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Claudine Gay: 'I Dindu Nuffin'

Jared Taylor and Paul Kersey comment on a black icon’s fall from grace. They also discuss Uché Blackstock, Michelle Wu, Ebony Boulware, Andrea Campbell, Ashlei Hinds, and Pamela Smith. Thumbnail credit: © Will Oliver/EFE via ZUMA Press

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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.
	And with me is my indispensable co-host, Paul Kersey, and I'm sure he joins me in wishing all of our listeners, large and small, a wonderful 2024.
	It's been, so far, an okay year for me, and how about for you, Mr. Kersey?
	It's been a wonderful new year.
	Welcome all of our listeners in the United States and around the world to the first podcast of 2024.
	I think this is, what, the eighth year?
	Maybe ninth year we've been doing this?
	We continue to battle for goodness, truth, and beauty.
	Yes, indeed.
	And it is January 5th, Anuradha Mani, 2024.
	Anadamini 2024. Well, let's get to comments. A listener writes in to say, this Christmas,
	my family visited relatives who are in a much higher tax bracket than ours.
	On Christmas Eve, we attended service at a beautiful Lutheran church built well over a century ago.
	The crowd was large.
	More than a thousand people packed into the sanctuary, I would estimate.
	About halfway through the service, it struck me that there was not a single brown person in sight.
	Every single attendee was white.
	Alas, the sermon was essentially a 20-minute anti-racism lecture, including a story about a portrait artist who painted Jesus as a black man.
	No doubt this was considered a great and heroic act by the preacher.
	I wondered if anyone else in the crowd appreciated the irony of the situation, and although I was disappointed at having to sit through an anti-racism lecture on Christmas Eve, I couldn't help but chuckle at the complete obliviousness of our fellow whites.
	I think this kind of thing happens often.
	These people who live far away from all the problems of diversity, they hoop about it, they moan about the fact that they don't have enough of it, and then they go off to their little white-opia homes.
	Another comment.
	This is about the discussion you and I had, Mr. Kersey, about this young black I think she was just a teenager, 16 or 17 years old, who was a passenger in a carjacking in which a white lady was brutally and horribly killed.
	And she got 20 years in jail for going on for the ride.
	And you think she got what she deserved.
	I'm a little queasy about going to the big house for 20 years when you really weren't part of it quite the same way.
	And then we discussed the whole question about Roddy, the fellow who followed along after the McMichaels, who ended up shooting Ahmaud Arbery after he attacked a young McMichael and went for his gun.
	And that guy, poor Roddy, he went to the big house for life, simply for sticking around.
	And you thought that was no good.
	I think that's no good.
	And somebody's commenting on the difference.
	And it's an important difference.
	He says, Mr. Kersey, the difference in the crime scenarios discussed on Radio Renaissance is this.
	The young black female who got 20 years knew from the start that the group that she was in was setting out to commit a criminal act, that is, hijack a white lady's car.
	Granted, it went a lot further than she intended it to go, but she was purposefully involved in criminal activity.
	The man was filming the Ahmed Arbery case, the chase, really.
	Thought that he was going along to document the detaining of a criminal by law-abiding citizens.
	Same with the Unite the Right participants.
	They had no intention of things turning out as they did, so I'm with you on this one, says our listener.
	Well, yes, I suppose I can see that point of view too, but again, I guess I'm just a softie, Mr. Kersey.
	20 years for sitting in the back seat while somebody drives off and kills a white woman.
	That just seems like a lot to me, but I guess you and I'll just have to disagree.
	Just this once we'll disagree.
	It's very rare that you hear a disagreement.
	More importantly, it's very rare that we have so much participation over a subject we spoke about over a month ago.
	People are very into this ethical debate.
	Yes, they are.
	And I suppose for those of you, I mean, I'm not sure for how long we want to go on with this particular discussion, but if you wish to reach us, and especially if we say something that is incorrect, we always crave correction, so you can write to me at amren.com, A-M-R-E-N.com, at the Contact Us tab, and I will get your comments, your suggestions, your proposals.
	And there's another way to get to us, and that is to do Yeah, you simply go to whatever email provider you use and send me an email to BecauseWeLiveHere at ProtonMail dot... Is it dot... Gosh, sorry, now I'm blinking.
	My apologies.
	Give me one second.
	Is it Proton... Is it dot M E or is it dot com?
	Give me one second.
	You'll get to that shortly.
	I'll get to that shortly.
	I'm sorry, I'm blanking here.
	This is the start of a new year, and I'm just like, wait a second.
	You never blank, Mr. Kersey.
	You are the man with the dates, the facts, the numbers, always at your fingertips.
	Yes, yes.
	So Proton has changed.
	It's simply this, guys and ladies, because we live here at ProtonMail.com.
	Once again, because we live here at ProtonMail.com.
	And I look forward to hearing from all of you.
	Not all of you.
	I mean, if thousands of us, well, in any case.
	I'd love it, because then we add them to the world-famous New Century Foundation email.
	So they get the newsletter once a week.
	So, anyways.
	Well, we're going to start off with ladies of color.
	And who is currently my favorite lady of color?
	Claudine, baby.
	Claudine Gay.
	As probably all of our listeners know, she has stepped down from being president of Harvard.
	In her resignation letter, she did acknowledge plagiarism accusations, but she emphasized, I have never misrepresented my research findings, nor have I ever claimed credit for the research of others.
	Furthermore, she blasted what she called the obsessive scrutiny of her writing.
	Insisting that it was only feeding into tired racial stereotypes.
	Oh boy.
	She says, never did I imagine needing to defend decades old and broadly respected research, but the past several weeks have laid waste to the truth.
	Golly, discovering that she's a plagiarist has laid waste to the truth.
	Mr. Kersey, how will the Republic survive?
	Those who had relentlessly campaigned to oust me since the fall often trafficked in lies and ad hominem insults.
	I wonder what those were?
	Not reasoned argument.
	They recycled tired racial stereotypes about black talent and temperament.
	They pushed a false narrative of indifference and incompetence.
	In other words, Mr. Kersey, she admitted no wrongdoing.
	She was pushed out because she's a black woman.
	In other words, I didn't do nothing.
	I didn't do nothing.
	It's at all levels of society.
	Oh boy, she says, and this is the other thing, it's just astonishing to me.
	I realize I make an ideal canvas for projecting every anxiety about the generational and demographic changes unfolding on American campuses.
	A black woman selected to lead a storied institution.
	Oh boy, yes, all us white people are just so threatened that she's a black woman.
	Oh, gee.
	She says, and then she goes on to say, this is really an attack on academic freedom.
	Now, Mr. Kersey, I just don't get it.
	Is she talking about the freedom to plagiarize?
	How is it that pushing her out because her scholarship is all bogus, why is that an attack on academic freedom?
	And has she forgotten the case of Liz McGill at Penn?
	Liz McGill was pushed out basically for taking the same position that Claudine Gay did, as well as President Kornbluth of MIT, namely that talking about exterminating Jews was harassment that should be stopped.
	No, I think it's freedom of speech.
	I mean, it's an ugly sort of speech to engage in.
	But has she forgotten about Liz McGill, who left because of exactly the same thing, this business of not being sufficiently anti-anti-Semitic?
	And Liz McGill hadn't even been accused of plagiarism.
	But oh, no, no, no, if it's a black woman, and she says the same thing as a white woman who gets ousted,
	plus she's got 50 charges of plagiarism against her, that is an attack on freedom of
	academic research. Good grief.
	Well, again, it's a thesis that I know you don't like to hear because it sounds so goofy on its
	face, but she was the beneficiary of the concept of black run America.
	I mean, again, I'm actually surprised.
	Have they nominated an individual to be the next president of Harvard?
	Not yet.
	Not yet.
	Somebody has stepped in to run the place in the meantime.
	It sounds like a man.
	A man's name, as I recall.
	Yeah, there's an interim president.
	I knew that.
	It's going to be fascinating because, you know, once you give a position of authority to a black individual and then you replace them, it's very hard to do that because of the accusations of racism to not have another black person put in place.
	That's right.
	It's going to be tough.
	I bet it'll be another black person.
	And, well, you know, we should And what do you say to be a black woman?
	I mean, maybe that would be going too far.
	That would be just such obvious affirmative action.
	But I bet it would be a black person.
	Certainly a person of color.
	I think we can be pretty clear about that.
	I think so.
	And Claudine Gay said the campaign against her was part of a war to undermine trust in pillars of American society ranging from education to public health agencies and news organizations.
	She wrote an op-ed pitch for the New York Times, which was published just a day or two after she resigned.
	I thought this was pretty interesting.
	So she had already had been plotting this with the New York Times even before she stepped down.
	She's got it all figured out.
	The pillars of American society include the New York Times, of course.
	So an attack on Claudine Gay is an attack on the New York Times.
	And then the Associated Press published a remarkable headline, Harvard's President's Resignation Highlights New Conservative Weapon Against Colleges.
	Plagiarism!
	It's a conservative weapon!
	Good grief!
	I mean, does that mean if a liberal points out that somebody has been a plagiarist, then that's not going to be a problem?
	This is just nuts!
	Let's see.
	And then the AP quotes somebody named Irene Mulvey of the American Association of University Professors.
	She fears that plagiarism investigations could be weaponized to pursue a political agenda.
	I guess only people of one end of the political spectrum care about plagiarism?
	She says there's a right-wing political attack on higher education now which feels like an existential threat to the academic freedom that has made American higher education to envy the world.
	Again, this stuff about academic freedom, I'm baffled by this.
	Why is an attack on plagiarism an attack on academic freedom?
	These people, do they have brains?
	I mean, are their brains functioning?
	We live in a world where Black individuals collectively are supposed to have the freedom to do anything they want to in academia, and that's the problem with this situation.
	There shouldn't be standards set for them because of the centuries of systemic racism and implicit bias they've faced.
	You know, I think you're onto it.
	It's an attack on black privilege.
	And black privilege is now being called academic freedom.
	I guess that's it.
	Well, this lady goes on to say, for presidents to be taken down like this does not bode well for academic freedom.
	It'll chill the climate for academic freedom.
	She just goes on and on and on about this.
	I guess she's talking about black privilege.
	And it may make university presidents less likely to speak out against this inappropriate interference for fear of losing their jobs.
	Oh boy.
	The AP also complained That Chris Ruffo, Christopher Ruffo, who is a conservative activist and who'd been instrumental in publicizing the charges of plagiarism against Claudine Gay, about him, AP writes this, on X, he wrote, scalped as if gay or a trophy of violence, invoking a gruesome practice taken up by white communists who sought to eradicate Native Americans.
	God, it makes it sound as though white colonists invented scalping.
	Whereas, of course, the very, very rare, rare occasions in which any white man ever scalped anybody was in retaliation against Indians who were scalping people and each other right and left.
	And if the colonists were trying to eradicate Native Americans, they did a pretty doggone poor job of it.
	Now, this was not even an editorial.
	This was published as a news story by AP.
	And to just keep the theme of Claudine Gay and people rallying around this embattled black lady, Alan Sharpton says President Gay's resignation is an attack on every black woman in this country who has put a crack in the glass ceiling.
	And did you know that he picketed Bill Ackman's Manhattan offices?
	Bill Ackman is one of the billionaires, donors to Harvard, and alumnus who was calling for resignation.
	And he says her resignation is a blow to the DEI movement and all of us in the civil rights community have been fighting for.
	Yep, yep, yep, yep.
	Affirmative action.
	Apparently there were more than two dozen protesters he managed to round up waving placards and they were shouting, no justice, no peace.
	And if we don't get it, shut it down.
	Now, I don't understand about if we don't get it, shut it down.
	I guess that means if we don't get our way at Harvard, we're going to shut Harvard down?
	If they don't get their way in any institution, in any business, in any facet of American life, they'll shut it down.
	Yeah, I think that is the reality of post-civil rights America.
	The 1964 Act.
	That's the way that certainly black people seem to approach so-called civil rights.
	Now, Representative Jamal Bowman doesn't sound like a descendant of a Mayflower person.
	He says, this isn't about plagiarism or antisemitism.
	This is about racism and intimidation.
	The only winners are fascists who bullied a brilliant and historic black woman into resignation, says Representative Jamaal Bowman, Democrat of New York.
	Now, she will, of course, stay on the Harvard faculty, where it is estimated that her salary will be about $900,000 a year.
	Not bad for a disgraced affirmative action baby who was an obvious serial plagiarist.
	And then we have to trot out another one of my favorite African American fellow citizens, Ibram Kendi.
	He posted on X the following, racist mobs won't stop until they topple all black people from positions of power and influence Who are not reinforcing the structure of racism.
	I guess if you're a black person of power and influence, and you're maintaining white supremacy, then we'll leave you alone.
	Then Ibram X. Kendi goes on to say, what these racist mobs are doing should be obvious to any reporter who cares about truth or justice.
	What about a reporter who cares about plagiarism?
	And then Tulane professor Stan Oklogia, I suspect yet another person, not a descendant of a Mayflower ancestor.
	This person posted on X, Harvard has a $50 billion endowment, more than the GDP of Latvia, and they still let a bunch of fascist mouth breathers bully their president into resigning.
	So I guess Bill Ackman and all the rest of them calling the reservation were fascist mouth breathers.
	Well, that's real academic talk, Stan Oklogia.
	And then finally, here's another one.
	Georgetown Assistant Professor Amanda Sahar D'Urso.
	Yet another non-Mayflower descendant.
	She says she's talking about Claudine.
	She definitely did not deserve this.
	For the rest of us, this is a load of crap garbage, and we should be really concerned.
	Now, it turns out Amanda Saharduso is of Iranian-Persian descent, and her research is on how Middle Easterners and North Africans have been racialized through the 20th and the 21st centuries Despite being legally classified as white.
	Now that's all these people can think about is race, race, race, race, race, race, race.
	And one of her papers is called The Role of Muslim Identity on Evaluations of Belonging in the U.S.
	And another paper, A Boundary of White Inclusion, The Role of Religion in Ethno-Racial Assignment.
	Wow.
	Well, and let's see, Claudine Gay has had the shortest tenure of any president at Harvard.
	She lasted six months and two days.
	Bim.
	Out.
	And then finally, Bill Ackman, as I say, he was one of the people who was pushing hardest to have her out the door.
	He posted a 4,000 word essay On X, arguing that Harvard's policies on diversity, equity, inclusion are the root cause of anti-Semitism at Harvard.
	That sounds awfully nutty to me.
	The DEI has caused anti-Semitism at Harvard.
	Okay, Bill.
	He says the E for equity is about equality of outcome, not equality of opportunity.
	And he also says under DEI's ideology, any policy program, educational system, system, grading system, admission policy that leads to unequal outcomes among people of different skin colors is racist.
	He's right about that.
	He thinks the entire university's office of DEI and B, Which I always get a kick out of.
	Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging is what Gay added to the DEI, that special B. She says the whole thing should be shut down.
	I think it's probably about diversity, equity, inclusion, and being black.
	Let's make it BB.
	Anyway, so, yes, I said this about some of our ladies of color.
	The other lady of color that I want to talk about—gosh, I've been going on for a long time here, and I'm going to let you talk, Mr. Kersey.
	This is, I think, your favorite story.
	The Claudine Gay?
	Well, yes, yes.
	I must say, I'm chuckling all the way to the cross burning on this one.
	That's a joke.
	Boston Mayor Michelle Wu did not violate state discrimination laws by holding a no-whites holiday party because the event wasn't open to the public.
	The Massachusetts Attorney General has so ruled.
	Ms.
	Wu's aides were supposed to invite only the six City Council members of color, but they accidentally sent the event details to the seven white members, too.
	Well, Wu said it was A-OK.
	It's a long-standing tradition.
	We have no whites allowed at parties all the time, apparently.
	And the AG, Attorney General, Andrea Campbell, said because the event was not open to the public, it did not violate public accommodation laws that prohibit discrimination.
	Now, a little footnote on Andrea Campbell.
	Last November, she was elected the state's first black attorney general.
	So my question to you, Mr. Kersey, if it had been a white mayor who had had a whites-only party, do you think the AG would have said that was okay?
	No, we would be getting references to George Wallace standing in the Sitting in the door down there in Alabama saying segregation now, segregation today, segregation forever.
	Nope.
	It would be... I mean, you can't do that and... Nope.
	If you're white, absolutely not.
	Well, so Mr. Kerzai, I'm going to finally let you talk and you're going to tell us about DEI in medicine, I hope.
	I thought I was going to talk about Claudine Gay again.
	Well, you can say anything you like about Claudine Gay.
	As I say, I find her a source of inexhaustible amusement.
	Yeah, inexhaustible amusement.
	Yeah, she's amusing.
	I would say the whole fiasco has been inexhaustible because there are so many more scalps to Borrow a term from what you just talked about to get on all these campuses I mean again, I think I read somewhere about Michigan's DEI program just help how many millions of dollars it represents in terms of the employees So I mean if if these were gonna if Ackman wants to go after all this stuff, you know Rufo is doing a good job Let's put it that way.
	So we'll put a we'll put a bow in that conversation and we'll go to another a Awful aspect of the DEI revolution.
	A surgeon, this is from Fox News, surgeon says toxic DEI in medicine has led to erosion of quality care, dangerous to our patients.
	He blasted a top medical organization for doubling down on its anti-racist initiatives at a time when many corporations and organizations are distancing themselves from these controversial principles.
	Quote, America's surgeons are not woke enough, according to the American College of Surgeons.
	Dr. Bossart penned in his column for National Review this week, the largest surgical organization in the country recently launched a diversity, equity and inclusion toolkit for providers.
	As if that matters when it comes to, you know, trying to make sure people are healthy and living a great life.
	In an announcement earlier this month, the ACS touted the materials would provide a blueprint for implementing equitable practices in medicine.
	Bossart explained how the ACS has rapidly embraced DEI and anti-racist teachings since 2020.
	He argued the organization was sacrificing quality medical care, training and patient
	care by focusing on concepts like microaggressions, implicit bias and white privilege.
	He says, have no place in medicine.
	The toolkit is an exhaustive, some might say exhausting complication, I'm sorry, compilation
	of everything related to pushing the narrative of systemic and structural racism as the source
	of disparities, including minority representation within the ACS and clinical outcomes and minority
	surgical patients, he explained.
	Oh, that's a mouthful.
	The surgeon said the toolkit uses flawed studies to promote the unbelievably toxic idea that racism infiltrates surgery and leads to poor outcomes for black patients.
	Wow.
	The toolkit also pushes implicit studies.
	Having to hear a little bit of feedback.
	Is that on your side, Mr. Taylor?
	I beg your pardon?
	I was hearing a little bit of feedback.
	Was that coming on your side?
	Okay, we're good now.
	Sorry.
	Can you hear me?
	Yes, yes.
	Okay.
	The surgeon said the toolkit uses flawed studies to promote the unbelievably toxic idea That pushes the implicit racial bias training to combat racism, despite debunking its validity.
	Bossart claimed the worst part of the toolkit was that it requires surgeons to lump patients into racial identity groups, which he believes threatens the traditions modern medicine is based upon.
	Quote, the traditional tenets of the Hippocratic medicine Now, he's a surgeon, right?
	He's a surgeon.
	in front of the physician have been, for all intents and purposes, abandoned.
	Any disparity in outcomes of care of minorities is proof of racial discrimination."
	End quote.
	Now, he's a surgeon, right?
	He's a surgeon.
	You know, surgeons often don't even see the patient until he's on the table.
	Or they'll have a little consultation with the person, and then I guess they think to
	themselves, uh-oh, it's a black guy, I'm going to make a few extra cuts, or what could this
	possibly have anything to do with.
	All this DEI stuff for surgeons, it's crazy!
	Yeah, I've had only one surgery in my life on my ankle, and I did meet with the surgeon before the event, just as he prepped to tell me what they were going to do.
	And then afterwards and then to have the, you know, the stitches removed and then just I really thanked him and I think got him a nice bottle of champagne because he did such a great job.
	And then it was, you know, he moved on to bigger and better things.
	You're right.
	Surgeons, again, they prep.
	Yeah, the idea that somehow you got special treatment because you were white.
	This stuff is just so nutty.
	I wish it were nutty, but unfortunately this is, as Bossart said, as he argues, the focus on anti-racism and DEI will have detrimental effect on medicine by threatening precious time for training surgeons and thus endangering patients.
	There's a finite amount of time in residency training to mold a competent surgeon from a fumble-fingered intern.
	to assume that we can continue to turn out excellent surgeons
	and simultaneously burden surgical education with the degree of time-consuming indoctrination
	and anti-racism and DEI demanded by the ACS toolkit is at best foolish and futile, and at worst,
	dangerous to our patients," end quote.
	So I mean, again, there are so many people that are dedicated to making sure that the country,
	and every facet of our country, sacrifices itself to the tenets of DEI as the holiest writ.
	I mean, Gregory Hood talks about how every state has a religion, and I think, unfortunately,
	we are seeing, since George Floyd, and just the speed in which DEI has consumed so many
	So many.
	Um...
	So many aspects of our society.
	I mean, geez, what did we talk about last year?
	The ornithological industry has to change all the bird names because of the racist history behind some of the names of these birds.
	That's right.
	Well, you see, that's relatively harmless.
	I mean, relatively.
	I mean, it's psychologically just a capitulation of the most craven sort.
	I had always thought that at least in medicine and pilot training and air traffic controllers, they would just quietly say to themselves, okay, that's fine for other, other places where it doesn't matter.
	But I did a whole video on air traffic controllers, DEI and that, and we have this terrible problem, these incompetents being pushed into these very, very responsible positions, and doctors too.
	Gosh, I mean, that's just the summit of insanity.
	And by the way, I encourage all of our listeners to make sure they watch that video.
	I know that that got picked up and got a lot of traffic.
	That one did.
	That was a very good piece.
	I believe you actually had an article accompanied the piece too, correct?
	Yes, yes, the script.
	I'll write the script out so people can read it if they don't want to watch the video.
	But, now there are people of course who are, the folks who are, and I have to concede, Mr. Kersey, that your expression of Black Run America is really coming to pass.
	And here's an example of it.
	Here are people who are pushing DEI in precisely this area of medicine that you discussed.
	A Dr. Uche Blackstock joined a Dr. L. Ebony Bulware.
	On Saturday's Velshi.
	Do you know what Velshi is?
	No.
	Well, it's apparently an MSNBC program hosted by someone by the name of Velshi.
	In any case, they were on MSNBC discussing Dr. Bulwari's recently published study on the strong link between racism and chronic poor health conditions for black and brown communities.
	We talked about this.
	Well, this study says Charles Coleman, Jr., who was the host.
	So we have a trio.
	We have a trio of African-American citizens here discussing health care in the United States.
	This study defines structural racism as the means by which society perpetuates discrimination through interconnected systems, says Charles Coleman, Jr.
	Now, Dr. Blackstock then said, often we think about health as individual choices that patients make.
	Instead, we really need to understand how practices and policies, the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow, systemic racism impacts the health of our communities.
	She's talking about their communities, not mine or yours, I'm sure, Mr. Kersey.
	Then, this is the shocking thing.
	When she's talking about our communities, individuals are responsible for only about 20% of what makes them healthy.
	The other 80% are these systemic factors that Bulware and her colleagues studied in this very, very important groundbreaking research.
	In other words, black people are responsible for only 20% of any health problems they have.
	So, it's the obligation of policy makers, local and federal government, and the healthcare industry to work with community organizations to address community disparities and systemic racism that are the true cause of chronic bad health.
	Got that?
	I mean, if people believed that, maybe a black person would say, well, why should I bother to lose weight if I weigh 300 pounds?
	Why should I bother to stop smoking?
	Because it's not my fault anyway.
	I can affect only 20% of what's happening to my body, and if that's the way they want to feel about it, boy, all right with me.
	This is just incredible.
	You and I, Mr. Kersey, and the way we just funnel all of this institutional racism into the air every time we talk, we are responsible for 80% of the health problems of black and brown communities.
	It can't just be 80.
	It's got to be closer to 90, 95.
	I mean, why are they selling white privilege short of its magical powers and capacity to incapacitate?
	You're right.
	If white silence is violence, then gosh, I mean, we must be accounting for 100% of it.
	Yep, yep.
	I was just being excessively modest.
	Well, there's a good news story here.
	You and I talked about this case.
	It happened in Houston about a year ago in a taqueria in the case of a robber by the name of Eugene Washington, age 30, wandered into this restaurant and he demanded money and wallets from all the customers.
	And there's a video of this that you and I watched and discussed.
	And as he was leaving, one of the customers shot him.
	And then the man who shot the robber, he went over to the body and he collected all the stolen money and he returned it to all the patrons.
	And everybody left the scene before the police showed up, including him.
	Now, some called him a vigilante.
	Others called the man who shot and killed the robber a hero.
	The guy who did the shooting was white.
	The robber, like 90% of the people named Washington, was an African-American.
	Now, what was remarkable about this video is that the guy's on his way out.
	The black robber has waved his gun around in the sort of typical ghetto way, practically holding it sideways and swaggering around.
	He gets the money from everybody.
	He's on his way out.
	And the white guy pulls out his gun and shoots him in the back.
	And then he shoots him three or four times and walked right up to him and gives him another pow right in the back of the head.
	And there were people who thought that maybe the first couple of shots were okay, but that the last couple may be a little excessive violence.
	Well, it turns out, Mr. Kersey, that a Houston grand jury has declined to file charges.
	So that's what makes this a significant development.
	Glad to see people who are defending against these people who will rob them while they're having a taco are being exonerated by the grand jury.
	Now, there is a new California law.
	Now, this is a very interesting one.
	California police officers beginning on January 1st, just a few days ago, if they are going to stop a driver or a pedestrian, They must now initiate any interaction by specifying the purpose of the stop before asking any questions.
	They will no longer be able to ask the driver, do you know why I'm pulling you over?
	Now, according to Assemblymember Chris Holden, who authored the law, it was created to promote equity and accountability and help prevent the often tense interactions between police and civilians And they are particularly concerned about non-white civilians.
	And the enforcement can skip clearly stating the purpose of the stop should or not.
	The officer can not.
	He doesn't have to say, OK, I'm stopping you because you're about to shoot someone.
	If he needs to protect life or property from imminent threat, then he can just go right into action.
	Now, do you know why police officers often say, do you know why I pulled you over?
	No, why?
	Because if they pull somebody over for speeding, and that person is someone who just robbed a bank, it's amazing the number of people who would say, oh, I guess you got me.
	Oh, yeah, I guess those security camera caught me on.
	A lot of people, if they have done something awful, they will confess on the spot.
	It's a very, very useful police technique.
	I learned about that the last time I was stopped speeding.
	The cop asked me, do you know why I pulled you over?
	I said, yeah, officer, I was going pretty fast.
	And then we got into quite an interesting conversation after he wrote me up my ticket.
	And I said, well, why do you ask that question?
	And he explained it to me.
	It's a very, very useful trick to get people with bad conscience to spit something out and confess something greater.
	But apparently, this is, in the eyes of some legislature in California, it's going to cause problems to non-white people.
	So, now, Mr. Kersey, I believe you have a story about crime in Birmingham.
	Yeah, I've got deep roots in the great, well, the once great city of Birmingham, Alabama.
	And I actually was reading a fantastic book about the history of Birmingham.
	It's one of those cities that is considered the most violent in the United States over the past few years.
	And if you can give me one second, I just inadvertently closed the window of what we need to be talking about.
	While you hunt, I should perhaps mention that my mother was born in Birmingham, Alabama.
	Yeah, it's a city that, you know, Atlanta and Birmingham unfortunately diverged in the trajectory of which one became, you know, arguably a world-class city considering Atlanta's got the busiest airport in Birmingham.
	A lot of people say it was due to the staunch stance against civil rights that you saw in that city with Bull Connor and other individuals.
	But we can now look at a city that is, I want to say it's 69% black.
	I will look it up while you talk.
	Gotcha.
	But this story is very, very important because it actually breaks down the suspects in Birmingham's homicides in 2023.
	It dropped for the first time in five years.
	And at this Alabama.com story published on New Year's Day 2024, they profiled 135 victims.
	they profiled 135 victims. The city ended 2023 with 135 homicides, a modest 6.25
	decrease from 2022 when the city had 144 homicides, marking the deadliest year in
	recent Birmingham history. The 2022 total surpassed the highest number recorded in recent memory,
	141 in 1991. Birmingham's all-time record for homicides was in 1933 with 148 slain.
	It would be really interesting to go back. 1933? That's what this article says, which...
	I don't believe that.
	It would have been overwhelmingly white then it would have been about 65. I believe we've got the I
	Believe we have the great replacement article about Birmingham at the new century found at the amaran.com site
	So we can even look that up. But here we go. We quote this is from Birmingham Police Chief Scott Thurmond
	I believe he's a white guy.
	He said this, quote, we increased every year over the past four years up through last year.
	So to finally be showing a decrease is a good thing, the police chief said.
	Americans tend to think that crime is rising, but the evidence we have right now points to sizable declines.
	Bill Asher, he's an individual who tracks these these Crime stats across cities never breaks things out by race though But he talked about how there are double-digit drops were reported in major cities such as New York 11% drop from the year prior Los Angeles had a 15% drop in Chicago had a 12% drop now Of course, the most important thing would be to compare these numbers to 2019 which would be the pre George Floyd year when of course police just decided to
	As Steve Saylor so eloquently puts it, Mr. Taylor, retreat to the donut shop, as opposed to being the next Derek Chauvin.
	That's right.
	Of the victims in these homicides in Birmingham, Alabama, 96 were black males, 19 were black females, 4 were white males, 1 was a white female, 4 were Hispanic, and 2 were listed as other.
	And the author of this piece slips in this great fact of known suspects, 76% were black and four were white.
	I believe that equates to what, 90, 95% of the suspects being.
	76 and four.
	That's pretty close.
	Well, yeah, yeah.
	Well, Birmingham is 72% black.
	So you're going to get an overwhelming majority of black murder victims and perps.
	And also, I just checked, you're right, this Mr. Thurman, he is a fine-looking white man.
	He looks like a really capable, I mean, just from his appearance, this square-jawed looking eye, kind of a white man.
	But please continue.
	Yeah, no, I mean, this is, again, like you, I'm still kind of shocked at the fact that it says the deadliest year ever was 1933.
	Yeah.
	So it talks about, uh, it then gives a breakdown of, you know, handguns versus rifles being used shotgun.
	But, uh, what we get though, uh, is this fact majority of Birmingham's 2023 homicides are still unsolved.
	So again, that clearance rate, which we talked about, uh, so many times last year, where blacks are, are almost a hundred percent responsible for the increase in homicides, not being cleared, which of course to our listeners, that means that, That suspect is still walking the streets.
	The homicide is never solved.
	Suspects have been charged in only 38.1% of the 126 criminal homicides and 78 remain unsolved.
	Quote, we have a very good idea who's responsible, but it's about being able to prove it, Thurman said.
	We know person A shot person B, but we don't have someone willing to come to court to testify, end quote, said the white police chief of Birmingham, Alabama.
	Uh, the average age of homicide victims in 2022 was 30.
	That increased to 33 in 2023.
	Quote, That's people who should know better, the chief said.
	You should have enough sense not to engage in these types of activities that could lead to someone losing their life.
	End quote.
	Now again, I don't know the last time you went to Birmingham.
	Basically, the city of Birmingham was rebuilt across the mountain in Spain Park, Vestavia Hills, Mountain Brook.
	And Hoover, unfortunately, what I call the black undertow has kind of across the river, across the mountain.
	And Hoover, I believe, is now it used to be one of the top high schools in the country.
	And I think I think it's actually now majority nonwhite, which is just shocking because I've got so many friends and so family who live and and call that area home.
	And of course, the great thing about Birmingham is it's got the Statue of Vulcan.
	Which is probably one of the few statues of a white man, even if it's a mythological figure, that won't come down anytime soon.
	We'll have to keep tracks on that, but Vulcan does look over the city of Birmingham, Alabama.
	Well, it used to be a big steel-making mecca, was it not?
	That's probably why Vulcan is there.
	Well, I've got some news, similar news on D.C.
	Washington, D.C.
	The murder rate has been shooting up there despite declines elsewhere.
	I see what you did there.
	Yes, it was the most murderous year, 2023.
	year, 2023, in the last 20 years, it had a 36% jump up to 274 cadavers.
	Now, the district has crossed the grim 200 milestone only three times lately, and that
	Climbing, climbing, climbing.
	2022 and 2023, climbing, climbing, climbing. And however, in this case, the peak homicide year was
	1991, when there were 482 homicides. 1991 was really the peak for murder across the United States.
	In any case, after it dropped very considerably during the 90s, then it starts climbing up in the 20s.
	Now, in addition, homicides being up 36%, robberies last year were up 67%.
	This is just extraordinary.
	3,470 people were robbed.
	Now, this is an extraordinary thing, too.
	Vehicle thefts.
	Car theft was up 82% last year over the previous year.
	6,829 people reported having a vehicle stolen.
	And arson, which is not a very common crime, was up 175%.
	This really does sound like a city losing control completely.
	But 36% increase in murder, 67% increase in robberies, and 82% increase in stolen vehicles.
	Now, of course, they have a black lady as their police chief, Pamela Smith.
	She will be starting her first full year on the job this year, 2024.
	And of course, Washington, D.C.
	has a black lady mayor, Muriel Bowser.
	And while these two were in charge, Washington D.C.
	recorded its first homicide of the new year, 2024, just one year into the new year.
	Ah, congratulations!
	Yes, they didn't waste any time, didn't waste any time.
	Police responded and found a woman who had been shot inside a hotel room.
	18-year-old Ashley, spelled A-S-H-L-E-I, Hines of Clinton, Maryland, was found unconscious, unresponsive, and could not be revived and was declared dead at the scene.
	Hines was celebrating the New Year with a group of people in a hotel room at the Embassy Suites.
	When one person was asked to leave the party, he took out a gun and opened fire on the crowd, killing her.
	Now, race is unspecified, but this does not sound like the Amish on a spree.
	So, yep, in just one year into the new year, poor 18-year-old Ashley Hines stopped a bullet and is now dead.
	Now, here's some stories that will warm your heart, I'm sure.
	CBS has given a straight-to-series order.
	I guess that's some sort of showbiz lingo that was new to me.
	A straight-to-series order for a drama series that will see Morris Chestnut star as the iconic character John Watson, the companion of master detective Sherlock Holmes.
	The show will be called Watson, and it is set one year after the death of Holmes at the hands of his arch nemesis Moriarty.
	What?
	Really?
	Okay, never mind.
	I'm sorry.
	I was shocked what you said.
	So it's going to be centered around the black Watson.
	Yeah, okay.
	And yes, he is black.
	Yes, Morris Chestnut.
	I guess you knew and I didn't.
	He is an African American, and he will resume his medical career as the head of a clinic dedicated to treating rare disorders.
	But Moriarty and Watson are going to tangle.
	And so, as the write-up says, they will write their own chapter of a story that has fascinated audiences for more than a century.
	So I can see it now.
	The magical negro Watson, he will cure rare diseases.
	I'm sure that he will school many vicious racists, he will outwit Moriarty, and I bet while he's at it he will win the heart of the prettiest girl in London.
	This will be a feast for the mind in every possible way.
	Black Dr. Watson.
	It'll last one season.
	Real quick, I've only read a couple of Arthur Conan Doyle's books on Sherlock Holmes.
	Didn't he actually try and kill off Sherlock Holmes in a battle with Moriarty and then he brought him back?
	That he actually somehow survived the tumble down a mountain?
	That's exactly what happened.
	I can't remember the name of the story, but he and Moriarty get into this epic struggle, and he leaves the impression—well, at the end of that story, you get the impression that both of them tumbled down the mountain and died.
	But later on, there was such a clamor to bring Holmes back that we find out that Holmes himself managed to stay and survive.
	It was only Moriarty who went down into this crevasse, the ravine, I think somewhere in Switzerland, actually.
	That's right.
	You aren't much into film, but I would recommend the 2009 Sherlock Holmes that Guy Ritchie directed with Robert Downey Jr.
	as Sherlock Holmes and Jude Law as Watson.
	It's probably the last time we'll get that in film, that white and white pairing.
	Well, I go back to Basil Rathbone.
	He played Sherlock Holmes in a television series.
	Let's see.
	Now here's yet another switcheroo.
	Denzel Washington.
	His recent casting in a Netflix production about As the Carthaginian General Hannibal, he's a black African rather than Arab, has raised objections in Tunisia, because Tunisia is where Carthage, former Carthage, is now located, is located in what's now Tunisia.
	And there is a risk of falsifying history.
	We need to take a position on the subject, said Tunisian Member of Parliament Yassine Mami.
	There's even a petition on Change.org demanding that Netflix cancel the project because, quote, this miscasting and falsifying history is unacceptable and unethical.
	And the petition has asked for Tunisia's Ministry of Culture to act against this attempt to steal our history.
	So there you go.
	However, the Tunisian culture minister, Hayet Ketat Girmazi, Says, Hannibal is a historical figure.
	We're all proud that he was Tunisian, but what can we do, she says.
	She's trying to negotiate with Netflix to shoot at least part of the film in Tunisia.
	I guess she thinks she's only doing her job.
	I guess she figures a lot of black Americans are going to go become tourists in Tunisia after they see black Hannibal.
	But I wonder if the whole army is going to be black.
	The whole Carthaginian army?
	But I think those black Americans are going to be mighty disappointed when they get off the plane in Tunis.
	They're going to say, where are the brothers?
	Damn, I thought they was all black.
	We was Tanzanians.
	We was what?
	Tanzanians?
	You know, we was kings.
	Yes, yes.
	We was Carthaginians.
	Well, OK, then here's an interesting story.
	Now, I never know how to pronounce the name of this underwear store.
	No, I guess it's not.
	It's a yoga wear store.
	Lululemon?
	Yeah, Lululemon.
	Lululemon.
	It's not Lululemon?
	No, no.
	Lululemon.
	Lululemon.
	Yeah, I know.
	Lululemon.
	Well, I've never bought anything in one of those places.
	I don't go to yoga.
	I don't wear yoga pants.
	But Lululemon's billionaire founder, Chip Wilson, now retired, slammed the yoga wear chain for its diversity and inclusion thing.
	He was the CEO until 2013.
	He stepped down after he sparked outrage by saying that some women's bodies just don't actually work for the company's tight yoga pants.
	I think he's absolutely right about that.
	He's 100% right about that.
	Yes.
	He's a hero!
	He has also dashed the whole diversity and inclusion thing, which includes models that he claims appear unhealthy, sickly, and not inspirational.
	Well, in the article I saw, they had a tremendously fat black lady wearing these pants.
	It was not inspirational.
	Absolutely not inspirational.
	Well, of course, a Lululemon spokesman says, Chip Wilson does not speak for the company.
	His comments do not reflect our beliefs.
	We've made considerable progress since launching our inclusion, diversity, equity, and action function.
	They call it IDEA.
	Get that?
	Get that?
	No.
	What is that?
	Oh.
	Inclusion, diversity, equity, and action.
	They're all full of ideas.
	Well, this is another thing he said.
	I thought this was really very funny.
	Apparently, Chip Wilson, he explained how he came up with the brand name.
	He told Canada's National Post Business Magazine in a 2004 interview that he came up with the brand name because it has three L's.
	An L is a sound that does not exist in Japanese.
	Well, he's right about that.
	And apparently he's a Canadian.
	He says the reason the Japanese liked my former skateboard brand, Homeless, was because it had an L in it.
	And a Japanese marketing firm wouldn't come up with a brand name with an L in it.
	L is not in their vocabulary.
	It's a tough pronunciation for them.
	So I thought, next time I start a company, I'll make a name with three L's and see if I can make three times the money.
	He says, it's kind of exotic.
	I was playing with L's and I came up with Lululemon.
	It's funny to watch them try to say it.
	Well, Mr. Kersey, I guess I must be part Japanese, too, because I can't figure out how to say it either.
	You did spend a lot of time in Japan.
	That's right.
	Were you born in Japan?
	I am made in Japan, Mr. Kersey.
	Back in the 1950s, when made in Japan meant junk.
	No, it's interesting.
	One little tidbit to this story.
	Lululemon, if you recall, we actually talked about them in May of 2023.
	Down in Atlanta, there were two white women that were fired, employees of Lululemon.
	They're in Peachtree Corners, very nice, posh area of Atlanta.
	Again, they're targeting white women to buy these pants because, you know, if you've been to a gym, They do accentuate a certain part of the female anatomy that does look quite good and in a tight yoga pants But they were they were fired because they they confronted the black mask robbers who were ransacking the store and it turns out that it is the policy of The of the new gentleman a white guy in charge of the of the store.
	He doesn't want people to interfere and That's right.
	Can't disturb the little dears who are doing their free back to school shopping.
	Well, you know, it's true in Japanese.
	If a Japanese person were going to try to pronounce Lulu Lemon, he would say Ruru Lemon.
	And if the name were Ruru Lemon with R's, it would still be Ruru Lemon.
	So, I guess this Chip Wilson guy thinks that's quite hilarious.
	Yeah, the origins of the name are actually quite humorous to me as well, the fact that he did that just to spite the Japanese guy.
	Well, but he thought he'd make three times the money.
	He probably did.
	He did.
	It's a very valuable brand.
	Yes.
	Well, we are running out of time.
	Gosh, we had so many interesting things to talk about.
	Well, let's just close with Vivek Ramaswamy.
	A reporter on Wednesday asked him if he condemns white supremacy and white nationalism.
	Apparently, Ramaswamy was having none of this.
	He said it's affirmative action that causes strife and racial conflict.
	Mr. Taylor, if I could interject real quick.
	Yes.
	Why was he asked to condemn white supremacy?
	Well, it's because he has endorsed Steve King.
	No, Steve King endorsed Vivek.
	Oh, yes.
	Yes, yes.
	I'm confused.
	Yes.
	Yes, Steve King endorsed him.
	And of course, this Washington Post reporter was saying, you're going to accept a guy, you can accept the endorsement of Steve King, that horrible white supremacist and white nationalist.
	And so, of course, Ramaswamy shoots back.
	Institutional racism is based on affirmative action.
	And he yelled at the reporter for looking in the rearview mirror to pose a question today that is far removed from what the reality is.
	But then the Washington Post reporter then said the GOP candidate, you didn't say that you condemned white supremacy.
	And Ramaswamy then said, I'm not going to recite some catechism for you.
	I'm not pledging allegiance to your new religion of modern wokeism.
	Well, good for Ramaswamy.
	Yes, the whole thing had to do with, I think, when was it, back in about 2017 or 18, Steve King was being interviewed by the New York Times, and he says, how come all these white nationalism, white pride, white supremacy, all these things are now considered swear words, you can't talk about them, and he said he never even said that.
	He should have had a tape recorder going when he was talking to this New York Times guy.
	Yeah, just don't talk to him.
	That's a good way to do it too.
	Then he got primaried, he lost all his committee assignments, the GOP just dumped it all over him.
	Didn't he actually vote to condemn himself as well?
	I mean, it's such a sad story.
	It's a very sad story.
	He joined in the vote to censure him.
	I think he thought he was censuring the idea of white supremacy, but in any case, he redeemed himself by speaking at an Ameren conference and giving a great talk.
	So that's something we can say about Congressman Stephen King.
	Well, gosh, is there a short item we can touch on here in the remaining one or two minutes here?
	Well, yeah, here's something we could say.
	A new study by two scholars at the University of North Carolina have pointed out that despite the idea that DEI is a great thing, the business case for diversity is the dominant rhetorical paradigm for our U.S.
	corporation to debate actions and policies around racial, ethnic diversity.
	But in this paper, We conduct an empirical test of the paradigm by gathering data on the race and ethnicity of the individuals shown in the leadership pages of S&P 500 companies' website and then determine if, by any of nine measures of racial and ethnic diversity, these executives reliably predict financial performance over the next fiscal year.
	In other words, they find these super diverse places and they study them in terms of financial performance and it says we do not find reliable evidence that they do.
	Our results do not support the business case for diversity.
	Any chance that'll ever be reported in the New York Times, Mr. Kersey?
	In other words, they actually take these super, super diverse companies that are all bragging about and see if they do well, and they don't.
	But that's the idea we're supposed to swallow, is that the more diverse your leadership team is, the better you're going to do in the American market.
	And I guess Harvard is discovering that that's not always the case.
	Well, Mr. Kersey, I'm afraid we're out of time.
	And so I'm going to wish you again a Happy New Year and all of our listeners all around the world, a Happy New Year to all of you.
	And we look forward to spending this time with you.
	It's an honor and a pleasure.
	And we will see you all next week.

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