Bachman, might find this passage in one of his speeches distressing.
That, I'm sorry, quote, that the Negro will remain as he is unless his form is changed by an amalgamation which is revolting to us, that his intellect is greatly inferior to that of Caucasian, and that he is therefore incapable of self-government, that he is thrown to our protection, that our defense of slavery is contained within the holy scriptures, end quote.
I've got to change that name.
Well, you know, I still am waiting, and I'm waiting in vain, for this serious push to change the name of the Captain of the United States.
He was an enslaver.
He was a white man.
It's coming.
I can't see how it cannot come.
I just don't see why it has taken so long.
And the White House, the White House, how can the president of the free world, the president of all Americans live in a white house?
It's a scam.
Yeah, and I'll end with this, what you said about that, you know, all the glorious statues, of course, Richmond are gone on Monument Avenue, but at Colonial Square, where the state capital of Virginia sits on the James River, there's a beautiful statue of George Washington.
That can't last much longer.
On the Capitol grounds, Stonewall Jackson is still there.
The statue was given by English gentlemen out of respect for his military and manly accomplishments.
Well, excuse me.
Now, I saw a fascinating report from the Pew Research Center.
And it is the percentage of adults who say they follow the news all or most of the time.
And it shows by different age groups how that number has declined.
Between 2016 and 2022, this is just six years ago, every single age group, the number of people who follow the news all or most of the time has gone down an average of it looks like about 15%.
The oldest people 65 and up down 11%.
50 to 64, down 15.
30 to 49, down 19%.
And the youngsters, 18 to 29, down 8%.
Now it's the older people who follow the news more than the younger people.
And if you look at the age breakdown here, people 65 and over, they are far more interested in the news than the younger squirts.
64% of people 65 and above actually follow the news all or most of the time.
And when it gets to the 18 to 29 year olds, only 19% follow the news all or most of the time.
And everybody else is sort of strung out in between.
Now, this seems to me to be a sign of tremendous disaffection.
People don't trust the news.
People, I think, some of them have got to the point where they don't care about what happens to the country.
It's just not our country.
It's not an outfit that we have any identification with.
They're turning back on it.
According to Pew Research, They say it appears people are just worn out by the news, and they don't know who or whom or what to trust.
I think that's certainly part of it.
These feelings are particularly pronounced among Republicans, who had one of the sharpest declines—that was 20 points—in regular attention to the news over the last six-year period.
20 points.
Pew did not give the starting and ending position on that, but Republicans are turning away from the news.
Now, my guess is they are not turning away from information.
They're getting it from other sources.
At the same time, the same Pew survey found something quite remarkable.
This was the percentage of Republicans and Democrats who view each party, the other party, very unfavorably, not just unfavorably, very unfavorably.
If you're talking about Republicans, in 1994, 21% of Republicans viewed Democrats very unfavorably.
Now, the figure is 62%.
62%.
That's in about a 10-year time, from 21% to 62%.
That's in about a 10-year time, from 21 percent to 62 percent, yet again a sign of the incredibly
divided society we live in.
When it comes to Democrats, and I would have expected Democrats to be even more down on
Republicans than the other way around, the numbers at the beginning period, 1994 and
2023, are both lower.
The very unfavorable view of Democrats went from only 17% in 1994—I guess they thought Republicans were pretty good guys—up to 54% in 2020.
2022.
I'm sorry, it's 2022 and not 2023.
So again, Democrats who were very unfavorably inclined towards the Republicans went from 17% in 1994 to 54% in 2022.
For the Republicans, they started off higher at 21% and it went to 62%.
to the Republicans, they started off higher at 21 percent, and it went to 62 percent.
Now several polls found that more than 70 percent within each party think the other
parties' leaders are a danger to democracy, or that they back an agenda that would destroy
the country.
You know, we have come a long way from the 1950s, when Eisenhower was president, then
Did you know that both parties wanted him to be their candidate?
He was such a popular guy, and the difference between the Republicans and Democrats was so slim that he could have gone either way.
It was a 90% white country, so.
Exactly.
A completely different country.
Now, one more story, and then we will get back to one of yours, which I think maybe for your story we could invent yet another new word for yet another new kind of racism, atmospheric racism.
But hold on folks, we'll get to that in just a moment.
As it turns out, a Brooklyn man Shot dead, a father and his stepson in the hallway of their apartment building because of a feud about noise levels.
Officials have named Jason Pass, age 47, a downstairs neighbor in the building as the gunman.
Of course, if you are downstairs and the people upstairs are doing the dance fantango all
night long, you're going to hear the noise.
Being a downstairs neighbor is always worse than being an upstairs neighbor in terms of
noise.
The whole fracas was caught on video.
Downstairs neighbor comes upstairs, there's an argument.
Downstairs neighbor whips out a gun, starts shooting his upstairs neighbor, who immediately
falls to the ground.
neighbor's stepson who was in the hallway and sees daddy go down.
He tries to run from the shooter but is unsuccessful and is shot several times before collapsing motionless into a large pool of blood.
Downstairs neighbor then turns back to the father who is trying to get to his feet walks up to him and dispatches him execution style kabam bam.
This man having slaughtered two people looks around the hallway drenched in blood and calmly waits for the elevator.
Which he takes downstairs.
He's on the fourth floor, mind you.
Too far to walk down, I guess.
Better wait for the elevator, even though you'd think he would want to bugger off with no delay.
But no, he's going to wait for the elevator.
Nine bullet casings were recovered from the scene.
Now, this is the part that attracted this story to one of our listeners who sent it in.
The shooting happened in a well-known housing complex in East Flatbush where Barbara Streisand and the late The Wire star Michael K. Phillips grew up.
As the listener who sent in the story notes, a star is born.
Well, I suppose that's pretty good shooting.
Nine cartridge cases, two casualties.
I don't know.
For an all-black cast, that's pretty good shooting because often we get a hundred spent cartridges and maybe a few winged targets.
No deaths.
In any case, this is just the kind of fun that they have in East Flatbush these days.
So, yes, Mr. Kersey, let us go on to this newly discovered, and you know, I think we can anticipate many, many new forms of racism.
They just turn up all the time.
And as I say, I'm going to baptize this atmospheric racism, but please fill in the blanks.
Yeah, atmospheric racism.
Ornithological racism.
I mean, it's a brave new world out there.
It's everywhere.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, heat attack!
Black seniors bear unequal burden of cardiac deaths from rising temperatures.
Elderly black Americans are on the front line of a coming spike in deaths from climate change, a new study has found.
Between 2008 and 2019, excuse me, extreme heat drove at least 1,600 Americans, disproportionately black and elderly, to an early death from heart attacks.
Without aggressive action on the climate, the number could more than double by mid-century, according to findings published Monday in the journal Circulation.
Researchers found that if fossil fuel burning isn't quickly reduced, the number of extra deaths could more than double, reaching more than 3,700 per year.
Even if current proposals to cut greenhouse gas emissions are met, still a politically controversial question.
The study found deaths will likely hit 2,000 per year in a few days.
Is that in the United States or is that only blacks?
It's only in the United States.
They're talking about Americans.
I wonder how many extra black deaths are we talking about?
Fifty?
Anyway.
I'd have to read the Circulation magazine.
I'd have to read the publication to know the answer to that, Mr. Taylor, but I'm not that interested.
I am.
I am.
But I guess I'll just have to, yes.
My thirst for knowledge will go unslacked, but please.
Well, I think the atmospheric racism is not that big of a deal if it's only, you know, 1,600 additional Americans dying of, you know, quote unquote extreme heat.
Researchers found, even if, let's see here.
These deaths will not be distributed fairly across the population, researchers wrote in Circulation.
Black adults are about four times more likely to die of heat-induced cardiac arrest than white adults, the study found.
And seniors have around four times the risk of heat-induced heart attacks compared to younger adults.
Heat turns deadly as it intersects with the other defining inequalities of American cities.
Unequal access to air conditioning, exposure to pollution, and exposure to the heat island effects of large landscapes of asphalt and concrete, according to the study.
And I believe you and your notes wrote this.
How about obesity?
Diabetes?
Genetic differences?
Stupidity?
Lack of exercise?
Gluttony?
I added gluttony, but um, you know.
None of that counts.
None of that counts.
We have to distribute death fairly.
Isn't that what they say?
Death has got to be distributed fairly.
So those who are fat, those who've got diabetes, those who never exercise, those who never take their pills, they do not deserve to die more often than those who do all those things.
So there you go.
Yeah.
Again, a June study.
No, that's not even worth reading.
That's it.
That's all I got from this one.
It's so goofy.
But again, anything that can be made to increase the belief that everything that exists in the world Is making life worse for individual blacks.
The media and these elite magazines and these publications must publish it to promote the concept.
That's right.
What was it the late great Colin Flaherty said?
Relentless victims of racism.
Blacks are relentless victims of racism.
I think he's right.
Sounds right.
Yes, yes, yes.
Boy, well, everything has got to remind us how wicked our ancestors were and how wicked we are too, and we must devote our lives, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.
Our sacred dishonor.
In order to achieve equity.
Yeah.
Well, okay, speaking of equity, President Joe Biden has released an executive order aimed at regulating the artificial intelligence industry.
Which includes a provision that AI must advance the goals of civil rights and equity.
Not equality.
Equity.
The White House says it will send out guidance to the landlords, contractors, federal benefits programs, and others to reduce the possibility of racial and other biases in their use of AI.
And there will be enforcement, ladies and gentlemen, because there could be civil rights violations related to artificial intelligence.
The fear is that if AI is allowed fully to analyze certain types of data, such as criminal records and credit ratings, there might be unequal outcomes for certain groups.
I can't guess who those groups would be.
The bottom line is, in order to avoid violating U.S.
civil rights laws, in particular, the doctrine of disparate impact, companies designing AI programs We'll have to stop them from reaching conclusions that are too accurate.
Now, in other areas, new regulations would require AI companies to insert watermarks so that people can distinguish between AI-generated content, particularly images and videos, from non-AI.
The White House says it will train AI to use existing authorities to expand the ability of immigrants and non-immigrants with expertise in critical areas to study, stay, and work in the United States by modernizing and streamlining visa criteria interviews and reviews.
So whenever AI benefits non-whites, it's full speed ahead.
But the fact is, If AI were really to be gathering all the data and making rational decisions.
Let's imagine you're a landlord and the AI has discovered, well, there's a certain population that's more likely to wreck the joint.
There's a certain population that's more likely to sell crack cocaine or run a cat house out of your apartment.
There's a certain population that's more likely to welch on the rent.
There is a certain population that's more likely to have the police called on them.
A smart AI program might then conclude, you're better off not renting a single apartment to even one of these members of the group.
And that could go to Airbnb, that could go to DoorDash, that could go to, oh my gosh, that could go to Lyft.
And what's the other one?
What's the other ride share?
Uber.
Yep.
I mean, again, it's pattern recognition must be stamped out.
Or else it will dictate policy.
It's that simple.
And also, it's like, well, you have these shot spotter stories.
And shots spatter, as our listeners probably know, it's these listening devices that can triangulate and determine where shots have been fired in the neighborhood.
Well, oddly enough, they set these things up in the parts of town where shots are more likely to be fired.
And oddly enough, oddly enough, mirabile dictu, those turn out to be places largely inhabited by society's pets.
So this is the kind of thing, anything that reaches a conclusion based on fact, So long as it doesn't conform with our utterly foolish and futile fantasies about egalitarian outcomes and equity, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, you've got to throw it out.
So AI, when it benefits non-whites, full speed ahead.
If it reaches accurate conclusions to the detriment of non-whites, then you've got to walk in, tune it, kick the AI to the curb, and make sure it comes up with the right answer.
So you might as well throw out AI entirely.
Meanwhile, Mayor Brandon Johnson.
He is practicing this stuff without any AI required, because the city of Chicago and its mayor are calling on city authorities to give black residents fewer parking tickets in an effort to push racial equity.
The city has established a racial equity office that has a plan simply to issue fewer parking tickets in black and brown areas.
Now, my question for you, Mr. Kersey, I mean, I suppose that's all fair when we're trying to get reparations and equity, but do you think that will promote integration?
Just think, maybe I'll move to the South Side so I can park illegally all day long, get no tickets, or I don't know, maybe not worth the risk.
The mayor says, I'm confident this is just the beginning and that the impact of this work will last for generations to come.
Wow, fewer parking tickets.
That's going to have an impact for generations to come.
Wow, small efforts have huge effects.
The city of Chicago, by the way, provides a link for employers regarding so-called white supremacy culture.
Examples of so-called white supremacy include perfectionism, a sense of urgency, worship of the written word, objectivity, and individualism.
Well, maybe Yes, maybe the Office of White Supremacy Culture should add parking legally and paying fines.
Abiding by the rules, paying the toll.
Yes, yes.
Buy a ticket before you get on the subway.
That's all white supremacy culture.
Don't turn right on red if it signifies you're not supposed to do that.
Well, yeah, stop at stoplights.
All that's white supremacy culture.
And if you stop a car that's going through red light, turns out it is being driven by a black or brown person.
Under these regulations, maybe you just say, yeah, off you go.
No problem.
You are the right color, so you get no ticket.
Now, our next story sort of fits into the same pattern in a way, because we don't want to have law enforcement have a disparate impact on our black and brown, but especially black pets.
So do tell about facial recognition in New Orleans.
Yeah, this is a crazy story that was just published at Politico.
Wholly ineffective and pretty obviously racist.
Inside, Norlands struggle with facial recognition policing.
Records obtained and analyzed by Politico reveal the practice failed to identify suspects a majority of the time and is disproportionately used against black people.
Well, of course, Norlands is 61% black and According to their own police data, I believe that in 2016 and 2017, 98% of known homicide suspects were black and 99% of known non-fatal shooting suspects were black.
But anyways, facts don't matter.
In the summer of 2022, with the spike in violent crime hitting New Orleans, the City Council voted to allow police to use facial recognition software to track down suspects.
A technology the mayor, police, and businesses supported as an effective fair tool for identifying criminals quickly.
A year after the system went online, data show that the results have been almost exactly the opposite.
Records obtained and analyzed by Politico show that computer facial recognition in NOLA has low effectiveness, is rarely associated with arrest, and is disproportionately used on black people.
The first facial recognition search on the new policy occurred on October 21st, 2022, using surveillance footage to help identify a black man suspected of shooting by matching his picture with a database of mugshots.
The results?
Unable to match.
Low quality photo.
Over the next year, the NOPD would see a string of relatively similar results.
After review, of a year's worth of Norland's facial recognition request shows the system failed to identify suspects a majority of the time and that nearly every use of the technology from last October to this August was on a black person.
Although it has not led to any false arrests, which have happened in other cities, the story of police facial identification in NOLA appears to confirm what civil rights advocates have argued for years as police departments and federal agencies nationwide increasingly identify high-tech ID techniques that it amplifies rather than corrects the underlying human biases of the authorities that use them.
But it amplifies nothing.
All they're going to do is try to get facial recognition on a known suspect.
It simply reflects the population of suspects.
This stuff is just so bogus.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But as they state, I mean, again, They said the quiet part out loud.
It's not led to any false arrests.
So what it's again, what's the problem?
A lot of these people don't even have photos.
So it's going to be very difficult unless, you know, you've got, uh, you know, you've got your prison photo, I guess.
But, but anyways, um, this department hung their hat on this said NOLA council member at large, JP Morrell, a Democrat who voted last year against using facial recognition and has been, and has seen the NOPD data.
Well, let's look at the data.
Let's look at the data.
That's really all that matters, isn't it?
What do the data say?
Yeah.
Well, there's not much actually in this article about the data.
No, it's right there at the bottom.
There it is at the bottom.
Yeah, it's buried at the bottom.
I'm sorry.
Yeah.
I'm using a really small monitor, so forgive me for not seeing that.
In the year since the ban was lifted, the NOPD has sent A mere 19 facial recognition requests, according to the records.
Those requests were for serious felony crimes, including murder and armed robbery.
Two of them were cancelled because the city's police already identified the suspect before the search results came back.
And another two were denied because the crimes committed were not eligible for facial recognition use.
Therefore why what's what's the deal there if if you kill five people then they can use racial?
facial recognition if you kill only one I mean Why does that got to do in anything if they can find a guy using facial recognition software by all means?
But they did it only what 19 times this entire period the rest article sounds like they're they're they're fingering hundreds of black people No, and again, like you said this is buried at the bottom.
So you find out that basically that It's, it's, it's what, like 1.7 requests.
If you, if you, if you do the math, you know, it had been, it had been online for less than a year and there were 19 facial recognition requests and four of them were rejected.
So in the 15 facial recognition requests that actually went through, records show that nine of them failed to make a match.
And among the six matches, three of them turned out to be wrong.
Only one of those 15 requests was for a white suspect.
Again, they're so upset that there aren't that many white criminals to have to profile with facial recognition software in NOLA.
Well, it is too bad that when they had 16, they thought they had six guys they thought they'd ID'd, and three of them were wrong.
That means three of them were right.
What's wrong with that?
What's wrong with that?
I mean, you'd like the numbers to be higher, but then to be all upset because it was used on only one white guy?
Whose fault is that?
This is just so infuriatingly stupid.
Yep, yep.
But there you go.
It's a new system, like you said.
Okay.
Nine of them failed to make a match, but among the six matches, they're batting 50-50.
They're batting 500.
What?
Right.
That's pretty good for baseball.
You're not only a first belt Hall of Fame, you're having your swing studied if you're batting 50-50.
Okay.
Well, we haven't gotten much time, Mr. Kersey, so I'm going to race through this.
Go ahead.
There's an article, a British article, called 12 Forgotten Black Heroes Who Defined and Redefined Modern Britain.
They defined or redefined modern Britain.
As recently as 2001, the BBC commissioned a poll of the greatest Britain ever.
And they asked one and a half million Brits for the top most important Brit ever.
And they came up with the final list of 100.
Believe it or not, Mr. Kersey, there was not one black or Asian face among them.
Can you believe that?
Not one of these 1.5 million bigoted horrible white supremacist Brits could name a black or an Asian as the most important Brit who had ever lived.
This is scandalous.
Well, last October was Black History Month, and so they have called upon Patrick Vernon, who is a black Brit, and Angeline Osborne, yet another black Brit, to list all of these wonderful, important black people who should have been voted as the most important black who ever lived.
I have made a video in which I list some of these, and I invite all of our listeners to see this video, which will go up either today or tomorrow.
It is the most disgusting, horrifying thing that white people sit still for this stuff is astonishing.
But as I say, we have run out of time, and we'd love to hear from you.
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