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April 19, 2024 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Black Power Couple Comes a Cropper

Jared Taylor and Paul Kersey mourn the travails of Marty and La'Quetta Small, mayor and school superintendent of Atlantic City. They also discuss U visas, baseball, and VP-pick Milena Abdullah.

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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 today is my indispensable co-host, none other than Paul Kersey.
Today is April 18th, Anno Domini 2024.
And we'd like to start, as we usually do, with comments from listeners.
And for some time now, we have had commenters who were reacting to the fact that I had dismissed the idea that it was legitimate to call the black mayor of Baltimore a DEI mayor in connection with the collapse of the Key Bridge after a container ship ran into it.
My position was it makes no sense to have him responsible for it in any way.
He didn't design the bridge.
He wasn't behind the controls of the ship.
Besides which, he's not a DEI mayor, really.
He's black, and the electorate is black, but you could call him a racial solidarity mayor.
But DEI is something else entirely.
Now, This, as I say, has been a subject of conversation because a lot of people approved of the idea of ganging up on this poor black mayor and invoking DEI, just one more opportunity to smash the idea of DEI.
This commenter says, Mr. Taylor's recent disavowal of the associations made between the Key Bridge collapse, DEI, and Baltimore's, quote, DEI mayor, in particular, is one of the many examples of Mr. Taylor's intellectual honesty.
Well, thank you for that.
That's certainly admirable.
However, says our commentator, when one considers the innumerable times when our opponents won rhetorical victories by spuriously attaching blame for the crisis du jour to President Trump, President Trump or just about any other white authority figure, it does prompt one to ask from a tactical perspective, why should we afford the niceties of objectivity and even handedness to those who have never granted it to us?
Well, there's something to that.
And yes, all's fair in love, war, and I suppose racial survival.
On the other hand, I think that if you make unreasonable accusations, Then the reasonable accusations become less and less credible.
If we accuse, if we say DEI when something really is not plausibly DEI, then when we really make an objection about DEI having to do with the fact that Boeing doesn't seem to be able to make a safe airliner, Or that the bus drivers in a particular city are getting into accidents because they are being hired because they're black and not because they're competent.
Those may be credible.
Those may be credible, credible accusations.
But if we start making wild accusations, then people say, the people complain about DEI are all full of mud.
So it is an interesting point.
And Mr. Kersey, would you not agree these days, Accusations of white racism are so wild and so implausible that they make the whole idea of racism as a cause of non-white failure that much more difficult to believe.
Mr. Taylor, it's great to talk to you and our amazing audience, our worldwide audience.
And yeah, I agree with you.
I'd also like to go ahead and say that we're also at a point now where DEI has just become this all-encompassing Slogan as we're gonna learn in one of our stories about
baseball in major leagues It kind of just means non-white. It's almost become synonymous
with that So that's that's why I believe he started to say that
because you know back in the early part of April or gosh When was the when did the bridge go down? I don't remember.
It was the week before Easter So the last week of March hardly has been that long already
But it's it's becoming a term that conservators are using and it's part of that big pushback. We're seeing so
Yes, yes.
But I think they have to use it in a sensible way.
It's a little bit like talking about woke.
Now, woke is an idea that covers a great many aspects of the foolishness of the left.
I think it's important to be precise with our language.
In any case, there's another comment about DEI.
This commenter says, last week you and Mr. Kersey talked about how DEI, diversity, equity, and inclusion, has become a state religion.
Well, do you know how to spell God or the deity in Latin?
It's D-E-I.
Dei.
I'm usually not one to subscribe to conspiracy theories or cosmic occurrences, but I find that coincidence a little creepy.
You know, I'd never even thought about that.
I've known for years the slogan of the Jesuits, Ad Magiorum Dei Gloriam, for the greater glory of God, but it just hadn't occurred to me, and I don't think I've ever seen anybody point out that D-E-I spells God in Latin, but it really is the God of the left these days, isn't it?
Well, that just goes to show you how well-versed, educated, and erudite our readership is.
Our listeners are our readership.
Indeed.
Indeed.
Yes, this time you're making the error and not I. I try very hard.
I call our listeners readers all the time, but I'm sure our listeners do read, too.
But in this case, they are listeners to the podcast and not readers.
Here's yet another comment.
This is another thought-provoking comment, Mr. Kersey.
Our listeners really do make some interesting and provocative points.
I just finished catching up on Ameren Podcasts and wanted to comment on what sounded like enthusiasm from both of you.
That means you, Mr. Kersey, as well as me.
Enthusiasm about new gun scanners in the New York subways.
You both also seemed pleased with the formerly used stop-and-frisk tactic in Giuliani's New York City, TSA's full-body scan and hands-on pat-downs, and El Salvadoran law enforcement techniques implemented by President Bukele.
He's right.
We did come out on the side of Bukele and Giuliani, and we thought that maybe it was a good idea to scan for weapons in the subways.
And our listener says, I understand that big cities in the U.S.
have serious crime problems, but I think it's a huge mistake, spelled Y-U-G-E in full caps, in these hyper-partisan times to express support for expanding jackboot police techniques.
Bukele accomplished what he has thus far accomplished by suspending many parts of the country's constitution.
TSA's electronic strip searches have always been unreasonable.
That's in the sense of reasonable search and seizure.
And so were many instances of Giuliani's stop and frisk.
It's naive to believe that jackboots will target only the bad guys.
Well, there is a point to be made here.
There's no question about it.
I don't like government authority, and yet when the population is running wild to the extent that it has, especially in our big cities, you have to react in some way.
I suppose a libertarian approach would be to arm all citizens, let them open fire.
But I'm not sure that's really the best solution either.
But I agree.
Our listener has an excellent point.
When power is in the hands of a government that is often beyond the control of the people, you really do have to watch out.
As they say, when the people fear their government, that's a very bad sign.
When the government fears the people, that is a good sign.
And we certainly don't have a government that fears the people these days.
Any views on that, Mr. Kersey?
We have a government that's replacing the people these days.
Yes, yes, that's one thing it's doing.
One of the bad things it's doing, one of the many bad things.
Now, the same commenter made a different point.
He says, in the same podcast, you talked about the shrinking fertility rates in East Asia.
Something to consider is that the current populations of East Asia are sustainable only because the world has been relatively peaceful.
Thomas Malthus was famously wrong for predicting a specific time frame within which Europe and American populations would crash because they ran out of food.
And he mentioned the primary checks to population as war, famine, and disease.
Technology has managed to keep ahead of famine and disease But Japan, South Korea, and China are all incapable of growing enough food to feed their current populations, and those checks on population have not gone away.
China imports between 10 and 25 percent of the calories its population consumes.
Japan imports 38 percent.
The Republic of Korea, well over 50.
Should war break out, Malthusian famine might not be far behind.
So, plummeting fertility rates in East Asia aren't all bad news.
Reducing populations to domestically sustainable levels is preferable to a Malthusian crash diet.
Well, that's an interesting point.
It's not really a central subject of our podcast, although I'm always sad when the high IQ races fail to reproduce themselves.
It seems to me, though, that this assumes that should there be a war, it would be of the kind we've had, maybe the First World War, Second World War, one that goes on for years, perhaps, that world trade can grind to a halt, there can be actual legitimate blockade, naval blockades that go on forever.
And that way, perhaps the Republic of Korea, if it really does import 50% of its food, might, in fact, starve in a bad way.
But I think that kind of war is over.
I don't think we're going to have long, drawn-out wars with land campaigns.
I know that we have one going on in Europe right now.
But something along the lines of the World Wars, in which there was absolutely no trade possible, I just think that era is over.
But it is significant that if these figures are true, that Korea imports 50% of its food.
The United States used to be one of the world's largest food exporters.
I don't believe that's the case now.
And I think we may, in fact, even be a net importer of food.
But it's always a good idea to be able to grow your own.
Agreed.
And the food that most Americans eat is just not only unpalatable, but toxic and unhealthy.
So, yeah, I agree with you.
Looking at what's going on, just real quick commentary on Ukraine and Russia.
I mean, this is a proxy war the United States is helping fund, and it makes no sense why there hasn't been a ceasefire, save for, you know, NATO and the United States trying to keep in check Russia.
It's just sad that it keeps going, because there are a whole generation of Ukrainian men who have just been wiped out.
Wiped out.
Oh, it's a terrible, terrible, grievous thing.
Both of those countries have way below replacement fertility rates, and there they're sending the young men off to slaughter each other.
It's absolutely, absolutely horrible.
I never thought we'd see the day within my lifetime when young white men are going to war against each other.
Hundreds of thousands of deaths on both sides.
No, it is absolutely awful.
Then, let's see, last comment.
This was a story that you brought up, Mr. Kersey.
It had to do with crime figures from New York City.
And our listener says, I've calculated a number based on the data you referenced.
Mr. Kersey pointed out that there were 471 known shootings by blacks last year.
That's when someone lets fire, opens fire, and someone is hit by a bullet but not killed.
That happens a lot these days because we have very good first aid services.
And the blacks who are 20.2% of the population were the perpetrators in 471 shootings There were only 15 shootings by whites, who account for 30.9% of the population.
That means a black person, on average, is 48 times more likely than a white person to be the trigger man in a shooting incident.
Just a little number that you can tuck away in your data bank to unleash at the appropriate moment.
48 times more likely.
Okay, now.
This was a story that reminded me of several incidents I've read about before, but haven't really talked about very often.
But it has to do with a certain Rashaud Scott, age 22, a man on the enhanced.
He was seen on surveillance footage running up to a couple gassing up their car at a Chevron station in Houston, Texas.
He appears to rob the pair of a purse and a wallet Points a gun at them, and he turns and runs.
An alarmed bystander pulled out his own gun and shot him in the head and killed him.
And you'd think, well, happy ending.
And in certain respects, I think it was.
But in a police interview, one of the apparent victims confirmed that the robbery was a setup.
The two make-believe victims wanted to be able to pretend they were crime victims in this little drama so as to apply for U visas.
In other words, these were foreigners living probably illegally in the United States.
But what is referred to as the U non-immigrant status that is granted to victims of certain crimes who have suffered mental or physical abuse and are helpful to authorities in investigating or prosecuting the suspects.
What police have now realized is that this little episode was a pattern of similar reported robberies.
That the victims afterwards, who had survived the robbery, had applied for and been granted U visas due to their status as victims of crimes.
And as it turns out, An accomplice of this make-believe robber, his name is William Winfrey, likewise melanin enhanced, he was arrested and charged with murder in connection with his accomplice Rashad Scott's death.
This is something that I believe you and I have talked about previously.
It's called felony murder.
You can merely have been connected in some way.
You don't have to pull the trigger or anything, and you can still be charged with murder.
You and I had differing views on its applicability in certain circumstances.
In any case, his accomplice has been charged with Scott's death.
He admitted In interviews under oath that he and Scott had carried out staged robberies of this kind for around for over a year in order to get you visas for people who were in on the fraud.
Now it just goes to show you that this is really food for a lot of thought.
It goes to show you what happens when you set up perverse incentives.
Because a crime victim, you become a crime victim and you can hit the visa jackpot.
And it makes me wonder, what was the thinking behind this regulation to begin with?
Why does a crime victim, I mean even a real one, deserve to get permanent residency?
And is this just one more excuse to get people into the country?
In any case, I remember hearing about staged robberies and make-believe crimes in the past.
I'd kind of forgotten them all about them.
And apparently this guy, he had said he'd been doing this for years, and people had now, and the police now looked back and they see a whole pattern of this.
I wonder how often this takes place.
But what do you think is the thinking behind this?
Do you think it's just some sort of sob story?
Oh, the poor deer got raped, and gosh, now we better give her a green card?
This just seems like a crazy way to run our immigration system, but it's just one of many crazy aspects of it.
Well, you hear people say the purpose of a system is what it does, and you have to ask yourself at this point, you know, What is the value of American citizenship if we're just going to give victims of crime permanent legal status?
It's just one of these absurd stories.
I meant to send this one last week, actually, and there's been so much.
There's so many stories that are happening, though, you know, the invasion of the border by the administration and all these people around Lincoln, Riley, everything, everything that's happening right now.
It's it is.
For people like us, as close as we are to this stuff, it is it does.
There are moments where you have to come up for air and be like, wow, I'm not sure I want to swim in these waters anymore, because how murky is it going to get?
Like, how deep does this rot go?
And, you know... Pretty deep.
Beyond the ice, yes, it does.
In any case, Mr. Kersey, I think you have a story about Joey Reid, who seems to be surpassing herself.
She is really true to her identity here.
Well, this is the story that I Teased, where I talked about how DEI has become this all-encompassing word, just basically describing unearned power by BIPOCs.
I kind of think that's where white conservatives are taking it.
And this story was on Fox News.
It's MSNBC host praises DEI officials prosecuting Trump Quote, wonderfully poetic.
Joy Reed applauded her co-ethnics, Alan Bragg, Fannie Willis, and Letitia James as DEIs pursuing Trump.
She said she praised the black officials for prosecuting former President Trump, saying earlier this week, my DEIs are bringing it home.
And she said that with a lot of enthusiasm, embracing the term.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg was the first person to criminally prosecute Trump, and it was wonderfully poetic, Reid said.
DEI, which stands for diversity, equity, inclusion, has become a hot topic of debate as Conservative governments like Florida and Texas, as well as Alabama and Missouri and a number of other states, Mississippi, I believe Arkansas as well, South Carolina, have banned such programs from college campuses.
Quote, but for me, there is something wonderfully poetic about the fact the first person to actually criminally prosecute Donald Trump is a black Harvard grad, Joy Reid said.
The very kind of person that his former staff, the people who work for him, Stephen Miller, et cetera, want to never be at Harvard Law School.
But he was, and he came out and graduated.
And he's prosecuting you, Donald.
Miss Reed said with, uh...
A lot of glee in her eye.
I'm sorry, a lot of glimmer in her eye.
I can see it now.
I could just imagine.
Just smiling, smiling, smiling, happy joy.
That's what she's named for, her joyful state of mind.
A big old Cheshire Cat smile.
Quote, and a black woman is doing the same exact thing in Georgia, and a black woman forced you to pay a $175 million fine.
Read continued, referring to District Attorney Fannie Willis in Fulton County and New York Attorney General Letitia James, quote, Donald Trump is being held to account by the very multicultural multiracial democracy that he's trying to dismantle.
It says something good about our country that we're still capable of having that happen.
Go DEI.
My DEIs are bringing it home.
Of course.
You know, it's so strange that DEI has come under criticism when the very process has been around since the 1970s.
It's racial discrimination against whites to get non-whites, and in some cases women, in some cases sexually confused people, into positions that they wouldn't otherwise be qualified for.
That's been around for decades.
And it's good that I suppose now that it's got this new name, DEI, that people are complaining about it, but it's been around for an awful long time.
But clearly, she uses the term as simply black power or non-white power.
Of course, the idea that Donald Trump is trying to dismantle some kind of multiracial democracy is completely idiotic.
The idea that Stephen Miller never wants to see a black man at Harvard Law School, that, of course, is idiotic, too.
But this just goes to show she thinks 100 percent in racial terms.
She says our team is winning against a guy that we see as against our team.
And I hope more and more white people see it that way.
Oh, and I think they do.
If I could just tease a book that's coming out this upcoming week.
I'm not sure if you've seen this yet, but it's this incredible book by Jeremy Carl.
Are you familiar with this, with this author?
Oh, we already have a reviewer lined up for it.
Yes.
Excellent book.
Yeah.
And just for all of our listeners, get that right.
You can read the review at AmRen soon, but you can go to Amazon or wherever you get your books, and you can type in Jeremy Carl, and the title is The Unprotected Class, How Anti-White Racism is Tearing America Apart.
That comes out April 23rd.
So that comes out this upcoming Tuesday.
And I have I have a copy myself.
I'm reading it.
It's quite good.
It is the type of story that shows we are now on the flank of these conservatives who are really doing a great job.
Hey, you know what it's it's better late than better late than never right?
No, it's it's people are showing up and as we're we're just dragged on the ground kicking and kicked again and again and again finally all of a sudden reinforcements arrived and I think we've seen with the rise of Chris Ruffo and And other individuals, Tucker Carlson, basically, and Matt, forgive me for forgetting his name, Matt Walsh at the Daily Wire.
Yeah, their base.
Oh, and Charlie Kirk.
I mean, a guy who was, I believe, American Renaissance's majority renegade of the year back in 2019.
Now he basically just came out and attacked the Civil Rights Act.
Um, saying all of our problems derive from there, which again, they're getting closer and closer.
I would argue that you have to go back to Shelley Cramer in 1948, which is what the great Carlton Putnam in Race and Reason, uh, stated.
Um, which is a great book.
I think AR actually has copies of those available, but no, we are at, we're at a point now where, you know, the whole DEI thing, what Joy Reid just talked about where she's cheering it on, we're basically seeing If you still believe that there is fairness in this country when you see what's happening to Donald Trump and that she's cheering on black elected officials who are prosecuting.
I mean, Donald Trump said it all along.
I'm the only one stopping them from getting to you.
And as silly as Trump has been since he came down the escalator, he's helping show what's going to happen when we basically are living through a reconstruction 2.0.
Yes, and what's the subtitle of this?
How Anti-White Racism is Tearing America Apart?
Yep.
I like that, tearing America apart.
Let's hope it does tear apart.
I'm on the record.
Let's tear it apart.
Yes, indeed.
If the FBI wants to come around and inquire further about my views, I'll be happy to explain.
Well, and again, and I would reiterate what you just said, but I'd say we're not the ones tearing America apart.
We are ones who want to Put together the Flotsam and Jetsam of the old republic, but unfortunately there are those who laugh at that and who think that anybody who believes in the old republic, that they deserve to be prosecuted.
Well, let's see.
Another story here.
Did you know, Mr. Kersey, black youth feel less safe when they visit predominantly white areas of their city?
I did know that because I read the story.
I hadn't known that till then.
And it's those black children who spend most time in white-dominated areas who feel the least safe.
So saith Christopher Browning, lead author of the study and professor of sociology at Ohio State University.
He says familiarity with white neighborhoods doesn't make black kids feel more comfortable and safer.
In fact, familiarity seems to reveal threats.
I mean, these sociologists, they'll find anything they feel like finding, won't they?
The study was published in the Journal of Adolescent Health.
Researchers gave participants smartphones which they used to report on how safe they felt as they moved through the city over a one-week period.
Five random times a day, the youths received a mini-survey that asked them where they were, what they were doing, who they were with, the social characteristics of the setting, and how safe they felt.
And the GPS on their phone recorded where they were.
And the study also measured violent crime levels in the areas that the youths visited.
They generally felt safe when they were near home.
We're glad to hear that.
Both blacks and whites were less likely to say they felt safe when they were in census blocks that did have high violent crime rates.
However, when white youth, youth, Now, this word rubs me the wrong way.
When white youth are in white-dominated spaces, they tend to feel a little safer.
But that's not the case for black youth.
And the unsafe feeling for black participants in the study increased with more exposure to predominantly white neighborhoods.
There's the fear of being the victim of racial violence.
Oh, God, that just happens all the time.
Or having a potentially dangerous encounter with the police, which, while rare, is always possible.
Says the author of the study.
I mean, do they think the police are going to come after them because it's a white neighborhood?
But there is also the sense of psychological safety.
We think of it as the sense of trust that black youth have that they can be themselves and not be at risk of being excluded, which could include anything from microaggressions to outright discrimination.
While a lot of attention has been paid to the problems black youth face growing up in segregated neighborhoods, this study suggests that leaving those areas may present problems as well.
Oh gosh, ain't it awful?
Segregation is awful, but white people are scary.
Well, I don't know.
Maybe it should be better known that the likelihood of white-on-black violence is about one-thirtieth of violence going the other way, but that's not something that anybody's ever taught.
But the idea that young blacks, young blacks would feel more dangerous in white areas compared to black areas, that just, that seems quite counterintuitive to me.
I mean, even Jesse Jackson, as you will recall, he knows better than that.
Years ago, famously, he had to confess that if he's walking along at night and he hears people behind him and he turns around and he sees white people, he's relieved because he knows black people are dangerous.
He does racial profiling just like everybody else.
I wonder really what went into this study.
I just don't understand it.
And maybe when they're talking about microaggressions, when they're talking about maybe, I don't know, the idea that for black people to feel that they are unsafe when there are white people around.
That just seems utterly idiotic to me, and it must be nourished by a completely false story about the likelihood of violence crossing racial lines.
Now, it seems to me that here's a story about a young black person perhaps legitimately feeling unsafe.
Marty Small, age 50, is the mayor of Atlantic City.
His wife, Laquetta Small, is superintendent of the Atlantic City Public School System.
Laquetta, for those who are curious, is spelled L-A apostrophe capital Q-U-E-T-T-A.
And as one would deduce from this exotic spelling and pronunciation, Mr. and Mrs. Small are a black power couple in Atlantic City.
They are now, however, both accused of abusing their 16-year-old daughter on many occasions after she refused to stop seeing a boy that she was dating.
Charges against them, including beating her unconscious with a broom, threatening to... What?
Yes, yes.
With a broom.
Probably, I assume the stick hand, not the bushy hand.
Threatening to earth slam her downstairs, striking her with a belt and punching her in the mouth.
Mr. Taylor, I'm sorry to interrupt.
What did you say?
Earth slam?
Earth slam, yes.
I guess that's a body slam.
Earth slammer down the stairs.
This is in quotes.
So we are quoting the mayor of Atlantic City was threatening to earth slam his 16-year-old daughter downstairs.
Now, the couple was secretly recorded abusing their teenage daughter by the very boyfriend of whom they disapprove.
He did this by using FaceTime.
So he's doing video chat, didn't have to be there in the same room, and I guess the parents didn't know what was going on.
And the boy also provided investigators with photographs that showed the girl had scratches, bruises, swelling, and hair loss.
They'd ripped her hair out.
Good grief.
The boyfriend also described the 16-year-old daughter's clothing as being ripped.
On one occasion, she asked her father to move out of the way so that she could go to school.
Mr. Small is overheard on the recording saying, Sit down!
I'll smack the weave out your head!
The teenager then, on another occasion, let's see, her boyfriend had food delivered to the house.
And when Mama Laquetta, again, L-A apostrophe Q-U-E-T-T-A, found out, she threw the food in the garbage and dragged her daughter by the hair and beat her with a belt, leaving welts.
Both parents have been charged with second-degree endangering the welfare of a child, and Mr. Small is charged with third-degree terroristic threats, aggravated assault, and disorderly persons simple assault.
I don't know why it's terroristic threats.
I guess if you threaten to body slam somebody down the stairs, that's a terroristic threat.
Now, after this came out, the mayor refused to step down.
And he's even posted photos on social media with the caption, hashtag unbothered.
I'm glad to hear he's not a lot.
Now, there's a little aspect of this.
There's a lady by the name of Constance Days Chapman, one of these double-barreled Black power names, I guess.
She's a principal who works at one of the schools in the district, and she previously worked for Mr. Small's mayoral campaign.
She was recently taken into custody—I didn't know you could be arrested for this—for not reporting child abuse allegations made by a student.
Officials have not confirmed that the student was, in fact, Marty and LaQuetta's daughter.
But she apparently told authorities that she had mentioned that she had talked about her abuse to this very principal.
So I guess if that's true, a former campaign ally has been covering up the fact.
Weeks before charges were brought, the mayor held a bizarre foul-mouthed press conference during which he said he was under investigation, but insisted that his daughter was not pregnant with twins by a drug dealer.
Now, why would he feel compelled to make that observation?
He also stressed he had nothing to hide.
And at the press conference, Small denied claims that he had abused his daughter and said any accusations against him had political and racial motivations.
I guess his daughter, when she went to the school principal, had racial and political motivations.
In any case, his wife, daughter, and son were all present at the conference.
The daughter apparently looked uncomfortable during all this, but she remained silent throughout, and the press did not ask her any questions.
Now, to me, the crowning achievement of all of this is the fact that the press conference was opened by a black preacher who quoted Martin Luther King, Jr.
Yes, why would he not?
Why would he not?
But there you go!
This is the mayor and school superintendent of Atlantic City up to antics of a most unusual kind.
But Mr. Kersey, you have yet another story about DEI.
And the fact that DEI is withering on the vine means that baseball is losing black players.
Gosh!
Gosh!
Another crisis!
Another crisis!
Well, I just want to go back and say that I'm sure Joy Reid will do a special about the Atlantic City conundrum befalling the black elected mayor and say, hey, my DEIs are bringing it home and they're going to earth slam the weave out of someone's head.
Well, yeah, they're going to agree.
The accusations are just pure political and racial motivation.
I'm sure.
But yes, back to baseball.
Well, baseball, the season just started.
I know you're pretty excited about Major League Baseball kicking off the latest 2024 season.
And yeah, this is one of the stories that I've seen a lot of people talking about, and it is MLB's few black players left should be a warning about the war on DEI.
Now, this article comes to us from Drury Reed's blog, Mr. Taylor, at MSNBC.com.
She has a blog?
She has a blog?
She wrote this?
She did not write this.
One of her bloggers wrote it, but it's her website.
Okay.
I'm not a regular.
I should be.
You'd be surprised at the diamonds in the rough you'll find.
This is one of them.
The number of black American ballplayers in MLB has plummeted to just 6%, offering a warning about what can happen when institutions de-emphasize diversity.
Now, every year we get one of these articles, by the way, lamenting the fact that the black participation in baseball is dropping.
But this one's interesting because, once again, that word is seeping into the vernacular, DEI.
I guess it's the god we all have to worship.
Yes.
As MLK celebrates Jackie Robinson and his pioneering contributions to the game, I cannot but think about the fact that the league is reporting a historic low number of Black American players in its ranks.
Only 6% now.
Of course, it's not a historic low.
Before Jackie Robinson, there were no Black players in Major League Baseball, but anyways, that's a quibble.
The Black author of the piece says, I think this is a teachable moment at a time when diversity efforts across various arenas have come under attack.
MLB, unfortunately, is a prime example of what it looks like to talk the talk without always walking the proverbial walk.
Back in 2021, sports historian and professor Louis Moore wrote about the decline of black players in the MLB and the league's indifference to it.
He wrote this, quote, baseball's failure to get out in front of the problem in the 1970s and early 80s had real and lasting consequences.
The number of black ballplayers in MLB remained relatively stable from 77 to 1987.
And then the well nearly dried up.
Today, the number of African-American players sits at an all-time low of roughly 7%.
If MLB wants to increase black participation in the game, the league will have to make massive investment in youth baseball, bring back more black decision-makers into the fold.
I guess that means that they're going to recommend only signing black high school players or college players, and stop recruiting the same type of kids the game is appealing as basketball and football.
Mr. Kersey, why is it, I mean, what What possible reason, really, does anyone have to care?
Really?
Unless you're black, and you want black people to be everywhere.
Everywhere, everywhere, everywhere.
I mean, is it really, is it really the league's job to do what you say?
Spend millions of dollars making sure that young black children are cajoled into playing baseball rather than basketball or football?
I mean, no one, no one would, yes, no one, no one raises this issue.
I mean, it's just so obvious to say so.
It's almost trite to say so.
But no one is suggesting that the basketball leagues undertake this kind of thing to get Mexicans into the league or black or white people or Asians or anybody else.
This is just so nutty.
I mean, perhaps I should save this question for the end, but does anybody but cuckoo journalists even care about this?
Well, a lot of people do.
Again, because every year we get the same article comes out.
Journalists?
It's journalists who write, or do the fans care?
You know, I think fans are indifferent.
I bet they don't.
If you look at the league, there are a lot of Afro-Caribbean players from the Dominican Republic.
That's something else I was going to ask.
How many black players, in fact, are there?
It's not as though they want to keep black players out.
It's just that black Americans.
Do you know what the percentage is if you add up all the black Caribbean players?
I would have to look that up.
I don't know off the top of my head.
I just know that the white participation in Major League Baseball is actually increasing.
I can't have that!
No, no, I mean, and this goes to the heart of the whole black run America concept that wherever there is a positive black people, the only logical explanation is white racism.
And so that's what they want to say that these scouts who are who are who are monitoring the best high school players, best college players for development and to then get within the minor league farm system.
They're somehow engaging in collective discrimination by, eh, that black guy's not good enough.
No, no.
This is just so crazy.
I'm sure they're getting the best players they can.
And Ida, they're somehow prejudiced against blacks.
Look at all these Caribbean blacks.
No, this is just utterly nutty.
And to me, I refuse to believe that baseball fans care.
They want to see good players.
And you know, you were mocking my alleged lack of interest in pro baseball.
But I confess, I do have an interest.
There is one guy that I actually follow.
Who's that?
Can you guess who that would be?
Come on.
Think hard.
Who would I follow?
What baseball player would I follow?
Think hard!
Is he currently playing?
He's currently playing, yes.
Oh, come on.
He's the top.
He's the top paid guy, I think, in professional sports history.
Ohtani.
That's right.
That's right.
The Japanese superstar, Shohei Ohtani.
He's such an incredible hitter.
Yeah, he's He is.
He's the Babe Ruth of this era.
He's a tremendous player and he signed that incredible deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
And yeah, he's a huge draw.
It just goes to show from an international standpoint, the game needs players of that stature and of that just incredible ability and skill and dexterity.
And it just goes to show you, they are the guys who are the best.
They'll drag them all the way from Japan, they'll drag them all the way from the Dominican Republic.
I mean, isn't there now a famous, one of the best white basketball players, what is he, a Serbian or something with an unpronounceable name?
You know these things and I don't.
Luko Donovic, I think he plays for the Dallas Mavericks.
I don't really, I haven't paid attention.
To the NBA recently, but I believe that the number of white Americans is at a very very low and it's a European white.
Yes that are the ones who are making up and they're basically the best ballplayers to These guys want to win games and the idea that somehow, you know, oh gosh, they're just looking the other way when those talented black high school kids knuckleballs. It's just utter nonsense. Anyway, is there
more of this story? Let's wrap it up.
Let's wrap it up. Let's put an end to this game. We've been in the seventh inning stretch
too long. Basically, the article says there's been some steps, but the moral of the story
we mentioned is institutions where there's a declining emphasis on diversity are over
time likely to see their number of Black participants go down as well. And at a time when diversity
programs have come under attack from right wingers, MLB's failure serves as a cautionary
tale of what we stand to lose. And again, Major League Baseball is already trying to
quote, unquote, remedy this problem.
But what we stand to lose.
What we stand to lose.
Not enough homegrown American blacks in baseball.
What a horror.
What an embarrassment.
I'm going to have to cry myself to sleep.
As I say, I bet nobody cares.
It's only the people who write these articles and professional hopped up black people who cares.
Yeah, and Major League Baseball, I just found the article, Mr. Taylor.
MLB, even as an article, it came out last year, so we have last year's numbers at least.
Overall, MLB diversity up.
Effort to increase black participation continues.
Again, diversity just means replacing white people.
for the start of the 2023 season of 945 players. 59% were white and 40, about almost 41% were
BIPOCs, non-whites or Asians. And so that, yeah.
Well, but what's the total number of people who you would look at and you say, oh, he's Black,
whether or not he grew up in America?
Does it have that?
It's got, there are 59 black players at the start of the 2023 season, 6.2% of the Major League Baseball, 285 Latin Hispanic players, and of course that encompasses both black Hispanics and... Yeah, I bet a lot of blacks.
So, and then there were 30 Asian players to start the 2023 MLB season, 3.2%.
2023 MLB season, 3.2%.
So again, it's basically one of those situations where baseball is an
increasingly expensive sport.
When you have young children, you know that.
You have a young travel team.
You're basically playing year-round.
It's one of the reasons why you have seen such, I believe, a shift for blacks to play football and, of course, basketball.
Anyways, again, this is the type of story, though, that you're seeing more and more conservatives push back on.
Outkick.com.
I've praised Clay Travis.
He's the guy who replaced Rush Limbaugh's time slot.
And, you know, his website is a steady stream of, I would argue, racially conscious looks at sports from a white perspective without being explicit.
It's a first step.
It's the first step.
You know, the first step from implicit to explicit is just noticing there's a problem, and that we're increasingly there.
So that, my friend, is the final out of this inning, so we can move on to the next story.
All right.
Well, this story I would put under the category of, to quote the great Jesse Jackson, keep hope alive.
Keep hope alive.
This has to do with reparations for slavery.
The California Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill that would create a new state agency for implementing the state's reparations task force recommendations and to determine who qualifies.
The legislation that got the reparations ball rolling calls for the creation of a cabinet-level agency to carry out any of the task force recommendations that are enacted by the state legislation.
And based on the current definition, it's not clear who actually qualifies.
Just how much, how black, and under what circumstances do you have to be to hit paydirt?
And apparently it's descendants of an African-American enslaved person in the United States.
They would get, and as I say, keep hope alive, because it ain't going to happen, they would qualify for 1.5 million dollars.
But if all you have to do is be a descendant of an enslaved black person, some people are worried that a lot of white people could make that claim, because perhaps a certain number would.
And they'll have to decide, you know, All of this, again, it's all fantasy, because the state legislature is not going to vote.
I don't think it's going to vote a dime in terms of actual cash handouts to people who are descended from American slaves, especially if they're living in California, or if the black people are living in California.
This stuff is just so nutty.
It's a state that never had any slavery.
It's just preposterous.
But they are still hoping and dreaming.
And another guy who's still hoping and dreaming is Cornel West.
He is running for president, and he has just picked his vice presidential candidate.
And her name, I bet you don't even know the name, although you know so much, her name is Malena Abdullah.
She's the co-founder of the Los Angeles BLM chapter, and she's the former chair of the Department of Pan-African Studies at Cal State University.
In February, she said she felt that it was slightly racist to be a Taylor Swift fan.
She said this when Taylor Swift appeared at the Super Bowl Sunday to support her boyfriend, Travis Kelsey.
Is that how you pronounce his name?
Travis?
In any case, I'm not at all a Taylor Swift fan.
Yes, Travis.
That's his name.
I guess that means I'm not racist, because if you're a Taylor Swift fan, that would make you slightly racist.
And if you're not a fan, I guess I'm not racist at all.
She then also said that she felt like the Boyfriends team, the Kansas City Chiefs, winning the game in overtime was some right-wing, white supremacist conspiracy.
I guess if it felt like a conspiracy, it must have been a conspiracy.
Boy, those right-wing white supremacists really are powerful.
They can make their chosen team win in overtime.
And of course, she wants to defund the police.
That goes without saying.
And this vice presidential pick has endorsed rioting in white neighborhoods.
She says, we've been very deliberate in saying that the violence and pain and hurt that's experienced on a daily basis by black folks at the hands of a repressive system should also be visited upon to a degree to those who think they can just retreat to white affluence.
So, it's only to a degree, Mr. Kersey, if you want to go riot and loot white neighborhoods, only to a degree it's appropriate to do that.
It's likening Liking Taylor Swift to being slightly racist.
I guess this is a very thoughtful, moderate, and nuanced person, this VP choice.
Retreat to white affluence.
Is that the phrase?
Yeah, retreat to white affluence.
In other words, if you think you're safe by retreating to your whitopic neighborhood, no, no, no, no, no.
We're going to come in, and we're going to riot, and we're going to burn things, and we're going to make life.
Fuck your we right out of your head.
We're going to earth-slam Whitey.
Yes, we're going to earth-slam Whitey, yes.
Now, Cornel West announced his choice of vice president on the Tavis Smiley Radio Show.
I guess keeping it within the family, Tavis Smiley is also melanin-enhanced.
I was on his program once, believe it or not, and he said that, I wanted someone whose heart, mind, and soul is committed to the empowerment of poor and working people.
Abdullah said of her response to Cornel West's offer, my soul and my spirit felt as though God was speaking to me, and I said yes immediately.
Boy, she talks to the big boy upstairs, wow.
Ah, do you ever get that feeling, God speaking to you, Mr. Kersey?
Long pause here, long pause.
Some listeners might say that I'm speaking to a god who walks on the earth, but a man whose integrity shines where so few others have dared tread.
But anyways.
Oh, dear.
I wouldn't know who such a person might be, but let's see.
Now, Cornel West, did you know part of his program, one of the planks of his platform is a $27 minimum wage?
Why not?
50 bucks.
Why not 100 bucks?
What a cheapskate this guy is.
$27 minimum wage.
That's about $54,000 a year if they're working 40 hours a week.
Okay.
Yep.
Yep.
As I say, what a cheapskate.
I say a minimum wage ought to be $100 an hour.
Come on.
Come on, Cornel West.
Do you really care about poor people or not?
He also is going to declare a climate emergency.
He is going to shake Whitey down for reparations.
He's going to abolish ICE and demilitarize the border.
Dismantle the US Empire and disband NATO, among other things.
I'm very curious to know what's included in the among other things.
I better go to his website and find out.
I wonder if he might have jail time in mind for Jared Taylor and Paul Kersey.
But yeah, he's going to declare a climate emergency.
I don't know if that's going to do any good.
And he's going to shake us down for reparations, abolish ICE, demilitarize the border, dismantle the U.S.
Empire.
I mean, there may be something to that.
What do we have, soldiers in 100 countries at least?
Disband NATO.
He's thinking big.
He has also called President Biden a war criminal for supporting Israel in its war on Hamas.
And he suggests that the 81-year-old incumbent might not make it to the general election because he's running out of gas.
Now, it seems to me, Mr. Kersey, all Biden ever does is gas, but he's running out of gas.
Now, the former Harvard professor, he is facing an uphill battle getting on the ballot.
So far, his campaign has claimed to get enough signatures to be in South Carolina, Oregon, Utah and Alaska.
So it's going to be an all black ticket.
Top of the ticket, bottom of the ticket, and we'll see how they do.
It's my great hope that he gets on as many ballots as possible.
Oh, yes.
Oh, yes.
I mean... Well, we want more choices in America, don't we?
We want to be able to choose two real, genuine cuckoo birds here.
He's the choice of nation dedicated to seeing America rip itself apart, so why not?
Yes, yes.
You have some news about Philadelphia schools.
This is actually Baltimore County schools, I believe.
Oh, I thought it was Philadelphia.
Well, I beg your pardon.
Shut my mouth.
We've got two stories.
There is one about Philadelphia.
This one is one that I want to encourage all of our listeners to check out because it's over at FoxBaltimore.com.
And the headline is Baltimore County teachers scared to be in school, violence taking a toll.
And it's an interview with a white man, a white teacher, and it is accompanied with some just incredible footage of the violence that these teachers face every day.
The attacks by students, students attacking one another.
And as we know, in Maryland, they have a black governor.
And one of the first things they did was try to lessen Criminal offenses for juveniles and to take out resource officers from schools.
So because of course that's, that's racist.
You can't have resource officers.
So this is the rule we get now.
This is from a Baltimore County teacher says Lock Raven High School is at a breaking point following a string of recent violent brawls caught on camera.
Project Baltimore spoke with Steven Kronberg, a teacher at Lock Raven, what a cool name, who was injured in one of the recent incidents.
Quote, There's students who walk around the school and they don't feel comfortable.
They don't feel safe.
I would say scared.
Are there teachers that are scared?
Asked Baltimore, Project Baltimore's Chris Papp.
Absolutely, replied Cronenberg.
For 24 years, he's taught high school social studies.
Quote, I never thought when I became a teacher that was possible for me to be in such an environment.
I didn't know it existed.
12 of those years he spent at Locke Raven High School in Baltimore County, where he says student violence is out of control.
Something has to be done.
Every few days, there's a massive brawl, he says.
On the morning of April 9th, a massive brawl broke out in the classroom next to Cronenberg's.
When he heard the screaming, he ran over to help.
It's a natural instinct to help kids who are being harmed, he said.
Upwards of eight students, maybe more, were involved.
It was pure chaos, and Cronenberg was right in the middle of it.
I'm trying to get kids to separate from one another.
Unsuccessfully, I should add.
As the fight intensified, he fell to the floor.
For 16 seconds, the students remained on top of him, fighting each other.
He was helpless.
I remember being on the floor looking up and the fight was still going on, he said.
The fight, according to Cronenberg, was the third major fight last week at Lock Raven.
Project Baltimore obtained video of all three incidents.
One of the fights occurred in the school's main office, and the video of the school's assistant principal is seen slamming into the front desk and falling to the ground.
The third fight took place in a hallway with two girls violently attacking each other.
Quote, the students who come to school to get education, they're the biggest victims here because they're not getting it.
And the students that are taking away that right, From them, well, there has to be another placement where they can get their right to an education, but without disrupting anybody else.
Over the last 10 years, according to state data, the school has seen suspensions and expulsions steadily increase.
In 2014, the school had 39 suspensions and expulsions.
By 2022, the numbers skyrocketed to 31.
Last school year, they were at 184.
It's incredibly disruptive, he said.
Some students are struggling at the school.
Last year, 272 students took the state math exam.
The state redacted the data because so few students scored proficient.
The results show that 5% or fewer of students scored proficient.
That means 95% or more of the students at Loch Raven who took the test were not proficient in math.
He said there's a solution to the problem.
Violent students have to be removed from the school and enrolled in alternative education such as virtual learning or homeschooling.
The students involved in the fights, according to him, will likely be suspended for a few days and come back to school.
But when that happens, He says he won't be there. I'm going to take some time off
and try to take care of myself, said Cronenberg. He says that if he had a choice, he never
wants to go back there.
This is just so sad. And as he says, it's terrible for the small number of black students who
actually want to learn something. And it's a wonder that teachers survive and persist at all
in an environment in which they feel like they're in physical danger.
And it's true.
You see these videos that circulate of some black thug walking up to a teacher and just slapping her or attacking a teacher, attacking each other.
These massive brawls, as he says.
They are what, in fact, would be known as a phrase.
And this is something that shows up in this last little story we're going to talk about.
This took place in Australia.
Mr. Ted, if I could finish the story real quick.
The school, by the way, is 63% minority enrollment.
percent minority enrollment. It's 47 percent black, 36 percent white, and 7.5 percent Hispanic.
So.
Why?
There are worse places.
There are far worse places.
This guy describes what sounds like a battle zone.
Yeah.
In any case, terrified parents fled a Melbourne shopping center with their children after a fight broke out between a group of machete-wielding Sudanese.
They carried a number of weapons.
They're waving knives, throwing chairs.
As one terrified mother said, it happened right where the play area is in front of the parents' baby's changing room.
Shoppers In some cases, they started throwing things at the combatants after they walked around waving large knives.
Well, this is why you need an armed citizenry, you Australians.
Three youths were spotted leaving the shopping center covered in blood.
Or a whites-only immigration policy.
Yeah, Sudanese.
Sudanese.
Now, two boys, a 15-year-old from Melton South and a 16-year-old, were also arrested.
The 16-year-old has been charged with affray.
Affray.
That's a crime in English common law.
It happens when a group fighting in a public place disturbs the peace.
Now, I guess if it doesn't disturb the peace, maybe it's not an affray.
Of course, we have all these blacks fighting each other in class and movie theaters and shopping malls, 10, 20 at a time, but they don't seem to be disturbing the peace.
In fact, everyone around them seems to be screaming with delight.
They say, go, go, go!
And they're all got their cameras out filming.
They don't seem to be disturbed.
They seem to be most enjoying it.
And if people are enjoying the show, I guess it's not an affray.
But it's nice to see that unusual word in print.
An affray.
An affray.
Well, Mr. Kersey, we have run out of time.
And I forgot to say already how much we like to hear from our listeners.
I got that right.
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