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Sept. 25, 2024 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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The Hammer Falls on Amy Wax

Jared Taylor and Paul Kersey are appalled by Penn Law School’s clampdown on free speech. The hosts also discuss the British Museum, the newest addition to the Navy fleet, and the end of Alex Jones’s media empire.

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Gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
I'm your host, Jared Taylor, with American Renaissance, and with me is my indispensable, incandescent co-host, Paul Kersey.
Why incandescent?
It's because he glows.
He's so bright he glows in the dark, is our Paul Kersey.
Let us begin with comments from listeners, of which there are quite a number.
Which we, Mr. Taylor, if I may come in nice and slowly, we really appreciate those.
This is what makes this show, I think, so unique is that, yeah, we're not live, we can't interact with you live, but we can get your feedback and incorporate it into the next program.
So thank you so much.
Yes, yes, we have a lot of good comments.
First one comes from South Africa.
In last week's podcast, Mr. Taylor mentioned the ghastly practice of digging up corpses to be used in voodoo and other religious rituals.
Yes, that happens right here in the United States.
Not often reported, but it sure happens.
Here in South Africa, there is a much more ghoulish practice known as Muti.
This is the use of human body parts in the preparation of traditional native medicine.
There's an entire criminal industry of kidnapping and dismembering people to be used as mootie.
And mootie is somehow stronger if the limbs and organs are harvested while the victim is still alive.
I attach a news article in which a woman laments the disappearance of her aged parents from their farm in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.
She fears And she's probably right that her father and mother have become mootie victims, suffering the terror of being carved up while still alive.
Mootie is expensive, which means the clients are well-heeled and ostensibly civilized, even sophisticated.
There have been successful businessmen and school principals who have been arrested and charged with mootie murders.
Sometimes poor people sell family members to mootie dealers, This year, a colored woman in the Western Cape has been charged, along with two accomplices, of selling her 11-year-old daughter, Jocelyn Smith, for 20,000 South African rand.
That's a little over a thousand U.S.
dollars.
Little Jocelyn had light-colored hair and green eyes.
This combination is rare among the coloreds.
Those are the mixed-race people in Cape Province.
And such people are highly coveted by mooty practitioners.
Our listener concludes, so it may be scant consolation to the good people of Springfield.
It may be awful if their pets disappear, but things could be worse.
A mooty merchant could slip through and show up.
Ouch.
Yes, it could always get worse.
That's not much consolation.
Our listener is right.
Now, this is a comment from Officer John, who runs the regular talk program on Rumble.
It's called Denial, Deceit and Delusion, and it's about black crime.
He has been very carefully following the investigation into the Butler assassination attempt on Donald Trump.
And he writes this.
The lead Secret Service agent in charge of the Butler shooting has been identified via a whistleblower as Meredith Bank.
Curiously, the internet has zero photographers of her.
I'm betting it's a black woman with zero field experience.
The politicians are slowly creeping out from under their rocks and gently complaining about this investigation that's going nowhere.
The Secret Service will, of course, hide behind the idea that this is a personnel issue.
But it will come out eventually.
It will be a black woman.
I'm sure of it, says Officer John.
Now, I interviewed him on the subject of the Butler assassination attempt.
And this guy is a officer, a police officer, former police officer who's seen it all.
And his observations and commentary on that are really fascinating.
And I'm glad he is really keeping an eye on this.
And that's his prediction.
Black woman.
Yet another comment.
While enjoying Mr. Taylor's informative podcast last week, he mentioned that some southern states did not have prisons until the 1900s.
Not so.
Here are the southern states and the dates that their prisons opened.
And he goes on to list all the southern states, in the case of Virginia and Kentucky, first prisons in 1800.
Maryland, 1811, etc., etc.
He says the latest was North Carolina, 1884, according to this.
He concludes, just trying to keep you fellers on your toes.
Well, I suppose the distinction could be between prisons and jails.
Yes, even colonial times, all colonies had jails and lockups.
And I probably was over hasty in what I said, and the whole business of chain gangs and leasing out criminals was largely restricted to southern states.
But in my own defense, I will read a few observations.
This is from an article about convict leasing.
Many American states hired up prisoners in chain gangs to private employers, particularly in the South during the late 19th and early 20th century.
This practice known as convict leasing was a system whereby prisoners were leased out to plantations, railroads, and mines to perform hard labor.
The states profited from the arrangement, and the private companies got cheap labor.
The practice began to decline in the early 20th century, and by the 1930s, most states had abandoned convict leasing.
Chain gangs, a related practice, involved groups of prisoners chained together while performing public works like building roads or railways.
This practice continued in some states until the mid-20th century and was briefly revived in some areas in the 1990s.
Remember that?
That was a fascinating experiment.
I wish they'd carried on with that.
In states such as Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Louisiana, conflict leasing became a major source of income for the states.
Prisoners were leased out to private companies, and the states didn't need to invest heavily in maintaining prison facilities.
And such things as feeding the inmates, housing them, all the upkeep was transferred to the companies that leased them.
In some cases, states had very few actual prison buildings, relying almost entirely on convict leasing to manage prisoners.
For example, Mississippi did not have a centralized state prison until the early 20th century, relying instead on leasing prisoners to work on plantations.
Yes, Mississippi was particularly a holdout in this business of making money by leasing out their prisoners.
In 1900, the Mississippi State Legislature appropriated $80,000 to buy Parchman Plantation, A nearly 4,000-acre property in Sunflower County, and in 1901, the Parchman Farm Prison was constructed largely by state prisoners.
It's the state's oldest prison, and all the prisoners worked at the farm, which produced considerable revenue for the state.
So, in the case of Mississippi, maybe I was right, but our listener is quite right to point out that people have been locked up in all the states, even in colonial times, there have been local jails, but this whole practice of convict leasing was a very profitable thing for the states.
As you can imagine, you don't have to build a prison building, you don't have to hire guards, just Lease these people out to people who will feed them and house them and get a lot of work out of them.
Not a bad system, if you ask me.
Now, let's see.
Here's another comment.
I just wanted to say with regard to claims about Haitians eating pets, I agree with Mr. Taylor's comments about accuracy and reporting.
There's more than enough Verifiable atrocities in the world report on without making
up new ones and taking the low road.
Leave that to the left.
But in that spirit, says this listener, I physically cringe any time either of you cites
Wikipedia.
Wikipedia is not impartial.
Mr. Taylor, if I could real quick stop.
I don't think we ever really do cite Wikipedia.
Maybe...
I think maybe once or twice we have.
Is this something we've never done?
I think it's pretty rare for us to cite Wikipedia, so I'm going to take umbrage with this email.
I'll let you keep going.
Okay.
Well, the fact is I do cite Wikipedia sometimes if I'm trying to make a point that liberals would generally disagree with.
And the way I phrase it usually is, even Wikipedia will admit that there is, for example, a 15-point IQ difference in average between blacks and whites.
That's when I cite Wikipedia.
But this listener goes on to say, colleges and universities, almost all of them, do not accept Wikipedia citations, which, given the woke takeover of the academy, speaks volumes for the inaccuracy of Wikipedia.
Anyone can post anything, and if you've ever tried to correct a blatantly false narrative, you will find your edits deleted within minutes.
Well, it's true.
If I believed what was said about me on Wikipedia, boy, I wouldn't want to spend any time in my company either.
The comments just keep rolling on, Mr. Kersey.
You know, maybe we should save some of these, but we'll get... I think they're so interesting this time.
Here is a comment directed to you, Mr. Kersey.
With regard to your saying last week that there had been a third assassination attempt on Donald Trump with explosives planted in the Grants, then please tell Mr. Kersey to stop trusting right-wing Twitter.
I've always respected your podcasts because you keep your heads.
And what he says, he notices, the commenter includes a clip from USA Today saying, a September 18th Facebook post claims to share breaking news just in terrorism, bomb found near New York Trump rally, emergency evacuation, third assassination attempt, exclamation mark, question mark.
Similar versions, says our listener, were reported thousands of times on X, including one by Elon Musk and one by Marjorie Taylor Greene.
The claim that explosives were found near the site is false.
And apparently, Nassau County Police Commissioner said the person who made the false report was detained and may have been trying to train a bomb-sniffing dog.
Anyway, that seems like an odd thing to me.
It sounds like something must have been in the stands, but maybe not explosives, maybe something that smells like explosives.
Our commenter continues, Mr. Kersey trusts people whom he considers members of his own tribe without realizing they're swimming in fake news.
Oh dear, harsh criticism, Mr. Kersey, harsh criticism.
What would you say in reply?
I would say that we live in a highly Nuanced environment when it comes to news dissemination and the fact that there have been two high profile assassination attempts of President Trump, that when a story like this breaks out of a very strange miscommunication between police and this idea that there was going to be something happening at a speech near him.
Trust but verify.
this was found, yes, I take full responsibility for reporting on it.
Trust but verify.
Didn't do that.
Trust but verify.
Didn't do that.
Yes, indeed.
Consideration.
And that is all on me.
But at the same time, I think that it is important to remain vigilant out there.
And, and that's, and that's really the case as, as this is, this is a true story.
I'm sure you've seen this that apparently there is credible evidence that President Trump was actually briefed about Iranian hit squad targeting the President Trump.
That's something that he was actually briefed on by the State Department and by intelligence agencies so.
It is a hot environment out there.
Well, the point is, we have to be very, very careful.
I remember being taken in by a phony video some time ago.
It was supposed to have been a surveillance camera footage from the Paris subway in which these Middle Easterners start hitting on a bunch of nice-looking young French women, and they are alleged to have been special forces women, and they just immediately go into karate mode and completely flatten and knock out everyone.
And it looked realistic to me, and I said, well, gosh, you know, they got their comeuppance.
Turns out It was all fake.
And so the joke was on me.
So yes, we have to be very careful.
Now, here is another comment.
A commenter writes in to say, call attention to this post on X by Daniel Schmidt.
Daniel Schmidt.
It's quite a long post, but here's some highlights.
He is a college student.
He says, at University of Chicago, it's inevitable that black people will mug students at gunpoint this year because it happens every year.
Last year, more than a dozen students were mugged.
It dawned on me.
Is the modern American dream just trying to live as far away as possible from black people?
Yes.
Is that why investment bankers work 18-hour days?
I would insert here an observation by the great Joe Sobern.
He once said, the purpose of a college education is to give you the right attitude towards minorities and the means to live as far away from them as possible.
This guy does not quote Joe Sobern.
He probably has never heard of Joe Sobern, but Sobern was a genius.
This guy, the student, goes on to say, nowhere else on earth will you find such an astonishing IQ contrast within a five-minute walk.
The average SAT score of a student at University of Chicago is 1545, the highest of any university.
And in the past three years, two of those students have been murdered and dozens have been mugged by thugs whose IQs are too low to understand why killing someone is wrong.
I want to ride a subway without worrying a black person will shoot me.
I want to go on a date with a girl at night without worrying a black person will shoot us.
I want my future children to be able to live in cities without worrying a black person will shoot them.
Oh boy.
He says, let's see.
Racist is a branding weaponized by the most spiteful in society to overwhelm good-hearted people with fear and forbid a brighter future.
Nothing has held back progress more than the anxiety of that label of racist.
Only once we end enslavement to that meaningless word can lives be saved.
As I say, these are just excerpts from quite a long post.
It has had 1.4 million views.
And the comments on it are overwhelmingly positive.
It's great to see young people—this guy's a senior at the University of Chicago—pointing out the obvious.
And he's had no problem with the authorities.
I looked at some later posts of his, and he says the president of the University of Chicago says, look, we believe in freedom of speech.
It must be the only university that does.
And this guy, his name is Daniel Schmidt, is apparently flying high.
One final comment.
If I could make a quick comment.
I recommend everybody follow him on the Elon Musk's Twitter.
He's one of the better people on Twitter.
I'm surprised you haven't invited him to speak at an AR conference.
He's a Very brave very brave guy.
I think he's been reprimanded Many times he's got 62,000 followers on Twitter and he's talked about his experience applying to the Ivy Leagues and it's like to be a white male what it's like to be a gender a white male Gentile who is a race realist and Who applies that to every aspect of his life?
I?
And he's clearly clearly a bright lad, clearly a very bright and brave lad.
You know, everybody is.
Well, the point is, all the usual suspects are yelling at him.
The blacks on campus are yelling at him.
But the main thing is the university administration says this.
We believe in free speech and this is clearly free speech.
So hooray him.
Now, last comment.
I know Mr. Taylor does not care much about modern entertainment, but I'd like to know if he's ever seen the series Game of Thrones.
It has an almost entirely European cast, acting out what could be described as an alternative history of Europe.
It does have some elements of fantasy, but it's mostly a drama with serious writing and excellent acting.
Well, the answer to that question is no, I never watched it.
But it was so famous that I did hear about it.
Mr. Kersey, did you ever watch any of its episodes?
Would you agree with what our listener has to say about this?
I bought season one on DVD about a decade ago, and I never watched an episode.
But I will say that a show that I would recommend that HBO did, that they discontinued after two seasons, would be the series Rome that John Milius wrote, the director of Red Dawn.
I highly recommend the two series, the two seasons of Rome.
I think you, I think you, Mr. Taylor, would really enjoy that, knowing your predilection for that series that you used to watch on Netflix, where they told the history of Rome, and then they had actors playing playing Caesar and Mark Antony and, you know, all the other
various emperors. I remember you spoke highly of that series and I've enjoyed that as well. So.
Well, I'm always suspicious though.
If you ever find the least deviation from what you know to be the truth in some of these alleged historical documentaries, then it makes you suspect everything else in the whole series.
I watched a fascinating multi-part series that came out of Russia on the life of Trotsky.
And it was very well done, quite fascinating, but there were some definite deviations from the truth that just drove me crazy.
I really wish these people would do their damnedest to make it as realistic as possible.
Obviously, if you're reenacting scenes and things, you're going to invent dialogue, but boy, please don't deviate from known facts.
Anyway, We really do appreciate our comments.
We appreciate, for example, this fellow who called me to task for my excessive claims about convict leasing in the South.
This is very, very important.
We don't like to broadcast false news.
And for our listener who says, watch out for this stuff about alleged assassination attempts.
We really appreciate that, as well as people who call attention, call our attention things of which we were unaware.
The way to reach us is you can go to amren.com, A-M-R-E-N.com, and click on the Contact Us tab, and you can send a message to me.
And the other way is... Hey, send me an email.
BecauseWeLiveHereAtProtonMail.com.
Once again, that email address, you can either do BecauseWeLiveHereAtProtonMail.com or BecauseWeLiveHereAtProton.me.
And wow, a whole third of the program has been taken up with comments, but I thought they were particularly good lot this time.
And Mr. Kersey, you have some very disturbing news about Alex Jones.
Yeah, and it's interesting.
As we were talking about, as you were talking, I want to make sure that I get everything right, so I'm not dispensing misinformation. So I'm going to be sure to be as
thorough in this because this is one of those chilling stories. I know a lot of good people over at
Infowars, Owen Schoyer, Alex Jones, Dan Lyman, and I actually just got the phone with Dan Lyman
and talking about this. And he told me that he just found out about what's going on through all
these news reports that the New York Times, that CBS News, ABC News, Rolling Stone, Bloomberg,
Daily Beast, they're all reporting that Alex Jones' Infowars intellectual property is going to head
to auction after a judge's approval.
Trustee overseeing the liquidation of Alex Jones's assets has given the green light by a Houston bankruptcy court to start auctioning off the property of his InfoWars media platform.
The U.S.
bankruptcy judge Christopher Lopez said yesterday he would approve a motion by Christopher Murray, the Chapter 7 trustee for Jones' estate, to employ a sales broker and wind down the assets of Infowars parent company Free Speech Systems, LLC.
He's tasked with liquidating Jones' estate to help him pay down approximately $1.5 billion in defamation judgments, which were released to statements he made calling the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting a hoax, which happened in Connecticut.
Quote, the Connecticut families have always sought a fair and equitable distribution of free speech systems assets for all the families.
And today's decision is a significant step forward, said Chris Mattei of Koskoff, Koskoff and Biter, who is representing some of the families, some of the victims' families.
Quote, FSS will now be sold at auction, meaning Alex Jones will no longer own or control the company he built.
This brings the family's closure to their goal of holding him accountable for the harm he has caused.
So they're going to concentrate on selling companies intellectual property.
They're going to hold a hearing next Tuesday, where Jones's own IP, which has already attracted several potential buyers, will not go up for sale, but may be added soon.
Now, when I say that, Mr. Taylor, I wanted to verify what that meant.
And currently, Currently, that means that Jones's personal social media sites, including his account on Twitter, which has 2.8 million followers, is currently not being included in this auction of 400-plus properties that he owns.
The trustee overseeing the case said he may seek court permission to also liquidate his personal social media accounts and his other IP, which Jones's attorneys have opposed.
So that's gonna be interesting to see, because when I talked to Dan Lyman today, Mr Taylor, he said, initially, they were all worried that anybody who had a social media account that was associated with them for worse.
They might actually have to give up control of that.
They were initially told that.
And so this could be a very interesting aspect moving forward if they then decide to try and go after Alex Jones's personal Twitter account and stuff.
But let me go and tell you.
Oh, go ahead.
I hear you.
Well, no, no, that would be a remarkable thing.
He's got how many million subscribers?
2.8 million subscribers.
2.8 million.
Well, gosh, that would give somebody a huge leg up in the world of X if you bought somebody else's account that had 2.8 million followers.
It's a startling idea.
But anyway, please continue.
Yeah, the Jones estate, which Murray now controls, has 100% membership interest in free speech systems, meaning they're going to sell everything associated.
The deadline for bidding on the intellectual property is scheduled for November 8th, which basically means InfoWars is not going to have much say in the election now moving forward.
And an auction is tentatively set for November 13th, according to court documents.
The remaining assets would go to auction In December, Mr. Taylor, I've tried in vain so far to find a website which apparently exists to look at all of the various assets that are going to be up for grabs.
According to the website that exists somewhere, bidders have the ability to buy production rights and materials, more than 400 domain names, social media accounts, podcast sites, Newsletter subscribers, which would be very valuable.
I can imagine if you're going to get these massive email lists of people who get the info wars, um, breaking news updates, or they get access to various individual shows.
Once they're posted from Harrison Smith to Owen Shoyer, to Alex Jones product trademarks, and also production equipment, according to the site.
And again, every article that I've read mentions this, but they don't have a link to this site, which I find very odd.
The bankruptcy court back in June converted Jones's personal chapter 11 into a chapter 7 and tossed out free speech systems separate bankruptcy, which is allowing Sandy Hook victims, families and others to pursue their judgment and state courts, which would involve Connecticut and where I believe free speech systems was incorporated.
That would be Texas, which, of course, Austin, Texas, is home to Alex Jones's operations.
My thoughts are with Alex Jones's team, because I know a lot of these guys.
I think they're tremendous.
Harrison Smith, you and I got the chance to meet him at the VDARE event back in April, a tremendous guy who gave a great speech about immigration and its consequences.
And the sad thing is Infowars was going away from conspiracies and they were talking more about the Great Replacement.
They were talking about violence toward whites in South Africa.
They were talking about black on white crime.
They were talking about I wonder if it would be possible for him, once he has sold all the assets, to start up under a different company, under a different name, or is this going to go in perpetuity?
There's no way that they're going to raise a billion dollars to satisfy this judgment.
And does this mean that forever after, if he ever has an asset, they can come grab it?
You know, ordinarily in bankruptcy, they do not make you sell the tools of your trade.
That's one of the standard aspects of bankruptcy.
If you're a plumber, they cannot seize your plumber's tools.
Now, the tools of Alex Jones's trade are these ways of communicating with the public.
That's his source of revenue.
So it seems very surprising to me that the tools of his trade are up for grabs.
At the same time, who is going to want the list of his newsletter subscribers and things like that?
I would assume that that would be similarly allied people.
Or do you think the S.B.L.C.
is going to want to get this list and then broadcast the names of all the subscribers, which I suspect are not going to be anonymized?
The whole thing is an extremely mysterious, baffling and disturbing thing, I must say.
Well, hey, I'm a subscriber on that list.
So I think under my real email, so yeah, you know, whatever, I'll be on there.
Point is, this is a unbelievable precedent that I think is very chilling because there is some Discussion some of the articles that I've read about this.
Mr. Taylor that addresses the question you just had.
Will he even be allowed to start a new enterprise and a new filing and file for a new LLC and
become and continue to do his work?
Because again, like you said, he owes $1.5 billion and a lot of his assets are, there
are liens on some of his businesses because of unpaid debts, because of the lawfare that
has been waged against him and the massive legal fees that he's incurred from this to
have to pay his supplement companies that he does, the vitamins, because he white labeled
a lot of vitamins and stuff.
And that's how they paid for all this.
They don't get corporate sponsorships.
So they had to do what they had to do when it came to, I mean, just imagine if New Century
Foundation white labeled some creatine.
I'm sure we'd sell some.
That's what they did.
Well, it is true that he did say these things about the Sandy Hook massacre that from the outset struck me as extremely implausible.
Now, I don't know whether he defended himself competently in court, but it was a defamation judgment of over $1 billion.
I mean, how effectively did he fight that?
I mean, I'd never followed it.
And it just goes to show you the trouble you can get into if you do things that are, one, probably careless to begin with, and two, you are somebody already in the crosshairs of the people who run the country.
It is, in any case, an extremely disturbing circumstance.
And it reminds me, of course, of what we just heard from one of our listeners about talking about the third Trump assassination attempt.
Be careful.
Be careful about what you claim, but this seems like an absolutely excessive and terrifying consequence.
Yeah, I mean, it's one of these situations where he built a massive enterprise, and you might not remember this, but during the Wild West days of the 2015-2016 campaign, when Drudge was still in charge of the Drudge Report, Matt Drudge, before he sold it, There was a interview that Alex Jones did with then-candidate President Trump that was on Drudge, which was an amazing interview.
And you know, Alex just went to Reading, Pennsylvania, and he was one of the main guests before a packed house with Tucker Carlson.
So this is one of these situations that I think a lot of people on the right need to pay attention to because lawfare is something that we see increasingly executed in the direction of the right to silence people.
Just stay in your lane.
It's just one of those terrifying situations.
But as we were talking, I did start to have this idea of an Uncle Jared whey protein white label.
That sounds like an amazing idea to go with.
32 grams of protein per serving, oh my goodness, that would fly off the shelves.
A few Superman push-ups to go along with my whey protein sales?
Dear me, I don't know.
I don't know.
That's always struck me as just a little bit outside my lane, but we'll see.
Especially, who knows, somebody might poison the supply chain.
If anybody got in trouble from eating my protein, I'd be in terrible trouble.
But anyway, it's an idea.
I'd be happy to be one of the first people to supplement with it.
It sounds like something that would energize workouts post-workout, so heck yeah!
I like that.
Energize the listeners.
Well, here's another bad precedent, a very bad precedent.
It has to do with my hero in the academic world, Amy Wax.
Now, she has gotten in trouble, the worst sort of trouble that a tenured professor can get into, and her story has been taken up by the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, all the big media, and I will just read some excerpts from some of the articles that have been written about her.
The University of Pennsylvania is suspending Amy Wax, a tenured law professor accused of making racist, sexist, and anti-gay comments in a case that has tested the limit of academic freedom.
The outcome of the closely watched case following more than two years of university proceedings marked a rare instance of a tenured professor being severely reprimanded for his or her comments.
However, the decision fell short of her being let go, which some student groups have called for.
Well, student groups would call for anything, absolutely anything.
They'd probably call for the death penalty if they could get it.
Wax, a former assistant to the U.S.
Solicitor General, Who has argued 15 cases before the Supreme Court will be suspended for a year on half pay, taking effect in the fall of 2025, next year.
She will also lose her named chair, and she will lose summer pay in perpetuity.
I don't know how much summer pay is, and I don't know how important it is to have a named chair, but one of these punishments is financial, the other is to her prestige, I suppose.
She will also be required to note in public appearances that she's speaking only for herself and not as a faculty member.
What a bonehead kind of idiotic thing to require.
I mean, that's obviously the case.
That's obvious for anyone who ever speaks with the university affiliation.
Golly, golly.
The other thing they also wanted, I'm not sure they actually got this, was they wanted her to teach her classes off-campus, and to have an office that's off-campus, because I guess her mere presence, her mere presence just must poison the water supply in the school.
In any case, let's see, the university said WACS has a history of making sweeping, blithe, and derogatory generalizations about race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and immigration.
Both inside and outside the classroom.
It also said she breached grade privacy requirements by speaking about law students' grades by race.
Now, this makes it sound as though she said, OK, here's this black student.
He got a D in this class.
Here's this Asian student who got an A. Nothing of the kind.
All she said was she had never heard of a black student graduating in the top quarter of the class, and it was extremely rare for a black student to graduate in the top half.
It's not as though she opened up confidential grades.
She was just making generalizations of that kind, and the university, of course, never proved otherwise.
Never proved otherwise.
But that's one of her great sins.
Let's see.
The university administrator John L. Jackson said WACS had failed to provide a fair and equal environment for her students.
Academic freedom is and should be very broad, he said.
Teachers, however, must conduct themselves in a manner that conveys a willingness to assess all students fairly.
Of course, the university never showed the slightest evidence that she had ever graded anybody in an unfair way.
She has asserted that blacks and other non-Western groups harbor resentment, shame, and envy against Western people for their outsized achievements and contributions.
Now, that's a broad statement.
I think it's an entirely defensible statement.
And I think it's certainly probably true.
But the mere fact of having expressed a defensible statement, that's enough to get you in the crosshairs.
She said the United States would be better off with fewer Asians and less Asian immigration.
She said they vote Democratic, and to the extent that they do vote Democratic, that's not good for the country.
She wanted to know, do they have the spark of freedom in their breasts?
And all of this stuff, you know, that's no longer free speech.
Also, now this to me is, in some respects, the most egregious charge against her.
She faced criticism for a 2017 opinion column That she co-wrote in which she wrote, all cultures are not equal, or at least they're not equal in preparing people to be productive in an advanced economy.
Now, that's obviously true.
Obviously true.
I mean, if you're a Kalahari Bushman learning how to make fire with sticks, is that going to prepare you for being productive in an advanced economy?
But no, that was just awful for her to say that all cultures are not equal.
And let's see, the New York Times goes on to say, attempts to sanction scholars have arisen in recent years and peaked in 2021, according to the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.
The group has recorded more than 1,300 such attempts since 2000.
1,300 attempts to squash free speech in universities, with about two-thirds resulting in sanctions, including terminations, demotions, and mandatory training.
Well, there you go.
Now, The Times says, Alex Morley, an official with the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression of Free Speech Group, said that Penn's decision Sends a chill down the spine of every faculty member, not just at Penn, but at every private institution around the country.
Well, it sure does.
Get out of line and look what happens to you.
Peter Wood, president of the conservative leading National Association of Scholars, where Dr. Wachs serves on the board, Accused the university of a serious error of judgment.
I think I would have been more forceful, used more forceful language than that, Mr. Kersey.
A serious error of judgment.
Well, how polite.
In any case, let's see.
The university's hearing board said it does not dispute academic freedom.
It protects her speech, but she had violated behavioral professional norms in the way she presented her views.
What does that mean?
I mean, that's just such a flimsy, gauzy kind of thing to say.
She violated behavioral professional norms.
And, of course, as our listeners probably know, one of her great sins was to have invited a white nationalist, Jared Taylor, to address her class in a course called Conservative and Political Legal Thought.
Well, yes, I've done that several times.
So, this is a very, well, it is an absolutely pathetic decision on the part of Penn.
A great many people are angry at the law school for doing this, especially in light of the kinds of things that were said about both Jews and Palestinians after the October 7th attacks.
Nobody got punished for saying really quite hair-raising things, but now Professor Wax has been punished for all of this.
And I've been a little bit surprised that some of these new articles have not pointed out that Amy Wax is going to be speaking at the next Ameren conference.
Yes, we are very, very pleased that she's going to be there.
And I find it absolutely remarkable that in the teeth of all of these sanctions, this was before the sanctions that ever had even been finally decided on, she agreed to speak.
How many academics would have the courage to do that?
She will be a speaker along with Anthony Comea.
He is this really brilliant Of course, the inimitable Sam Dixon, Gregory Hood, our genius star writer, Martin Selmer, and Guido Taietti, those are both European activists.
They, unfortunately, will have to be communicating by video because of the travel requirements or the travel obstacles that dissidents face.
I will be speaking, and a fellow who was a teacher, he was a professor of Asian Studies at Tulane University, Richard Marksbury, a very fine fellow whom I've met, he'll be speaking as well as a mystery speaker, a mystery speaker.
So hold on to your hats, ladies and gentlemen.
It's going to be a breezy time, but there is still time to register.
So that is my unpaid political announcement.
Where can people register for the conference?
Amren.com.
A-M-R-E-N dot com.
And that's the only place.
That's the one and only place they can register.
I wish we had Ticketron and all these other outfits, but I'm afraid they would be disinclined to do business with us.
It's just one of the barriers you face when you are in the business of telling the truth.
You can't buy a ticket on StubHub and then try and resell it, is what you're saying.
A lot of people would want to, I'm sure, you know.
Scalpers, you know.
Oh, the price is up to $1,000 to attend the conference.
No, ladies and gentlemen, I think it's $125, $150.
I suppose I should know.
But please go to amarin.com and register while you still can.
But what has happened to Professor Wax is absolutely disgusting and lamentable.
And we don't know.
Maybe she will sue.
She is a feisty fighter on all fronts.
So let us see.
Which is one of the greatest attributes anyone on our side can have, as opposed to acquiescence and capitulation.
Fighting is so admirable and it's contagious.
I'm hoping that she is received with a standing ovation the moment she takes the lectern.
Oh, I think psychologically the attendees at the conference will want to carry her around on their shoulders.
You know, she's speaking this weekend at, what is it, a Philadelphia Society meeting or someplace in Washington, D.C., and they certainly have not revoked her invitation.
I'm sure she will be met there with much admiration and many hosannas, which is absolutely what she deserves.
Well, let's see.
Moving along here.
Hello?
This was a story about Chicago.
After serving 20 years in state prison for murder, Tyrone Muhammad has gone straight and runs a street patrol and violence prevention program.
You and I have discussed these many times, Mr. Kersey.
I don't know if they do any good, but they certainly are a sign of how desperate people in black communities are.
Until we take the El Salvador solution and just lock all these people up, and until we take the 19th century solution and start executing some of these incorrigibles, this is going to be a problem.
And because we don't do the obvious things, take them off the streets, kill a bunch of them, legally of course, it's going to be a problem.
But here's Tyrone Mohamed trying to stop all of this shooting and killing.
He says Venezuelan criminal gangs flooding shelters and taking over apartment buildings are the last straw for blacks.
He says they are furious at government money being spent on what he calls non-citizens.
And this is quite a quote.
When the black gangs here get fed up with the illegalities and criminal activities of these migrant non-citizens, the city of Chicago is going to go up in flames.
There'll be nothing the National Guard or the government can do about it.
It'll be blacks against migrants.
Thus saith Tyrone Muhammad.
Now, I have a feeling that's not going to happen.
I suspect that the Venezuelans and the blacks will work out some sort of modus operandi Assuming that certainly if Kamala Harris becomes president, they'll make no attempt to deport these people, or maybe they'll deport maybe two or three out of 100.
But the latest figures show Chicago has spent almost half a billion dollars over the last two years on the more than 42,000 migrants who have shown up since 2022.
Half a billion, $500 million.
Yeah, that's money that could have been spent on poor blacks, but was spent on these interlopers.
Many have been given money for rent, food stamp cards, and even cars.
Now, I hadn't heard about them getting cars, but that's what the New York Post says.
And some landlords have pushed out local blacks because they can get more government money for housing migrants.
That's something that's been happening in Springfield, Ohio.
We talked about that last week.
Some of these newcomers belong to the Venezuelan prison gang, which has turned a vicious multinational crime syndicate known as Tren de Aragua.
That means the Aragua Train.
And it started off as a union that was going to be working on railroads, and they were going to fight for their rights.
Now they're fighting for other things, against other people's rights.
They are heavily armed brazen spinning into areas of the South Side.
These areas are traditionally controlled by, according to the New York Post, hundreds of black gangs.
Hundreds.
From the gangster Disciples to the Black Pea Stones to the Vice Lords and Satan's Disciples.
Tren de Aragua members flash gang signs and wear uniforms of choice.
Chicago Bulls t-shirts and caps.
What do you know?
That's Tren de Aragua.
They could be seen outside the Standard Club migrant shelter downtown, where they're trying to encroach on local gangs' drug-dealing turf.
Why would a migrant shelter be called the Standard Club?
Probably ought to look into that.
Apparently, there were 720 police incident reports logged at the Standard Club alone over the past 12 months.
Including sex trafficking, child porn, drugs, carjackings, weapons, and excessive spousal violence.
Excessive spousal violence.
I guess we're so used to Venezuelans and other immigrants beating up their wives that we have to call it excessive spousal violence.
Well, a little bit of violence.
You know, you just can't do anything about that.
These are Hispanics, after all.
Earlier this month, Chicago cops were called to a building on the south side where 32 armed Venezuelan migrants were said to be showing off their weapons.
Now, a young gangster Disciples member who, standing on a high-volume drug-dealing corner near Martin Luther King Boulevard, said, the real issue is that America has allowed gangs to enter our country.
They let terrorist groups enter our country, he yelled angrily, according to the New York Post.
They be moving into our territory and robbing people, but they don't get arrested like we do.
I talked to one on the translator app.
Boy, these are resourceful gangbangers, I suppose.
They can whip out Google Translate and have a jabber with a Venezuelan.
He told me all the things he got going on.
How they helped him get a car, an apartment, EBT cards, all this stuff.
They're giving him thousands.
We get maybe 400 a month.
And they don't even have social security numbers.
Gosh, I think we have a budding Donald Trump voter here.
The fellow that we talked about earlier, Mohammed, he was once the enforcer for the head of the Gangster Disciple Street Gang.
He has formed a group called X-Cons for Trump because he feels the Democrats have failed inner-city black people.
So there you go.
They may not vote for Kamala despite what we might think of as racial solidarity. And here's a
lady named...
Talk to you soon.
I beg your pardon?
Cons for Trump?
Was that the organization's name?
Ex-cons for Trump.
Sounds like they'll be speaking at the next CPAC, I'd imagine.
Yes, very good.
Now, while they're cons, while they're in the pokey, I don't think there are any states yet where guys behind bars can actually vote.
But that'll be coming.
That'll be coming.
Kamala will make sure that happens.
Let's see.
But Octavia Mitchell, age 52, lost her son, Isaiah Jackson, to gun violence in 2010, and last year she lost her nephew, 21-year-old Avante Holmes.
She says, I can't reach nobody at City Hall or anywhere else that cares.
They care about the migrants, but they don't care about people like us whose roots are here.
We matter, you know, says she.
No, I just hope these people do the obvious thing.
And, well, we can't recommend how anyone votes, so I guess I should refrain from doing so, but somebody has found this group ex-cons for Trump.
Now, the Venezuelans apparently are quite united, while the blacks, these 100-plus groups, I mean, it's hard to imagine 100 black gangs in the South Side of Chicago, but that's what the Post says, Well, the blacks fight each other, so that's another reason why I don't think there will be mass warfare blacks against Venezuelans, and I think this Mohammed guy is wrong.
I'm afraid there's probably plenty of room for gangs in Chicago, but I find it quite interesting that these black gangs are complaining about people coming in, hoarding in on their turf.
They're bringing crime!
They're bringing drugs!
Oh my gosh!
Wow, but these are sort of the semi-hilarious aspects of the times in which we live.
I wish I could agree that it's semi-hilarious.
It's like, is this really what we're going to continue to tolerate and allow to proliferate all across the country?
You know, first Chicago, now Springfield, now that small town that I can't even pronounce in Pennsylvania, where a number of enterprising right-wing journalists have gone to document.
Is it Kalara?
It's some small town of 80% white people that has been 4,000 people seeing about a thousand, you know, and they keep using the term migrants, Mr. Taylor.
That's just so disingenuous.
It's like they're not migrants.
Let's call them what they are.
They're colonizers with federal backing.
That's right.
That's exactly what they are.
Well, Mr. Kersey, you have one of these depressing stories about a new naval ship, and it is in the John Lewis class.
Most of our listeners have never even heard of the John Lewis.
We have Arleigh Burton destroyers.
We have the John Lewis class of fleet oilers.
Yeah, Secretary of Navy Carlos Del Toro, he announced last week that a future John Lewis class oiler will be named for a prominent labor and civil rights activist, Dolores Huerta, a major figure in the farm workers labor movement from the 50s to the 1990s.
His announcement about the naming of the future USNS.
Yes, United States Naval Ship.
Yep, United States Naval Ship Dolores Huerta came at a speaking engagement at the Veteran Affairs Center for Minority Veterans Hispanic Heritage Month commemorative event in Washington.
I'm surprised that you and I were left off the guest list for that one.
In his remarks, del Toro, who is the first Cuban American Secretary of the Navy, commented on his background as a refugee from Cuba.
And he noted that the history of Hispanic American contributions to the U.S.
military is grandiose.
He then added the service to the country can also take the form of championing causes to improve the lives of other Americans and announced the future Oilers renaming.
She co-founded the National Farmers Workers Association, a precursor to the United Farm Workers, with Cesar Chavez back in 1962, led various strikes and boycotts and famously I mean, isn't that brilliant?
What a, you know, what a breathtaking philosophical achievement to come up with the term, yes we can.
Yeah, yes we can.
Wow, wow.
Boy, they ought to name an aircraft carrier after her for that.
I think she should have a state named after her.
Better still.
Yeah, she's a recipient of the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award.
That name in itself is justification for so much.
Anyways, and she also got the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
So this is the 10th ship of the John Lewis class, and it's naming as a continuation of the trend of bestowing John Lewis class oilers with the name of civil rights leaders.
You might recall that John Lewis was one of the individuals who crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge back in 1963 for the Selma to Montgomery march.
He represented Georgia.
In fact, he has a statue now in Decatur, Georgia, maybe the Cab County.
where they tore down a Confederate statue and they replaced it with one of John Lewis.
In fact, he also has a MARTA.
A MARTA bus with his face on it now.
So you can jump on a MARTA bus in Atlanta and take the John Lewis MARTA bus.
Other ships following this convention, the convention include the USNS Thurgood Marshall, the USNS Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the USNS Harriet Tubman, Yes, I was just going to mention that.
I'm surprised they left that out.
Boy, I mean, they're not doing their homework.
Yes.
NS Harvey Milk, named after the homosexual advocate. Yes, I was just gonna
mention that. I'm surprised they left that out. Boy, I mean they're not doing
their homework. Yes. I'd actually like to know the other six people who, the other
five people who have been bestowed with the honor of the John Lewis class. These
are replacing the aging Kaiser class Oilers.
They're intended to supply the US Navy's carrier strike groups, a large capacity of barrels per oil.
And again, it just shows you that the naming convention for the heroes that we are supposed to celebrate, dead white males need not apply to be part of the John Lewis One minute, Harvey Milk, dead white male, dead white male, but he had the great glory and achievement of being a homosexual.
So he counts.
He counts.
Yep, yep, yep.
Wow.
Well, let's see.
Golly, I believe we are running out of time once again, as we always do.
But let's see.
Oh, we got a little bit of time left.
So I think I've got some good news stories here.
And here's one.
Donald Trump, at a recent rally in Pennsylvania, said this, and this apparently is from a transcript of his rally speech.
He says, it takes centuries to build the unique character of each state, but reckless migration policy can change it quickly and permanently, just like we've seen in London and Paris and Minneapolis.
If Kamala Harris wins this election, she will flood Pennsylvania cities and towns with illegal migrants from all over the world.
And Pennsylvania will not be Pennsylvania any longer.
When I'm president, the moment I take the oath of office, those who do not belong will be sent back home.
We will end the invasion of small-town Pennsylvania, and we will end the destruction of America.
That's pretty strong talk.
And it's so much more coherent than Donald Trump's usual ramblings about things.
So I guess this is put together by a speechwriter, and he must have read this off a teleprompter, but I say give that speechwriter a raise and hooray for Donald Trump to talking about what, in effect, is the Great Replacement.
This is really quite wonderful.
And from the United Kingdom, here is another bit of good news.
How brave would you have to be to take on the directorship of the British Museum?
Have you ever been to the British Museum, Mr. Kersey?
It's a wonderful place.
I'm sorry, is this in London?
I don't believe I have.
Oh, you would remember if you'd been.
I don't believe.
I was in London right before the millennia in 1999, and I don't believe we had the opportunity to go.
That's too bad.
So many wonderful things there.
The Benin bronzes are there and the Elgin marbles.
The locals are trying to, the Greeks and the Ghanaians, I think they're from, no, no, from Benin.
Yes, they're from Benin.
The locals are trying to get those things back, but the museum has hung on to them for a while.
Although I think the Benin bronzes are on their way back.
They've capitulated on that.
So the question is, how brave would you have to be to take on the directorship of the British Museum?
All the pain is right there in the name.
You've got British in it, which once inspired pride, but is now fraught with problematic connotations.
Colonization, enslavement, murder, pillage, famine, partition, and exploitation.
Yes, that's what Britain is now supposed to mean, if you are a good Britain these days.
Now, Dr. Nicholas Cullinan, has given his first major statement of intent since being appointed director of the British Museum.
No, he will not be adding politically correct labels.
And no, he certainly will not be, quote, conforming to a particular sort of political agenda.
Finally, a sensible voice, someone who even seems to whisper it, take pride in Britain's achievements.
What an outlaw.
How on earth did he get the job, asks this British journalist.
The 46-year-old art historian and curator is clearly refusing to turn one of our most awe-inspiring institutions, founded on the Enlightenment ideals of open debate, scientific research, progress, and tolerance, into another apologist museum.
And maybe If Dr. Nicholas Cullinan stays strong, other museum heads will follow suit.
This is really quite good news, quite good news.
And I had another good story, another white pill, so to speak, but we've run out of time, so I'll save it for next time.
And so I'm sure Brother Kersey joins me in thanking all of our listeners for this time we've been able to spend together.
It is a joy and a delight and a privilege and a pleasure to be with you, and we look forward to speaking with you next week.
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