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July 19, 2024 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor

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J.D. Vance: 'America Is Not an Idea'

Jared Taylor and Paul Kersey laugh at lefties who are horrified at the future veep’s heresies. Taylor and Kersey also discuss Benin, Hulk Hogan, Carnival Cruises, and yet another expiring rapper. Thumbnail credit: © Li Rui/Xinhua via ZUMA Press

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	Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
	I'm your host, Jerry Taylor.
	And with me is my indispensable co-host, none other than Paul Kersey.
	Today is July 18th, Anno Domini 2024.
	And as usual, we'd like to start with some listener comments.
	A listener sends in this story.
	Tony Kruse, he is a fancy professional German football player.
	Soccer to you Americans.
	He has said uncontrolled immigration has left his home country unrecognizable.
	Well, the former Real Madrid star, who left Germany 10 years ago, traveled back to his home country for the Euro 2024 tournament, where he competed for Germany.
	And in an interview, he said there's been a loss of control of immigration, adding that his daughter was safer living in Spain.
	He said that he welcomed migrants.
	But he says Germany has struggled to keep the number of people entering the country at a controlled level.
	And our listener adds this little comment.
	Well, it's good that the soccer player is spoken openly about.
	This is also a sense of complete unfairness.
	He's a multi-millionaire.
	He can locate any time.
	What about those of us living in Germany who can't afford to move anywhere?
	All they can do is watch as the country their ancestors built for them is invaded, desecrated, and destroyed.
	All too true.
	All too true.
	And if this guy really doesn't put his foot down, where he lives in Spain, which he thinks is safer, is going to end up just like Germany.
	Another comment.
	This is a bit of a black pill, but I think a lot of people are feeling this way.
	We can't halt the damage to this country.
	This is talking about the United States.
	And frankly, we all know Trump will not do what he promises, and even if he tries, he'll be blocked at every turn by Congress, the courts, the media, and even by his own cabinet.
	Whether Trump wins in November or not, perhaps I'm wrong, but it doesn't really matter in the long run.
	America, as we know it, will not survive.
	The path forward is to build localized communities that value Western heritage, culture, and cultivate healthy traditional families.
	As a nation, we are finished.
	But I think moving forward, communities and neighborhoods will spring up and the seeds of Western civilization will be planted and flourish, given the proper soil and circumstances.
	Once again, we will blossom and have a future worthy of our glorious past.
	So we end on a positive note.
	The final comment, Mr. Kersey, and this is a bit of a surprise, is a question.
	Should the government incentivize people to stay healthy, for example, by tying voting rights to physical fitness?
	I have never heard of such a question, and my answer is a straightforward no.
	I don't think it's the government's job to incentivize physical fitness.
	It can encourage us to be physically fit.
	That shouldn't be something that I think is really the government's lookout.
	If the government has anything to do, it's something a little bit more basic than that.
	But I was surprised by that question, but I thought I'd pass it along.
	Do you have any opinions on that, Brother Kersey?
	No.
	No, I don't.
	Okay.
	Probably safer not to.
	Safer not to.
	Well, Mr. Kersey, I believe you have been paying more attention to the Republican National Convention than I, and you have some big news about this evening's speaker, and you're not talking about former President Donald J. Trump.
	No, I have not been paying that much attention because I'm not that interested in seeing the Amber Rose person who spoke on Monday, the girl who I think has an OnlyFans account.
	No, thank you.
	I'm very interested in only seeing what President Trump has to say.
	Tonight, especially after the events of Saturday July 13th when there was an assassination attempt on him
	But news broke today that Elon Musk is gonna be speaking tonight and another individual that I think is far more
	important because you have to go back nine years to when the global phenomenon Hulk Hogan a man who made
	professional wrestling The multi-billion dollar business that it is today and I
	know people out there probably laughing that we're even talking about this
	But you have to go back to when Gawker released sex tapes of Hulk Hogan and
	And within those tapes, he dropped the N-word a number of times when talking about his beautiful daughter, Brooke Hogan, dating non-white black rappers.
	And that was enough, Mr. Taylor, to have him canceled.
	He was fired by the WWE in 2015.
	And it was, you know, they basically tried to erase him.
	And then, of course, I'm not sure if you remember this, but Peter Thiel actually secretly funded his lawsuit against Gawker.
	And he was successful.
	There's actually an amazing book written about this that I highly recommend all of our listeners get a copy of.
	It's called Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker.
	And the Anatomy of Intrigue by Ryan Holiday.
	And I remember reading this, you know, Hogan won a multi, I think $120 million from Gawker.
	And tonight he is going to be the final speaker at the RNC before, before President Trump.
	And I wrote this back in VDARE back in 2018.
	Like the election of President Trump, the return of Hulk Hogan would be a key test of the power of political correctness.
	Hogan's return would be a powerful message to corporate America that defying political correctness isn't just moral, but profitable.
	And, uh, I think tonight it's going to be very, I think he's going to give a very interesting speech, a very rah-rah Americana type speech, which is fine.
	I mean, I'm okay with that.
	It's just, this is a guy who personified America in the Reagan years.
	Um, I know you're not a fan of professional wrestling, but this guy was synonymous with, um, with the red, white, and blue.
	And he's got a personal relationship with Trump and the fact that he was canceled.
	I mean, this guy was canceled by everybody.
	He lost corsement and corporate endorsements.
	He lost his position within the World Wrestling Entertainment
	for the inward tapes that came out.
	And to think that this guy is gonna speak at the RNC tonight, along with Elon Musk.
	I can't tell you what a white pill that is in terms of understanding that it's time
	to move on from the past.
	And whatever's happening, of course, we don't endorse candidates,
	but it's gonna be exciting to watch tonight to see what Elon Musk has to say.
	Cause you know, he's talked about the woke mind virus destroying everything and he's going all in on Trump
	and then see what Hogan says and the lead into what should be, I think a very important speech from Trump
	after what happened on Saturday.
	And I have to ask, what were your thoughts on what happened on Saturday, July 13th?
	Oh, gosh.
	I have written an essay on that subject that is on the AmRam webpage, and I would direct people to go to that.
	My main idea was that reactions to this assassination attempt have been, it seems to be, across the board, overwhelmingly irrational.
	But human beings are irrational.
	To me, the only real message of this assassination attempt.
	is that we have an utterly incompetent secret service that is run by an utterly incompetent woman, and the way those lady agents pranced and pirouetted in front of the television cameras, uselessly putting on their dark glasses, unholstering their weapons, waving them around pointlessly, unable to reholster them, just goes to show you the utter idiocy of diversity at levels of that kind.
	That, to me, is the main message of what happened.
	An utterly, utterly incompetent Secret Service, that woman who runs it, Gerstle, what's her name?
	Crystal?
	What is her name?
	In any case, if I think any man with any sense of honor would have resigned immediately, and she should not be allowed to resign, she should be fired.
	That, to me, is the real message.
	The fact that somebody wanted to kill Donald Trump or somebody wanted to make a name for himself, that, to me, is Not at all surprising.
	What is the only thing that really matters, of course, is that this attempt failed.
	It happened.
	The Secret Service was spectacularly, obviously, incompetent.
	And, of course, this will redound magnificently to Donald Trump's credit, despite the fact that I don't think it necessarily should.
	But even liberal women.
	There were tweets out there by women who had had women's studies majors who were saying, What a man!
	What a brute!
	What a... Oh, masculine!
	Oh, now I'm going to vote for him!
	Okay, if that's the way you're going to decide on your vote, I consider that 100% completely irrational.
	So I didn't even mean to go into all of that, but... No, there was nothing at all really surprising about it, except for the fact that it happened.
	And it happened due to... It strikes me as the most elementary and preventable Astonishing, ludicrous absurdity on stilts incompetence.
	So that's all I'll say about that.
	Now, as far as Hulk Hogan is concerned, I hate to turn your white pill into a grey pill, Mr. Kersey, but I just hope that he talks about his preferences for whom his daughter dates.
	Any chance of that?
	It probably won't be.
	I believe they're actually strange.
	You know what?
	It doesn't matter.
	It matters to me.
	It matters to me as well.
	We're both fathers and daughters, but the point is this.
	You know, the ability to cancel, I think is, it's over in a lot of ways.
	I don't want to say that.
	It's not completely over.
	It's waning.
	It's waning.
	There's still people who are losing their jobs, and they will continue to lose their jobs.
	They will, but you know what?
	Courage is contagious, and I think also that, no, I don't think, I'll never say that again.
	I'm going to resolutely state the fact that Elon Musk has also been invited.
	I mean, we've seen just incredible things with him.
	Notwithstanding your lack of being on Twitter, but the fact is you can watch all of your videos on Twitter and they aren't pulled down.
	And so in a lot of ways, your voice does resonate on X. Well, didn't Elon Musk just promise something like $45 million a month for a independent pack to encourage?
	Well, I think that's worth an invitation.
	$45 million a month.
	Money talks.
	And the people who have the money end up talking also.
	Yes, go ahead.
	Yeah, I just say this, Elon Musk's vision for humanity is one that I find inspiring, and I think also the fact that Donald Trump, when he was, the attempted assassination attempt, he stood there, stood up, resolutely put up a fist with the American flag in the background.
	I think that that will be a photo that hopefully our grandchildren look at, and we live in a far different country than the one we live in now, and it just took Great man, such as yourself, who've stood and we're beginning to see.
	I mean, last night, J.D.
	Vance said, America is not an idea.
	It's our home.
	And I think that's such a powerful thing.
	Yes, yes.
	Elaborate on that, if you would.
	Yeah.
	I don't know the exact details.
	I know the left is freaking out regarding that.
	But what I can tell you is that the idea of a proposition nation is something that he attacked.
	And I guess I'll just go ahead and swing into the story about.
	Yes, please do.
	So an MSNBC host calls J.D.
	Vance wanting to be buried in a family plot, an Easter egg of white nationalism.
	Alex Wagner accused Republican VP nominee Vance of dropping an Easter egg of white nationalism by mentioning that he hoped to be buried in his family plot in Kentucky during a speech at the RNC on July 17th.
	I know that there was not the red meat sort of blood and soil nationals that you might hear in, I don't know, other parallel universe Republican conventions.
	But I do think there was some sort of Easter eggs of white nationalism in the speech, he declared at the outset of a lengthy monologue.
	One of the things that struck out to me was when he started talking about what America is.
	He said that, quote, America is not just an idea.
	It is a group of people with a shared history.
	And a common future, end quote.
	Now that is what absolutely shocks the lefties.
	A common people?
	What?
	A shared history?
	What?
	No.
	America's an idea.
	And if you have the right ideas, you can be a South Sudanese living in a grass shack and be just as American as you and me.
	Exactly.
	So the idea that it is a common, oh, a people with a common history, oh my god, that's an Easter egg?
	Goodness gracious.
	That is a big blue ribbon.
	Of white nationalism in their eyes, the idea that we are a nation and you actually use the word nation.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	Yes.
	Please, please proceed.
	I was, I watched that speech actually almost from beginning to end.
	And I thought to myself, my antennae were Twitter were, were boy, were they humming when I heard that.
	I said, Oh, the lefties won't like that one little bit.
	And sure enough, I've been justified.
	So that wasn't, that wasn't an Easter egg for you.
	That was a nice, uh, steak with a little bit of Merlot, uh, for you to wash down that delicious meat.
	Uh, she would, uh, she would go on and say, the thing about America is that it's a group of people that share, I'm sorry.
	It's a shared history.
	In fact, I think a lot of people would argue it's quite the opposite.
	It's a lot of people, different histories, different heritages.
	She'd continue.
	And that's the other piece of it.
	He goes on, he went on a long sort of paragraph, at least about this plot in Eastern Kentucky, where his six or seven generations of his family are buried.
	And his hope is that his wife and he are eventually laid to rest there and their kids follow them.
	And I sort of understand the idea of sharing the burial plot, but it is also
	is it reveals someone who believes that the history that the family should inherit and
	indeed the history that should be determinative in the history of the Vance family is the history of
	the Eastern Kentucky Vances and not the Vances from San Diego, which is where his wife is from
	and where her Indian parents are from.
	But in America, it doesn't always have to be the white male lineage that trumps that, which that defines the human, the family history, that the branch of the tree supersedes all else.
	And I just think the construction of, of this notion reveals a lot about someone who fundamentally believes in the supremacy of whiteness and masculinity and it's couched in a sort of Halcyon, you know, revisitation of his roots, but it's actually really revealing about what he thinks matters and who is America.
	And that America is a place for people with a shared Western background.
	And that is the idea of America, that this is the nation of America that he wants to resurrect.
	In his speech, Vance recalled telling his wife, Honey, I come with $120,000 worth of law school debt and a cemetery plot on a mountainside in eastern Kentucky during his proposal to her, quote, and if, as I hope my wife and I are eventually laid to rest there and our kids follow us.
	There will be seven generations just in that small mountain cemetery plot in eastern Kentucky.
	Seven generations of people who fought for this country, who have built this country, who made things in this country, and who fight and die to protect this country if they were asked to.
	And who would fight and die to protect this country if they were asked to.
	End quote.
	Now, of course, as you said, your antennas went up.
	You realized right away what Mr. Vance was saying.
	You realized right away why I think a lot of people were so excited about his selection as the presidential candidate.
	And of course, the fact that he's married to a dot Indian doesn't make, doesn't, doesn't absolve him.
	Oh dear, oh dear.
	No, no, no.
	The fact of talking about seven generations, the same family cemetery.
	You know, when I heard that, I've always heard that he had come from white trash, but white trash does not have seven generations or six generations, whatever it is, in the family plot.
	That bespeaks a kind of continuity that's unusual, even, well, anywhere in the country, hillbilly or not.
	That is remarkable.
	I can claim to have five generations of my ancestors in Salem Cemetery in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
	But my family were never hillbillies.
	They were never white trash.
	They were middle-class people.
	My grandfather was an entrepreneur, my great-grandfather was a businessman, and my father was a college professor.
	We were solidly middle-class, and we managed to have five generations in a family plot.
	But you are not going to be hillbilly white trash and have that kind of continuity, and I was very impressed by that.
	I, too, like the idea of continuity, maintaining generations, something passed on from distant ancestors to the present day, even a resting place on this earth once you're dead.
	I was very moved by that.
	And I like the idea that he and his wife were going to lie there together for eternity, and his children were going to join them.
	I think that was a beautiful thing.
	Now, I don't entirely forgive his choice of spouse, but there you go.
	That sentiment was a remarkable one, and I'm not the least bit surprised that the lefties are up in arms.
	Too bad for them.
	We'll see if he ever makes the point of a stronger point about peoplehood.
	But in any case, have you finished with that story?
	Because I have something else to add about J.D.
	Vance.
	No, please go ahead and add your little addendum.
	Yes.
	Well, as you probably noticed, because you notice everything, you see all, you hear all, you know all, you're very impressive, you young guys.
	J.D.
	Vance provoked an uproar in Britain.
	This was Monday when he was speaking at the Republican National Committee.
	I'm sorry, convention.
	He recounted a conversation with a friend.
	He said, I was talking about, you know, what is the first truly Islamist country that will get a nuclear weapon?
	Maybe it's Iran.
	Maybe Pakistan already kind of counts.
	And then we finally decided it's actually the UK since Labour just took over.
	So Britain is the first Islamist country with a nuclear weapon.
	Of course, Vance's comments were meant with a chorus of laughter from the crowd, but people in Britain got their noses entirely out of joint.
	Now, my question to you, Mr. Kersey, is this.
	Would he dare say, would he dare say that the United States is the first Hispanic nation to get nuclear weapons?
	Isn't that just as relevant a question?
	I bet the United States has a population of Hispanics.
	What are we, what are they, about 18 percent, 15, 18 percent of the population?
	Our Hispanic population is greater than Britain's Muslim population.
	So, would he dare say ours is the first Hispanic nation to get nuclear weapons?
	That's a fascinating question.
	I'm not sure that's one that hopefully, another white pill that I saw last night at the RNC, just some screenshots, Mr. Taylor, were Placards that people were holding in the audience saying deportation now That's so important for people to understand where we are.
	I mean this is the as we've talked about many times on this program this year and The polls show that even almost a majority of Democrats now favor deportation.
	And it doesn't have to be it doesn't have to be mass deportations at first.
	It's just start to do selective deportation, e-verify.
	People will start leaving, especially if Trump wins in November.
	I think you're going to start seeing sob stories of a mass exodus of people leaving because they know what's coming.
	And I have I have always said, I've always said all you need to do is start Small-scale but systematic and relentless deportation and the rest will leave if it's a choice between packing up your belongings and ordering your affairs and leaving in a organized way or Ice comes along and puts you in a van puts you on a plane It's much more agreeable to Pack up and leave on your own and they'll pay their own way and they will we will say bye-bye farewell
	All that is required is the realization that someday it's going to come and you better go on your own rather than go at taxpayer expense.
	I've always said that.
	So we'll see.
	But I'm not 100% optimistic about that.
	There will be all sorts of court challenges.
	There will be people linking arms around the buses that are carting these illegals off and say, you'll have to run me over before this wonderful, wonderful Hispanic or Guatemalan has to leave the country.
	I can see it now.
	But it's a great sentiment.
	The last poll I saw was 40% of Democrats.
	And something like, what was it?
	75% of Republicans say mass deportation now.
	Well, Mr. Taylor, I'll counter with this.
	I'll say that those people who link arms, they're funded by somebody.
	They're not just showing up spontaneously.
	They're funded by somebody.
	You find out what NGO, what organization, what entity is funding them, and you use RICO, you use what we're beginning to learn the right is understanding with Stephen Miller and his awesome nonprofit, what we're seeing with Chris Rufo, what we're seeing with the right in general.
	The Missouri Attorney General is going after and suing the state of New York.
	It just takes one Attorney General, like a Ken Paxton in Texas, to just say, hey, who's funding this?
	That's right.
	This is the crime of obstruction.
	You're obstructing the agents of federal law carrying out their duty.
	That is a crime.
	If they've got any brains and a backbone, that is the way they're going to punch it.
	Well, golly, Mr. Kersey, we have so many stories to get to, and I'll try to get to one quickly here.
	This is an eye-opening example of California justice.
	A California judge has made an astonishing ruling in the case of a first grader who was banned from recess and drawing pictures at Viejo Elementary School in Orange County, which used to be a Republican part of the country.
	After she added the words any life below a Black Lives Matter poster on a picture she drew and gave to her black friend.
	What the picture showed was the word Black Lives Matter and then four round shapes in various different tones of brown, beige, and yellow, which were intended to represent her friends who are racially mixed.
	This is a seven-year-old girl in elementary school.
	Well, What happened is that she gave this, it said Black Lives Matter, and she added any lives to this and gave it to her friends.
	Well, her friend thought this was just fine, she had no trouble with it at all, and she took it to her parents.
	And it was her parents who considered this to be vastly insulting.
	The parents called the school and had her punished.
	They said, this is an insult.
	The daughter was the least bit insulted.
	But the parents called the school and said, uh-oh, this was racially insulted.
	And the little girl, this seven-year-old white girl, who's known as BB in court documents, was forced to publicly apologize on the playground to her classmates and teachers.
	For having made this what she thought was a multiracially affirming gift to her little black friend, and she was banned from recess and from drawing pictures for two weeks.
	That's a pretty severe penalty.
	Well, her mother, Chelsea Boyd, didn't learn of this incident until much later, and so she filed suit.
	And the case went before a white judge by the name of David Carter, and he wrote, undoubtedly, B.B.' 's intentions were innocent.
	B.B.
	testified, apparently she had to testify in court, that she gave this drawing to a little black friend named M.C.
	to make her feel comfortable after her class learned about Martin Luther King Jr.
	However, The principal, Jesus Becerra, who is Hispanic, punished her, as I said.
	And Judge Carter then wrote to say, students have the right to be free from speech that denigrates their race while at school.
	So apparently, if you give something to a little girl and she thinks it's fine, and then she takes it home and her parents, her parents, thin-skinned black people, decide that this is a terrible insult Then students have the right to be free from speech that denigrates their race while at school, and the drawing was not protected by the First Amendment because of the age of the girl.
	The judge wrote, an elementary school is not a marketplace of ideas.
	Thus, the downside of regulating speech there is not as significant as it is in high school, where students are approaching voting age and controversial speech could spark conducive conversation.
	And so what the principal of the school, this Jesus, did to this white girl is just fine and should not be punished in any way.
	Isn't that something?
	This completely innocent activity by a seven-year-old girl to her classmate upsets the black classmate's parents, and this poor white girl is made to apologize on the playground, in front of her classmates, in front of her teachers, and for two weeks can't go on recess, can't draw a picture.
	This, to me, is absolutely outrageous.
	But a white judge, he is absolutely white as white can be.
	He says, yeah, this is okay.
	But this will be appealed to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
	I mean, this is what you get in multiracial America.
	And not just multiracial America, but virulently anti-white America.
	Correct.
	Correct.
	That's the only way to say it.
	Yes.
	Now, here is a story that we can once again use your brilliant phrase, aspiring rapper becomes an expiring rapper.
	Here's one.
	No, I think that is just so brilliant.
	I steal that line of yours, but I give you credit every time I do.
	I think this is my brilliant co-host.
	My brilliant co-host, Paul Kersey, came up with this line.
	Now, the headline itself is one of these head-spinning, only in America stories.
	Horrific tragedy struck moments after female rapper shared photo inviting fans to meet and greet at newly opened Oakland beauty store.
	Oh, lovely.
	Isn't that a real brain teaser?
	Well, let's ponder what could have happened.
	Well, a female rapper and entrepreneur invited fans to meet her at the grand opening of an Oakland beauty store.
	She unveiled glamour beauty supply to excited fans.
	Videos show her beaming as she showed fans around the store at the intersection of 40th Street and Telegraph Avenue in Northern Oakland.
	Oakland!
	That should ring alarm bells to anybody who knows anything about California.
	In clips shared on her 20,000 Instagram followers, she gave fans a happy tour of the store while wearing a black and white furry jacket and a large silver necklace.
	No.
	News reports failed to note she was also wearing an ice blonde wig.
	I thought that was just as eye-catching as the large silver necklace.
	And by large, the journalists mean large.
	In any case, friends and supporters, including some small children, were seen dancing and celebrating in glamour beauty supply.
	Tan Dagad, which is the rapper's name, Tan Dagad, also shared photographs of herself sitting on a golden throne.
	Now, this may be before your time, Mr. Kersey, but it reminded me of the throne that Jean-Bedel Bokassa of the Central African Republic had fashioned for himself when he was crowned emperor of the Central African Empire.
	I think that was in 1999 or so.
	Do you remember that at all?
	Maybe not.
	But in any case, it was this garish golden crown that our dusky brethren seemed to go in for.
	However, after Tan Degad stepped out of her garish golden crown, shots rang out to the store and Tan Degad was killed.
	The killer remains on the loose.
	Degad somehow could not stop a bullet.
	Another person was shot but is expected to recover.
	Now, hip-hop artist Mr. Fab, spelled M-I-S-T-A-H, Mr. Fab, remembered Tan De God as a hustlin' ass go-getter.
	Now, Mr. Kersey, if I am snuffed out early in my prime, I hope you will remember me as a hustlin' ass go-getter.
	As long as you wear some sort of garish garb.
	Then you get those accolades.
	A hustling-ass go-getter, that's how she is remembered.
	And of course, Oakland's progressive mayor, Sheng Tao.
	Now, this is a very sad story.
	I agree.
	I should not make light of it.
	But it just captures a certain kind of Americana that I think our readers should be aware of.
	Now, Mr. Kersey, I understand that it is women of color, just like Tan Da God.
	who are most often banned when they write books.
	Yeah, one second.
	Sorry, I'm yawning there for some reason.
	That's no good.
	It's overcast outside, so.
	Well, that story of mine put you right to sleep.
	No, it didn't put me right to sleep.
	I was just looking outside at how overcast it is.
	Anyways, in 2023, the American Library Association documented 100 attempts to remove more than 4,000 books from schools and libraries across all the states in the U.S.
	In one of the first comprehensive analyses of book bans in the U.S., a CU Boulder researcher and her collaborators revealed that these bans disproportionately target women of color.
	Oh, I knew it!
	I knew it!
	America's just so terribly racist.
	Even worse, Mr. Taylor, and a large portion of the banned books feature characters of color, because women of color write about characters of color.
	The findings appeared last month in the journal PNAS Nexus.
	Quote, we were really surprised by the results, said Katie Spoon, a Ph.D.
	candidate in the Department of Computer Science and a master's student in the School of Education at CU Boulder.
	Quote, the discussions around book bands in the media and politics tend to focus on banding young adult queer romance novels.
	But our data suggested the genre only made up a small portion of all banned books.
	Book bands are not new to the U.S.
	Current wave of broken records and the number of books removed continues to surge, fueled by conservative groups and new regulations like Florida's Don't Say Gay Law.
	These bands have Limited the types of books children can have access to.
	Spoon and her colleagues analyzed the 2,532 books removed in the 2021-2022 school year when a significant wave of book bans swept across the U.S.
	The organization focused on literature and human rights to protect free expression.
	They found that over half of all banned books were children's books about historical figures and those featuring diverse characters including LGBTQ+, People of Color.
	While the book bans commonly targeted LGBTQ plus romance novels, such as The Perks of Being a Wallflower, I must confess I've never even heard of The Perks of Being a Wallflower, but I'm glad it's being banned, they only account for 10% of all banned books.
	The analysis revealed a stark racial disparity where authors of color were 4.5 times more likely to be banned than white authors, particularly women of color.
	By banning children's books, these political actions served as a symbolic move to silence women authors of color and the diverse characters they write about.
	Most of the banned books were not particularly popular before the bans, and the bans did not lead to notable increases in sales.
	That's not the point of these books being published.
	And, and, uh, and promoted and getting sales.
	It's basically just to be able to publish a book by a person of color so that the publishing house can say, Hey, listen, we've hit our quota.
	In fact, we're hitting our quota over and over and over again.
	And no one really cares if they sold, because that's not the message that's intended.
	It's the publicity that they get for publishing, uh, yet another, again, your story about some nonwhite character in.
	Well, you know, this is still interesting to me.
	they face discrimination or bigotry, et cetera, et cetera.
	Well, you know, this is still interesting to me, four and a half times more likely.
	Now, I'd love to know a little bit more about the methodology.
	Are they considering all of the books?
	I mean, is this a proportion of the number of books they have written or have had published?
	I mean, these days it wouldn't surprise me at all if we're talking about children's libraries.
	It wouldn't surprise me at all if on a per capita basis, blacks are having more books published than whites and Hispanics for that matter.
	Everybody, everybody is scrambling for authors of color.
	So I would not be the least bit surprised if black authors and maybe black lady authors are more likely, maybe even four and a half times more likely, to publish children's books these days.
	I don't know.
	I really just don't know.
	And if that's the case, then they are not being banned in any disproportion to their race, if you see what I mean.
	They're being banned according to their output.
	But that may be equivalent.
	But be that as it may, it is quite fascinating to me.
	Now, of course, as you note, when women of color, they, I mean, this is like blacks all around the country, no matter who they are.
	Women, black men, black women, almost always, they have nothing to say about anything that's not about being blackity black, black, black.
	And while they're being blackety black, black, black, a lot of them seem to love to write about homosexuality or these, I don't know, perverse love affairs.
	So, be that as it may, still, this figure 4.5, 4.5 times, that is a surprising disparity to me.
	And I'd like to know more about the methodology.
	But then, I'm kind of a bit of a data wonk.
	Not an obsessive one, but I'd be curious to know about how they calculated that.
	Yeah, I would too.
	But that's the end of the story, and I definitely won't be seeking out a copy of The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and I don't think any of our listeners will either.
	So, sorry to the publisher of that tome.
	You've piqued my perverse imagination, Mr. Kersey!
	The Perks of Being a Wallflower!
	Wow!
	I bet it is wallflowers who look across the dance floor at another wallflower and they fall in love.
	That's my guess.
	These girls that are unattractive to the guys and they find that they like girls rather than guys.
	Who knows?
	That is a reverse rationality.
	Now here's big news, big news from Benin.
	I don't know how you pronounce it in English.
	In Africa, French-speaking Africa, you call it Benin.
	But that nation is on the verge of passing a groundbreaking law that would grant citizenship to people of African descent.
	Yes!
	Yes!
	This legislation was introduced May of this year.
	It aims to strengthen ties with descendants of Africans, wherever they may be.
	The bill offers a path of citizenship by recognition for those who can furnish evidence of their sub-Saharan African ancestry.
	Acceptable documentation includes official civil status documents, authenticated oral histories, and DNA tests.
	Now, most of the time, it seems to me, you don't need a DNA test, you don't need a civil status document, you don't need an authenticated oral history to prove that you are sub-Saharan African.
	I don't think most of the time that is a very tricky thing to prove.
	This move comes after BENA recently abolished visa requirements for visitors from Africa, underscoring its commitment to fostering a sense of pan-African unity.
	Can you imagine Europeans wanting to foster a sense of pan-European, pan-white unity?
	No.
	Actually, I can.
	I think it's actually beginning to happen.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	Now, the proposed law aligns with the African Union's recognition of the African diaspora as the sixth region of Africa.
	I've never heard that.
	Mr. Kersey, you live in the sixth region of Africa, because we have, what is it, 40 million?
	40 million of the African diaspora.
	We live amongst them.
	So we live in the sixth region of Africa.
	The bill defines as Afro-descendant Any person who, according to his genealogy, has black African ancestry, but here's the catch, Mr. Kersey, the ancestor has to have been deported outside the African continent as part of the slave trade.
	So this has to be someone who was captured by fellow Africans, sold into slavery by fellow Africans, and shipped out as a slave.
	Now, I wonder if they also include the slave trade across the Sahara into the Middle East, but part of the slave trade.
	Benin would join nations such as, now this is a significant list, and those of us who know anything about Africa, our ears will prick up because the list consists of Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Sudan, Liberia, Eritrea, Rwanda and Zambia in offering citizenship by descent.
	Now, I know enough about Africa, every single one of these countries, with the possible exception of Zambia, But Sierra Leone, Sudan, South Sudan, Liberia, Eritrea, Rwanda.
	These are exactly the sort of country that former President Trump referred to.
	And I will paraphrase as dung heaps.
	They really are.
	These are the last sorts of African countries anyone would want to become a citizen of.
	However, Mr. Kersey, this is a kind of black privilege when you think about it.
	If you really want to become a citizen of Eritrea, No, I don't.
	No, you don't.
	But our black fellow citizens, they've got the inside track.
	We don't.
	We don't.
	They've got black privilege.
	So there you go.
	Or if you want to be a citizen of Benin or Liberia, Liberia is another absolute wreck.
	It is a carbuncle on the backside of the continent of Africa.
	So let's see.
	Oh, here's a good story from Revolver News.
	The headline had, I think it was a cramped and picayune and insufficiently broad headline.
	I will read it verbatim.
	It's time to have a discussion about how black people are destroying Carnival Cruise Line.
	Again, this is a excessively limited headline.
	I will read some of the excerpts from the article.
	Since 2022, Carnival's stock has taken a nosedive.
	You seem to follow the stock market, Mr. Kersey.
	Maybe you sold short.
	I hope you did.
	This new, it has a new reputation.
	The Carnival Cruise Line has a new reputation as a black fight club, which has damaged the brand.
	Carnival claims it doesn't tolerate behavior of this kind, but it is commonplace, as the video evidence is all over the Internet.
	We're seeing, goes on Revolver to say, the same type of brawls at amusement parks.
	What happened during opening day at Six Flags over Georgia looks like the kickoff of a war, not an amusement park.
	Another example of this fight club mentality is happening at low-budget airlines and in airports across the country.
	And if cruise ships, amusement parks, airplanes, and airport brawls aren't concerning enough, Juneteenth celebrations are also fight clubs.
	Even pride parades have not been immune to the black fight club treatment.
	And Revolver goes on Boy, they are brave, the folks there.
	The author writes, perhaps it's time, perhaps it's time, Mr. Kerr, to engage in a serious conversation about aspects of black culture and behavior, and the law and order that are necessary to institute to bring such behavior into line.
	Oh dear, perhaps it's time to talk about that.
	As I say... Boy, it's a very good line.
	As I say, the title is a little narrow.
	A discussion about how black people are destroying Carvel Cruise Line.
	Well, I think we could expand that title very considerably.
	Very considerably.
	So, let's see.
	What have we got here?
	Oh, Mr. Kersey, you have a remarkable story from Sacramento.
	Apparently, if you are a big box retailer and you report too much shoplifting, You get in trouble with the police? Yeah, Sacramento City
	Attorney threatened to find Target store for reporting theft crimes. Its legal
	department threatened to find a popular retail store for public nuisance over numerous calls to
	police after thieves stole from its land park location multiple times. Sacramento Bee reported
	that a person with knowledge of the warning who wanted to remain anonymous out of fear that
	they could be retaliated against said Sacramento officials warned they would issue an
	administrative fine to Target at the location during the past year.
	A police spokesperson confirmed the location to the publication after being asked about the alleged warning.
	After learning about the city's warning and comparable actions across the state, state lawmakers added an amendment to a retail theft bill outlawing these types of threats toward businesses from authorities.
	Governor Gavin Newsom, Assembly Speaker Robert Revias, and State Senator Mike McGuire are pushing a package with 14 bills that tighten penalties on retail theft offenses.
	Because we all know what's happening all across the state of California.
	It's about time, isn't it?
	Yeah!
	It's about time.
	You can steal $1,000 worth of stuff and you have videos of CNN going into Walgreens and there are people stealing as they're filming live in places like San Francisco.
	It's about time you do this.
	About time.
	Yeah, the lawmakers believe their legislation.
	Last month, California's Secretary of State announced that petitioners had garnered more than enough signatures to place a measure to reform Prop 47 on the November ballot.
	It was a voter initiative passed in 2014, which loosened the penalties for drug and theft crimes in the state and has been blamed for California's rampant theft problems.
	Shortly after the measure to reform Prop 47 was approved, the Democrat-controlled Capitol in Sacramento began debating legislation that they say would address crime in the state.
	So again, as we see, you've got a situation where there are these threats against Target.
	And again, the Sacramento basically said, hey, what are you doing?
	These people are allowed to do this.
	You can't report on this.
	And we know Target has closed locations all across the country.
	I think I might be wrong in the number I'm going to say.
	It's between 200 and 500 million dollars in shrinkage and theft that caused Target stock to drop so precipitously a couple quarters ago.
	Because again, in a lot of these states, you have a situation where the Democrat-controlled government doesn't, they turn a blind eye and you get in
	trouble if you dare try and stop a shoplifter.
	And so the official policy of these big box stores, we've seen this with Home Depot where I think a
	white guy got killed trying to confront black shoplifters about a year ago. They tell you not
	to stop them, let them steal. And you can't have a box store if you're going to have such dramatic
	losses to a point where it no longer makes financial fiduciary sense to stay open.
	and if you report theft.
	If you report it too often, you could face a fine from the police department.
	Isn't that incredible?
	That just is mind-boggling to me.
	But my mind is so used to boggling these days, it's pretty much boggled out.
	Well, Mr. Kersey, I had a lengthy conversation with a young white guy who works at a Home Depot.
	And it's not quite as bad as you might think.
	It's true.
	That if somebody loads up a cart full of Milwaukee tools, and some of them are really quite high quality, expensive, and just sashays out to the parking lot, they're not supposed to say anything, or they might say that they're allowed to go up to the guy and say, may I help you with a checkout?
	That is what they're allowed to do, but they are not allowed to prevent him in any way.
	If this guy keeps walking, the guy keeps walking.
	Now, one thing you are allowed to do is you can follow him out the store, you can take a picture of his car, but these people often do not get away scot-free.
	And the reason is Home Depot has got cameras all over the place, in the parking lot, in the store, and chances are this guy is going to be on video.
	And even someone who doesn't even say a word to the guy who's on his way out, what he will do, he will quickly inform the anti-shriekage headquarters in the store.
	The store has got guys who are monitoring cameras all the time, and he'll say, okay, here is an Amish guy with his two little children who is stealing a whole cartload of Milwaukee tools.
	And so, the shrinkage guys will get on the camera, they'll have a good bead on him, they'll have these mobile video cameras that will follow him out of the store, to his car, get his license plate, and a lot of these guys will end up getting a visit from the police.
	So, it's not as bad as it sometimes seems.
	You and I are horrified by the videos we've seen so frequently of people Full, with carts full of expensive stuff, just waltzing out of the store.
	And they may waltz out, but they may end up waltzing into the big house, too.
	So I was relieved to hear that.
	I said to this guy, if I saw something like that, to me, that kind of behavior, and I've said this before on this podcast, to me, that's an insult to all of society.
	When you so brazenly break the rules, I'd want to go slug a guy like that.
	But you're not allowed to do that.
	But it is not as much as as it did.
	This does not have always the kind of impunity we get the impression that it does.
	So I was I was reassured to hear that.
	And I hope that some of our listeners who share my indignation at this utterly brazen flouting of the most basic rules of civilization likewise are somewhat reassured by what I learned.
	So let us see.
	Oh, here's a story out of Chicago.
	Chicago is always a great place for Radio Renaissance podcast news.
	It might be the epicenter of Radio Renaissance.
	You could be right.
	You could be right.
	The blackest city in the world, as the mayor told us just the other day.
	The blackest city in the world.
	Maybe that's why it's such a rich source of inspiring commentary on our diverse country.
	But there's a statue of George Washington outside the mayor's office.
	Hard to imagine it survived so long.
	And mayoral spokesman Ronnie Reese told the Chicago Tribune the statue would be moved.
	But we're just making some updates to some areas in and around City Hall.
	He denied that it was because the first president owned slaves.
	He says, no, no, no, it's just literally moving a statue.
	Can you believe these people?
	No, no, we're just moving a statue.
	However, I mean, these guys are so transparent.
	He did float the name of some local black historical figures as alternatives who might be installed in George's place.
	Among them, Ida B. Welms.
	She was a crusading journalist.
	Jean-Baptiste Pointe du Sable.
	I think he was an explorer.
	I didn't realize he was considered to be black.
	I think he must be, well, our listeners will probably know all about him, but I'd never thought of him as being a black man, but I guess maybe he was.
	And then Harold Washington, the city's first black mayor, whom Johnson invoked throughout his mayoral campaign.
	Yeah.
	So, the father of his country, nope, nope, nope, nope, no good, and so we're going to replace him with a black man.
	Now, I always propose Denmark Vesey, or Gabriel Prosser, or some of these guys who really struck a blow for black liberation, you know, maybe Toussaint Louverture, or somebody who actually killed white people to liberate their black race.
	Well, you're well aware that Denmark Vesey already has a statue of him in Charleston, South Carolina.
	Yes.
	Oh, yes.
	Oh, yes.
	Well, I think he deserves one in Chicago, too.
	He never set foot there, never probably even heard of the place, but boy, he deserves one.
	What a hero.
	What a mighty, mighty blow for freedom he struck.
	As it turns out, Johnson, this is Eric Johnson, Mayor Johnson's ally, Alderman Carlos Ramirez Rosa said that he and spokesman Reese support the creation of a public space to hold existing monuments to controversial figures.
	Controversial figures, Mr. Kersey, just like Hungary's Memento Park of fallen statues to leaders of the communist period.
	And Carlos Ramirez says that the Christopher Columbus statues that have been taken down during Lori Lightfoot's administration, as well as other monuments scheduled for removal, should go there.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	A museum to all the criminals of the past.
	That means every white person Chicago has ever admired.
	And I think George Washington would do very well there, don't you think?
	He and Christopher Columbus, they can all go to this open-air penitentiary where people can come by and spit on these criminals of America's past.
	In any case, Johnson, Mayor Johnson, last summer announced the city will spend $6.8 million on eight new monuments.
	Now, I'd love to know what the other seven are, but one of the monuments, hold on to your hat, Mr. Kersey, will be a memorial for police torture victims.
	I mean, there've been so many of those after all, and I bet every police torture victim is going to be a person of color, probably super melanated.
	Now, As Cook County Commissioner, back when he was a Mayor Commissioner and not Mayor of the Windy City, Johnson led a charge to rename the country's Columbus Day holiday.
	Of course, can't celebrate patient zero in the spread of the cancer of human history to North America.
	No, no, no.
	He wanted to change it from Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day, but the effort fizzled.
	And guess why?
	It's because another commissioner Revealed that he was descended from a black who had been owned as a slave by Indians.
	So, because Indians owned black slaves, we're stuck with Columbus Day!
	Can you believe that?
	The Rainbow Coalition sometimes just has a little blurring between the lines.
	Things aren't as clear as we sometimes thought.
	Now, here is from the impossible-to-believe-yet-true department.
	Did you know that Duke Medical School claims that it is white supremacy culture to expect people of color to be on time?
	I did not know that.
	Well, it does.
	I mean, you were telling me that cancel culture is over.
	I mean, I had had the feeling that this kind of utter and total transparent lunacy was on the wane.
	But no, Duke Medical School, nothing daunted, is going to spread the word that white supremacy culture, that means expecting people of color to be on time, the school decries white supremacy culture with its purported nitpicking about being on time.
	Dress codes, speech, and work style.
	And you know, you probably have to get your work in on time.
	That's part of white supremacy culture, too.
	You probably have to dress like you are not a pimp or a prostitute.
	That's all part of white supremacy culture, too, at the workplace.
	White supremacy culture is the idea that white people and their ideas, thoughts, beliefs, and actions are superior to those of people of color.
	And their ideas, thoughts, beliefs, and actions.
	They've got a whole document that lays all this out.
	It goes on to explain that America is rigged for the interests of white people who get privileges.
	The unquestioned and unearned set of advantages, entitlements, benefits, and choices bestowed on people solely because they are white.
	These are these incalculable benefits Mr. Kersey, you and I have enjoyed and profited from all our lives.
	White supremacy culture is power hoarding to the disadvantage of non-whites.
	In the workplace, white supremacy culture explicitly privileges whiteness.
	Now, when have you ever heard that there's some workplace culture that says white people are better?
	It explicitly privileges whiteness.
	And it discriminates against non-Western and non-white professionalism standards.
	Dress code, speech, work style, timeliness.
	It explicitly does this.
	Listen, we learned a couple weeks ago, Mr. Taylor, that the reason there's so much gun violence in the black community is one of the reasons why they don't shower.
	So, come on.
	It's why they have trouble showering.
	Correct.
	That's right.
	They have trouble going up and down stairs.
	I guess they live on one floor.
	That's right.
	Now, the dean of the medical school.
	This is Duke Medical School.
	This is just no podunk university.
	Her name is Mary E. Klotman.
	Boy, is she melanin deprived.
	She's so melanin deprived.
	She's blonde, blue eyed, and good looking.
	But she praised the guy for reflecting the medical school's goals, priorities, and strategies.
	She said, each of you will play an important role in advancing our mission to dismantle racism and grow equity, diversity, inclusion at Duke and beyond.
	It's not just Duke.
	Duke and beyond.
	Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy.
	As I say, I thought we'd pretty much gotten over this stuff, or at least we'd gotten past the point where people were openly bragging about this, but boy was I wrong.
	So anyway, that's the word from Duke Miroskov.
	Now, we are running out of time, as alas, we always do, but Mr. Kersey, as I so often do, I forgot to explain to people how to get in touch with us and why.
	So could I pass the ball to you on that score?
	Not only can you pass it, but I'll catch the ball and dunk it.
	So it's really simple.
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	That'll be just after the election.
	There will be a lot to talk about, and we will have a lot of crackerjack, super-duper speakers, One of these days, one of these days when he is willing, I'll try to persuade Mr. Kersey to be a speaker, but that day has not yet come.
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	I'm sorry, Sam Dixon.
	Oh, gosh.
	Shut my mouth.
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	Every year he was still alive while we had the conferences.
	His ghost still haunts me.
	I guess you shouldn't say his ghost.
	His spirit still blesses me.
	Let's put it that way.
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	As I like to say, in the words of my 1950s ancestors, be there or be square.
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