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April 12, 2024 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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DEI – The New State Religion

Jared Taylor and Paul Kersey note that DEI is so widespread and powerful it could be called America’s state religion. They also discuss NPR, Boeing, Tiffany Henyard, and plagiarism at the Fed.

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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
I'm your host, Jared Taylor with American Renaissance, and with me is my indispensable co-host, back from an absence, and happy to have him back.
And as usual, we will begin with comments from listeners.
One writes in to say, I'm not American, And I'm curious to know, was there any resistance to slavery at the time on the grounds that those people might be a problem if they stayed?
Well, that's a very interesting question.
And, you know, as a matter of fact, Mr. Kersey, I don't know if in 1619 anybody said, as those Africans, about 20 of them, showed up at Jamestown.
As they marched down the gangplank, if anybody said, whoa, these folks are going to be a problem, I really don't know.
All I really know about, of course, is the American Colonization Society and the writings of some of the founders about what a problem this was going to be.
I think Thomas Jefferson had a remarkable thing to say about slavery.
He says, we have the wolf by the ears.
We can neither hold him nor let him go.
I think that is a great metaphor.
And it's a metaphor and not a simile, by the way, for those of you who care about such things.
But are you aware of any really contemporary early, early on people?
And even before the American Colonization Society, there were other groups that were trying to free blacks and send them to Africa.
Abraham Lincoln, of course, wanted to send them to Central America or anywhere, anywhere out of the United States.
But really, early, early on, at the time slavery just got started, are you aware of any arguments against it or efforts to stop it in its tracks?
You know, Mr. Taylor, it's great to talk with you.
I don't.
I actually just ordered a book by a gentleman by the name of Early Lee Fox.
It is a dissertation he wrote about the American Colonization Society in 1890.
Can't wait to read it because he has all the primary sources that he's going to quote.
So I'm sure within that book contains some of the early discussions that Well, it might not necessarily.
founding the American Ecologization Society.
So, well, it might not, it might not necessarily, I would guess, I would guess there probably
would have been a number of clergymen in other parts of the country, or even in Virginia,
who said that this is no good, although the Bible doesn't condemn slavery.
There's slavery in the Bible.
In any case, this foreigner has raised a very interesting question, and it has really stimulated me perhaps to look into this whole question of really early, early on oppositions to slavery.
But moving along to our second comment, my girlfriend is a teacher in her third year at elementary school.
All but one student, and that student is black, are from South America.
They are on a first grade reading level, if they even speak English at all, but they are in her fourth grade class.
She gets new students from Latin America who don't speak English all through the year, and she says the students talk openly about her parents crossing the border illegally.
Well, just a little comment.
Just to brighten up your day, boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen, and another comment here.
Now, as you recall, Mr. Kersey, I was expressing bewilderment at squatters' rights.
I mean, after all, it seems to me a squatter is just a long-term burglar.
And if you call the police while you're being burgled, the police don't hesitate, and they bundle the burglar off in chains.
And I was bewildered by this and so we have a knowledgeable person who wrote in who seems to have had to do with the whole business of squatters professionally.
So as you were asking, at least in Ohio and the city of Cleveland, if any of the following are true, you are generally considered a resident.
That means if you've lived in a place for two to four weeks, whether you pay rent or not, get mail there, Have an expectation to stay or have personal items there, like clothing or furniture.
He says it happens all the time.
With melanin-enhanced brethren, someone moves in.
They're not on a lease.
They don't pay anything.
They just start living there.
He goes on to say that cities and states make laws that favor squatters.
Unfortunately, even if you own a house, Usually, if you're not there for, say, three months and some squatter moves in, technically he is established residency.
I guess if he's been there two to four weeks or whatever it is, then he says burglary is breaking into an occupied dwelling or a dwelling that you should believe is occupied.
So if you're a smart squatter, you can stake out a house, prove that no one is living there, move in, and you're golden.
He says, in my experience, nine out of ten squatters are known to the person who lives there, and they have lived there before at one time or another.
So that's not the kind of squatting that's in the news now when an illegal immigrant or somebody, or in Britain, it might be a gypsy or a traveler.
So this is a different kind of thing that this listener has experienced.
What would be terrifying, of course, is, you know, you take a vacation to the American Virgin Islands, wherever you're going, you come back, somebody's living there, you can't get him out.
I'd be furious.
I think I would be inclined to take things into my own hands, but that's not what you're supposed to do.
And our listener goes on to say, in general, most big city police departments avoid housing issues like the plague.
Departments fear lawsuits more than they do the wrath of the taxpayer.
They don't get involved because housing laws are so complicated.
So, if you have one of these problems, you call the police and say, sorry fellas, we sympathize, but, you know, it's over our heads.
Now, here is another comment due to the fact that you were unavoidably detained last week.
He says, I love Mr. Kersey and Hood's view from the right.
However, I agree with many of your listeners.
It was a rare treat to get an uninterrupted hour of the one and only Mr. Taylor.
It warms the heart to see Jared still with such fire in his breast for our people.
Thank you, Mr. Taylor, for your stalwart efforts.
Well, isn't that nice?
Isn't that nice?
And then, let's see, a final comment.
In your latest podcast, you mentioned former St.
Louis Park Schools Superintendent Astine Osei.
This was in the context of this succession of black superintendents in this majority overwhelmingly white school district in a Minneapolis suburb, and just how relentlessly fanatical they are about DEI and making white people feel bad and responsible and guilty.
And so one of the black superintendents, this Asteen Osei, he says, our listener says, apparently I, A daily Minneapolis Star Tribune subscriber of many years missed the news of why Mr. Osei was let go.
And as I noted in the podcast, I had to dig deep to find out that this melanin-superpowered Mr. Osei got the boot for sexual harassment.
The original notice was that he was gone with no explanation, but bye-bye and we wish him well.
I guess we can't let the children know that this guy was a sexual harasser.
Now, I wonder if it was staff?
Children?
For those matters, I just don't know.
Now, our first story is this is one I'm sure you saw because it circulated far and wide, Mr. Kersey.
It's title is, I've been at NPR for 25 years and here's how we lost America's trust.
It's really a remarkable, remarkable article.
And it's by a staffer, an NPR staffer, who's still there apparently, named Yuri Berliner.
And I'll read just a few passages from it, which for you and I, for you and me, and for probably all our listeners, this will all sound absolutely obvious, but apparently this is a great revelation and a discovery for the kind of people who actually work at the place.
It says, the rise of advocacy took off with Donald Trump.
As in many newsrooms, his election in 2016 was greeted at NPR with a mixture of disbelief, anger and despair.
That sure tells you something about the country, doesn't it?
All these newsrooms shedding bitter tears of anger, disbelief, and despair when the people select somebody that they don't like.
That they don't approve of.
They don't approve of.
Our news media are not with the people when the people disagree.
Well, what do you know?
At NPR, we hitched our wagon to Trump's most visible antagonist, Representative Adam Schiff.
Schiff became NPR's guiding hand, its ever-present muse.
By my count, NPR hosts interviewed Schiff 25 times about Trump and Russia.
25 times!
Wow!
Then he goes on to say, when the Mueller report found no credible evidence of collusion, NPR's coverage was notably sparse.
I bet it was.
No mea culpas, no self-reflection.
I'm sure Adam Schiff never said, I'm sorry, either.
Then he goes on to say, in October 2020, the New York Post published the explosive report about Hunter Biden's laptop.
With the election only weeks away, NPR turned a blind eye.
I listened as one of NPR's best and most fair-minded journalists said it was good we weren't following the laptop story because it could help Trump.
Boy, that's the most fair-minded guy.
Boy, partisans, partisans all the way.
Let's see, on COVID, he goes on to say, the lab leak theory came in for rough treatment almost immediately.
It was dismissed as racist or a right-wing conspiracy theory.
Anthony Fauci was one of its most notable critics, and that was enough for us.
Politics blotted out the curiosity and independence that ought to have been driving our work.
Now, Mr. Kersey, I never quite understood why everybody was so, all of the authority figures were so against the lab leak theory.
Was that only because that implicated the Chinese?
Is that why it was racist?
Maybe.
Because if you recall, President Trump at the time would always call it the China, the China.
I can't do it.
I can't do it.
The China virus.
The China.
He was excoriated.
He was blasted by the media at that point for being jingoistic and xenophobic.
I mean, I still remember four years ago in January, CNN had an article that said that Trump's coronavirus team was too white.
And that was before lockdowns.
I mean, you just realized the media was so dedicated and aimed to do what it could to Basically, they said it's our job to do what we can to destroy the Trump presidency, as you said.
They're crying in the newsroom.
And just to watch all this unfold, it's going to be an interesting next, what, it's six months until the election, roughly?
Pretty interesting.
Yeah, no, somehow the very idea that it could leak from a lab, whether an American lab or a Chinese lab, that was just considered insane.
Anyway, then he goes on to say, this Yuri Berliner, he says, George Floyd changed both the conversation and the daily operation at NPR.
America's infestation with systemic racism was declared loud and clear.
It was a given.
Diversity on our staff and our audience was the overriding mission, the North Star of the organization.
Phrases like, that's part of the North Star.
Became part of our meetings and casual conversations.
That's part of the North Star.
That's right.
Got to find some BIPOC commentator, some BIPOC newsreader, some BIPOC researcher, BIPOC apocalypse.
Here it comes.
Race and identity became paramount in nearly every aspect of our work.
That's quite an admission.
There's an outspoken, I'm sorry, an unspoken consensus about the stories we should pursue.
Supposed racism, transphobia, signs of the climate apocalypse, Israel doing something bad, and the dire threat of Republican policies, claims that fears about crime are racist, and that any Asian American who opposes affirmative action must have been manipulated by white conservatives.
Yeah, that pretty much sums up NPR.
I listen, oh, almost every day.
At least for a few minutes.
I think it's important to know what the fashionable people are thinking.
Then, now this is pretty interesting, too.
In Washington, D.C., where NPR is headquartered and many of us live, I found 87 registered Democrats working in editorial positions and zero Republicans.
Zero.
87.
That's a pretty big staff right there in Washington, D.C., and they got correspondents all around.
Uri Berliner says, On May 3, 2021, I presented my findings at an all-hands editorial staff meeting.
When I suggested we had a diversity problem with a score of 87 Democrats and zero Republicans, the response wasn't hostile, it was indifference.
Now I've become a visible wrong thinker.
It's uncomfortable.
No one in a C-suite or upper management position has chosen to deal with the lack of viewpoint diversity in NPR.
Well, that's obvious to anybody who listens.
Then he goes on to say they're paying the price.
Last year, NPR laid off or bought out 10% of the staff and canceled four podcasts.
Our radio audience is dwindling.
Our podcast downloads are down.
However, defunding as a rebuke from Congress wouldn't change the journalism at NPR.
That change needs to come from within.
I've often thought that the Republicans really should get on stick and say, look, you guys got to straighten up.
You know, 87 Democrats, not a single Republican on national public radio.
Come on, come on, let's get realistic.
But, you know, this guy may be right.
If Congress turned off the tap, And they had to depend on handouts.
I bet they would just become like Pacifica Radio.
Did you ever listen to Pacifica Radio?
It's just outright commie San Francisco station.
Do you know about Pacifica?
I did not.
I think I've heard it before, but I've never listened to it.
Your listening habits when you work out are hilarious.
Pacifica Radio.
Oh, when I was young, I used to listen to Radio Tirana.
That was the Albanian State Service when Albania was one of the last hardline communist countries.
I like a variety of viewpoints, Mr. Kersey.
Anyway, let's see.
I think you have a story about yet another plagiarism scandal.
Another one of our melanin super-powered, high-powered figures appears to be guilty of it.
Well, we talked about this lady before when she was appointed at the Federal Reserve.
And I think she was one of the first black and black females to be appointed to this position.
And she was the first.
She was the first.
And Chris Rufo continues to be the sniper when it comes to really advancing an offensive against this, what we saw with Harvard and the plagiarism scandal there.
And as we've seen him do in a lot of places now, this one, this is a big feather in his cap.
This is a big scalp.
Another week, another plagiarism scandal in the Ivory Towers.
This time, Chris Ruffo and Daily Wire's Luke Rosiak found that Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, a black woman, appears to have plagiarized her academic work in violation of her former university's policy.
She taught economics at Harvard and Michigan State before serving on the Obama administration's Council of Economic Advisors, went on to be appointed to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in 2022.
At the time, her academic record was so thin and focused on race activism versus rigorous quantitative economics that she had trouble getting confirmed by the Senate.
Her nomination required Vice President Kamala Harris to cast a tie-breaking vote.
Jeez.
A sister rides to the rescue.
Yeah, well, barely a sister.
When you actually look at Miss Harris's racial background.
But anyways, according to Ruffo, in a series of academic papers spanning more than a decade, Cook appears to have copied language from other scholars without proper quotation and duplicated her own work and that of co-authors in multiple academic journals without proper attribution.
According to Michigan State's own policy on plagiarism, she's a plagiarist.
In the past, administrators have warned students that plagiarism is considered fraud and has potentially harsh consequences, including loss of job, loss of reputation, and the assignment of reduced or failing grade in a course.
What's more, Cook's rigor has also come under fire, and she misrepresented her own credentials, Mr. Taylor.
As Rousseau and Rusiak write in City Journal and Daily Wire, quote, her most heralded work, 2014's Violence and Economic Activity, evidence from African American patents, 1870 to 1940.
I believe you and I talked extensively about this, by the way.
They examined the number of patents by black inventors in the past, concluding that the number plummeted in 1900 because of lynchings and discriminations.
Well, what do you know?
Other researchers soon discovered the reason for the sudden drop in 1990 was that one of the databases Cook relied on
Stop collecting data Lynchings and let's just blame it on this nation. Let's
just blame it on you know Let's just let's find a white person and all white people
collectively to blame it on. Nope. They just stopped collecting data
Well, you know the crazy thing is lynching was going on at a fairly steady clip all throughout that period
So why, suddenly, in one year, lynching is the cause of this reduction in patents granted to blacks?
It makes no sense on its own face.
Anyway, I guess she got that peer-reviewed and a nice little academic paper to add to her resume.
Literally nothing in 2024 makes sense, except for the fact that we're beginning to see white people like Chris Ruffo, unbeknownst to him, really push back and expose this whole system as the fraud that it is.
The true number of black patents, one subsequent study found, might be as much as 70 times greater than Cook's figure.
Effectively debunking the study's premise.
This is, by the way, this article is from Zero Hedge.
I would argue that it doesn't effectively nuke, it doesn't debunk the premise, but it basically shows that, again, this individual, this black economist, went out looking for white racism as an excuse to basically buttress and be the foundational document of her career.
And you could argue that's why she was appointed to the Fed.
As a Federal Reserve Governor, Mr. Taylor.
Yeah, and again, she's inflated her own credentials in 2022.
Investigative journalist Christopher Brunette pointed out that despite billing herself as a macroeconomist, Cook had never published a peer-reviewed macroeconomics article and had misrepresented her publication history and her curriculum detail, claiming that she had published an article in the journal American Economic Review.
In truth, the article was published in the American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, a less prestigious, non-peer-reviewed magazine.
But again, it's, we've seen the reaction to this.
People basically said there need to be two types of, I'm sorry, defenders of the Black Miss Lisa Cook have basically said, you know, what are all these white people doing, going after this?
You know, what are they trying to prove here?
And It really is exciting to see this pushback by people on the right.
Again, Chris Rufo, he's a one-man wrecking crew, and he's done so much with DEI to push that back, and now this.
No, I agree.
It's quite wonderful.
I saw his original piece, and when he laid out passages side by side, passages that she lifted Straight from other dialogues.
Sentence after sentence after sentence.
Paragraph after paragraph.
Hardly a change at all.
No attribution.
It's spectacular.
And of course, now all of the defenders of these idea thieves are saying, well, let's put Whitey under the microscope.
See if they do the same thing.
Well, I agree.
Let's put Whitey under the microscope.
I'd be very curious if Whites are doing the same thing.
If they are doing the same thing, they need to be told about it too.
Yeah!
I put myself further, put everyone under the microscope.
Yes!
And let's see what happens.
Let's see what happens when everybody is held to the same standard.
And if certain patterns emerge, which it's quite obvious they're going to emerge, there has to be consequences.
And then you realize that, you realize that, and this is something that Hood and I talked about on View from the Right, our great job is to undo the 20th century, the damage.
That's kind of what the 21st century is going to be.
Well, as I've often said, my generation, we boomers, have made a terrible mess of things.
A terrible mess of things.
At least some of us realize that, trying to at least save a few bits of wreckage from what we have destroyed.
But yep, we have left a very difficult and daunting challenge to your generation.
And I would apologize if I thought it made any difference, but I'm doing my best.
So, OK, well now, can we move along to another melanin-enhanced super-performer black lady?
On behalf of millennials, we accept your apology.
Thank you.
Now, this is a lady who, as far as I know, never plagiarized.
As far as I know, she never inflated her credentials.
But she's still under the gun.
And this is none other than Tiffany Henyard.
I did a video about her.
She is quite a specimen.
She is the mayor of the village of Dalton.
in Illinois.
Actually, it's spelled Dalton, D-O-L-T.
It's as if only Dalts lived there, but it's pronounced Dalton for understandable reasons.
Well, she's been in trouble for all kinds of things.
And, oh, she makes these hilarious videos where she sings and she dances and she talks about how wonderful a mayor she is.
And she has makeup artists, professional makeup artists, come in and select her wardrobes for her.
And she flounces about.
I think she's quite the glamour push.
But in any case, one of the things she's accused of, of course, is misspending.
city money, fancy trips, and a big police escort wherever she goes for this tiny place
that only has a few thousand residents.
In any case, she's obviously a very corrupt and no good mayor.
Well, interestingly enough, the village of Dalton, or Dalton, had decided to hire former
mayor of Chicago, Lori Lightfoot, as a special investigator to look into her alleged misbehavior.
And so she would be paid $400 an hour to gather information on Hedyard's spending and financial mismanagement, as well as any other state and federal violations.
And at the end of the investigation, Lori, baby, will present a report to the village of Dalton.
And last month, Mayor Henyard vetoed the board's resolution to probe her spending over purported misuse of funds, and the FBI has already begun an investigation of Tiffany Henyard.
Now, why it is the city is prepared to splash out $400 an hour to get A former mayor to look into this?
I mean, what's the idea here?
Hire a mayor to investigate a mayor?
Pay a thief to catch a thief?
And why lose your lorry, for heaven's sake?
$400 an hour?
An eight-hour day, that's $3,200.
It's an eight hour day, that's $3,200.
You do the math out, that's a pretty bill.
Nice work if you can get it.
And they say, I understand that Dalton is in real financial straits, it can't pay its bills because of all the money that Tiffany has been ladling out to her friends and into her own pocket.
So in any case, it'll be an interesting little thing.
Now moving on to, in some respects, a more serious problem here.
It's the Seattle Gifted and Talented program.
It has shut down the program because the school board determined there were too many whites and Asians in it.
Oh dear.
The district began phasing out what it called its Highly Capable Cohort Schools.
I wonder where they got that idea.
What a name is that?
Highly Capable Cohort Schools.
Is that just a stupid way to try to avoid saying gifted and talented or gifted?
In any case, it started in the 2021-22 school year.
Because there just weren't enough blacks and Hispanics.
And apparently three elementary schools, five middle schools, and three high schools are currently devoted exclusively to these highly capable cohorts.
And all of them will be phased out from that designation by 2027-2028.
By 2027-2028, parents of the small number of Black students in the highly capable cohorts
asked the board to consider finding other ways to get more students of color in rather
than shut the whole thing down.
And apparently, the school board vice president, Chandra Hampson, who, as far as I can tell, is a white lady, said that this is a masterful job at tokenizing a really small community of color within the existing cohort, whatever that means.
She said what they were doing was insulting She says, no, you can't do that.
But the parent said, look, look, look, my request is that you please consider the disservice you would be doing to the minorities that are already in the HCC program, which is an obvious thing.
If you've got if you're a BIPOC and you've got a child who's smart and forgetting, you realize it's doing your child a lot of good.
And they say, no, no, we just ditch the whole program because we don't have enough BIPOCs.
And what's going to happen?
I mean, this is the kind of fabulous fantasy that runs academia, government, every institution in the country.
The gifted and talented program has been replaced with what's called the highly capable neighborhood school model.
This will require teachers to come up with individualized learning programs for all students.
So they're going to mix the dummies and the smarty pants in the same classes, and the teachers have got to come up with an individualized learning program for every one of the students.
Teachers have said, and I believe, they don't have the time and the resources to make a learning plan for every one of their 20 to 30 students.
This is just such Nuttiness.
And we find this everywhere.
As you say, as you say, in 2024, nothing makes sense.
And this certainly makes no sense at all.
We saw a similar thing happen in the city, in Atlanta public school system about a decade, oh my gosh, about 15 years ago, where the test scores were apparently going up.
And the test scores going up were tied to teacher salary and compensation.
So basically the teachers had a vested interest in inflating the scores of a school system
that is, I want to say, 95% black.
And it turned out that they had lied to get these financial incentives reached when they
hit certain thresholds.
Well it wasn't just that.
The lady who was in charge, she was paraded around the country as an example of the brilliant things that could be achieved with melanin enhancement, and she got some fancy federal job in D.C., and then it turned out That they'd been cooking the books, they'd gone in after the tests were taken, they went and erased wrong answers and put in right answers so that their little charges would appear smarter than they were.
Yeah, it was just a systematic fraud, but that's slightly different from obliterating the GT program to begin with.
Anyway, once again, in the area of, in 2024 nothing makes sense, let's move to France.
Where a feminist teenager was arrested on Tuesday after being reported to police by a city mayor for demanding that foreign rapists be deported.
That's enough to get you arrested in France these days.
I'm sorry, could you just- All right, I'll repeat that.
Repeat that please, sir.
I will.
A feminist teenager was arrested in France After having been reported to police by a party, a Green Party mayor, for having demanded that foreign rapists be deported, demanding that foreign rapists be deported, got her arrested.
In fact, two teenage activists from a group called Collectif Nemesis, that means the Nemesis Collective.
I like that.
They're trying to forestall Nemesis, or I don't know, maybe they claim to be.
Nemesis is another word for fate, as I recall.
Maybe they are embodying fate.
But they attended a carnival in the southern French city of Besançon on Sunday, and they held up placards.
And I saw photographs of the placards.
They said, one said, free us from immigration.
All for that.
And the other was deport foreign rapists.
And the group highlighted the fact that 46 women could have been spared from rape by illegal immigrants if the authorities had enforced their expulsion orders just last year.
Isn't that something to think about?
There are enough illegals who hadn't been given the boot as the authorities had demanded, so that in a single year, 46 French women have been raped.
Well, the demonstration was denounced by the city's mayor, Anne Vigneault, who has previously pushed pro-mass migration and who announced that she would be filing a police complaint against these activists for alleged hate crimes.
And apparently it's the one who held up the sign that said deport foreign rapists, who was arrested and was under investigation for hate crimes.
There was a search of the premises belonging to her father, where she lives, and her personal computer was seized.
Isn't this remarkable?
The incident made national headlines after being highlighted by Jordan Bardella, the president of the National Rally, the former National Front, who wrote on social media, in Emmanuel Macron's France, a sign calling for the expulsion of foreign rapists is enough to land you in police custody.
Common sense and freedom of expression have been deserted by our institutions.
Now, apparently, after only 10 hours of interrogation, she was returned to the bosom of her family.
But this is really an extraordinary development.
We're just holding up a sign.
And Mr. Kersey, it just baffles me.
Here's a lady mayor.
I mean, she's a Green Party mayor.
So that means her brains are made of probably Gruyere cheese rather than white matter and gray matter.
But still, she doesn't think Convicted rapists should be deported?
I mean, this is just astonishing idiocy, but the kind of thing we deal with all the time.
Well, Mr. Kersey, I believe you have some remarkable stories about DEI, so please regale us with them.
Yeah, I didn't earn it.
As we've heard people start to say, I think it's very funny.
It's amazing that that has become such a rallying cry now, that people are What did someone say?
The mayor of Baltimore, Brandon Scott, said, hey, that's the new N-word.
DEI.
Well, you and I had a bit of a tiff on that whole subject.
The fact accusing him as somehow being implicated in the collapse of the Key Bridge because he's a DEI mayor.
I think that's very silly.
And of course, he's not a DEI mayor in the usual sense, because people voted for him.
He is a racial solidarity mayor, if you will.
Black people voted for black people.
That's not quite the same thing as DEI.
That's 100% true.
100% true.
And the story we're about to talk about is also 100% true.
It's not from The Onion.
It's from Fox News.
Ladies and gentlemen, we learn that the State Department has mandated support for diversity Equality and I'm sorry, equity and inclusion ideology as a prerequisite for promotions.
You are judged.
That's the that's that's the headline of the story.
So basically what we see here is they've implemented a policy to condition eligibility for promotions on an employee's ability to pass a loyalty test and diversity, equity, inclusion in order to be considered for promotions and higher pay, higher compensation.
Following President Biden's executive order, Mr. Taylor, one of your colleagues, one of our colleagues at AR, the New Century Foundation, Gregory Hood, said that every nation has a state religion.
Would it be incorrect to imply that DEI is the state religion, anti-whiteness is the state religion of the United States of America in 2024?
No, no, I would agree.
And one of the things that the brilliant Gregory Hood has said on the subject of state religion is that this is a religion that never promises salvation.
All white people are guilty and no white person will be saved because no matter how hard we
try, we can never be fully non-racist.
So it's a religion in which we are all going to go to hell anyway.
No indulgence is possible.
and yeah.
Eternal damnation is what we get in the present, and our posterity gets in the future, and our ancestors just get removed and replaced.
That's right.
You know, let's see here.
We have Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, President Obama's former Malta ambassador, was appointed as chief diversity and inclusion officer in April 2021 for the State Department.
She was in that position until June 2023.
According to Abercrombie-Winstanley, state created a policy under Biden that conditions promotions on whether employees are able to demonstrate through documentation that they are actively involved in DEI practices.
I don't know what that means, but that sounds good.
That's an excellent question.
How do you document it?
Do you carry around a tape recorder and record yourself saying DEI type things?
I don't know.
How does it work?
I guess you have to say, well, you know, I don't know.
How do you document how DEI crazy you are?
But in any case, you had to document it.
I guess you have to use whiteness as a pejorative 10 times a day.
That's exactly what you're carrying around.
Quote, we made the change that if you wanted to be considered for promotion at the Department of State, you must be able to document what you're doing to support diversity, equity and inclusion and accessibility.
Throw another vowel in there while you're at it, Vanna.
This is how you're judged for promotion, she said at the City Club Forum back in April of 2023.
So that means my allies who are not female or minority are also interested in being able to show I'm doing good work on this.
When reached for comment, Abercrombie Winstanley told Fox News Digital, American needs are best.
The department wants leaders who can develop top talent among all Americans, whatever our background, not just those who share our life experiences.
You know, she probably, she probably is capable of believing two utterly contradictory things at the same time.
That, OK, you've got to go out and hire these people simply because they are the protected classes, and that is the same as hiring
people who are the best.
She probably believes that. What do you think? Oh, 100%.
100%.
I mean, it's like you said, it's on its face, so evident, so obviously self-contradictory, but it doesn't matter because, again, when you are a firm believer in a religion, the more fanatical you are, the more you're going to be able to justify that religion's existence.
And that's, of course, as Mr. Hood is developing that concept.
I love it.
All levels of the State Department.
All levels of the State Department, Washington and abroad, have been affected by the mandate.
Another diversity chief appointed under Biden who sowed controversy over commentary on white people, Kelsa Wing, had her DEI unit in the Pentagon disbanded after congressional fury over her posts.
She wrote in June 2020, I'm exhausted with these white folks in these professional development sessions and white folks is F-O-L-X.
Wing also said she needed a break from white nonsense.
On another occasion, she responded to a user who said, quote, I'm exhausted by 99% of the white men in education and 95% of the white women.
Where can I get a break from white nonsense for a while?
Well, you know, that's 6% of white people she likes.
Well, yeah, where can she get a while?
You know, there are plenty of African countries.
You could go to Haiti.
You know, there are places that will welcome her, I suspect.
Of course, the question is, where do we ever get a respite and arrest from nonsense of other kinds?
But we're not allowed to.
We're not allowed to ask a question like that.
Yeah, that's that's right, that's right, that's right.
And then I believe there's another story to just quickly dovetail into and discuss.
Two thirds of US colleges, universities require a DEI class to graduate.
Again, this is More chilling news of just as the State Department, if you want to be promoted, you've got to show a loyalty test, a fealty test.
Well, that's the same thing now in colleges.
If you want your diploma, hey, take one of these DEI classes.
Speech First, a group advocating for First Amendment rights on U.S.
campuses, released an investigation on Thursday that found 165 248 selected institutions from American U to Williams College mandate DEI classes to meet general education requirements.
The classes, quote, place students into identitarian groupings based on racial, sexual, and political characteristics to create a rigid framework amongst students where they only see each other as either the oppressor or the oppressed, the executive summary of the 33-page report states.
So obviously we know what that means.
White people, you're an oppressor.
BIPOCs, You're oppressed.
That's pretty much it, cut and dry.
It is remarkable that that has become so widespread, and I think it really dates from May 25th, 2020, when Mr. Floyd ascended into heaven.
It really, it's just been a remarkable invasion into American society at large of these critical race theory ideas that had been more or less quarantined into the outer lunatic reaches of universities.
It's just taken over society.
It's extraordinary.
State Department.
Oh, there's a story about Boeing.
I'll talk about Boeing in just a moment.
And Every institution, churches, businesses, media, government, all of the organizations and institutions that run the country are bending the knee in the most enthusiastic way to this new state religion.
Absolutely correct.
Yeah.
I mean, we've talked about it before and we haven't really thought, we haven't really thought about just the grotesque implications of when the military stood down back in 2021 after Biden.
That's right.
Yes.
And the black department of defense had Uh, they basically looked at every division and they tried to shake out racism and those opposed to DEI.
I mean, it's, it's those who are loyalty to those who are loyal to this, to this.
And we already know that, you know, basically, uh, when, once you get past the rank of captain, you've got to just keep your mouth shut and, and, and drink out of the fire hose of whatever ideology pushed your way for, uh, for promotion.
So, um, When you think about it, it's a wonder the country even manages to stagger along with all of this obsession about something, devotion to something that is so obviously destructive to standards, to efficiency, to accomplishment, to excellence, anything that any organization should obviously be devoted to.
You know why it does?
Because there's still enough white people who believe in America.
Let's think the numbers dwindling.
It's hot.
It's very much dwindling.
Let me just read a couple more things from this speech first.
Look for trainings and courses that included an anti-racist approach,
which often denounces whiteness or white supremacy, as well as the existence of
forced DEI statements in which faculty pledged to promote the ideology if hired.
The group also searched for the use of terms like intersectionality, toxic masculinity, critical gender theory, ableism, implicit bias, systemic racism, social justice.
Again, Mr. Taylor, our favorite word is missing there, and that's heat islands or shade equity.
But I guess they weren't prepared to look those terms up for DEI and ecology or, oh gosh,
what is birdwatching or anthology?
So I mean, again, every facet of education, it doesn't matter what discipline it is,
is infested with the DEI mindset.
Well, when you read Joe Biden's executive orders on DEI, essentially every act, every act of government
has to be directed to DEI.
Racial equity, making things better for our pets, every act, every single person, every moment of the day is whatever he's doing.
He's got to be thinking, how is this going to achieve equity?
It's utterly astonishing.
Again, it's astonishing we managed to turn a single bolt or pave over a single pothole with all of this obsession about the destruction of standards.
But anyway, here is the great Chris Rufo again in the City Journal.
Of course, you know, he's done a lot of work, but once you achieve a certain profile, then people call you up and you become a lightning rod for all of the things that he's been covering.
And apparently this happened with a guy who was a Boeing insider with direct knowledge of the company's leadership decisions.
And in Chris Rufer interviews, this guy says status rules every boardroom in the country.
The DEI narrative is a serious thing, and at Boeing, DEI got tied to the status game.
It's what you embrace if you want to get ahead, just like in the State Department, just like in the military, just like in universities.
It becomes a means to power.
DEI is the drop you put in the bucket, and the whole bucket changes.
Isn't that a nice metaphor?
Well, that's a simile, actually.
But no, it's a metaphor.
I beg your pardon.
It is anti-excellence.
If you'd said, it's like the drop you put in the bucket, and the whole bucket changes, then that makes it a simile.
That's right.
Likewise.
Yes.
It is anti-excellence, but it became part of the culture and was tied to compensation.
Every HR email is, inclusion makes us better.
This kind of politicization of HR, and you're talking about Boeing.
They're supposed to be making airplanes, for heaven's sake.
It's a real problem for all companies.
If you look at the bumper stickers at the factories in Renton or Everett, that's in the state of Washington where they actually build the machines, it's a lot of conservative people who like building things.
And conservative people do not like politics at work.
The radicalization of human resources doesn't hurt tech businesses the way it hurts manufacturing businesses.
And this is a very interesting point.
At Google, they're making a large profit margin and pursuing very progressive hiring policies.
Because they're paying 30 to 40% more than the competition in salary, they can get the top 5% of whatever racial group they want.
They can afford, in that sense, to pay the DEI tax and still find good people.
But this is catastrophic in lower margin or legacy companies.
I think that's a very interesting insight.
There have been similar observations made about all of the regulation, all the things, all the hoops you have to jump through in order not to fall afoul of EEO requirements.
Big companies, they can hire a whole bureaucracy to make sure that they're following.
Small companies can't do that.
So that becomes a real way for big companies to squash little companies who have to make sure that they've got the right number of colored beans and non-colored beans.
The right number of women and homosexuals and, as I like to say, one-legged African lesbians.
They got to make it all work out.
Then he's going to say, if you are a lower margin company or a legacy company, you're going to end up with the bottom 20% of the preferred populations.
Very, very good point.
And he also says DEI becomes a way to stop talking honestly to employees.
We need to tear off the veil of all of this coded language that's being used everywhere.
So yeah, we have really made quite a campaign on the DEI front here in this podcast, Mr. Kersey, but it's making a huge campaign just gutting the country.
So let's have a change of pace here and talk about Philadelphia.
I'm sure you were aware of the event in which four people were shot and dozens of shots fired during an Eid al-Fitr event in West Philadelphia.
Eid al-Fitr, of course, is the feast with which the holy month of Ramadan comes to an end.
After starving yourself during daylight hours for a month, Then you slit the throat of a sacrificial lamb, and you have yourself a very good meal, presumably.
In any case, about a thousand people were gathered to celebrate the end of Ramadan.
Approximately 30 gunshots were fired, and an officer assigned to the area engaged a 15-year-old.
Sources say the 15-year-old was carrying an assault rifle.
The officer shot the 15-year-old once in the left arm and once in the left leg.
I doubt, this is a lady officer, I doubt she was aiming for that, but she scored some hits, took the guy down, because he did not drop the gun.
Police have taken five people into custody, a 21-year-old man, he's the only actual adult of the five, one 16-year-old boy, one 16-year-old girl, and two 15-year-old boys, including the one who was carrying the rifle.
Five weapons were recovered.
Police say, and this is an important point, they don't believe That these suspects, all of them heavily melanin-enhanced, were connected to the celebration of Eid al-Fitr.
There were two groups shooting each other in the park.
The Eid al-Fitr event was located near the Philadelphia Mosque, which faces a park.
And there they had their 1,000 people celebrating in the park.
So it appears only to have been two groups of young blacks having a frolic.
And it has nothing to do with the celebration marking the end of the holy month.
Now, I make this point because some of our comrades insisted that this had to do with the end of Ramadan itself, and it would have been tempting to think so, but apparently this is one of those occasions in which there appear to have been no Muslim fingers on the trigger.
Now, here's a little story about foreign policy, and this is from The Economist.
India's huge diaspora, that's Indians living outside of India, is an increasingly powerful force for mobilizing support at home and abroad.
Indian politicians courted for its financial and campaign punch.
In India itself, the BJP has been in power for quite some time, two terms now, and it's been more successful than its rivals in mobilizing Indians overseas.
And if Narendra Modi—he runs the BJP—if he wins a third term, as seems likely, he can partly thank the people, the Indians living abroad.
Now, this is a fascinating figure, Mr. Kerry.
Some 18 million Indians who retained their nationality live abroad, and that makes them the largest diaspora in the world.
18 million.
Something you don't think about often, by the way.
I beg your pardon?
Something you don't think about that often.
No, no, you don't.
You don't.
You think of the Jewish diaspora, you think of Mexicans living abroad, but Indians, and Chinese, overseas Chinese.
But I guess the reason overseas Chinese are not the same, I'm sure if you counted the overseas Chinese, but many of them have taken local nationality.
But these are 18 million Indians who live abroad but have maintained their Indian nationality and citizenship.
Now the number of Mexicans who live abroad and who have remained Mexican is considerably smaller, 11.2 million as opposed to 18 million Indians.
And apparently there are 10.8 million Russians who live abroad.
They are the third largest diaspora.
I never think about them either.
Do you?
There you go.
That one actually makes a little more sense, the Russian.
You always hear about the Russians.
So yeah, no, that one, that one, that one's actually kind of interesting.
Well, it's interesting, but I just never, I just never thought of them as being a substantial diaspora.
They certainly don't make news.
In any case, if those who have relinquished their Indian citizenship are included, the number of the Indian diaspora may exceed 32 million.
You're telling me that 14 million Indians abroad in the United States, Canada, and probably South Africa, they've renounced their citizenship?
Well, they're not renounced, but they are Indians.
I mean, like Mexican-Americans.
It used to be that you had to renounce Mexican citizenship to become a U.S.
citizen.
Now you can do both, which I think is abominable.
But so yeah, if you count all the ones that are now citizens, I don't think Rishi Sunak is still an Indian citizen.
I mean, I hope not.
Presumably he's a British citizen, but he's one of these Indian diaspora who has made good in the new country.
And as The Economist goes on to say, Indians abroad have been successful.
In 2023, they sent home nearly $125 billion in remittances, which is equivalent to 3.4% of India's GNP.
Wow.
Isn't that something else?
Wow.
Yeah.
And in the United States, 80%.
of citizens of Indian origin have college degrees.
I think the figure for the rest of us is something like, what, 25% to 30%?
In any case, 80% have degrees, and the median Indian household income is $150,000.
That's twice the national median.
People of Indian descent lead Google and the World Bank and, of course, the United Kingdom.
Rishi boy, And overseas Indians have become prominent in their host societies, and they take an interest in politics, both in their new countries and back home.
So political parties are wooing them more keenly.
Mr. Modi and his BJP call the diaspora a vast reservoir to articulate the national interests and affairs globally that would be harnessed for strengthening brand India, as they call it.
And next year, the party's general secretary said the BJP saw the diaspora as India's voice abroad, as the way the Jewish community looks out for Israel's interests in the United States.
So there you go.
And it just shows the kind of trouble you can get into if you have a very large community with a particular secular line or a particular line on an international problem that is large enough to influence your own policies.
And that's what the Indians want to do.
So if India and Pakistan get in trouble, If there's some sort of conflict, if we have lots and lots
of highly motivated Indians, we may very well start doing things that are in the
interest of India and not necessarily in the interest of the United States. Mr. Miller, I can't
talk. The last time we actually had anyone interested in doing anything that would be in
the interest of the United States first.
You're right about that.
You're right about that.
Now, Mr. Kersey, I believe we have not much time left, so we must be concise, but you have a story about an anti-violence operator who got caught packing.
It's kind of like the stories of an aspiring rapper expiring.
We see so many of these across the country where there are ex-cons who become ensconced
in anti-violence groups or they're going to be mentors or peace mediators who end up engaging
in their old activity of violence.
And this is what happened in New York.
Ex-con busted on drug gun charges at New York City subway station.
He works for an anti-violence group in the Bronx.
The ex-con who was busted last month on gun and drug charges.
He's employed for a taxpayer-funded anti-violence organization that deals with youngsters in the Bronx.
Jermaine Green, a member of the Bronx, rises against gun violence.
Oh, so he's trying to beat the fare and they caught him packing.
Well, he was allegedly carrying a loaded ghost gun and a bunch of drugs when police say he
tried to slip through an emergency exit at the Fordham Road station in the Bronx.
Oh, so he's trying to beat the fare and they caught him packing.
Yeah, I guess I guess we I think that was when the National Guard was actually sent
by the governor of New York State to try and make the subways safe.
And well, maybe maybe he was part of that.
When officers stopped the 42 year old, they found him with a nine millimeter polymer 80
polymer gun with a dozen live rounds in his waistband.
He's on parole for a murder in Delaware.
Also allegedly had a clear Ziploc bag with a large quantity of crack cocaine as well as a scale to measure the drugs, police say.
Again, the acronym is BRAG for Bronx Rises Against Gun Violence, and it's one of those situations where We can just kind of laugh because as the story goes on, and I do apologize, I lost my screen.
They said this, BRAG adopts the Cure Violence model to prevent future violence by engaging with violently injured youth and their communities.
The spokesperson said, through activities like shooting responses and community events, the organization promotes nonviolent norms and provides support resources.
Well, one of your resources that supports this community is He's still engaging in said activities that you're trying to prevent.
Well, he didn't actually shoot anybody, but I guess he was prepared to shoot somebody if need be.
But if you're in the business of disrupting violence, what better way to do that than to shoot violent people?
Well, I mean, again, the article ends with this.
He's facing multiple weapon possessions related charges and drug related charges.
Quote, a convicted murder on parole was packing heat when he beat the subway fare yesterday, said the New York, said the NYPD chief of transit, Michael Kemper.
Again, it's lawlessness at the turnstiles, and yet he has a taxpayer funded job because the organization Bragg is 100% taxpayer supported.
You know, it would be interesting to know just how many people are getting a paycheck as violence disruptors or community activists.
They often choose these people because they have been thugs and criminals and packed guns and took all sorts of drugs.
They hire them, presumably, to go into the community and find somebody who's about to shoot somebody and tell them to stop.
How does it even work?
I guess you just drive around aimlessly and while you're doing that you can, as this guy was trying to do, he had a second job trying to sell drugs.
Well, I don't know, maybe that was for his own consumption.
A large amount of crack cocaine?
I just don't know.
No, it's just an extraordinary thing.
In any case, Mr. Kersey, our cup runneth over with stories and our time runneth under.
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And Mr. Taylor, I'd like to wish you and your entire family a happy Confederate Memorial Month.
Happy Confederate Memorial Month, indeed.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, it's always a pleasure and honor to spend this time with you, and we very much look forward to doing the same thing next week.
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