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Dec. 15, 2023 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor

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Biden Takes Orders from Sharpton

Jared Taylor and Paul Kersey wonder who else is pulling the strings. They also discuss H Street, Patrick Henry, diversity swindlers, and our Davinci-like genius ex-president. Thumbnail credit: Adam Schultz via Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 DEED, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

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	Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
	I'm your host Jared Taylor, and I'm with American Renaissance, amren.com.
	And with me is my co-host, the indispensable Paul Kersey.
	And Mr. Kersey, last week you were under the weather.
	I hope you are flying high, way above the weather this week.
	Well, the weather might still have me under it, but you know what?
	You persevere and you learn to take care of yourself even better.
	I appreciate you asking.
	And I hope all of our listeners out there across the United States and the Western world are in good health as we approach Christmas.
	I believe, Mr. Taylor, we're less than 12 days away from Christmas.
	That could be.
	Now, the Western world is fine, but we have listeners in the Eastern world, too.
	Don't forget.
	So, all of you around the world, we are happy, happy, happy to be with you at this time.
	And we will begin with a listener comment.
	In last week's podcast, you mentioned that you feel sorry for a black teenage girl who was under 18 when she took part in a carjacking and now gets 20 years in prison.
	You said, yes, it was a horrible crime in which the white owner of the car got caught in a seat belt, was dragged off when they stole the car, drove away, and the woman's arm was torn off and she died.
	Yes, pretty awful.
	Well, the girl in question was not driving.
	She was in the back seat at her sentencing.
	She wrung her hands and cried and said, that's not what we set out to do.
	I hope you all can forgive me.
	Nor did she take part in pulling the white woman out of the car.
	In effect, she was along for the ride.
	Now, Mr. Kersey says the girl deserves every day in prison she got.
	Mr. Taylor, I'm with you.
	I think 20 years is too harsh.
	And I agree with you that it doesn't always seem fair that when there are multiple perps and let them kill someone, everyone's guilty of murder.
	Let's not forget the case of Ahmaud Arbery.
	William Bryan was only following along after the McMichaels and took the famous video.
	He got life in prison with the possibility of parole after 30 years.
	So for a guy his age, that's a life sentence.
	Yeah.
	Please ask Mr. Kersey this.
	Let's imagine that the McMichaels actually had shot Arbery in cold blood and Byron just followed along to see what was happening and was therefore on the scene.
	Would he deserve those 30 years?
	You're putting me on the spot here because this is a completely different story.
	Yes I am.
	So they're completely not even the same.
	You'd have to go to a story where this hypothetical, I hate hypotheticals.
	I'm going to sound like a horrible politician here.
	I hate hypotheticals.
	Show me a story where there are five white guys, five white teenagers, who carjack a black septuagenarian
	and rip her arm off.
	That's how we can compare it.
	Well, okay, if that were the case, if that were the case, and one of them was just along for the ride,
	and would he still deserve 20 years in the slammer?
	Would every one of them deserve 20 years in the slammer?
	Even if he didn't attack the white?
	I am a hardcore law and order guy.
	I would actually, I would do a very quick.
	You'd say 30 years.
	You'd say line them up and shoot them.
	No, no.
	I would say exactly.
	I would say public execution because you know what?
	You should never have a crime like that.
	Crimes like the one that was in Louisiana, that should be unthinkable.
	That would be a deterrent.
	Public execution the very next day, that would be a deterrent.
	It's like cutting the thieves' arms off or the hands off in Saudi Arabia.
	You don't have much thievery.
	That is entirely true.
	You're a hard man, Mr. Kersey.
	Well, let's move on to a different man who I would not describe as a particularly hard man.
	He's a soft man, a little soft in the head sometimes.
	And that's Barack Obama.
	You will recall he signed a deal with Netflix to produce films and TV series.
	And the former president has created something called High Ground, a production company co-led by his wife, former first lady, Michelle.
	And they were going to have projects that were going to touch on race and class and democracy and civil rights.
	Oh boy, oh boy.
	Your favorite subjects.
	Oh, well, clearly, clearly, Barack's favorite subjects.
	He can flex his muscles and just be the most virtuous, wonderful magic negro.
	And the company's first production, American Factory, which I'd never heard of, debuted in 2019 and was about an abandoned General Motors plant that was reopened in Ohio by a Chinese billionaire.
	The film took home an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature.
	So, he is an Oscar winner.
	What do you know?
	He and Michelle are now executive producers of the Netflix movie that just came out, Leave the World Behind.
	And in one now famous scene, one black says to another, I'm asking you to remember that if the world falls apart, trust should not be doled out easily to anyone, especially white people.
	Now, one ex-user Who goes by the name of Ms.
	Mam wrote, Leave the world behind touches on so many important things, but my fave is that when the world goes to S-H-I-T, black people should not be quick to trust anyone, especially white people.
	And we shouldn't be doing S-H-I-T for them out of the goodness of our hearts.
	Yeah, there's so many things that black people do for us out of the goodness of their hearts, but when the world falls apart, they ain't gonna be doing it according to Ms.
	Mam.
	Well, did you know, Mr. Kersey, Barack Obama has already won two Grammys for Best Spoken Word Album, and with something called A Promised Land, he has been nominated for Grammy No.
	3.
	Now, maybe he'll win another Oscar for Leave the World Behind.
	This guy has won the Nobel Peace Prize.
	What a talented president we have.
	A former president.
	What a multi-talented... I'd say he's the Leonardo da Vinci of our time.
	What do you think?
	He's an amazing basketball player.
	And, uh, that's true.
	Ask that chef of his, how good he is at, uh, swimming.
	Oh, wait, what can't he do?
	What can you do now?
	Did you know, did you know that he, he, he was already an Oscar winner for best documentary feature about this general motors plant.
	Did you know that I did, but you know, everything, I did not know that my, uh, you know, it's funny, my, between being my brother, we know everything.
	So that's a question probably wanted to ask him.
	You probably knew that one.
	Well, let's see.
	Let us move on to France.
	France's historic collapse in its PISA scores.
	That's the Program for International Student Assessment in which various countries are compared to each other on how well they perform on academic tests.
	Its historic collapse is tied to its soaring immigrant population, writes French professor Joachim Lefloch-Imad.
	Odd name, that, Lefloch-Imad.
	But the French professor, writing in France's top newspaper Le Figaro, outlines that there was a culture of denial surrounding France's falling academic standards.
	Lefloch-Imad writes that the issue of immigration around France's falling PISA rankings is taboo.
	I bet it's taboo, just like it is here.
	And therefore, authorities will be unable to address the root of the problem.
	How true.
	A recent note from the Department of Evaluation, Foresight, and Performance.
	Now, this I'm sure you didn't know.
	France has a Department of Evaluation, Foresight, and Performance.
	Do you think we need one of those?
	Cabinet-level post?
	In every state?
	In every city?
	No.
	A Department of Evaluation, Foresight, and Performance.
	The DEFP.
	Well, according to them, 40% of those under 4 in France are immigrants or of immigrant origin.
	Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
	Yes.
	Go back.
	Did you say 4 or 4T?
	4T.
	4T.
	4-0.
	That's what I thought you said.
	4 in 10 of those under 4 in France are immigrants or of immigrant origin.
	Isn't that jolly?
	Well, they are speaking German, at least.
	Yeah, you mean the French.
	Now, who knows?
	Yeah, exactly.
	And now we're back to the professor.
	He takes note of this fact.
	He says, no part of the national territory is now immune.
	Immigration is exacerbating the educational decline to which France is prey.
	In France, the gap in mathematics between natives and students from immigrant backgrounds is abysmal.
	And he says, in order to solve this problem, you've got to solve the problem of immigration.
	You can imagine just how popular he is.
	But it's nice to have a Professor Le Floch Imad, who is at least willing to talk about these things, who in the United States would write about something like that.
	You would.
	Yeah, and I'm very unlikely to be a professional, huh?
	Okay, now one more story, and then we'll get to one of yours.
	Did you know that, well, you knew this, because this made big news.
	Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, the city's first female and first Asian-American mayor, planned a Christmas holiday party exclusively for what she calls electeds of color.
	The invitation for the December 13th Electeds of Color Holiday Party was sent to all city councilors, in error, by her aide, Denise Dos Santos.
	Dos Santos followed up 15 minutes later, apologizing, clarifying that it was only meant for the city's six elected councilors of color.
	Oh!
	The seven white council members were not welcome.
	So, in the second email messages, I wanted to apologize for my previous email recording a holiday party.
	I did send that to everyone by accident.
	Sorry for any confusion this may have caused.
	Now, I would say it caused no confusion at all.
	It's very clear.
	Quieting is not allowed.
	Nothing confusing about that.
	And just so as to be no ruling out all confusion, Miss Dos Santos, despite her Spanish name, is a lady of color.
	Highly melanin enhanced.
	So I guess she gets to attend the party too.
	Now, Mr. Taylor, I'm going to ask you a question.
	Yes, sir.
	I am not offended by this in the least.
	As someone who believes in freedom of association, I encourage this type of thinking.
	In fact, I hate people.
	No, hate's the wrong word.
	I dislike people vehemently who say, oh, imagine if the races were reversed.
	You know what?
	I can't imagine.
	And I would love to go.
	I would love to go to a party with a bunch of white people.
	That's right.
	I'm with you.
	All the conservatives saying, oh, this is horrible, this is horrible.
	No.
	Michelle Wu, have at it.
	Just don't hide it.
	Don't pretend it's not happening.
	Send the invitation to everybody, and make sure that the people who are not invited know they're not invited, and make sure the people who are invited know they are invited, and explain why.
	Yes.
	Electeds of color, honkies, stay home.
	Just, you know, be above board about it, and don't hide it.
	I thought it was fascinating, by the way, Mr. Taylor.
	I saw a photo of Michelle, the mayor, the Asian mayor, and she has a white husband.
	So she's being colonized in the bedroom.
	But, uh, yeah.
	Exploited.
	Yes.
	Exploited.
	Dominated.
	Oh my gosh.
	That's hmm.
	I wonder.
	I don't know.
	Maybe she's exploiting, colonizing him.
	You know, that's the trend now.
	Do you think, do you think he was, do you think he was allowed to go or not?
	Ah, that's a good question.
	That's a good question.
	Honey, you know, you're gonna have to stay home tonight.
	Well, now, Mr. Kersey, I understand you have a story about Joe Biden taking his marching orders from Alice Sharpton, at least when it comes to certain matters.
	Yeah, this was a story that we had briefly teased last week.
	If you recall, we ran out of time as we so are apt to do.
	Biden delays menthol cigarette ban after black leaders tell him it's racist.
	The Biden admin has delayed its ban on menthol cigarettes after strategists warned President Biden that could negatively impact his support among black voters.
	The the ever sought after menthol cigarette demographic.
	Leaders in the black community claimed that the ban would foster an underground market and cause police to target black smokers in a disproportional manner, the Washington Post reports.
	You might recall Eric Garner's mom actually said that this could happen.
	We talked about that about a month ago when this first first appeared in the news.
	Since the black community has drastically dwindled its support for Biden over the past few years, which of course I don't believe, but this Washington Post story wants us to believe that, the present administration isn't taking any chances despite updated health guidance from the FDA and CDC.
	And according to the data from the CDC, 81% of black smokers opt for menthol cigarettes.
	81%?
	Wow.
	81%, yes.
	Wow, I wonder why that is?
	Isn't that interesting?
	I've never had a menthol cigarette, so I can't begin to even guess.
	I wonder what the percentage is for whites.
	Maybe I'll ask ChatGPT.
	But 81%.
	Wow.
	That's cool.
	The Newports, I think, those are the super cool menthol cigarettes.
	Anyway, please proceed.
	81%.
	Okay.
	Hold on one second.
	Yes?
	Did I?
	Excuse me.
	Al Sharpton and the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU, are among the critics of the ban.
	Sharpton asserts that it would form an underground market which would result in police disproportionately targeting black people.
	He said that the ban could create another Eric Garner situation, which of course all black leaders hope for every day to happen so they can go exploit it, which of course he refers to as the black man who died in police custody My goodness, almost 10 years ago in 2014, during a dispute about selling illegal smokes.
	If you recall, those are called Lucy's.
	They're called Lucy's.
	Well, if you sell them one at a time, they're called Lucy's.
	If you sell them by the pack, they ain't Lucy's.
	Yeah, I'll tell you.
	They're loose cigarettes.
	Fun anecdote for you.
	I was just in a major city, the capital of a major state, and I'm walking down the street and I see this Tahoe pass by, a very nice SUV.
	And a black woman is driving it.
	She rolls down the window and starts yelling at a black guy smoking if she can buy a cigarette from him for a dollar.
	I've never seen this before in my life.
	She was actually propositioning a cigarette smoker because she was trying to buy a Lucy.
	For a dollar?
	For a dollar!
	I had, you know, a pack of cigarettes.
	I think they go for, at the Publix by my house, I think like six, seven bucks a pack.
	I have no idea how many you get per unit.
	I think you get 20 in a pack, but maybe some of our smoking listeners can tell us.
	Wow, ain't that interesting?
	Well, you know, that's quite fascinating.
	I was in Washington DC.
	I hadn't been in there for a while, and I was taking the subway And it seemed to me that just about every person heavily melanin-enhanced, our African-American brethren, were hopping the turnstile, every one of them, but nobody else was.
	I felt like saying, you damn thief!
	But it would probably have been an unwise thing to say.
	They just casually hopped the turnstile.
	Nobody bats an eye.
	It's just the most normal and usual and accepted thing.
	You should have shown them you're up.
	Say, here, you've got a pretty good vertical leap.
	No, I'm joking.
	I should have followed them.
	Hey, match this!
	Match this!
	You wimp!
	Anyway.
	They just sort of flip into a pirouette, into a bow, and say, hey, that's white privilege for you.
	All right, hey, real quick.
	Yes.
	In 2022, the FDA unveiled new regulations on menthol cigarettes aiming to combat illness and fatalities caused by the product because it was once targeted to African-American smokers.
	So the whole purpose of this ban on menthol cigarettes was because it was having a disproportionate impact on black individual smokers' collective health.
	Menthol are far more carcinogenic.
	Are they?
	Yes.
	Is that what it says?
	Yes.
	I wonder why.
	The carcinogens are in the tobacco, not the menthol.
	Huh.
	Well, I will look into this once we're off the air here.
	This is fascinating me, and I want to know how many white people smoke those things, too.
	That's our story, and I'm sticking to it.
	Okay.
	All right.
	I'm glad you're sticking to it.
	Well, here's another story that they're sticking to, and it has to do with black English.
	Expecting black students to write standard English that their teachers understand is racist.
	Thus saith a University of Michigan professor, April Baker-Bell.
	Why do they always have these double-barreled names?
	Baker-Bell, with a hyphen.
	She believes that traditional approaches to language education do not account for the emotional harm or consequences these approaches have on black students' sense of self and identity.
	Yeah, when you tell them not to ask a question, that just bruises their little psyches.
	Baker Bell said that because black language is devalued in classrooms, it reflects how black lives are devalued in the world.
	She's got it all figured out.
	Similarly, the way we think about this notion of standard mainstream English is directly connected to the invisible way that white culture is often deemed normal, neutral, and superior in the world.
	Well, yes, correct.
	Grammar is superior.
	Lady, it sure enough is.
	Baker Bell is an associate professor of language, culture, and justice.
	Can you imagine those things going together?
	Language, culture, and justice.
	Okay.
	I never knew there was a professor of language, culture, and justice.
	She wrote a 2020 book called Linguistic Justice, Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy.
	And she has just written all kinds of papers up and down, right and left, on white mainstream English and how awful it is requiring black students to use standard English is anti-black linguistic racism.
	She says, I'm a protector of black language.
	I'm not a defender of white comfort.
	Well, you know, this is like Michelle Moon.
	I'm all for it.
	Keep on talking Ebonics.
	And I hope they keep on talking Ebonics to the point that we don't understand them and they don't understand us.
	They've got their language, they've got their flag, they've got their national anthem.
	Wow, pretty soon they can just bugger off and have their whole country.
	Wouldn't you agree?
	Keep talking Ebonics.
	We don't want to understand you and we don't want you understanding us.
	Let's see.
	Oh, and yes, another neat little trick here.
	This was a story that caught my eye.
	A former Facebook diversity program manager pleaded guilty to scamming Facebook out of more than $4 million in just a few years.
	She faked business deals in exchange for kickbacks.
	This is another double-barreled name.
	Her name was Furlough Smiles.
	Furlough Smiles.
	Another hyphen.
	She had access to company credit cards, and she could approve invoices.
	You gotta be pretty important to do that, and nobody breathing down your neck and checking.
	Oh, you have to be black.
	I guess that helps.
	And a female.
	Black and female is untouchable.
	And so, she had Facebook just loll out the lolly to her friends and relatives for goods and services never provided to the company.
	And they would later funnel kickbacks back to Furlough Smile.
	She would pay associates using Venmo and PayPal, linked to company credit cards, and submit phony expense reports.
	And she also did something else.
	She would steer Facebook towards using businesses owned by her pals.
	And once Facebook had signed off on the deals, she would approve fraudulent and inflated invoices on behalf of her friends and relatives in exchange yet again for kickbacks.
	So, as I say, she raked in four million dollars, and I think she was in the job only about four or five years.
	A million dollars a year ain't diversity grand.
	Well, Ms.
	Furlough Smiles is slated to be sentenced March 19th, 2024.
	Now, Mr. Kersey, you have a story that surprised me a little bit.
	Apparently, Patrick Henry is now a bad guy, too.
	Was he a slave owner, or was he just white?
	Wow, you know, I actually went and saw back in 2021 at the church where he actually gave the give me liberty or give me death speech.
	Yeah, they did.
	They did a reenactment of it in Richmond, and it was great.
	However, right before they got started, they said all the individuals who were portraying Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Patrick Henry, they said, we acknowledge that this land was indigenous land.
	I almost got up and walked out.
	I almost got up and walked out.
	Forgive me, I forgot the name of the church, St.
	Joseph's.
	Maybe that's it.
	It's a great church.
	I encourage all of our listeners, if you're ever in Richmond, that's actually worth going to see.
	Not the presentation, because again, they're going to say we acknowledge that this land was Oh boy.
	was an indigenous land and we also acknowledge that most of the people that we are portraying
	were slave owners.
	They probably do that before every church service.
	I forgot what it was.
	Is it Lutheran or not Presbyterian?
	But anyways, the point is, uh, you know, it's, it, um, it made an impact on me.
	Cause I just, it was like, you know what?
	There are actually white people who act like this.
	Like, why don't they just go ahead and there should just be an Island for white people who, who think that way.
	So they can just get out of the way and let the rising tide of color capsize whatever is left.
	Because that's what this story is about.
	Mr. Taylor, this school, Patrick Henry high school, Minneapolis, the board there, um, Has approved a new name.
	Members passed a proposal this past Tuesday to rename Patrick Henry High School, a move that comes years into the community directing ire at the school's namesake.
	The school, located in the city's Northside Camden neighborhood, will officially become known as Camden High School by July 1st, 2024.
	Well, at least they didn't name it after some African-American or some BIPOC.
	Yeah, it's just a mere place name.
	Yeah, they could have named it after that mythical black character, John Henry.
	Didn't he do something with railroads or something?
	He was a steel-driving man.
	Steel-driving man.
	That's a good song, actually.
	I could sing it to you, but I wouldn't want to offend our listeners.
	Give us one line.
	When John Henry, he was about nine days old, sitting on his pappy's knee.
	He took up a hammer and a little piece of steel, and he drove it through his pappy's knee, Lord, Lord.
	Drove it through his pappy's knee.
	That's John Henry.
	You know that song?
	I know that.
	I've heard it a long, long time.
	The last time I heard it was in a Disney rendition called Tall Tale that starred Patrick Swayze, and that song's in it.
	Hold on one second, I'm sorry.
	The school in the city's north side Camden neighborhood, it's going to be officially changed its name.
	Of course, that is a Scottish word, Camden, meaning winding valley.
	Not only because of its location, but also because it's not representative of any particular person.
	The path to rename the school was first forged in 2018 when community members expressed their concern about the legacy of former Virginia governor and founding father Patrick Henry.
	While Henry is perhaps well known for delivering the famous line, give me liberty or give me death, he was also known for, gasp, owning slaves.
	Oh my goodness.
	I guess I should have known.
	He owned slaves.
	All right.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Bye bye, Patrick.
	Bye!
	Give me liberty, give me death.
	No.
	Give me the removal of any celebration of your name, legacy, or contributions to our great country.
	In the name of George Floyd, amen.
	At the time of a name change was first floated, a reporter told, I'm sorry, a supporter told KARE11, quote, I feel like he's not a person who represents me the way I identify as, the way my peers identify as.
	And that person was a black person who said that.
	The impending vote was ultimately postponed following hours of debate between students and staff.
	It wasn't until years later, in August of 2022, that the school board voted to move forward with the transition.
	So they are racially transitioning.
	I guess racial genderism, we need to come up with a word for this.
	You know, the Great Replacement is good, but when you're deliberately Well, racial erasure, removal, elimination.
	Just because it occurred to me, may I read the last climactic lines of Patrick Henry's speech?
	I think it has a certain resonance for us today, Mr. Kersey.
	I insist, by all means.
	Gentlemen may cry, peace, peace, but there is no peace.
	The war is actually begun.
	The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms.
	Our brethren are already in the field.
	Why stand we here idle?
	What is it the gentlemen wish?
	What would they have?
	Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?
	Forbid it, almighty God.
	I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.
	I agree.
	Wow.
	I agree.
	This stirring, stirring and resonates among us today.
	Yeah, well this school, by the way, Patrick Henry High School, is 93% non-white.
	It's 50% black, 24% Asian, and 14% Hispanic.
	It's 50% black, 24% Asian, and 14% Hispanic.
	I mean, you've gotta admit, there must be some amazing world star hip hop videos
	or TikTok videos coming from this high school.
	This reminds me of that movie that we actually asked our audience if they could find the image of.
	It's called The Substitute where it's set in Miami and it's at Christopher Columbus High School and when the movie opens up and Tom Barringer's character is going in to be the white substitute.
	You see the Christopher Columbus statue behind a gate and it's almost like it's in jail because they're trying to protect it from being vandalized and stuff.
	We actually asked our audience to find us an image and send that to me and they did.
	This was back in the good old days of YouTube when people were just loving our stuff.
	They still are, but it was amazing.
	I just asked someone if they could find it in a high-def pic and They sent it over, and that's what, that's kind of what I think about when this story comes out, because it's, you know, these people, seven, it's seven percent white, this, this, this high school.
	And, you know, what, what does Patrick Henry mean to these people?
	America?
	Well, nothing.
	Nothing.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	Nothing.
	If, if you were to read those words to them, they'd say, huh?
	What?
	What?
	You mean John Henry?
	Huh?
	Oh, Patrick Henry?
	Who he?
	They'd have no idea who John Herman is either, and they'd probably laugh at the fact that he drove something through Pappy's knee, because they're like, wait a second, that's my Pappy last week, and my mom the night before, and her boyfriend the night before that!
	Anyways, let's move to BBC.
	If I could, there's one more thing I gotta point out.
	One more thing.
	The school is just the latest in Minnesota to get a new name, most recently following in the footsteps of Minneapolis Los Atreles and Ella Parker schools, formerly Sheridan and Jefferson, respectively.
	So these are not the first schools that were once named in honor of dead white men that have now been replaced with A Hispanic and Ella Parker, I can only, Ella Baker, I can only assume that's a black female.
	It just sounds like a black, black name.
	Rather does, doesn't it?
	Rather does.
	Well, the replacement is going to go lickety split in BBC because BBC Radio 5 Live presenter That means a radio host in BritTalk.
	His name is Nihal Arthanayake.
	Isn't that a lovely name?
	Nihal Arthanayake.
	He has said an overwhelmingly white working environment is affecting his mental health.
	The presenter told a journalism diversity conference on Wednesday, it's affecting me that I walk in and all I see is white people.
	Oh, the poor dear.
	His colleague's response when he told them this was to reply defensively, that they weren't being racist, he claimed.
	And he added that this was missing the point.
	And he's right.
	The point has nothing to do with what they may say or think or do.
	The point is that they're there and they're white.
	That's awful all by itself.
	So, yes, they don't need to be racist.
	They need only to be white.
	And that just is affecting his mind.
	Speaking at the Journalism Diversity Fund Conference in BBC Media City in Salford, he said, I've seen a lot of people leave this building because they couldn't deal with the culture.
	I don't think there's a single Muslim involved in the senior editorial processes.
	Wow.
	Boy, I guess he just lays awake, lies awake at night, just agonizing over this.
	Now, following the interview, this is the part that disgusts me the most, Mr. Kersey.
	Cheryl Varley, a BBC Radio 5 Live producer, she said the organization is committed to tackling the lack of diversity in its newsrooms.
	After inviting the Journalism Diversity Fund scholarship recipients, How many white people do you think are among the Journalism Diversity Fund scholarship recipients, Mr. Kersey?
	Probably zero.
	Yeah.
	After inviting all of these wonderful brown people for a tour of the newsroom at the end of the conference, she told them that BBC needs you a lot more than you need it.
	Because if we do not represent our audience, the future for the BBC is grim.
	Well, Cheryl Verling, I looked her up.
	She is a white lady.
	And white people who talk this way just make me sick.
	The BBC needs you, you wonderful, wonderful BIPOCs, more than you could ever possibly need us.
	And we're just going to phase ourselves out.
	But I must say, In his own way, our very own Kevin McCarthy is just as bad.
	Yes, he is.
	If not worse.
	Well, I don't know.
	I think he's about at the same level.
	This is a debate that McCarthy took part in at Oxford University on October 28th.
	When you look at the Democrats, they actually look like America.
	When I look at my party, we look like the most restrictive country club in America.
	If only that were true, by the way.
	Because then our club would be getting a lot bigger, and a lot better, and a lot wider.
	And that other America that he talks about would begin to actually start to contract.
	Well, as some, as a wise young man once said, white people love to feel good about feeling bad about being white.
	And McCarthy, good grief, what a sick, what a sick loser.
	And there's Cheryl Varley, yet another sick loser.
	Now, just one little spot about Nikki Haley.
	I guess I should call her by her birth name, Nimurata Randhawa.
	Nikki Haley repeated on Wednesday her plan to amnesty many working illegal immigrants who sneaked in before Joe Biden opened the borders.
	What about the ones who sneaked in afterwards, Nikki?
	She says illegals who showed up before Biden would be allowed to stay if they are working.
	She says for those who've been here longer, we've got to start seeing who this is.
	How long have they been here?
	Have they been bedded?
	Are they paying taxes?
	Are they working?
	If so, they can stay.
	Well, it turns out she has relied heavily on investors for her donation.
	These are pro-immigration types, including New York hedge fund manager Paul Singer, investor Stanley Druckenmiller, and Miriam Edelson, and her late husband, casino mogul Sheldon Edelson, who think immigration is just tippy-top stuff.
	And so I guess she is going to sell out the country for a chance to live in the wild.
	Uh, well, Mr. Kersey, I believe you have a story about an Illinois NAACP president who sounds kind of like Donald Trump coming down the escalator.
	Oh my goodness.
	Give me one second.
	You go over here.
	This one, this is one of those that just made me laugh.
	And this is, this is a good one.
	So this was, um, this was on Black Enterprise.
	Uh, you know, we've talked about the site before, cause if you try and go to this site, Mr. Taylor, it's very hard to navigate because there's so many pop-ups.
	It's almost as if they're climbing over one another We've got some really great listeners.
	on these pages that are devoted exclusively to black patrons of news on behalf
	and written for black people.
	Well, you know they all drive catalogs.
	They all buy bling, diamonds, Cadillacs, you know, mansions.
	Golly, they're in the right place, Mr. Kersey.
	We've got some really great listeners.
	I would love it if one of our listeners would actually spend 10, 15 minutes on blackenterprise.com
	and just put together a list of all the advertisements for companies they see and then try and figure out,
	you know, we already know the average household wealth of blacks.
	I think it's like 17,000, and we know the average yearly income.
	And it's like, who in the world is this website?
	And who has convinced these, I mean, you talk about Facebook having that diversity,
	that black woman.
	Who is skimming four million dollars in four years?
	Who has convinced these companies that this is where you should be spending your ad dollars?
	And Mr. Kersey, they probably didn't take any convincing at all.
	They probably told their ad company, go out and find every black site you can and just lather those people with ads.
	Well, here's a story that they're being lathered with as they try and navigate the site.
	Illinois NAACP President asked to resign after calling migrants SAVAGES and accusing them of RAPE.
	Illinois NAACP President Theresa Haley is under fire for comments she made during a meeting in which she likened the city's migrants to SAVAGES and accused them of RAPE.
	She has been asked to resign, ABC7 out of Chicago reports.
	Constituents claim that disparaging comments were made on a Zoom call with several other NAACP leaders from the state, but Haley denies it.
	Quote, but these immigrants have come over here.
	They've been raping people.
	They've been breaking into homes.
	They're like savages as well.
	They don't speak the language and they look at us like we were crazy, Haley said, according to ABC7.
	Haley blamed the circulating clip on deep Hold on.
	Give me one second.
	I'm sorry.
	Deepfake?
	I had to cough because this is a very funny story.
	According to ABC7, Haley blamed the circulating clip on deepfake technology saying, quote, With artificial intelligence, anything is possible, end quote.
	Well, that may be true, but that's one of the weirdest endowments of all.
	Did you say I didn't do it?
	She said it's a deep fake, and that with AI, anything is possible.
	I'll tell you what, with Republican-led states busing Migrants to, um, you know, heavily black areas, I guess, uh, her noticing that, uh, these people are, are, are savages and, and raping and, and, uh, looking at you, uh, you people like you crazy, I guess that's possible.
	So, um, still prominent members of the NAACP have called for her resignation and spoken out against her brand of leadership.
	Quote, I think she should absolutely resign.
	I think she's unfit to be president.
	the state president of the NAACP, someone that has that kind of sentiment and that kind of thought
	against migrant communities," said Patrick Watson, who was president of the DuPage County branch of
	the NAACP but resigned following comments on December 12th saying, reprehensible remarks,
	I'm sorry, Illinois Governor J.B.
	Pritzker publicly denounced the NAACP leaders comments on December 12th saying
	quote reprehensible remarks I would hope that she would apologize for remarks I
	also think that the people should recognize that immigrants to this
	country are all around us. Boy that makes it okay.
	I mean, they can rape and loot and do whatever they like.
	They can be savages.
	We just recognize they're all around us, so that makes it okay.
	That's a very weird response from a guy who is very portly and rotund, so perhaps he feels them more than we do, who are in shape and svelte.
	Haley did receive support from Watson's predecessor, Michael Childress, who stressed that the chapter president has done positive work for the NAACP.
	And has the record to reprove it.
	Yeah.
	Well, we also have, we also have a record of her zoom call where she called these people savages and then tried to blame it on a AI deep fake.
	Well, she gets, she gets my vote.
	I think she needs to stay in office and keep, keep up the good work.
	This is the kind of story Mr. Taylor that shows is a 2024 could be one of the most interesting years and exciting and the source of some of the more Just hilarious anecdotes are going to come from the most unlikely places.
	And you know what?
	They're not going to be AI deep fakes.
	They're going to be the reality that social construct is not fake.
	I'm sorry, that race is not a social construct and that those who have tried to claim it is, um, their whole little, uh, you know, their whole little world is going to come crashing down as is what happened with this NAACP president who dared state what she has seen or probably what she's hearing from her constituents.
	That's right, nothing astonishes people more than to tell them the truth.
	That is something that Mark Twain said.
	Was true then, is true now, and will be true tomorrow.
	Now, this is an interesting story.
	There's been a six-month standoff between the Universities of Wisconsin, the whole system there, and the Republican-led state legislature over diversity, equity, and inclusion spending.
	And it seemed poised to come to a resolution last Saturday morning.
	The Board of Regents had agreed to vote to approve a deal between the University and Assembly Speaker Robin Voss, a Republican, that would freeze and cap DEI hiring in exchange for funding that was held up by the legislature.
	However, in a shocking turn of events, the Board of Regents rejected the proposal Leaving over $800 million on the table and the future of the DEI system in limbo, the board completely killed the deal.
	The deal was going to be that the University of Wisconsin was going to make concessions on staffing and exchange for the money for utilities, construction, pay raises, etc.
	But the Faculty Union issued a strong rebuke of the proposal.
	And Assembly Democrats and UW student groups gathered signatures on a petition opposing the deal, which they sent to board members.
	And so DEI is in limbo.
	The payment is not going to be made.
	But the fact that DEI has not been done to death overjoys Representative Dora Drake, a Democrat and member of the House Black Caucus.
	She said she was afraid the proposal was going to go through, but she's very happy now.
	I was surprised, but I feel very good, she said.
	We're making sure students of color feel welcome and protected.
	Now, a Republican spokesman said, it's a shame they've denied employees raises and almost $1 billion in investment.
	Now, what was going to be in the deal?
	A cap on all DEI hires to remain in place for three years.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	More than that, renaming and redefining the positions of one third of DEI staff.
	That would be about 45 system employees.
	That means there are about 135 DEI types.
	They're going to take a third of them and make sure that their roles more closely relate to student education rather than diversity.
	So no more of them and a third of them are going to be redirected into more useful directions.
	Also, they were going to eliminate what was called the TOP program, an initiative to promote diversity faculty hires.
	Also, they were going to create a new endowed faculty chair at the flagship campus in Madison dedicated to conservative economic thought, classical economics, and liberalism.
	They were also going to implement a new module on free expression for all entering undergraduate students, but this was considered just Intolerable by the system, and so they said, nope, even if we're going to have to turn our backs on $800 million, we ain't going to do what you want to do.
	So we are back at a deadlock.
	Meanwhile, in a different state, in Ohio, an Ohio House committee passed a bill to eliminate diversity, equity, inclusion training at all Ohio colleges and universities.
	This is Senate Bill 83, passed the Senate and heads the full House Where a vote will also, and I think this is a mistake, ban what it calls controversial beliefs or policies, including such issues as climate change, electoral politics, foreign policy, immigration policy, marriage or abortion.
	I mean, that's just so bloody vague.
	Controversial beliefs.
	Now, the Republicans say this course correction is needed so that we do not end up in institutions
	that are more focused on social engineering or rather the true intellectual diversity of thought
	and the teaching of useful analytic skills, 100% and entirely true.
	The legislation also require mandatory trustee training, trustee training presumably in something
	other than the usual diversity muck.
	Also, it would require syllabus transparency, allowing students, families, and taxpayers
	to know what the course content and reading materials are.
	I think that is a great idea.
	All the textbook names and reading requirements should be on the internet so everybody knows.
	Everybody knows.
	So, it's interesting to me to see that there are state legislatures that have got the bit between their teeth when it comes to trying to get rid of this anti-white foolishness.
	Needless to say, in Ohio, the NAACP said the bill would leave students of color feeling unsafe.
	Oh, they feel so unsafe.
	I guess they're afraid they're gonna just fall into a hole where the open manhole cover, the manhole cover was left
	off.
	They're just gonna feel unsafe, or maybe a piano will fall out of a window on top of it.
	They're just gonna feel so unsafe.
	Gosh, have you been watching a lot of Looney Tunes lately?
	That sounds like, that sounds like Acme.
	You got an Acme anvil about to fall on someone.
	Hey, real quick, I looked up a question you had earlier, Mr. Taylor.
	In 2021, approximately 81% of non-Hispanic black adults who currently smoke cigarettes use menthol cigarettes, compared to only 34% of non-Hispanic white adults.
	So, 34% of white people smoke menthol cigarettes.
	But they're going to have to go without, too.
	Well, that means, you know, there are five times as many white people as black people.
	So more white people are going to suffer than black people.
	Doesn't matter.
	It doesn't matter what black people want, black people get.
	All right, Mr. Kersey, you have this heartbreaking story that I'd rather we didn't have to talk about.
	But I suppose in the interest of full disclosure, we do.
	And this has to do with the dismemberment and Ah, what can I call it?
	The desecration of Confederate monuments.
	Yeah, you know, I saw these when they were still in Baltimore.
	I can't remember what year I went and saw them, but Confederate monuments vandalized and missing parts leave Baltimore to appear in Los Angeles Art Exhibit.
	Without any fanfare or warning, Wednesday, four Confederate-linked monuments were loaded into two trucks.
	that left Baltimore for Los Angeles, where they will eventually be shown in an art exhibit put
	on by a non-profit visual arts base, LAXART, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, LA. But the exhibit
	that will mix Confederate statues with contemporary art initially anticipated to open in the fall
	will have been postponed until 2025. The statues, some now missing parts to be vandalized while
	stored in a Baltimore impound lot, will remain out of public sight for a while longer, albeit
	in a different city according to a Baltimore official.
	This reminds me, by the way, that all the monuments that were once on Monument Avenue or throughout Richmond are sitting there at the waterworks facility there in Richmond.
	And it's very awful because you can actually see them when you drive past.
	Oh, you can?
	You can.
	They're somewhere under tarps and, you know, because I would love to actually try and acquire the cannons.
	That were, that were facing toward DC, uh, that were, that were torn down by the, uh, by the black mayor back in 2020.
	Well, which, which monument were adorned with cannons facing Washington?
	I love that.
	They were, they were, they were just cannons.
	They just, they were just, if you just look it up.
	No, no, no.
	I love it.
	I think that, I think that is the most, you know, there are a lot of monuments that are very important to get, but here's the thing.
	We can remake every monument.
	There are some that just have a lot of symbolism.
	One of those was the Robert E. Lee statue in New Orleans that always faced north.
	Oh, yeah.
	That was in Lee.
	That was because he never turned his back.
	That's right.
	What it used to be.
	You know, that was one of the weird things about the Confederate soldier in Alexandria.
	They took him down.
	You know, he was in front of the courthouse.
	He was facing south.
	That was the strangest thing.
	Almost always Confederates face north.
	But I guess the idea was he was going home.
	But be that as it may, yes, that is the traditional direction in which our great Confederate ancestors and heroes faced, is of course, face to the enemy, they rode to the sound of the guns.
	Yeah, and of course Stonewall Jackson faced north, the one that was on Monument Avenue, a great statue.
	He faced looking directly at Washington, right at 95, and then of course the cannons, they faced north, and I would love to know where those are, because again, there are some things that as history continues to show that it's nowhere near over, sorry Fukuyama, you know, There are some things that can stand the test of time, and that can be quite powerful.
	And that's why I think we're seeing all these... That's one of the reasons why all this stuff has been just torn down, and why Patrick Henry has to come down.
	It's to demoralize an enemy, and to make it feel like it's hopeless, and it's not.
	No, it's certainly not.
	It's not.
	But here we go.
	Let's get back to the story.
	Finish this dreary story.
	Yeah, so the hurried change of lodging marks the beginning of a new era for the monuments, which had Sat for years in statue purgatory after being quickly and quietly decommissioned before dawn in August of 2017 after what transpired in Charlottesville.
	I mean, that's the horror of a lot of all this is that there were so many of these statues nationwide and they quickly were brought down in Memphis and in Baltimore and everywhere else because of what happened at the Unite the Right event back in August of 2017.
	Quote, I'm going to take a deep breath.
	Now that Baltimore's four statues are headed to Los Angeles, said Eric Holcomb, Executive Director of the City's Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation.
	He said he watched the statues being loaded onto the trucks Wednesday and that a loan agreement between the city and LAXART was signed earlier in the week.
	All transport and storage costs are being paid for by the exhibit organizers.
	Quote, we worked really hard to try and find the appropriate place for these monuments after receiving over 20 proposals for what could be done with the decommissioned statues.
	He added the city spent three years finding the right fit.
	In an interview before the deal with Lacks Art was sealed, Holcomb said the city didn't have another viable proposal for what to do with the monuments.
	Which makes me so sad.
	I mean, there should be a non-profit organization trying to get all these statues.
	I bet there is.
	I bet there were plenty of Southern-oriented non-profits or maybe even individuals who had great ideas what to do with these statues, but they just refused them all out of pure meanness.
	Yeah, that was like the one of the Lee statue that was in Charlottesville.
	There was a golf course, I believe, in Texas.
	By the way, do we know what happened to the Stonewall Jackson statue in Charlottesville?
	I sure don't.
	It came down far sooner, too.
	It did.
	It was actually a better looking statue, by the way.
	In an interview as recently as last week, Hannah Burstein Black's Arts Monuments Exhibit Project Manager cannot
	confirm whether statues will be included in the exhibit.
	She cannot she cannot immediately be reached for comment Wednesday.
	The four statues sent to LA are the Lee Jackson Monument, formerly located in Wyman Park Dell. That was a great, that's
	a great statue by the way.
	The Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument that once stood on the Mount Royal Avenue.
	The Confederate Women's Monument on West University Parkway, that's a gorgeous statue.
	and mount vernon's roger b tanny Of course, he had nothing to do with the Confederacy, but of course he was Supreme Court Justice who wrote the 1857 Dred Scott decision upholding slavery.
	All of America's history must be taught, said Carsona K. Whitehead, a professor of African and African-American studies at Loyola University, Maryland, who founded the Carson Institute for Race, Peace, and Social Justice.
	Quote, It's the ugly parts that shaped us just as much as the more beautiful parts.
	End quote, she said.
	Yeah, I can't, I can't be more right.
	What happened in the 1960s with the race riots and the subsequent White flight from all of our major cities.
	I have created what is now Baltimore, and we should make sure that we never let people forget what social justice and racial justice brought us.
	Well, this lady says that we have to teach all parts of history.
	That means tearing down monuments.
	That doesn't follow to me.
	But in any case, what's going to happen to these things once they get to Los Angeles?
	They're going to be displayed at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
	But again, we don't know.
	Contemporary art.
	Yeah, they're probably going to be on their head or splashed with blood or the whole thing is going to be sickening.
	I have absolutely no doubt.
	It's just, again, whatever they do to them, it's like what happened to the Robert E. Lee monument from Charlottesville that they melted down, that they smelted down at the Washington Post.
	They would not tell anyone where it happened, but they got invited.
	Everyone involved was just, they were, it was an orgasmic experience for these people.
	Just understand, that's what they want to do to us.
	I know you might not agree with that, but at this point there's no other logical conclusion to this revelry that exists.
	That article is one of the most disgusting things I've ever read.
	The Washington Post piece about the Lee statue being melted down.
	Well, yes, and one of the black ladies there says, this feels like a public execution.
	That's right.
	She wants a public execution for those racists, Mr. Kersey.
	I bet in the back of her mind, that includes people like you and me.
	I mean, Mr. Taylor, one of the things that is just so sickening about 2023 is that at Washington and Lee University, they couldn't even let travelers' bones stay buried.
	Oh, I know.
	Not even the horse.
	They exhumed his horse, so.
	Yep, yep, yep.
	That's right.
	A racist's horse is likewise a racist.
	Well, let's move to H Street, where our progressives are reaping what they sow.
	A new liquor store was on the D.C.
	Corridor, known as the H Street Corridor.
	This was at one time the coolest part of Northeast.
	But two days after its opening in mid-September, just before dawn, burglars threw a brick through the window.
	They tipped over rows of shelves, smashing $10,000 worth of red wines.
	Boy, I bet that made a mess on the floor.
	You had the Red Sea on the floor.
	By mid-October, a month after 8th Street Liquors opened, the owner had swept up shattered glass from two more break-ins.
	I am scared for my life, he says.
	A decade ago, following years of disinvestment after the 1968 riots, H Street Northeast evolved into a haven of buzzworthy cuisine and nightlife.
	In the 1990s, it was a symbol of D.C.' 's rebirth, but it's now battered by violent crime.
	This is the slow motion version of the 68 riots.
	This is my commentary.
	And the perps are all the same.
	We've had a steady grind of burglaries, robberies, stolen cars.
	This adds to the collective sense of unease.
	There's also the near constant presence of aggressive panhandlers and clusters of people lingering on sidewalks, many of them appearing disheveled, disoriented and menacing.
	I bet they're all Amish people who have lost their way to the farm every month.
	Owners of a restaurant with locations on 8th Street and DuPont Circle Announced they are shutting down, citing a spike in violent crime.
	People don't want to come to 8th Street, not only because there are better options, but because the street is scary.
	Anwar Salim, who as executive director of 8th Street Main Street, a non-profit business advocacy group, he says his organization has spent $30,000 this year fortifying the business.
	I wonder what went into that.
	Fortifications.
	Replacing windows shattered during break-ins and fortifying.
	Oh, it's now Fort H Street.
	Shop and Run is a convenience store.
	The owner, Mohamed Mohamed.
	He stopped ordering food a couple of weeks ago.
	He is breaking his... I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
	I've got to ask again.
	The owner's name again of that 8th Street liquor store?
	Mohamed Mohamed.
	That's his name.
	Mohamed Mohamed.
	No, this is a shop and run.
	Shop and run.
	It's a convenience store, not a liquor store.
	He has stopped ordering supplies a couple of weeks ago.
	He's breaking his lease two years early.
	He said he's fed up with $5,000 a month in shoplifting losses, $14,000 monthly rent, and marijuana peddlers constantly outside his door.
	Once his stock is sold, he is moving out and breaking his lease.
	Itay Hertz, an Israeli-born security consultant who bought a row house in the neighborhood just last year.
	Well, a neighbor was mugged while pushing his daughter in a stroller at 8 a.m.
	on a Saturday.
	Who's going to tell you those bums sleep late?
	Took his money, phone, and the shirt off his back, says Hertz.
	They've been high-profile incidents.
	The most recent was in September when Blake Bozeman, a former Morgan State University basketball star, was fatally shot at the crew lounge during a mass shooting.
	Washington commanders running back Brian Robinson Jr.
	was shot and wounded during an attempted robbery on H Street.
	Representative Angie Craig of Minnesota fought off an apparently disturbed attacker in her apartment building.
	That's pretty scary.
	And the following month, a man stabbed an aide to Senator Rand Paul.
	So white people live up there too, or at least they used to.
	The Queen Vic, a British-style pub, closes early because of fears for employees' safety leaving work late at night.
	This is all HD Carter, used to be so trendy, used to be so happy, happy, happy.
	And the Pursuit Wine Bar is closing its doors for good next week.
	There's been a 26% increase in violent crime within a half hour radius of the Pursuit Wine Bar and Kitchen.
	And it had been burglarized five times in just five months, starting in May 2023.
	Once a month.
	They just went through and cleaned us out, says the owner.
	In a letter to patrons, he says, thank you for years of patronage, but we have decided it is no longer sustainable for us.
	Wait, wait, wait, Mr. Taylor.
	Who is they that cleaned them out?
	What does that mean?
	Is that pronouns?
	I just don't know.
	I suspect it's people who use he, him pronouns, and maybe they use they, them pronouns.
	Home-homey?
	Probably, yes.
	This announcement comes less than a month after Bryan Oyster and Seafood House announced it was closing both of its restaurants along 8th Street Corridor.
	Well, you know, with all these bars and liquor stores closed and down, it's going to become a booze desert.
	Maybe the low-lifes will have to move out and they can start over.
	As you point out, not one word about the perps.
	No doubt, as I say, they're just all maybe they're visiting Mormons who got overexcited in the big city.
	Meanwhile, across the district line in Rockville, Maryland, downtown Rockville merchants are sending out distress signals this holiday season.
	One jeweler told a radio station he's going to close his doors.
	This will be the last holiday season for town square jewelers on Gibb Street.
	After 17 years here... Was it really Gibbs Street, by the way?
	Gibbs Street.
	G-I-B-B-S.
	Gibbs, Gibbs, Gibbs.
	Come on, you gotta be making that up.
	No, I'm not.
	No, I'm not.
	Yes, the blacks know how to read.
	And after 17 years here and recurring crime and burglaries, we are closing, a sign in the window front says.
	And a few doors down, Nature by Tree Jock gift shop.
	Another sign from merchant Kenya Garcia begs thieves to leave her alone.
	You're undermining all the financial sacrifices we've made and you're not simply taking merchandise.
	You're stealing a piece of my heart, she says.
	Oh, poor girl.
	Well, I think we're gonna have to leave it there.
	Because, Mr. Kersey, we have run out of time, as we so often do.
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