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The Strange Effects of Being Around Gun Violence

Jared Taylor and Paul Kersey marvel at what reportedly happens to blacks. They also discuss French elections, fake Eskimos, and bumps in the road for the ADL and SPLC. Thumbnail credit: Terence Faircloth via Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/

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	Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
	I'm your host, Jared Taylor, and with me is my indispensable co-host, none other than Paul Kersey.
	And although today is July 2nd, Anno Domini 2024, you will probably not be hearing this until July 3rd, for excellent reasons that I didn't go into.
	We'll be posting a day late.
	Now, Mr. Kersey, We, as usual, have comments, and one is in reference to your good self.
	Yes.
	Someone writes in, say, your indispensable co-host, Mr. Paul Kersey, and he spells your name with a Z, K-E-R-Z-E-Y.
	I think that's rather rakish.
	I think you should stick to that, Mr. K. Your indispensable co-host feeds into the generic stereotypes of what a white man sounds like.
	Well, I should think you ought to sound like a white man.
	For instance, on his last podcast with Gregory Hood.
	So this is an avid listener who listens to both our podcast and the podcast you have with Gregory the Great.
	Our listener goes on to say, you said in a chipper voice, we're a few days into summer.
	It's probably hot wherever all our listeners are.
	I hope you're all hydrating and staying cool.
	And I laughed and said to myself, such a generic, suburban, middle-aged, white dad thing to say.
	Pretty silly how stereotypes are often true.
	Well, you know, the only thing about that that strikes me as so stereotypically white dad's suburban middle age is the hydrating business.
	You know, I never heard about people being hydrated until maybe 10 or 15 years ago.
	Up until then, you know, you'd say, I'm thirsty.
	And now children come and say, I'm dehydrated.
	We used to say, don't stay hydrated.
	We say, just drink enough water.
	But now everybody's hydrated or dehydrated.
	I find that quite surprising.
	But then, you know, I started life as a young fogey, and the older I get, the older a fogey I become.
	But Mr. Kersey, this guy's paying attention to you.
	You watch what you say.
	Don't want to sound too generic suburban middle-aged dad, right?
	I think that's the goal of all white men, isn't it?
	That's the goal of all white men.
	Very good.
	Very good.
	Yes, indeed.
	Now we have another comment.
	This is quite a serious comment.
	A lady writes in to say, I am writing to tell you about that horrible Hamburg Park gang rape.
	Yes, that incident and its aftermath are still stirring my stomach, actually.
	I think they always will.
	We talked about this last week.
	This poor, I think it was a 14-year-old girl, 14-year-old girl was out breaking COVID isolation rules in Hamburg Park in Germany, got drunk and separated from her friends.
	And she was repeatedly gang raped, and her rapists were let off a slap on the wrist, and one of the judges and experts said, oh, you know, these immigrants, these people, they had irregular immigration, and they were feeling frustrated, and sex is a way for them to feel like they belong, or some sort of just astonishing, horrible stuff, just utterly, utterly stomach-churning.
	And then a lady who complained about them, Get to go to prison, despite the fact that of the nine convicted gang rapists, only one went to prison.
	All the rest of them just got time off.
	And a lady who wrote an insulting email message to one of them has to go to prison only for a weekend.
	But that's more time than eight of the gang rapists got.
	In any case.
	Enough of that, I suppose, although I'm not sure we could ever have enough of that.
	Just this disgusting behavior by these non-white immigrants and disgusting behavior by self-loathing, a lady judge and a lady expert who tried to explain away this just heinous, heinous behavior.
	In any case, the listener writes in to say, you mentioned that one of the rapists is a Pole known to the media as Arsen, A-R-S-E-N-K.
	Well, he might hold Polish citizenship, but Arsen is not a Polish name, and was in fact not given to any Polish child during the years 2000 to 2003, which would have been when Arsen was born.
	And she sent a link of a record of names given to Polish children during that period.
	Very thorough sleuthing going on here.
	Then she also sent a link to a video by someone named Persia X.
	It's on Bitshoot, of course, because no doubt YouTube would never dare run anything like this.
	And it shows the faces of the rapists.
	I should point out that their identities and their photographs were carefully concealed.
	Can't hurt their little feelings, you know.
	Some of them were somewhat underage, not all of them.
	But, you know, can't let the world know who these people are.
	And at minute 420, Persia X presents Arsene.
	Our correspondent writes to say he looks like someone from the Caucasus region, maybe a Chechen.
	What is your opinion?
	Well, I have to agree.
	He's not my idea of a Pole at all.
	And Chechen looks like as good a guess as any.
	And our correspondent says, I very much hope you can correct this mistake.
	I and all of my fellow Polish countrymen would be very grateful.
	Well, you know, Mr. Kersey, I must say, When I read these reports and had to talk about this, and I named the nationalities of these various horrors, the word poll was stuck in my throat when I said it.
	It just didn't seem like, to me, something a poll would do.
	However, that's what the news report said, and I always strive for accuracy, and I am very pleased to be able to make this correction and very grateful to our listener.
	So there was not a single poll among these vermin that raped that poor 14-year-old girl.
	So that's it for the comments on this week's podcast.
	But ladies and gentlemen, I particularly appreciate the comment from the lady who wrote in and told us I was wrong about that poll.
	It was a very detailed comment, well established, well backed up, and it corrected a mistake that I've made, and I'm deeply grateful.
	And you can write to us.
	Two in two ways, one of which is to go to amren.com, A-M-R-E-N.com, that's the American Renaissance website, and click the Contact Us tab, and you will get a message sent straight to me.
	And we love to hear your comments on things, things you might not have covered, different angles you might have, critiques, and sometimes if you have nice things to say about that, we like to hear that too.
	And the other way to reach us is… Oh, it's so simple.
	Go to your email and send me an email at becausewelivehere.com.
	Okay, and there is big news from Europe.
	It has to do with the French elections.
	The National Rally, which used to be known as the National Front, came in first in the first round of the legislative elections with 33.1% of the vote.
	Then there was a left-wing alliance, what they call the New Popular Front.
	It came in at number two at 28 percent.
	And then Emmanuel Macron's camp came in third at 20.76 percent of the vote.
	Now, this left-wing alliance is a very interesting thing.
	They've cobbled that together.
	To try to have a massive coordinated effort to keep the National Rally, the former Jean-Marie Le Pen party, from getting a majority of all the seats in the parliament.
	And they have really papered off their differences because there's even the head of the Socialist Party, a Jewish guy named Glucksman, who has made common cause with the France's unbowed party, which has really taken the Hamas side in the Israel-Hamas war.
	I'm sure both sides are holding their noses in this alliance, but that goes to show you how desperate they are to join forces to make sure that Marine Le Pen and the so-called far-right does not win.
	And of course, what Marine Le Pen and her number two guy, Jordan Bardella, want is an absolute majority.
	of the 577 seat National Assembly.
	That would require having 289 seats, which would be tough for them because now they have only 89, and they need 289.
	But there is a faint chance that they could get that.
	Turnout for these elections was 66.7%, the highest for a parliamentary first round since 1997.
	Now, the way it works is, in France, you have a two-round election system, really quite interesting.
	And you can have as many candidates as you want in a particular jurisdiction.
	If no candidate gets an outright majority in the first round, then the top two contenders, as well as any candidate that got more than 12.5% of the total number of registered votes in that constituency, moves on to a second round.
	So, normally there would be two, sometimes you get three, and very rare occasions you might get four candidates battling it out in the second round.
	The larger their turnout, the more likely there will be a three-way race, because the bar is 12.5% of the total registered number of votes, and we had a pretty high turnout.
	Now, what happens is many so-called centrist candidates, that's the old fuddy-duddy Republican Party, it's rather like the American Republican Party, any of those who came in third are expected to withdraw so that if there's a socialist or a green or a communist, part of this broad-based leftist coalition, it'll have a better chance of beating the national rally.
	In other words, people who are not voting for the national rally will not split their vote.
	Likewise, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who is the absolute unabashed communist leader—he's a self-styled communist, the real thing.
	People talk about Marxists and communists in the United States.
	I don't think we have hardly any left except in academic circles.
	This guy is an out-and-out commie.
	He says when his party's candidates are in third place and the national rally is in the lead, he too will insist that they withdraw.
	The National Rally is going to face this across the board conspiracy to keep the party out.
	In fact, in the words of Mr. Macron's socialist predecessor and former boss, François Hollande, he was the president.
	He was the last socialist president.
	He says, we have an imperative duty to ensure that the far right cannot win a majority in the assembly.
	And Emmanuel Macron's prime minister, Gabriel Attal, he said not a single vote must go to a national rally.
	Well, that's, of course, a pipe dream.
	There are going to be plenty of votes.
	Millions of votes will go to the national rally.
	He doesn't want a single one to go.
	He goes on to say the stakes are clear to prevent the national rally from having an absolute majority.
	Now, what's the story in this national rally party that's got them all just shaking in their little booties?
	It has a set of policies that range from banning mobile phones in school classrooms, it wants to cut taxes on energy, and also it wants to keep foreigners, non-French, from getting any kind of social welfare benefits.
	It also wants to stop the further third world mass immigration and it wants to end birthright citizenship.
	That's about it.
	That's about it.
	And everybody, everybody, even journalists in the United States, well, I should say, of course, journalists in the United States, are acting as though this is the return of Adolf Hitler.
	And even if, even if the National Rally in Marine Le Pen have an absolute majority in the Chamber of Deputies, which I find unlikely, white dispossession will go on just a little bit slower than before.
	And there was a fracas when one of the former shadow cabinet members of the National Rally said that he thought that no French cabinet minister should have dual nationality.
	And he had in mind, in particular, a minister of education who was of Moroccan origin and had Moroccan and French citizenship, dual nationality.
	He said he doesn't go in for that stuff.
	That's dual loyalty, divided loyalty.
	And Marine Le Pen said, no, no, that's perfectly all right.
	She slapped him right down.
	She says Republican values do not permit this kind of distinction.
	So she is really watering down her program a gallon at a time.
	But as I say, all the world's press is terrified.
	The Adolf Hitler and Goebbels and Goering are on the march again.
	There'll be swastikas flying from the Élysée Palace if the French don't pull it the right way.
	But it'll be interesting.
	And yes, I beg your pardon?
	Where's Zamora in all this?
	Where's Zamora?
	Zamora is way on the sidelines.
	It's really too bad.
	He and Marianne Maréchal, who is Marine Le Pen's niece and was once a member of the National Rally, they had a falling out because Marianne Maréchal, she is a real identitarian.
	She believes that, for example, Islam is incompatible with being French.
	But she has, the National Rally has really kicked her out.
	They got very few votes in the first round, very few votes in the European elections.
	So everybody is trying to make their votes count.
	They're going to try to vote for the National Rally.
	Although it is, if you want to call it a nationalist party, it is an increasingly limp-wristed nationalist party.
	But I'm still optimistic.
	I'm still glad that they're doing as well as they are.
	This is going to be a long fight, Mr. Kersey.
	And we have to be grateful, even for baby steps, towards some kind of realization that France must remain French.
	In fact, they plan to get rid of birthright citizenship.
	And they're going to try to be a little tougher on the borders, try to deport some of the criminal aliens.
	They're going to try.
	At least that is better than what Emmanuel Macron is doing.
	But as I say, Macron, and everybody to his left, thinks that the world will end if the national rally gets any kind of traction.
	But something to keep your eyes on, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls.
	It takes baby steps to get to sprinting, doesn't it?
	I beg your pardon?
	It takes what?
	Baby steps?
	It takes baby steps to get to sprinting.
	You've got to walk first before you can sprint.
	That's right, that's right.
	I think Mao Zedong had one of those, the shortest, the longest Let's see.
	The longest voyage, the longest something begins with a single step.
	Not quoting him very eloquently, but just Mao Zedong.
	He also said, let a hundred flowers bloom.
	Whenever I think of federalism, I like that idea.
	Let a hundred flowers bloom.
	States rights.
	I don't often quote Mao Zedong approvingly, but let a hundred flowers bloom.
	Now, Mr. Kersey, I think you have another one of these bad news stories.
	300,000 Haitians could be coming our way, or they're already here and they're going to be here to stay.
	Yeah, the DHS has announced that it's shielding an extra 300,000 Haitians from deportation.
	I'm pretty sure it's Kenyans.
	citing the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the country, where I forgot what country has sent over,
	uh, was it the Ivory Coast who sent over peacekeepers? I'm pretty sure it's Kenyans. Wasn't it Kenyans? It is Kenyans.
	You're right.
	It's even, yeah.
	I bet the boy, boy, will they keep the peace?
	Mmmhmmm.
	Yes, the last time they had foreign peacekeepers, they buggered little boys, they passed around cholera, they took liberties with the young talent.
	Oh boy.
	Anyway, we'll see how it works out.
	Yeah, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said he is extending and re-designating Haiti for Temporary Protected Status, TPS, our favorite thing in the world, for 18 months until February 2026.
	The re-designation allows Haitian immigrants, including those in the country legally who were not covered by prior designations, to apply for the protection and for work authorization.
	Did you say the ones who are here illegally can apply?
	I did.
	Including those in the country illegally.
	Especially the ones in the country illegally.
	To be eligible, Haitians must have been in the U.S.
	as of June 3rd.
	Of course, if they're here illegally, how is anyone going to know what date they got here?
	Did they get that stamped somewhere when they crossed the border?
	Anyways, DHS predicts that will allow an estimated 309,000 additional nationals to file for TPS.
	On top of those already protected, the use of TPS has repeatedly sparked pushback from Republicans and immigration hawks who say TPS encourages illegal immigration from those countries with people coming in anticipation of the next re-designation.
	When Venezuelan TPS re-designation was announced, Customs and Border Protection sources told Fox News the decision will only compound the problem with the border and draw even more Venezuelan migrants because of the pull factor of being granted TPS status.
	and the ability to get work authorization. There were 163,781 encounters, Mr. Taylor,
	of Haitian nationals at the border in fiscal year 2023, and that number has already been exceeded in fiscal year
	2024.
	Think about that again.
	163,781 encounters of Haitian nationals at the border.
	Last time I checked, Haiti was an island nation.
	So again, that's a long, arduous trek to get here, whether they're coming through Mexico or trying to come up by boat to Florida.
	The Biden administration has allowed Haitians to be flown into the U.S.
	for parole as part of the parole processes, parolee processes for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans.
	The acronym is CHNV.
	I mean, again, these are people who have no business being an American.
	Hopefully, if certain things happen in November, come January 20th, 2025, one of the first things that is done is TPS is gotten rid of for good, and these people are given a one-way flight back to Haiti, Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua.
	I say give them a rowboat.
	You know, there's one-way flights, so that's all pretty expensive, too.
	But yeah, Haitians, isn't that just what we need?
	Isn't it ironic?
	The more a nation is likely to wreck itself, the more obviously uncivilized a people proves themselves to be, then the more likely they are to get TPS.
	If back home everybody is wrecking the place, that they just can't manage the country, they can't manage each other, they can't manage themselves, then, yeah, all their brothers and sisters and all their similar folk get to stay in the United States.
	Isn't that the most insane thing?
	Meanwhile, in Canada, this was a firm treatment, firm treatment of a lawbreaker, a rare thing in Canada, but you will be not surprised that it was firm treatment in a surprising direction.
	A Canadian woman was sentenced to prison for falsely claiming her daughters were Inuit.
	Inuit, of course, is the fancy, fashionable word for Eskimo.
	We're not supposed to call them Eskimos anymore.
	I guess that's as bad as calling black people Negroes, although I don't really understand.
	We used to call them Eskimos and feel absolutely nothing wrong about it.
	In any case, she claimed her daughters were Inuit in order to get scholarships and grants.
	Her name is Karima Manji.
	Now, I haven't had a chance to look into her ethnic origin, but in any case, she got three years in the pokey!
	Three years after pleading guilty to one count of fraud of over $5,000.
	Now, she had twin daughters, and she fraudulently claimed that they were Eskimo babies, so they could get all these benefits from what is called the Nunavut Land Claim.
	Well, Mama's Sentence is the first of its kind in Canada for one of these pretendians.
	Manji claimed the children were biological daughters of an Inuit woman named Kitty Noah and that she had adopted them.
	And apparently that was all a tall tale.
	But once these twins were enrolled in the benefits program, listen to this, they received benefits of more than $158,000 total.
	Scholarships and grants for their online business that sold COVID face masks, and regularly advertised the brand as Inuit-owned.
	$158,000 of special handouts for Eskimos.
	Wow!
	Now, originally, the two twins were charged with the fraud, but these were dropped once Mama stepped in and pleaded guilty.
	They were her biological children, after all, and not one drop of Eskimo blood in them.
	Meanwhile, Manji, that's the mama, she has paid back $130,000 of the money and was ordered to return the remaining balance.
	Well, that means she's only got $28,000.
	She's only $28,000 short, but she's still going to spend three years in the big house, Mr. Kersey.
	Now, I was deficient in my scholarship on this point.
	I should have looked up just what sort of person this Manji is.
	It would be fascinating to me if she were, say, some kind of, I don't know, South Asian, for example, or Middle Easterner, not even a white person, who has tumbled to the fact that being an Eskimo is a hot ticket, $158,000 worth of hot tickets.
	But in any case, she is going to jail for claiming that her children were not what they were.
	Isn't that interesting?
	Now, I wish that in this country, people who claim to have been victim of hate crimes got the short end of the justice stick, but that doesn't seem to happen very often.
	And when you do claim to be an Indian and you're not, I've never seen anybody go to jail for that in the United States.
	Have you ever heard of such a thing, Mr. Kurz, here in the United States?
	No, I have not.
	No, you get humiliated, you lose all your fellowships, and you have to cover your face in shame whenever you're out in the public, but you sure don't go to jail.
	So the Canadians are pretty serious about making sure that only Eskimos get the handouts that are designated exclusively for Eskimos.
	Now, Mr. Kersey, you have a good news story having to do with tractor supply.
	This is a great news story.
	Tractor supply retreats from DEI amid conservative backlash.
	Now, that's a rural retailer that is known for selling animal feed and workwear, said it's done with corporate diversity and many environmental efforts, a striking reversal as more companies face criticism.
	Mr. Kersey, Mr. Kersey.
	A company.
	activist. Tractor Supply said last Thursday it's eliminating all jobs focused on diversity,
	equity, inclusion, and withdrawing its carbon emission goals. The Brentwood, Tennessee-based
	retailer also said it's retiring its DEI goals and would stop sponsoring pride festivals for
	the LGBT community and voting campaigns ahead of the presidential election.
	And then Mr. Kersey, Mr. Kersey, a company, I mean, they do sell tractors also, obviously.
	They have a rural, probably overwhelmingly white clientele.
	And what possessed them to get into the pride parade business or the DEI business at all? This
	is a pleasant return to sanity, but what an inexplicable, astonishing, disgusting venture
	into utter looniness.
	But this is every company.
	It's not just your company.
	I mean, after you think back to what happened after George Floyd, I mean, how many billions of dollars were promised to Black Lives Matter, et cetera, et cetera.
	So, yeah, tractor supply is just another just ahead of the curve when it comes to, like you said, crossing the chasm and being an early adopter of that return to sanity.
	The moves, which come weeks after criticism on social media from prominent conservative commentator, represent one of the most dramatic corporate retreats from progressive initiatives at a time when many companies are reconsidering their advocacy of a host of causes.
	Quote, we have heard from customers that we have disappointed them.
	We have taken this feedback to heart, the company stated on Twitter.
	Tractor Supply's core customer base is more rural and male than general big-box retailers such as Walmart and Target, with many customers in regions that tend to vote for more conservative political candidates.
	The company faced a surge in conservative activist complaints about its DEI efforts earlier in June, first on Twitter, then on other social media platforms.
	Some commentators threatened to boycott the brand-mirroring tactics used to nudge other companies to respond.
	This was all led by conservative political commentator and filmmaker Robbie Starbuck, who called on his followers to start buying what you can from other places.
	Activist efforts against tractor supply are part of a wider conservative movement directed at companies in recent years that in some cases have hurt sales by putting firms in the crosshairs of heated cultural and political debates.
	So, again, you have to wonder how many of Robbie's Starbucks followers have ever even set foot into a tractor supply store.
	But that doesn't matter, because the point is, whatever transpired to convince these people, the higher-ups, the executives within tractor supply, they did their job.
	It's over.
	So they forced to retract, and that's what's important.
	Yes.
	Well, I bet all the LGBTQ pride parade people are going to stop buying tractors, you know?
	That'll earn a tractor supply.
	But what, now wasn't it, what company was it?
	Was it Walmart that had some LGBTQ homo pride line of clothing beginning with babies?
	No, no, no, it was Target.
	It was Target.
	You're right, Target.
	It was actually last year.
	I remember walking into Target in June of 2023 and It was like, where am I?
	This is repulsive.
	And I had a friend who's on a school board not far from where I live, and she said, what were you doing going into Target?
	Haven't you known to boycott Target for years already?
	And I was like, my bad, my bad.
	I get it now.
	But didn't they pull back?
	I think they ended up selling that stuff only online, and then they even gave out online, but I'm not sure.
	All this rainbow-colored baby underwear.
	Amazing stuff.
	It's amazing that it's taken so long for the pushback to happen, but it is happening, and tractor supply is a good new story that we commend.
	And in fact, I wonder how many of our listeners out there have been to a tractor supply store.
	So definitely let us know if you have.
	I'd love to hear that, because I've never been in one.
	You've never been in one?
	Have you been in one?
	They got all this interesting machinery.
	I love specialty stores.
	All these interesting tools that farmers use, and equipment, and oh boy, different kinds of feed and fertilizer.
	Wow.
	Yep, yep.
	I spend hours in there, Mr. Kersey.
	Great stuff.
	It's a learning experience.
	Mind expanding.
	Well, I have two more good news stories.
	Back to back.
	This is a banner day.
	First, having to do with the SPLC, the Southern Poverty Law Center.
	It has been laying off staff.
	The SPLC union, it has a union unlike New Century Foundation for which we work, its union accused the 53-year-old organization of hoarding funds and trying to intimidate employees.
	And the layoffs came two years after the SPLC had announced that the staff was unionized.
	The union says a quarter of the staff have been let go.
	60 union members, including five stewards and the union chair, Now, is this union busting or is this political?
	We don't know.
	They go on to say, well, this is the union spokesman says, SBOC's decision has a catastrophic impact on the organization's work in support of immigrants seeking justice and its mission to dismantle white supremacy, strengthen intersectional movements and advance human rights.
	Make no mistake.
	Make no mistake, says the union.
	Laying off dozens of employees, many of whom were union activists, less than a year before we were going to bargain our second contract was no coincidence.
	So, let me tell you, Mr. Kersey, about the program that was cut.
	This was a whole unit that the SBOC has just been hived off.
	It will be eliminating an initiative that has been providing legal assistance, pro bono assistance, to detained illegal immigrants in Georgia.
	SBLC lawyers were the only people who were doing pro bono legal work at immigration court in the remote town of Lumpkin, Georgia, near the Florida border.
	I must say, I have never been to Lumpkin near the Florida border.
	These SBL staffers, they were called the Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative.
	Doesn't that sound noble?
	High-minded?
	They represented people who came before an immigration judge because, unlike U.S.
	citizens in an American procedure, an American criminal procedure, you don't get a right to a government-provided lawyer.
	And you can't afford to hire one, you have to represent yourself.
	And Margaret Huang, she is the SPLC's boss now, ever since they kicked out Morris Deese.
	Margaret Huang.
	And she looks like a Margaret Huang.
	I took a look at her on her photo, SPLC.
	And she says the representation of detained immigrants was really, really important work, but it has often felt like we are trying to empty the ocean with a teaspoon.
	Well, that's right.
	Didn't we talk about their 2 million asylum cases out there and the backlog?
	Was it 3 million?
	The backlog is 100,000.
	She says, given the vast number of people in immigration detention, we just don't have the money to keep going.
	The SPLC will instead, says Margaret Huang, Focus on strategic litigation to challenge the immigrant detention ecosystem in a bigger picture way.
	Now, Mr. Kersey, why is everything an ecosystem these days?
	I mean, this is another one of my old foggysms, but every time I hear ecosystem, I I believe it's pronounced ecosystem.
	Yeah, ecosystem.
	You have lake hydration.
	It's something that has slipped into the vernacular and kind of metastasized and taken over.
	So, yep.
	Ecosystem?
	Ecosystem?
	I bet either one is okay, but I think neither is okay, frankly.
	Now, let us not forget, of course, that everyone being represented by these Pobono lawyers is an illegal immigrant, every one of them.
	That's why they're in court.
	And tell me, Mr. Kersey, what does keeping illegal immigrants in the country have to do with fighting racism?
	And I wonder, would the SPLC represent an illegal white South African immigrant, or any white immigrant who's in the country illegal?
	I bet maybe it would, maybe it wouldn't.
	But say you got a Guatemalan or a Haitian who's in here illegally.
	They're fighting white supremacy by making sure this lawbreaker gets to stay in the country?
	I think even Morris Deas would have wondered that was a little crazy.
	Pardon me.
	Now, I looked up this Margaret Huang.
	She was raised in East Tennessee.
	She studied a lot of foreign service, foreign service school.
	She was in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as a staffer.
	She led a rights working group, a coalition of organizations protecting civil rights in the U.S.
	after September 11.
	And from December 2015 to April 2020, she was the executive director of Amnesty International.
	So that just goes to show you what kind of person she is.
	Now, it was in 2020, she became... I'm having a bit of a cough here.
	You'll have to forgive me.
	You'll take over shortly.
	In 2020, she became the lady boss of the SPLC.
	She joined also something called the Progressive Multiplier Fund.
	She's on the board in 2021.
	Pardon me.
	I haven't looked up the Progressive Multiplier Fund, but I bet it's just an awful organization.
	Now, the Wikipedia almost always lists a birth date, and there's a personal section to explain whether or not somebody is married, or even if they're not married, who their partner is.
	There are neither of such listings for her.
	And boy, she won homely broad.
	No husband listed.
	Maybe there's a wife somewhere in the closet.
	I don't know.
	She replaced Morris Dees, the founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, who of course began his career as a direct mail marketer.
	He was selling doormats, tractor seat cushions, and cookbooks.
	And his former business partner recalled that, Morris and I shared the overriding purpose of making a lot of money.
	We were not particular about how we did it.
	We just wanted to be rich.
	So he founded the SPLC in 1971.
	He was so good at raising money that 20 years later, he was inducted into the Direct Marketing Association's Hall of Fame.
	And boy, was he good at scamming money.
	In 2019, he was fired.
	For undisclosed reasons, but two dozen employees complained to management about mistreatment, sexual harassment, gender discrimination, and racism.
	Racism in the heart of the SPLC.
	A former employee said D's had a reputation for hitting on young women, and his officer came amid a staff revolt over the mistreatment of non-white employees.
	Oh boy, oh boy.
	Divorce papers from his first wife are full of very colorful stuff we won't go into on a family-friendly podcast.
	Let us simply say that one of the least of his offenses was flagrant and repeated violation of his marriage vows.
	And by the way, when I heard that the SPSC was unionized, I assumed that it would be the Brotherhood of Sanitation Engineers because it's basically in the garbage business.
	But I was wrong.
	Its union is called the Washington Baltimore News Guild, which is part of the Communications Workers of America.
	So it's a news organization, apparently.
	One last thing about the SPLC, Mr. Kersey, and then I'll stop coughing.
	Go ahead.
	Yeah, get some water.
	Gracious.
	The SPLC annual report says it has 41 million dollars in net assets.
	41 million.
	And it lists this under changes in unrestricted net assets from operating and action funds.
	Now, I think it's just playing with language here.
	What it calls the net assets from operating and action funds is only a tiny, tiny portion of its cash hoard.
	So if you look at its annual report, and I just was doing my homework on the SPLC, it says it's got 41 million in net assets.
	If you go to its Form 990, which is its detailed form that has to file with the IRS, it has about 20 times that much money.
	It's got $749 million rather than $41 million.
	This is an absolute total hoax, really a pathetic hoax.
	I think they just don't want to admit all this money that they've got.
	You've got to go through a special public interest nonprofit organization reporting to find out that it's sitting on three quarters of a billion dollars.
	And then its annual report, it claims to have only 41 million.
	So it couldn't happen to nicer guys, you know, so they are losing influence as well.
	So, Mr. Kersey, you're going to tell me that what goes up must come down.
	Yeah, this is just kind of a fun story from Jackson, Mississippi, one of our favorite places on Earth.
	It's one of the blackest major cities.
	I think it's close to 80% black.
	This story comes from one of the local affiliates there.
	What goes up must come down.
	Don't fire guns to celebrate 4th of July.
	The Hines County Sheriff strongly advises against firing weapons to celebrate the 4th of July.
	There are past instances where this has occurred during the holiday season where firearms were discharged.
	That projectile enters someone's residence.
	Someone has been seriously injured and or killed.
	We are strongly asking residents not to fire firearms during the Fourth of July.
	That's Sheriff Tyree Jones of Hines County, Mississippi.
	Jones said each area in Hines County had different set of rules when it comes to letting off fireworks.
	He said there could be major fines for those caught celebrating.
	With fireworks in areas where it's forbidden and obviously, like you said, don't go shooting your gun up into the air because that bullet is going to travel somewhere and it's going to come down at a very high velocity.
	So again, the rest of the article just talks about supervision and whatnot.
	I mean, again, this is this is life in an area that is heavily, heavily, heavily black.
	Jackson, Mississippi is, as stated, the blackest major city in the United States.
	We've talked about that city before.
	It actually has a black nationalist mayor and it Well, a couple years ago, it no longer had potable water, and they actually had to bring in the Army Corps of Engineers to get the water situation fixed.
	So, there you have it.
	If you're in Hines County, you might want to go ahead and leave for the day and not be at home, because you never know what goes up must come down, a situation you might find yourself in.
	So, that's our July 4th fun.
	I'm not sure if you had to make the same pronouncement for Juneteenth, but let's just say there we are.
	You know, I lived in Menlo Park, California for a while.
	It's right next door to a town called East Palo Alto.
	And East Palo Alto was very heavily minority.
	There was right in the middle of Silicon Valley, prime real estate.
	But somehow that is where the blacks and the Mexicans had accumulated.
	And a policeman told me that right about midnight, Every New Year's Eve, all the cop corps pull in under an overpass so they won't be hit by falling bullets.
	Yeah, they go right through the roof of a cop car.
	You don't want to come home with a dented cop car.
	So, let's see.
	You know, I told you I had two good news stories.
	The other good news story has to do with the ADLs.
	Both the ADL and SPLC are suffering And I don't believe in schadenfreude.
	We should not take joy in the suffering of our opponents.
	But I realize that it is a strong temptation.
	And just for those of you who like to indulge in schadenfreude, here's another opportunity.
	The ADL, apparently, according to Wikipedia, cannot be trusted to give reliable information on the Israel-Palestine conflict.
	And the editors at Wikipedia are overwhelmingly inclined, officially, to label ADL an unreliable source on antisemitism.
	Now this must be a great blow to their pride, maybe even to their fundraising.
	These are the stalwarts of antisemitism, been in the business for decades and decades and decades, and Wikipedia says you can't count on them to tell the truth.
	Wikipedia's editors, this is a group of volunteer moderators, voted last week To say that the ADL is a generally unreliable source on the Israel-Hamas war.
	And that means ADL should not be cited in Wikipedia articles on that topic.
	Other generally unreliable sources, by the way, according to Wikipedia editors, include Russia's state media, Amazon reviews.
	I guess that sort of makes sense.
	You know, you don't know who's writing those Amazon book reviews, but Fox News!
	Fox News is an unreliable source.
	But I don't think Fox News often tells lies.
	I mean, they have a political point of view.
	Wow.
	If those are not reliable, I would think MSNBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Public Radio, those are awfully unreliable too, but I suspect they're not on the list.
	The ADL, We'll also face a vote from Wikipedia editors who are going to decide to label the organization as unreliable on the topic of anti-Semitism.
	The editors overwhelmingly support that designation, but they have not debated that decision to a conclusion and to a vote.
	The Wikipedia editors said in an online forum that the ADL's dual role as an advocacy And research organization prevented it from providing unbiased accounts on Israel or antisemitism.
	In other words, if you have an obvious, strong, biased income, interest, I mean to say, in the outcome of your research, you are not a reliable research organization.
	And this is something that your co-host Gregory Hood has looked into several times.
	Whenever the ADL comes up with some report on all the horrible white supremacist incidents that are plaguing the United States, it'll say, oh, they grew by 30% this year, 40% last year.
	And if you look at the individual things they're talking about, they are just the most unconvincing bunch of nonsense.
	If somebody who was once in the Klan shoots his wife, That is white supremacist violence.
	And sometimes they will have a black supremacist.
	They get into crime and that is lumped in this broader sense of right-wing violence, which they imply is all white.
	But again, if any white person, if a white person who's part of some kind of sketchy organization commits a crime of any kind, that is a white supremacist crime.
	If you look at this stuff one by one, you have to throw out three quarters of the crimes that they attribute to white supremacy.
	So in any case, the ADL and the SPLC, they've both fallen on hard times, the poor folks.
	It might have fallen on hard times, but again, as you stated, they both seem to be replete with plenty of shocking amounts of cash reserves.
	Well, that's true.
	Hard times is the wrong word.
	But they've come to a little bump in the road.
	And, you know, they can have all the money they like if they're not taken seriously.
	And that is the blessed day for which I've long been yearning, that nobody pays attention to them.
	They can scream and squawk, but nobody quotes them as experts.
	Now, University of Connecticut, its School of Fine Arts, will be handing out grants to faculty members for researching anti-racism.
	I repeat, it's the School of Fine Arts that's going to be doing this.
	The grants are started in response to the continuing crisis surrounding the legacy and persistence of systemic racism across the globe.
	I wonder if it's all white people's racism across the globe.
	I wonder if anybody else can be systemic racist across the globe.
	Probably not.
	But each approved proposal will get $10,000 to $25,000.
	Nice little, nice little Christmas tree.
	Nice little package to put under the Christmas tree.
	Participants can explore a wide range of media, including exhibitions, performances, publications, symposia, films, video games, or other research outcomes as appropriate.
	This is research, an exhibition, a video game.
	This is research on the continuing crisis of systemic racism.
	What I want to know is, who's going to watch these films and performances and attend the symposia and play the video games?
	The video games to combat the resistance of systemic racism?
	You know, maybe there could be a video, a video game called the Knockout Game.
	Find a white guy online and knock him out with a single blow.
	I mean, every white person's a racist, right?
	That would be good.
	As it turns out, in the fall of 2020, You and I know what a wonderful and marvelous event took place on May 25th, 2020.
	But in 2020, the School of Fine Arts introduced this new initiative to support its research that contributes to efforts to combat racism in all its forms.
	All its forms, Mr. Kersey?
	You think it includes hatred of white people?
	I guess that's not racism.
	And in May of 2023, just last year, the university announced that it would start requiring all students, all undergraduate students, to take an anti-Black racism course in order to graduate.
	Boy, that's pretty heartwarming, isn't it?
	Well, let's— Cheers!
	They'll just come out so bedraggled and feeling bad about being white after they've been told that everything they ever thought and did, every breath they took, was just pure anti-black racism.
	Now, let's see.
	Oh, we had an interesting report from Halifax, Canada.
	I visited Halifax once, maybe 20 years ago.
	Very, very nice little town up in Canada.
	But Emma McLean, a Halifaxian, and her girlfriend, So here's a lady and her girlfriend out on a date.
	as Toring, were walking in downtown Halifax when they first encountered a group of about
	10 men they think were of Middle Eastern descent and from Syria.
	So here's a lady and her girlfriend out on a date.
	As they were passing by, one of the men allegedly made a rude comment about her girlfriend,
	McLean, prompting this woman, Toring, to stand up for her.
	Hey, that's my girlfriend, she reportedly said.
	Well that's when apparently the group started beating everybody up.
	And they got beaten up pretty badly.
	They suffered bruises, chipped teeth, broken noses, etc., etc.
	And now McLean says, I'm terrified to go downtown again in Halifax.
	And she said, this is one of the clincher lines.
	I didn't expect something like this to happen, especially during Pride Month.
	You know, Aren't you convinced, Mr. Kersey, that people from the Middle East are all very well aware of Pride Month?
	And they are very careful to be on their best behavior around lesbians and homosexuals during Pride Month.
	Now, my suspicion is this.
	There is a photograph of these ladies.
	And I've had some experience with Middle Easterners.
	I lived in Paris for quite some time.
	It was already full of Arabs by then.
	I've been in Middle Eastern countries.
	And according to this photograph, this couple are quite nice looking lesbians.
	My guess is that the rude remark that was made to one of the girls was something explicitly and crudely heterosexual.
	And my guess is things went from only bad to worse when the other nice-looking white lady says, she's my girlfriend.
	I suspect that is what prompted them to beat them up.
	But that's just my bigoted suspicion.
	I remember years ago when I was living in Paris being amazed at just how grossly vulgar these Moroccans, Tunisians, Algerians were around white
	women.
	They just walk up to them and make obscene gestures in their faces.
	They make these panting noises, walk up behind them, make panting noises.
	Boy.
	So, my guess is that's what happened.
	And then when they found out that these were lesbians, they decided to let them have it.
	Mr. Kersey, you have a surprising scientific finding.
	Gun violence apparently makes it hard for blacks to get dressed, go up and down stairs, or bathe.
	So, could you elaborate?
	Well, that's exactly correct.
	60% of black Americans have been exposed to some degree of gun violence.
	New research found, it's a survey of 3,000 Fifteen black Americans by Rutgers Health.
	Forty percent participants said they knew someone who'd been shot.
	Twelve percent have been exposed to gun violence.
	In three separate ways, this comes to us, and it also might help predict increased rates of disabilities, according to a new paper in the Journal of Urban Health.
	Quote, traditionally, the majority of efforts related to gun violence have focused on reducing homicides, but this study indicates that we need to provide more support to those who face such exposures to violence beyond homicide.
	Daniel Ciminez, an associate professor at Rutgers School of Public Health's Gun Violence Research Center and lead author of the study said, 30% of men in the survey reported some degree of exposure to gun violence compared to 15% of women, with these exposures ranging from hearing a shooting occurring nearby to knowing a victim to have been threatened or even shot by themselves.
	Of the survey participants, 4% of the men and 2% of the women reported having been shot.
	Well, that's pretty interesting.
	One in 25 men reported having been shot.
	Wow.
	That's a lot of bullets flying around.
	That's a lot of, uh, that's a lot of bullets.
	Um, yeah.
	Um, give me one second.
	I'm sorry.
	Uh, where are we here?
	These numbers are striking because this was a nationally representative sample match to all black Americans as a whole by age, sex, income, education, and area of residence.
	The survey shows that roughly 6% of all black adults in the U S have faced exposure to gun violence.
	and that 40% of them personally know a shooting victim, which is staggering.
	That comes to us from the same gentleman that I quoted earlier, Mr., forgive me,
	I just lost my space, Mr.
	Get a grip, get a grip, Kersey.
	It's a minute, well, I'm sorry, I'm reading this big screen
	and I just hit the wrong button and it scrolled down.
	Black people in the U.S.
	face a huge range of systemic and institutional racism manifesting in various aspects of life, including employment, housing, education, criminal justice, and health care.
	As of 2021, the unemployment rate for Black Americans was 8.6% compared to 4.7% for white Americans.
	Black Americans experience a disproportionate burden of violent injury and exposure to firearm violence.
	The researchers wrote in the paper, the majority of Black women and men exposed to firearm violence reside in low-income urban communities.
	Policing at high risk for repeated exposure results in ongoing physical and psychological health challenges.
	And then this is where it gets really funny.
	funny. Black Americans disproportionately experience numerous types of firearm violence,
	exposure detrimental to mental, physical, and behavioral well-being. And they wrote
	this and I'm not making this up as you alluded to. The disabilities associated with gun violence
	recorded in the survey include trouble concentrating, struggling to walk, use stairs or run errands,
	and issues with dressing or bathing. Men who saw or heard about shootings had a 53% increased
	rate of suffering from some form of functional disability than those who had not and were
	over twice as likely to report trouble concentrating, walking up or down stairs, dressing, or the
	aforementioned bathing.
	So yes, gun violence causes problems with sanitary and just basically going to the restroom and making sure that you don't have BO.
	So there you go.
	Yep.
	I would never have thought of that, you know.
	Ain't science grand?
	Science leads us to astonishing conclusions.
	All no doubt true.
	Let's see.
	Oh, this is a story from a couple of weeks ago, but I thought it was worth dredging up because we didn't get to it on previous podcasts.
	There was a debate over reparations that drove one Californian assemblyman to tears.
	This happened after a Republican colleague argued that Asians and Latinos should not be forced to pay for reparations for slavery.
	These wicked words came from Assemblywoman Kate Sanchez, who is Hispanic.
	She noted that some economists estimate that the reparations recommended by the state task force could cost the state upwards of $800 billion, which is more than two and a half times its annual budget.
	Yes, I noticed that too when they came up with their recommendation.
	She says the pain of the past should not be paid for by the people of today.
	She pointed out that more than half of California's population now is Latino and Asian and had nothing to do with slavery, discrimination, or Jim Crow laws.
	Well, this was such a shockingly obvious and logical thing to say that Assemblyman Ash Cowra declared that actions are
	necessary.
	That includes reparations.
	No one asked Black families over generations, and then he choked up, and he had to stop
	and compose himself.
	He was nearly weeping with mortification and indignation when she suggested that Asians
	and Hispanics don't owe Blacks reparations.
	Well, this Carla guy, Ash Carla.
	I looked him up, too.
	It's always interesting to see the background, some of these people who take these odd positions.
	In 2016, he became the first dot Indian American to serve in the California legislature.
	He wasn't even born in the U.S.
	He grew up in Canada.
	But he argues that to this day, the state of California benefits from what happened to our brothers and sisters in the black community over so many generations.
	It just strikes me as odd that this Indian born and raised in Canada is so emotional about picking the pockets of every living California taxpayer so that blacks living in a state that never had any slavery at all get reparations.
	It is so weird.
	This country just turns people into, I don't know, utter, utter lunatics on these political questions.
	Now, here's another reparation story.
	This is a good one.
	This is from Chicago.
	I mean, the whole reparations business is talking big these days, but very few people have actually written checks.
	Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, he was at a Juneteenth flag-raising ceremony.
	Do you know if there's a Juneteenth flag?
	I guess there probably is.
	Maybe they were raising the Black Power flag.
	Who knows?
	But it was a Juneteenth flag-raising ceremony where he announced that he had issued an executive order to create a task force to look into reparations.
	He says, we're going to invest half a million dollars so that we can begin to move in the direction of complete liberation.
	It's an investment of a half a million in the hopes of getting many, many millions more, I'm sure.
	He says, beautiful neighborhoods like mine, the Austin neighborhood, have seen many health disparities, lack of nutritious food, lack of employment opportunities.
	The disinvestment in our communities has been intentional.
	Like a baby?
	What's that?
	Yes, baby.
	Walking upstairs.
	The lack of nutritious food.
	You know, somebody has said, and there's probably some secret city ordinance that says no nutritious food may be delivered to black neighborhoods.
	That's the problem here.
	And all the health disparities.
	Those are caused by malicious white supremacists like me and you.
	That we are emanating lethal mental rays towards these people.
	But he says it's imperative to deliver the good on reparations for the people of Chicago, primarily black people.
	Well, that's nice.
	Sounds like somebody else could get in on the lotting, not just black people, but primarily black people are going to get reparations.
	Then he complained about our so-called criminal justice system.
	He says reparations will unlock the doors for prosperity to flow through neighborhoods that have been disinvested in for decades.
	And he concluded, God bless you, and God bless the blackest city in the world, the city of Chicago.
	Now, Mr. Kersey, I don't have as good a head for statistics as you, but my recollection is, isn't Chicago about one-third, one-third, one-third black, Hispanic, and white?
	That's exactly correct.
	But he says it's the blackest city in the world, blacker than Nairobi, blacker than Kinshasa, blacker than Ouagadougou or Bobadilla, so on.
	I guess he's talking about it's black psychologically.
	They do take all sorts.
	Well, let's see.
	Oh, DC's gotten on the bond bandwagon for reparations.
	The city council just approved the budget, and there's going to be $1.5 million set aside to address the harms of slavery.
	It's going to propose reparations for black residents directly wronged and traumatized by the ills of slavery.
	Now, does that include just by reading about it?
	Directly wronged and traumatized by the ills of slavery.
	I guess the ills of slavery are just lingering in the air in Washington, D.C.
	unto this day.
	And it's people directly wronged and traumatized.
	Do you have to be wronged and traumatized?
	Or can you just be wronged to get the payout?
	In any case, D.C.
	is really stepping up.
	It's going to pay out.
	At this point, Evanston, Illinois is the only city that's written checks.
	And it has provided $25,000 to black residents.
	And they've paid this money to at least 129 black residents.
	So that's the place to be, boys and girls, black boys and girls.
	If you want to cash in, Evanston is the place to be.
	But your ancestors have to have been suffered at the hands of some sort of Evanston redlining, so you can't just move there and collect.
	Well, Mr. Kersey, our time's up.
	Our time is absolutely up.
	It just flew by.
	And so, ladies and gentlemen, it is a pleasure and honor to spend this time with you, and we very much look forward to speaking with you.
	In the meantime, those of you who are American, those of you who are not, have a wonderful Fourth of July.

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