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Aug. 15, 2024 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor

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Britain Under Tyranny

Jared Taylor and Paul Kersey are revolted by Britain’s North-Korea-style clampdown on free speech. The hosts also discuss Delta Airlines, phony black philanthropy, "breast-ironing," and the Serbia-USA basketball game. Thumbnail credit: © Yat Him Wong/Cover Images 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.
	And it is our custom to begin every podcast with comments from listeners.
	And this one comes from a retired police officer.
	He writes in to say the New York Fire Department has just sworn in a heterosexual white male as its new commissioner.
	Now, for me, the term white male is anathema.
	For me, that's when you talk about lab rats.
	If you're talking about our people, we are white men.
	And I hope our listener is listening.
	A white man has been sworn in as the new New York Fire Department commissioner.
	Fire departments are just as committed to the 30-30 business, that insanity, as police departments.
	That means 30% females by 2030.
	And in that case, I should probably be talking about ladies.
	I'm legitimately flabbergasted, our listener goes on to say, that they gave the job to a white man.
	Little victories like this are tiny cracks of hope.
	As they always say, once you've declared something racist, you can't declare it un-racist.
	Sometimes things like this are a pretty accurate but litmus test for the state of things.
	If one agency has the audacity to promote a qualified white man, other agencies may follow suit.
	A heterosexual white man in a position of authority who earned the job through demonstrated competence.
	Gasp!
	You may remember his predecessor was a female DEI hire.
	She launched an investigation into a large part of the fire department to find who had been booing the black female state attorney general, I'm sure that's Letitia James, at some time of gathering.
	All white men must genuflect to survive and pander to our new rulers.
	Well, indeed they must.
	So a nice sign of change.
	Next comment.
	And Mr. Taylor, if I could jump in real quick, it was them booing Letitia James, which I know them were reprimanded for, by the way.
	Oh, gosh.
	Can't boo a black woman.
	I hope none of them lost their jobs on account of that.
	And our second comment here.
	Last week, Mr. Kersey, you and I talked about a suit by the white city manager of Cordele, Georgia, who was pushed out for obviously racial reasons.
	Royce Reeves was one of the black city commissioners who told the white man, Roland McCarthy, that he would be replaced with a black city manager and that he could not return to his former position as finance director for the city because, quote, he did not look like us.
	He was replaced by a black woman and he has sued.
	Now, the listener writes in to tell us that, first of all, we mispronounced the name of the city.
	It is Cordele and not Cor-del, as we had pronounced it.
	It's spelled C-O-R-D-E-L-E, Core Deal, so I apologize to all residents for that.
	Well, it now transpires that Royce Reeves, one of the Black City commissioners who was giving the white man the heave-ho, has been arrested for gang activity and drug dealing.
	Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
	Now, ladies and gentlemen, we do love hearing from you.
	We love to hear your comments.
	We love to hear your corrections when we make mistakes, such as in pronouncing names.
	If we've overlooked something, if we have misinterpreted something, and if we have missed a story that you think is important, please, please get in touch.
	And you can reach me by going to amren.com, a-m-r-e-n.com, hitting the Contact Us tab, or there is an alternative that works just as well.
	Yeah, ladies and gentlemen, it's really simple.
	Shoot an email to me at BecauseWeLiveHere at ProtonMail.com.
	Once again, that email address is BecauseWeLiveHere at ProtonMail.com.
	And I do want to go ahead and ask all of our fantastic listeners, if you haven't, Gregory Hood and I also do a podcast weekly now, and we just did one on John Milius's phenomenal 1984 film, which came out on August 10th, 1984.
	Red Dawn, we celebrated the 40th anniversary and I'd like to give a shout out to Amanda Milius, the daughter of John Milius, who tweeted that out to her tens of thousands of followers and very excited to have seen that go viral.
	So thank you very much all of our listeners to that podcast and I can't tell you how important it is that you send us an email so we can have you also signed up to the weekly New Century Foundation newsletter.
	You'll get all the great content that Mr. Taylor filters through and decides is important
	enough to send to your mailbox.
	So you can be kept abreast of what's new in the world of the New Century Foundation.
	I don't think you explained how to reach you.
	Oh, I said send an email to becausewelivehereatprotonmail.com.
	I said that twice, actually.
	Now it's three times.
	Uh-oh.
	Uh-oh.
	Guess I wasn't paying attention.
	Okay.
	Very good.
	Now, Mr. Kersey, I believe you have one of these dismal stories about the changes in the U.S.
	population.
	I do.
	Regrettably, I do, and it'll be a quick one, but it will be quickly ascertained just how incomprehensible this demographic change has been since 2020.
	The Hispanic population in the U.S.
	grew by 3.2 million from the beginning of the pandemic to mid-2023, making up 91% of the country's overall gain, according to analysis of the Census Bureau.
	An uptick in immigration alongside shifts in births and deaths from April 2020 to July 2023 has contributed to a diversity explosion.
	A diversity explosion.
	That sounds like a neutron bomb to me, but be that as it may.
	I would call it a, you know, the brown bomb going off, or the Hispanic hydro bomb, but whatever.
	But according to William Frey, who's a demographer and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, an organization we've quoted from many times, the trend, he says, represents an important part of the nation's future.
	That's a phenomenon that American policies And politics need to recognize.
	Overall, the US population increased by 3.4 million over the period.
	Phrase analysis showed at the same time the white population declined by 2.1 million.
	And the shrinking group of white youth drove a 1.6 million drop in the number of Americans under the age of 18.
	Both natural increase measured as births minus deaths and immigration contributed to the recent gains of all groups.
	Mr. Taylor, we've always heard that white people don't breed in captivity.
	This is yet another reminder of what the policies of the Biden administration have done with the open borders, with mass legal immigration, and with incentives from being able to get onto the public dole have done to the country.
	And this is disconcerting to read about.
	We're about, I mean, 90% of the population growth.
	That's just extraordinary.
	Well, Mr. Kruse, Was there some figure about a 1.6 or so million reduction in the number of whites under age 18?
	A reduction in their number?
	What's happening to them?
	Just no births?
	Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
	If you don't birth, if there are no births, I mean, the children under 18, they don't die.
	Why would there be fewer under 18s over a period?
	I mean, they grow old and die, but they shouldn't be dying off like that.
	That's a good question.
	There must be some mistake in that article.
	I don't know.
	Surely, in the last few years, there aren't 1.6 or 8 million fewer white people under the age of 18.
	I mean, are they all dying of suicide and fentanyl overdoses?
	Golly, I just hope not.
	You know, one of the things that we know Yes.
	is transpiring are the so-called deaths of despair.
	But I wouldn't, that would hit people under 18.
	I don't think people, to that extent, to that number, I don't believe you would see such a dramatic shift.
	I just believe that, and being in the age where, you know, during that time period,
	I was working on baby number three, and unfortunately that didn't happen.
	It's just- Well, maybe that should be your homework assignment,
	Find out if there really was, during that period, an actual drop in the number of white under-18-year-olds.
	I mean, as I say, they shouldn't be dying off.
	They're not shooting each other briskly, the way our dusky brethren are.
	This is a mystery to me.
	Yeah.
	You know what?
	I will gladly take up that homework assignment.
	Very good.
	Very good.
	Now we have some very sad stories, equally sad in their own way.
	Stories about Britain.
	And we'll start with Lee Joseph Dunn, a 51-year-old man from Egremont.
	He pleaded guilty.
	He pleaded guilty to a crime that occurred on July 30th and 31st and involved three Facebook posts.
	The first one showed a group of men, Asian in appearance, at the Egremont Crab Fair.
	And the caption was, Coming to a town near you.
	Now, isn't that just awful?
	The Egremont Crab Fair.
	Coming to a town near you.
	Asians.
	The second also showed a group of Asian men leaving a boat on a British beach.
	And this had the caption, When it's on your turf, then what?
	The final image showed a group of men, again Asian in appearance, wielding knives in front of the Palace of Westminster.
	There was also a crying white child in a Union flag t-shirt, and this was captioned, again, coming to a town near you.
	Well, this is now a crime in Britain, Mr. Kersey.
	Dunn had removed the offensive content And he was given credit for this by the district judge, a certain John Temperley, who from his photograph looks like quite the chisel-jawed white man.
	Dunn was handed an immediate eight-week jail sentence, discounted by a third from 12 weeks, in view of his guilty plea and his apology.
	Two months.
	Two months in the slammer for posting those three Facebook posts.
	Last week, the same judge gave a 31-year-old Billy Thompson of Maryport an immediate 12-week sentence.
	He had written a racially aggravated Facebook post which contained emojis, both of an ethnic minority person and a gun.
	Now, I don't know the details of that, but I guess that was even worse, and he got, you know, none of this community service stuff, none of this suspended sentence.
	Sure enough, 12 weeks in the big house for 31-year-old Billy Thompson.
	Now, the sentencing judge, Judge Temperley, had said of his zero-tolerance approach, this offense has to be viewed in the context of the current civil unrest up and down this country.
	And I have no doubt all your posts are connected with the wider picture.
	This offense is serious enough for custody.
	Now, apparently, what you do in Britain depends on what else is happening in the country.
	He says it has to be viewed in the context of the current civil unrest.
	These are all these white people.
	I'm sure you've talked about that.
	You've talked about that with Mr. Hood at great length on your podcast.
	You devoted one to that.
	But these are white men who are absolutely fed up.
	With this guy of Rwandan origin, this young black man who walked into some kind of little dance festival for little white girls, slaughtered three of them, tried to slaughter as many more as he could, sent several mothers to the hospital.
	And white people are fed up with this, absolutely fed up, and rightly so.
	But apparently, because they are rioting and they are making a fuss, then you get a real sentence.
	You get a sure enough hard prison sentence for making Facebook posts that some people might consider rude, good grief.
	Now here, and we go on here, a woman has been arrested by Cheshire police for posting, quote, inaccurate information on social media about the attacker.
	This was—some people said that this guy was a Muslim.
	Some people said he was an asylum seeker.
	Turns out he's probably not a Muslim, probably not an asylum seeker.
	His parents came from Rwanda.
	The fact is, he's Rwandan, and he doesn't belong here.
	None of that makes any difference in my book.
	I don't care if he's a Muslim or a Christian or anything else.
	He doesn't belong.
	He doesn't belong.
	He could worship voodoo.
	I don't care.
	But he does not belong.
	And a suspicion of publishing written material to stir up racial hatreds and false communications.
	That's her crime.
	She probably said that he was a Muslim asylum seeker.
	Chief Superintendent of the Cheshire Police, Alison Ross, gave a statement explaining that this post is alleged to have fueled the protests.
	All by itself.
	All by itself.
	She fueled the protests.
	Superintendent Ross said the arrest was a warning to others about the dangers of posting information on social media platforms without checking the accuracy.
	And we're all accountable.
	Everybody is supposed to now check the accuracy if it could possibly be something that redounds to the discredit of our pets and current heroes, Mr. Kersey.
	Presumably, the woman will now be thrown in prison along with people who attended the protest, such as Stephen Malin, M-A-I-L-E-N, who was jailed for 26 months for shouting at police officers.
	The 53-year-old was constantly in the face of officers gesticulating and shouting at them, but apparently not laying a hand upon them.
	But he shouted at them, and he got 26 months.
	I mean, good grief.
	We saw over and over and over these BLM protests, blacks displaying very much this kind of in-your-face shouting, obscene gestures.
	I don't think ever any one of them went to jail, and none of them should.
	This is speech, and it is protected speech.
	Elsewhere, head of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Mark Rowley, that's the London Metropolitan Police, warned that keyboard warriors could be hit with terrorism charges And for inciting riots online, even if they are living abroad.
	Theoretically, that means, Mr. Kersey, you and I can be extradited.
	Well, if I could, if I could bring it up, I believe that the wasn't one of the official accounts of the United Kingdom actually booted off, jettisoned off of Twitter, because they've made that threat to actually try and extradite Americans.
	I mean, it becomes more and more evident why the Tea Party was so necessary back in the 18th century.
	You know, it's funny, it almost seems as if the best of Albion seed left, you know, our native land.
	And what's left has been the Detroit, you know, the Flotsam Jetsam of that line.
	This is just incredible.
	Brits, well, as a matter of fact, though, when it comes to the Boston Tea Party, it was really not the heroic event that it's portrayed to be.
	We could talk about that at some point, but if you look into the real history of it, it is not a glorious act by brave colonists against oppressive Mother Britain.
	Anyway, that's a different story.
	Brits have also been warned that merely retweeting information about the riots could lead to criminal charges.
	Unbelievable.
	Yes, isn't this incredible?
	We don't even want Britain to know that this is happening.
	And if you let other people know there was a riot down the street, here's a video of it.
	No, no, no.
	You could be, that could lead to criminal, what in heaven's name is the crime?
	Inciting racial hatred?
	Terrorism?
	This is, I mean, this is worse than, this is worse than Russia.
	This is, I don't know of any country, this is China, this is North Korea for heaven's sake.
	This is something about George Orwell, yeah, and I don't want to get too personal, but what was the reason that you were, you're no longer allowed into the United Kingdom?
	For things that I've said online.
	They had a whole list of them, all entirely reasonable things, reasonable things that I've said online, but at least I'm a foreigner.
	I do think countries have the sovereign right to keep anybody out that they want to keep out.
	I think I'm exactly the wrong kind of person to keep out.
	They let in all of these maniacal, crazed, Hispanic—I'm sorry, Muslim nutcases, but they have the right to do that.
	But their own citizens pass on information about violence in their own country, and that could be a crime.
	As I say, this is North Korea.
	This is North Korea.
	They have absolutely no right to criticize any other country.
	This is utterly disgusting to me.
	On the other hand, Mr. Kersey, apparently what's goose for the gander, I mean, what is sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose, to the extent that Britain's governing Labour Party has been forced to suspend Councillor Ricky Jones.
	After social media users identified him as the speaker who called for anti-mass migration protesters to be murdered.
	Jones, who is one of our dusky brethren, one of these people that an older generation of Britons would have called a colored gentleman, he went on a tirade after having being handed a microphone and he talked about of the anti-immigration protesters They are disgusting Nazi fascists.
	We need to cut all their throats and get rid of them all.
	And just to remove any ambiguity, he made a throat-slitting gesture as he spoke.
	Well, the assembled crowd—these were all anti-racists, you see, good, peaceful, tolerant, lovers of diversity, you know, love your fellow man—the assembled crowd welcomed his message with cheers and applause.
	Now, Mr. Kersey, it seems to me that you can be charged just for passing along facts about anti-immigration riots.
	Why not for cheering a call for murder?
	Don't you think so?
	Gee!
	And a Labour spokesman has said that Jones has now been suspended from his councillor job.
	Well, city councillors, they're a dime a dozen.
	There must be, I don't know, tens of thousands of them in Britain.
	He's a very minor player.
	But he's been suspended from his job, and Labour says this behaviour is completely unacceptable and will not be tolerated.
	Okay, so he got his comeuppance for calling for people in the streets to have their throats slit.
	Of course, Reform Party leader Nigel Farage wondered why Jones had not been arrested for inciting violence.
	He wrote on social media, if that doesn't happen, we know there is two-tier policing.
	Well, Nigel, we already know there's two-tier policing, double standards.
	And after a substantial amount of public pressure, the London Police Department did announce that Jones had been arrested on suspicion of encouraging murder and for an offense against the Public Order Act.
	What are the chances he will get an immediate sentence?
	We'll see.
	Or maybe we won't.
	Some of those things we'll probably never hear about.
	Oh dear.
	Now, Mr. Kersey, back to the United States.
	We have, in some respects, equally astonishing things going on.
	And give us this depressing story once again about Delta Airlines.
	Well, you and I are Huge fans of Carlton Putnam, who I believe at one point was the CEO of Delta many decades ago, who also wrote that New Century Foundation republished called Race and Reason.
	I believe he wrote the forward to a new edition of that.
	You're right, you're right.
	What a memory you have.
	I'm always impressed, always impressed.
	It is in my opinion, the best book on the racial problem in the United States because he correctly identified
	the Shelley v. Kramer 1948 decision on restrictive covenants as one of the backbreaking moments
	of freedom of association.
	And now in 2024, the Delta Airlines that he presided over as the chief executive officer is quite different because the top diversity equity inclusion officer has now jettisoned ladies and gentlemen gate announcement as part of an equity push.
	So, Delta has been embracing DEI agenda under the purview of the black chief officer of DEI, and she believes that the phrase, ladies and gentlemen, isn't inclusive enough.
	Well, it probably doesn't include a lot of blacks.
	She's right about that.
	Well, if you've flown recently, flying has lost a lot of its luster, a lot of its majesty and allure.
	One of the more unsavory things you can do, especially if you're trying to fly, I don't want to say the discount airlines, but Southwest has changed.
	But Delta was always looked at as that prestige, that premier airline.
	And unfortunately, under Kira Lynn Johnson, Delta's chief diversity, equity, inclusion, and social impact officer, She's publicly said that Delta is striving to boldly pursue equity, which has impacted every level of the company, from its hiring practices in both the cockpit to every level of the company, to the language it uses in gate announcements.
	Quote, so we're beginning to take a hard look at things like our gatehouse announcements.
	You know, we welcome ladies and gentlemen.
	And we asked ourselves, is that as gender inclusive as we want to be?
	You know, we're looking at some legacy language that exists in some of our employee manuals and getting to the root of the way some things are described and saying, does that actually send a message of inclusivity?
	Delta released an inclusive language guide in December 2020, which advised employees and leaders against using terms that reinforce the notion that there are only two genders.
	Quote, use gender neutral language and pronouns.
	Do not use language that suggests a gender binary, male, female, the Delta guide said.
	Fox News Digital was told by a Delta spokesperson the company encourages employees to use inclusive language.
	Quote, Delta encourages our people to use language that is inclusive of everyone as our global customer base includes a broad range of diversity and cultural backgrounds, identity, and experiences.
	Also back in 2020, Johnson stressed how it's important to Delta to be an anti-racist company.
	To really come out and say, as an organization, that we are an anti-racist company was really important to us.
	We're going to actively seek diversity.
	We're also going to be talking about how we're going to boldly pursue equity.
	And we're talking about steps we're taking to consciously promote inclusion.
	You know, Mr. Taylor, the concept of being anti-racist was popularized by one of your favorite activists and scholars, Ibram Kendi.
	The publication... Scholar is in quotation marks, please.
	Scholar actually has a parenthesis, sick, inference behind it.
	Very good.
	Yeah, of course, his book, How to Be an Anti-Racist in 2019.
	Many people have said that Kendi argues for current discrimination against whites in order
	to atone for historical wrongs.
	He believes, like Johnson, that it's not enough to be racist.
	One must be an activist against racism, which simply means an activist against white people
	and the interest of individual white people collectively.
	Quote, so we realize like many of you have that it's not enough to just say we're anti-racist, but to say you're anti-racist.
	Again, this is one of these situations where it's a top-down approach to talent pipeline.
	If we all recall the New York Times article, which talked about how some airlines like United and American want to significantly increase the number of black pilots within the cockpit.
	Uh, which as we've also seen air traffic controllers, I believe you did a phenomenal video on this, uh, almost two years ago now, which talked about how we're going to start seeing some unnecessary calamities and catastrophes happen within the airline industry due to this DEI push.
	And, you know, it's something as simple as saying, ladies and gentlemen, now is antiquated.
	It just makes you really wonder.
	Is it worth flying when you could drive just a few extra hours to get to your destination and not have to worry about putting up with this DEI nonsense?
	Well, what do they say?
	Ladies and gentlemen, hermaphrodites, furries, transsexuals, people who think they're boys and girls who aren't, whoever you are, everybody out there, man, woman, child, or beast, it's time to get on board.
	What are they going to say?
	Any idea?
	I guess they just say passengers.
	None of this ladies and gentlemen stuff.
	Oh, well.
	These are strange times.
	You can't say human beings.
	There was this goofy TV show years ago where they kind of parodied the whole concept of DEI and they changed their name to the Glendale Human Beings.
	But there are so many people who identify as dogs or as... Well, that's right.
	Furries.
	Furries.
	You know, apparently they can't get sexually stimulated unless they're wearing some furry outfit and they think they're squirrels or something.
	Yeah, well, that's nuts.
	Well, we want them all flying, too.
	You know, that's all part of the welcome to the inclusive skies.
	They all think they're flying squirrels.
	Well, it's funny.
	The more inclusive skies become, the more dangerous they become.
	They sure do.
	They sure do.
	Anyway, well, I have an equally weird and bizarre, and this is so 2020, kind of a story here.
	It's the University of Buffalo Law School.
	It has distributed announcements as part of its welcome packet to new students.
	It says, we have re-examined our curriculum and programming to explore ways to honor black lives.
	Boy, black lives just live, live on and on and on, even after just—when is this celebration of George Floyd's ascent into heaven going to end?
	But we're still honoring black lives, not merely in a reactionary way, but in a way that provides a framework for understanding the historical and legal context of systemic racism.
	This goes on—this is the welcome package.
	Here, you've just been admitted to law school, and you get this letter.
	The Supreme Court's recent decisions have supposedly stripped away fundamental rights relied upon by women, and they go against efforts to remedy hundreds of years of racism and inequity.
	This is in a law school, remember, and of course the authors—I will explain to you who they are later on—but they know better than Supreme Court justices.
	And the university says faculty and administration are continuing to take steps towards building an ever more equitable and anti-racist culture.
	As you read, we would like you to consider the conditions in the United States, as well as in our current legal system, that allow for great miscarriages of justice.
	Yes, as they're reading that letter, I'm sure every new admit is thinking, wow, what are those horrible conditions?
	This letter is signed by the Vice Dean for Diversity, Equity and Belonging, Clearly somebody who understands the law right down to every single Supreme Court decision.
	Also the Director of the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Belonging.
	So they got a Vice Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Belonging, and the Director of the Office for Diversity, Equity, and Belonging, and the Vice Dean for Experiential Education and Social Justice Initiatives.
	They've got a Vice Dean for that?
	For experiential education, whatever that is.
	And the college, the law school, is supposed to be engaging in social justice initiatives, not learning about the law.
	And then it's also signed by the vice dean and associate dean for student affairs.
	And I don't think that means a little hanky panky in the dormitories to talk about student affairs.
	So in any case, that is what's going on at University of Buffalo Law School.
	Now, here's a story that's—we've had it on our list of stories for some weeks now, but it's fairly long and fairly complicated.
	We never got around to it.
	But I think it's significant enough that, Mr. Kersey, with your permission, I would like to talk about Florida A&M University.
	Ooh, that's one of my favorite HBCUs.
	Is that right?
	Well, I can't claim to have a favorite, you know.
	I sort of view them all with a detached eye.
	No favors, no favorites, no particular enemies.
	I just put them all in one lump, lump them in.
	I guess I'm just undiscriminating that way.
	I have no favorites.
	I actually just read a book about the Florida A&M football program and how in the years that before integration of the Southeastern Conference,
	a lot of the best black talent would go to that school.
	And when integration happened, they became sort of an also-ran program.
	And that's, in my opinion, one of the bad things about integration
	because these HBCUs, if you actually were recruiting some of the black talent
	that goes to all these almost all-white schools, you know, there'd be more positive equity,
	if that makes sense, as opposed to what we see.
	Are you telling me you read a whole book on the Florida A&M football program?
	Boy, you must have had that on your hands!
	No, because I'm very interested in the whole integration, how quickly it happened.
	The acceptable nature of These white boosters who watch their programs go from all white at the end of the 1960s and the early 70s and transitioning to what they are now, to where you have a stadium full of white people cheering on unpronounceable black individuals whose names get more unpronounceable every year.
	Yes, they do.
	Yes, they do.
	Well, okay.
	Well, in any case, Florida A&M.
	U.S.
	News & World Report included Florida A&M, otherwise known as FAMU, in its top 100 universities, believe it or not, and ranked it as the best public HBCU—in other words, Historically Black College and University—five years in a row, a tippy-top place.
	The university announced that it had a substantial donation from a 30-year-old person, Gregory Jaramie, An industrial hemp businessman.
	Now this just, this just reeks of negritude, this next part here.
	Jeremy unveiled the donation during a May 4th commencement ceremony in an elaborate event, this is during commencement, where he delivered a fairly standard graduation speech before giving President Larry Robinson a belt buckle and saying, you should buckle up for what's coming next.
	And then in his speech, Jeremy said that he had overcome formidable challenges, including being born with an opiate addiction, fetal alcohol syndrome, cerebral palsy, and ADHD.
	He was born with all these things, Mr. Kersey, and was raised by a foster family after having been born to a single mother who was 24 with eight children.
	24 with eight children, and he's the eighth, ninth, Wow, I'm not sure I entirely trust this guy, but again, he was born with opiate addiction, fetal alcohol syndrome, ADHD, and cerebral palsy.
	Boy, he has gone on to great things.
	Well, at FAMU, Jeremy didn't go into much detail how he reportedly accrued a fortune, but he said only that he had harnessed his entrepreneurial spirit before becoming the founder and CEO of Batterson Farms Corporation.
	And after President Larry Robinson had fiddled with his belt buckle and buckled up, a gigantic check for $238 million was marched onto the stage while the PA system played the OJs' For the Love of Money and Grateful by Hezekiah Walker.
	I mean, this, as I say, this is just so blackety black black.
	It's too much.
	FAMU president Robinson then said, this is more than $100 million, more than we currently have in our endowment.
	So this was going to be a big deal.
	Jerame told the crowd, by the way, the money is in the bank.
	Robinson, the president of FAMU, then lauded Mr. Jerame and Batterson Farms.
	Their names are now etched into the annals of Florida A&M University in perpetuity.
	Well, Batterson Farms grows industrial hemp in warehouses using hydroponics, Jermani said during his speech.
	But as it turns out, Florida A&M's administration accepted this donation without informing the board of trustees or the university foundation members.
	And a person by the name of Shawanta Friday Stroud, that's the vice president for university advancement, And executive director of the FAMU, the FAMU Foundation, Anne Robinson, the two of them signed non-disclosure agreements requiring them to keep the donations secret from other members of the administration.
	Most irregular.
	She cited donors' rights to privacy and confidentiality under state law.
	Of course, if you're concerned about confidentiality, you wouldn't come dancing onto the stage with enormous check and brag about this enormous grant.
	Robinson, the president, says he didn't tell the chair of either the school's foundation or board of trustees who have legal and financial oversight because he was worried that doing so might, quote, jeopardize this transformational donation.
	Why might he do that?
	Well, maybe a little bit more oversight would have saved them from a certain embarrassment, because although Jeremy, the donor, said that the money was in the bank, Friday Stroud, the lady who does university advancement, said the donation was in the form of 15 million shares of stock in Batterson Farms, his privately held company.
	Well, if you're ever talking about privately held stock, the evaluations for that are very, very dicey.
	As it turns out, Madison Farms has a website, but it offers few details about the company's scale.
	The Texas Department of Agriculture Hemp Program confirmed that Madison Farms has a current hemp producer license.
	That's the first step in the state's commercial hemp licensing process and a lot crop permit.
	A lot crop permit is good for one hemp crop.
	That we know it had.
	Robinson and Friday Stroud, those of the university people, had already heard reports claiming that Jarami was linked, that's a donor, to a failed donation of South Carolina's Coastal Carolina University and another school.
	In 2020, as it turns out, Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina, another HBCU, announced a $95 million donation pledge.
	But within a few months, the school said that it had ended its relationship with an anonymous donor who has not fulfilled his part of the arrangement.
	And Jerami confirmed that he was that donor.
	In Jarami's telling, he pulled the plug on that deal because he felt disrespected by Coastal Carolina officials and claimed racism.
	It's a black school.
	Black people can't be racist, you know, especially not against other blacks.
	But Shawanda Friday Stroud and President Robinson of FAMU discussed the matter and chose to move forward anyway.
	Well, they are an optimistic pair, aren't they?
	Coastal Carolina's initial statement about the proposed gift, which is no longer on its website, said that its new donor was also a supporter of Miles College, a private HBCU in Alabama.
	But it was reported last year that a planned donation to Miles College was also never made.
	Officials from Miles College are apparently tight-lipped about this and ignore press requests for comment.
	Well, as it turns out, Shawanta Friday Stroud has now resigned from Florida A&M's vice president for university advancement and executive director of the Feinberg Foundation.
	However, she will keep her position as dean of the business school, so she won't be going door-to-door asking for handouts and won't be going very far.
	Larry Robinson is resigning as president, but he too isn't going far either.
	He will return to his job as professor of environmental studies.
	Now this being Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis is likely to have a hand in choosing his successor as president.
	So isn't this an astonishing story?
	Obviously, this is a Jerami guy.
	He's a psychopath.
	He tells these black schools, hey, I'm going to give $95 million, and they're all happy and excited.
	This was going to be $285 million.
	Wow, that's a big, big wad of cash.
	And the way he presented it, you know, all this song and dance, hands the president a buckle and says, buckle up, boy, because millions are coming your way.
	In any case, NPR had a story about this.
	Now, NPR being NPR, it made sure that there was a happy ending.
	And let me quote, let me quote the way NPR ended its story.
	Amir Pesic, the dean of Indiana University's Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, told NPR, it is something of an embarrassment.
	But on the other hand, I think the silver lining for FAMU is that it demonstrated their ambition and that they really want to do more and achieve more for their students, faculty, and staff.
	So I think they should just embrace that.
	That's the way they end the story.
	In fact, embrace the fact that they were greedy incompetents who were fleeced by this psychopathic crook.
	But anyway, that's the story of this Utterly imaginary huge donation to Florida A&M.
	I guess it's gone back to being just a top-ranked HBCU, whereas it might have been the top-ranked school in the entire country if this money had come through.
	Dear me, dear me.
	I bet both those executives are already figuring out how they would spend that money, including fat pay raises.
	Oh, that's the only thing that they were thinking about was pay raises for the administration and those in the C-suite.
	This story is really laughable, because like you said, doing a valuation of a privately held stock, you could basically say, you know, if the New Century Foundation was a for-profit industry, you could say, oh, yeah, we're worth $50 million.
	We'll start handing out stock valuations and individual stock equities to donors and stuff.
	And you could say, yeah, we're valuing each share at $45 a share, and we expect to see growth of anywhere from 10 to 20%.
	And that's all pie-in-the-sky numbers, unless you actually have a solid account or the SEC looking at it.
	And again, this is one of those stories, Mr. Taylor, that there's a reason why that concept of black run America exists, and this guy is ...was allowed to do all of this and to gin up a lot of excitement and hope for the budgets of these schools and, well, in reality... And the amazing thing is, he does, he fleeces, or he does this crazy flimflam on one school, it becomes well known, and then FAMU finds out about that and says, well, okay, it's gonna work for us.
	It's gonna work for us.
	This guy must be a very smooth operator.
	But he was treated with disrespect by the other school that he tried to fleece.
	He said they were racists over there, those black guys.
	Gosh, gosh, how horrible.
	Anyway, Mr. Kersey, you have a different story of a kind of a fleecing that the whole country is subject to, namely shoplifting.
	Well, this is one that I had the pleasure of seeing at the Amarin.com site.
	And this is one that was a pleasure.
	The displeasure, really?
	Well, the displeasure, because as somebody who has who has who has holdings in some of these companies, we've talked about just the unbelievable shrinkage, the target of Wal-Mart have faced since the insanity of George Floyd reigning supreme over our country.
	Shoplifting rose 24 percent this year with no end in sight.
	It soared in 2024, facing many stores to leave cities and continuing a trend in recent years.
	It rose 24% in the first half of 2024 alone, according to newly released data from the Council on Criminal Justice.
	The White House cited CCJ's data to boast a drop in violent crime so far this year, but a closer look at the data showed that while violent crime has declined, shoplifting continues to rise.
	CCJ studied 23 U.S.
	cities and again CCJ is an acronym for the Council on Criminal Justice.
	Shoplifting has become a major problem in cities across the country with some store owners announcing they had to close up shop because of the increased staff.
	Shoplifting and looting during the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots helped spur on a new era of increased shoplifting.
	You and I have spoken ad nauseum about the number of stores that have shuttered in San Francisco and its twin city, Oakland, Right across the bay.
	It's amazing the number of stores that have that have just fled and just shut down because they can no longer not only remain profitable but they can't keep their employees safe because of just the the shocking amount of crime that takes place there.
	Several major stores including CVS, Macy's, Target, Walmart and others have cited shoplifting when they close down urban locations.
	The center square spoke with a 38-year-old woman who goes by Jones who works at a CVS within eyeshot of the U.S.
	Capitol building in the In our nation's capital, Washington, D.C., she told Center Square that shoplifters take from her store daily.
	When Jones does see customers steal something, she doesn't stop them.
	Quote, we don't get paid for that, end quote, she said.
	She said procedure is not to notify police, but to write a description of the of the thief, what was stolen down on a form on a clipboard.
	She said the clipboard has seemingly 100 pages stacked, Jones said, at least one for each day, many of them filled with reported incidents.
	By 11.15 a.m.
	Thursday morning, when Jones spoke with the Center Square, the publisher of this article, the store had already been stolen from four times that day, at least as far as she knew, and that she had documented on her clipboard.
	Now, this is within sight of the U.S.
	Capitol.
	Well, I guess, you know, what it probably is is congressmen and senators are just cutting out the middleman and doing what they do best.
	About a month ago, I actually went by the Lululemon store in Buckhead.
	Where we've talked about that store before that was where two white girls were fired because they did try and stop a black shoplifter and CEO of Lululemon came out and said, Hey, you know, that's not your, that's not your job.
	What are you doing?
	What are you doing?
	If they're going to steal, you know, we want, we want white women paying 200, $300 for these very nice, sexy leggings, but Hey, it's okay.
	If some, If some black guy comes in the store, he has that right.
	Don't stop him.
	And yeah, I drew a pass.
	I was like, oh, that's that's the store.
	Wow.
	Still in business, I guess.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah, yeah.
	Yeah.
	And that's it.
	That's the end of the story.
	Well, dear me.
	Well, we have a different story.
	This is on the subject of breast ironing.
	Breast ironing, or breast flattening, is a practice whereby young girls' breasts are ironed or pounded down with heated objects to delay their development or to disguise the onset of puberty.
	Now, why would anybody do that?
	It's to make girls less attractive to men, thus protecting them from harassment, rape, abduction, and early forced marriage.
	Well, this doesn't sound like it's the sort of thing that might be practiced in Europe on large scale yet.
	However, the U.N.
	says breast ironing affects some 3.8 million women in Africa and is one of the five most underreported crimes related to gender-based violence.
	Now, I love it when an article says it's one of the five and doesn't tell you what the other four are.
	But there you go.
	It is an underreported crime related to gender-based violence.
	Apparently, some 20 to 50 percent of the girls in countries such as Cameroon and certain parts of Nigeria suffer from breast ironing.
	The procedure is culturally imposed on most girls and typically performed by their mothers or other maternal figures.
	Long-term consequences can include difficulties with lactation as it can destroy breast tissue and lead to infections, causing long-term pain and reduced breast milk production.
	Apparently, it's also exceedingly painful, as you can imagine, And these prepubescent girls, pubescent girls, are held down physically by ladies who all gang up on them and somebody irons their breasts.
	Mr. Taylor, I have to apologize and jump in here because what culture are we talking about?
	You haven't actually mentioned that yet.
	I'm just curious.
	Well, Cameroon, Nigeria.
	Yes, yes, yes.
	I mentioned Cameroon, Nigeria, West Africa.
	That's where it happens.
	The practice is maintained in secret by female members of the family.
	And this is typically hidden from men.
	Traditional and household tools are usually used, including grinding stones.
	You heat them up hot.
	Cast iron, hammers, sticks, or spatulas.
	Heat a spatula up, you know, iron the poor girl's breasts.
	In Gbagi, an indigenous community in Nigeria's capital Abuja, nearly all had experienced breast ironing.
	They also Well, you know, this tells you a lot about Africa.
	having the procedure to protect them from male attention and sexual abuse.
	Many said their mothers and grandmothers also underwent this practice.
	Well, you know, this tells you a lot about Africa.
	You know, some young girl, she starts getting breasts begin to sprout, and then as a protective
	measure you've got to make sure those breasts don't appear.
	What does that say about such a society?
	What does that say about just the utter lawlessness of male desire among these Africans?
	This is a terrible and horrible thing to do to women, and yet apparently some women think it's necessary for their daughters because the men they live among are such beasts.
	This is just a heart-rending story in my view, but there you go.
	Breast ironing in West Africa.
	Now we move to a different story.
	This is from the Olympics, which have mercifully come to a close.
	Sorry.
	But before the start—now, I didn't watch one bit of the closing ceremony.
	I watched just a few snippets of the opening ceremony, but somebody told the closing ceremony was just as degraded and as awful as the opening ceremony.
	But I don't know for sure.
	Those who paid attention will know better than I. But before the start of the highly anticipated USA versus Serbia semifinal, the national anthems of both countries were played, as is tradition.
	While the Serbian national anthem was being played, the Serbian team demonstrated a deep sense of unity and respect.
	The players linked arms, stood shoulder to shoulder, and sang their anthem with pride and passion.
	Their collective posture and emotional engagement were evident, reflecting their love for their country and the honor they felt in representing Serbia on the world stage.
	In stark contrast, many of the USA players were seen with their hands in their pockets, looking around, disengaged during the Star Spangled Banner, certainly not singing.
	And here are some of the comments that stories about this produced.
	Hands in your pockets during the national anthem?
	This is like insulting your own mother.
	Here's another.
	They should be banned from playing on the national team.
	Another, I am a citizen of the USA.
	I wanted Serbia to win.
	The NBA trash are not my countrymen.
	Another one, I'd rather deport these black guys refusing to honor the American flag than allow them to represent us on the world stage.
	Taxpayers foot the bill to keep blacks housed and fed, literally the best time and place in human history to be black, yet they couldn't be less appreciative.
	Oh, well, on the ball commenting.
	Now, the Serbians, of course, were all Serbian, every last one of them, all clearly white men, all clearly devoted to their country.
	And apparently the result was in the first half, the end of the first half, the U.S.
	was trailing by 17.
	They're trailing by 15 in the third quarter.
	And with just eight minutes to go, they were behind by 11.
	But they somehow snatched it, snatched victory out of the jaws of defeat.
	And they pulled it out barely at the end.
	I don't know if you followed any of this.
	I didn't watch any of it, but apparently it was a tragic end for the Serbians who almost whipped those African-Americans.
	Now, I have a question for you.
	You may know the answer to this, which you may not.
	Are there any white players on the U.S.
	team?
	The only white guy on the team was the coach, Steve Kerr.
	Is that right?
	I happened to watch the final Uh, the United States, I was at a, um, I was at a venue with a friend and we were just, it was versus France versus France.
	And there was not a single white person on the court except maybe one of the, one of the, uh, referees.
	And so the French team's all black too.
	The French team was all black.
	They had a light skin guy that I light skinned, a light skinned black guy that I thought was white for a second.
	Then they did a closeup.
	It's like, Nope.
	France and the United States are represented by 10 individuals of African descent and yeah the United States pulled away at the very end thanks to a number of a barrage of three-pointers by a light-skinned black player by the name of Steph Curry and everybody that I was in this in this pretty nice venue they were going crazy and chanting USA and I just sat there thinking I don't You know, if I were French, I wouldn't feel like I were represented.
	And as an American, I'm watching this.
	And I'm just like, I don't, you know... You know, I don't care.
	I just don't care.
	I'm not only ambivalent, I'm beyond ambivalent.
	You know, invariably, I don't care if the black athletes are wearing United States colors.
	If they're playing white people, I have a root for the white people.
	They are my brothers.
	They are my cultural cousins.
	I want them to win.
	And you know, I have only one exception for this.
	Only one exception.
	And that is in the sport of sumo, Japanese professional wrestling.
	Now, the Japanese made a big mistake and they started letting foreigners in, and every now and then, every now and then, some pasty-assed white guy does reasonably well.
	They never become a grand champion, but I don't think they belong there, and on that occasion, I root against the white guy.
	I don't want them making their way into a sport where they do not belong.
	If I am a racial traitor by doing so, I am a racial traitor.
	But Japan's national sport should be dominated by Japanese people.
	That's my hokey, old-fashioned view of things.
	So, let's see.
	Oh, by the way, the women's, the U.S.
	Women's Olympic basketball team, apparently over half of them are lesbians.
	Were any of them white?
	I guess they had a sprinkling of white girls, right?
	I don't know the answer to that.
	that I can tell you about 1,900,800,000, you know, 800,222 things that I could care more
	women's basketball.
	And yeah, I think you just have to automatically assume that when the WNBA is about 33% lesbian, that if you have the best players, then they're going to be more than half.
	More than half the Olympic team were lesbians.
	No men so far, at least as I understand.
	But, you know, that won't be far behind.
	They'll have some guy who didn't make the Olympic team.
	So OK.
	All right.
	I'm a girl now.
	So maybe he'll make it.
	Now, Mr. Kersey, you have a story about a church conversion, yet another one of these heartbreaking stories.
	This was heartbreaking because I've actually seen this church.
	I did go to the city one time, and it's one of the more beautiful, one of the older churches, one of the older Catholic churches in a dying, dilapidated city, a Catholic church in Buffalo, New York.
	is being converted into a mosque after a Muslim group purchased the property.
	The St.
	Anne Church complex was sold for $250,000 after having been largely out of use since 2022 due to structural damage issues posing a safety threat, according to the Buffalo News.
	It was sold to Buffalo Crescent Holdings, which is affiliated with the downtown Islamic Center.
	The church's sale has sparked backlash on social media after posts by a well-known Catholic priest, Father Ronald Veerling, drew attention to the sale.
	St.
	Anne's Church in Buffalo, New York, permanently closed, sold to Islamic community for a quarter of a million dollars, who are converting the historic church into a mosque.
	Verling wrote, sounds like something out of France, as we've seen far too often of these beautiful, ornate Catholic churches that have seen a massive drop in parishioners, and they're then turned into mosques.
	Some critics took issue with the fact that it's being converted into a mosque, while others were surprised at the low sale price.
	Muslims get a church for $250k, but I can't buy a house in a decent neighborhood for less than $500k, someone wrote on Twitter.
	I'll tell you what, if you've seen Buffalo, it's a city that you don't want to live in.
	I know, I know.
	You know, even 20 years ago, 40 years ago, even when I was a college student hitchhiking through New York, Buffalo was a very unattractive place.
	It's been an unattractive place for a long time, sorry to say.
	Yeah, Buffalo and Rochester are both in the same are both in the same conversation as being places that used
	to be nice cities. I mean, Rochester, my goodness, that was the home of Eastman Kodak.
	That was the home of Bosh Long.
	That was the home of a number of amazing companies. And now the city is just
	a shell of its former self, probably even more so than Buffalo.
	But this church was built, Mr. Taylor, back in 1886 by German immigrants.
	And like I said, regrettably, it fell into disrepair and has become unusable for worshipers in recent years.
	The pictures of it are beautiful.
	The inside, absolutely stunning.
	And it's going to become a mosque and it will be The trappings of the inside will be converted to the new religiosity of the people who purchased it for
	Not that much money when it comes to real estate.
	Well, you know, the trouble is, what are you going to do?
	What are you going to do with a tumbled down church, no matter how gorgeous, no matter how beautiful?
	I know in some parts of Europe, they've turned them into nightclubs.
	I would rather, I suppose, it were a nightclub than a mosque, but that seems sacrilegious.
	There's a church in Frederick, Maryland, that is now a very fancy restaurant.
	And so some of these relics of the dying Christian country are being repurposed for other things, but here, I mean, it's a free country put on the market, and if Muslims buy it and they got the dough to spiff it up and turn it into a mosque, it's not the fault of the people of Buffalo that the country is full of wealthy Muslims.
	That is somebody else's fault, and we know exactly whose fault that is.
	But I agree, this is very, very, very, very sad.
	Well, I think we've got, wow, haven't got much time, Mr. Kersey, so we're going to race right along here.
	Did you know that Japan, the government of Japan, is in the dating business?
	Didn't know that.
	The Tokyo Metropolitan Government is preparing to launch a dating app as part of a national effort to boost the country's dwindling birth rate.
	It'll be called Tokyo Futari Story.
	Futari means two people or a couple.
	And users of the app will be asked to sign a paper stating they are willing to get married.
	A special website offering counseling and general information to those seeking a partner is already up, while the actual app is in development.
	The mobile and web version are expected to be launched later this year.
	We learned that 70% of people who want to get married aren't actively joining events or using apps looking for a partner.
	The metropolitan government decided we wanted to give them a gentle push.
	According to Japan's health ministry, in 2023, the country recorded only 800,000 births compared to 1.6 million deaths.
	Wow.
	I mean, that's basically twice as many deaths as births.
	Every year, 800,000 people are subtracted from the Japanese population because there are so many deaths and so few births.
	Japan's population is getting older.
	The median age in 2023 was 49.
	The number of people over 65 grew by 29% in just one year.
	It's got the second largest proportion of all people behind only Monaco.
	Japan is standing on the verge of whether we can continue to function as a society, says Prime Minister Kishida.
	Focusing attention on policies regarding children and childbearing is an issue that cannot wait.
	I'll say it can't wait.
	Masako Mori, an aide to Kishida, also warned that the country could simply disappear.
	The country's total fertility is a mere 1.3 births per women and hasn't been above replacement level since the 1970s.
	That was 50 years ago.
	Meanwhile, in Russia, the population has also been in decline, falling by some 244,000 people in 2023.
	Lawmakers have been looking into launching state-backed dating services there.
	Now, especially that many Western apps like Tinder have boycotted the country.
	Last month, State Duma MP Vitaly Milonov suggested using the Russian government's state services platform Gosuzlugi to help single people find a partner.
	Wow, oh wow.
	In any case, Mr. Kerzy, our time is up.
	Our time is up.
	And so, on your behalf and on mine, I Thank all of our listeners for this joy and this pleasure and this honor we have spending this hour with you, and it will be our pleasure and honor to do the same thing again next week.

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