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May 13, 2025 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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A New Breed of Refugee

Jared Taylor and Paul Kersey marvel at Trump’s decision to let in only South Africans as refugees. Taylor and Kersey also discuss Duke U., Ibram Kendi, the new master race, and another expiring rapper. 

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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
I'm your host, Jared Taylor, and with me is my indispensable co-host, the one and only Paul Kersey.
And today is May 13th, year of our love, 2025.
And we begin, as we always do, with comments from listeners.
And, Mr. Kersey, this is one that goes straight to you, straight to the heart, it sounds like.
Our listener writes in to say, I have been listening to Radio Renaissance for about five years now and really am sorry for the loss of the friend that you mentioned before on the program.
You have also said that for the last few months you have been sober.
I just celebrated nine months of sobriety myself and my life has changed completely.
I'm sure you know what I mean.
Life is vastly improved.
So much more time.
Reading, working out, feeling.
Well, white poop.
I don't know.
I just felt moved to reach out and offer you my congratulations.
It wasn't easy at first, but I don't plan on looking back.
So good work, man, and thank you for your continued dedication.
Well, let me join him, Mr. Kersey, in giving you my full-throated and full-hearted congratulations.
Yeah, I appreciate that.
I appreciate that from you.
I appreciate that from our listener.
And I encourage anyone out there, if you feel, whether it's an addiction for anything that is negatively impacting your life.
First thing you have to do is accept that there's a problem inhibiting where you want to be, where you want to go.
And just, you know, if you have to track it, I use an app called I Am Sober.
I forgot I had it and I happened to look right now and it's seven months, 29 days, 18 hours, two minutes and 22 seconds.
Wow.
Keep those seconds coming.
No, no.
Keep those months rolling by because eventually you just kind of forget about it.
And a friend of mine at the gym the other day, he was like, he didn't recognize me.
Then he's like, wow.
Have you lost some weight?
I'm like, yeah, it's in the face though.
He's like, yeah, I just realized that.
And he's right.
You do quickly lose that appetite and the appeal of it.
But also when you go out, it's not something that you have to frown upon your friends or at parties or at events or at work events.
It's not something that you judge other people.
It's just a decision that you make.
And I encourage anyone, whether it's nicotine, whether it's smoking, or somebody who might be in cannabis, just quit and your life will be wonderful.
Be better.
Wonderful.
Wonderful.
Well, good for you.
Good for you and good for all of our listeners who may be struggling with some kind of addiction.
Really, we wish you all the best.
Now, here's another comment.
In his most recent podcast, Jared Taylor mentioned that he thought Italians had integrated into an American society relatively quickly.
Perhaps true, but not without.
The famous or infamous lynching of Italians in New Orleans comes to mind.
When police chief David Hennessy was assassinated, he was believed to have said that the Dagos had done it.
And then several of the suspects were tried and acquitted, bringing suspicion that several of the jurors were bribed.
I would also mention there were many cartoons from the era depicting Italians in a very negative light and warning that the mafia was coming to our shores.
One caption of a cartoon from the Times says, Dirtiest from the slums of Europe arriving daily.
Here's another.
The hyphenated American.
Well, Uncle Sam, why should I let these freaks cast whole votes when they're only half American?
I consider these cartoons to be the memes of their time.
They reflect what a lot of people are thinking.
And let's not forget Sacco and Vanzetti and the anarchist scare.
Well, it's been a while since I looked up Sacco and Vanzetti.
So for those of our listeners who may not be all that familiar with those two Italian anarchists, I'll give you a quick summary.
They were Italian immigrants.
who were controversially convicted of murdering a guard and a paymaster during an April 15, 1920 armed robbery.
They stole the payroll and made off a whole bunch of money.
As details of the trial and the man's suspected innocence became known, Sacco and Vanzetti became the center of one of the largest cause célèbre in modern history.
In 1927, Believe it or not, Mr. Kersey, protests on their behalf were held in every major city in North America and Europe, as well as, get this, Tokyo, Sydney, Melbourne, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Dubai, Montevideo, Johannesburg, and Auckland, all the way to New Zealand.
People are protesting this conviction of these two Italian anarchists.
After a re-examination of the evidence, they were, nonetheless, executed in the electric chair.
In 1961, a ballistic test proved that the pistol found on Seko was indeed used to commit the murders.
However, and this is something that I really need to look into, and maybe one of our well-informed listeners can resolve this mystery.
However, on August 23, 1977, 50th anniversary of the executions which took place in Massachusetts, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis issued a proclamation that Sacco and Vanzetti had been unfairly tried and convicted, and that any disgrace should be forever removed from their names.
So, were they innocent or weren't they?
Inquiring minds want to know.
In any case, our listener continues, all immigration disrupts the native population.
Now, we may be getting a story about immigration that goes against that dictum, Mr. Kersey, but I'm looking forward to hearing what you have to say.
We look back nostalgically because European immigration disrupted the United States the least compared to what's happening today with non-white, non-Christian immigration.
Indeed.
Here's another comment.
This is about Shiloh Hendricks, the white woman.
Who used the forbidden word, which we ordinarily quake to pronounce when a black child was going through her stuff.
And this listener writes in to say, in your podcast, you said that Shiloh Hendricks is a single mother.
Well, according to J.F. Gariepi on X, yes, I know who he is, and he's generally reliable.
She has been with her current boyfriend or husband for six years.
Now, Mr. Kersey, do you know more about than I?
I'd always heard that she was a single mother.
Do you have any?
She is not a single mother.
That is correct.
Okay.
Well, good.
Well, good.
Good for her.
Good for her.
Now, here's another comment.
This one comes as a little bit of a surprise.
Our commenter writes, I rarely disagree with you, but I was shocked.
At what you had to say in response to a listener question regarding whether you consider the people from the Caucasus and from parts of the Mediterranean area to be European.
Your discussion seemed to focus on skin color or rather on whether they are intellectually or culturally compatible with the European culture.
Personally, I believe that skin color would be absolutely irrelevant.
Were it not that there is an extremely strong covariance between skin color and other genetic factors that cause nal adaptation to living with Europeans?
What is true, skin color also leads to a schism and self-imposed inability to assimilate.
The problem is not color, but deeper factors.
I'm interested in what your answer would have been regarding whether these people are a blessing or a curse.
Well, you know, for me, when I talk about skin color, that's just shorthand for genetic distance.
Yes, skin color itself isn't particularly important.
The question is, are they white people?
And whether they contribute to our society or not, and I'm sure certain individuals among them can, I just don't think Chechens and Uzbeks are white.
They're just not part of my extended family.
I'm a little surprised that my answer caused such consternation in someone who apparently otherwise agrees with us.
Let's see.
Next to last comment.
Mr. Taylor.
Mr. Kersey.
I never thought I'd have to correct anything you said on the show.
That's a vote of high confidence.
Other people sure don't feel that way.
Other people are happy to correct us.
But it's actually a relief to make this correction.
The mail ladies, and he's talking about the black ladies who were sent to Britain during the Second World War and who heroically sorted mail.
Our listener says they're actually receiving the Congressional Gold Medal, not the Medal of Honor.
Now, Mr. Kersey, I don't remember either you or I saying that they got the Medal of Honor, but we must have said that by mistake because they certainly weren't getting the Medal of Honor.
And if we said that, we was certainly not Kang's.
We was wrong.
As our listener points out, the Congressional Gold Medal can be awarded to anyone Congress thinks deserves one.
Even civilians.
Now, before 1963, you could be awarded the Medal of Honor for non-combat but heroic actions.
And since then, the criterion has to be you get the Medal of Honor only for direct combat, in which the recipient, and our listener is quoting the official regulations, if the recipient distinguished himself conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity.
At the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty.
Now, I didn't realize the American government used the word intrepidity.
Hats off to the person who used that word.
Our listener goes on to say in 1992.
Yes, sir.
I have to interject real quick.
For those of us who love to improve our vocabulary with a prodigious amount of new words, would you tell us what that word meant?
Intrepidity?
That just means bravery.
I guarantee there are some listeners who have never heard that word used.
Well, now they have.
Well, see, intrepid, a man named Intrepid, you've heard about him?
No, but sometimes there's a variation of a word you just never encounter.
I just thought our listeners would like to have it.
Very unusual.
Now, our list goes on to say in 1993, there were no Black Medal of Honor recipients in all of American history.
President Clinton called for review.
of possible racial discrimination in the awards.
And when they look for racial discrimination, certain people always find it.
And 96 blacks, count them, though few of them.
96 had their awards upgraded to Medal of Honor.
And since then, only one black recipient has earned the Medal of Honor for actions, as it happens, in the War on Terror.
And after reading his action report, I admit he undoubtedly deserved it.
Well, good for him.
He showed conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty.
Well, hats off to him.
Our listener goes on to say, personally, I think you and Mr. Kersey should receive the Congressional Gold Medal because of the courage you both show on today's society, openly saying what you believe no matter how unpopular.
Well, thank you very much.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Now, final comment.
This one takes the form of a letter on paper.
We don't get many of those.
Don't get many of those.
Really?
Yes, a reader writes in to say, there's been a remarkable shift in the national zeitgeist.
We're not going to take it anymore.
Seems to be the current conventional wisdom.
I hope that's true.
And this is the part that really amused me.
This man writes in to say, I appreciate your high-road approach to debate and your role as the Mahatma Gandhi of the dissident right.
Dear me, I've never considered myself the Mahatma Gandhi of the dissident right, but I will take that as a compliment.
And I also want to say, I never liked that term, dissident right, because nothing that we're doing would make us dissidents.
We're enemies of a state that we have no say in, but again...
I don't mind dissident.
We are dissidents.
We dissent from the zeitgeist.
You want to call us revolutionaries?
You want to call us reactionaries?
You want to call us, I don't know, but we are a guinea.
Of course, there are things we are very much in favor of.
Now, this commenter by U.S. Mail goes on to say, or guests on your podcast, please.
This is not to cast aspersions upon your co-host, but I love your guests.
And he goes on to say, bring back the powerful first-person account features in amran.com.
Yes, those were wonderful accounts of how people became aware of the importance of race.
We used to have a lot of them.
We have fewer of them.
We should get more.
And so, I should perhaps put out an all-button's alert.
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, if you have an account of how you saw the light on race, we would love to hear it.
We'd love to find out how you cast off the illusions, both self-delusion and the brainwashing that you no doubt suffered and began to see things clearly.
And if you have something like that, please send it to amran.com and you can...
Go to the Write for Us tab, or you can write for the Contact Us tab, and a short, concise, maybe 200, 300-word piece on how you saw the light.
We would love to see it.
We would love to receive it.
And you can publish it entirely anonymously if that is your preference.
And that is generally a good idea in these evil times.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, how do you get in touch with us?
There are two ways.
The most efficient way to get to me, I mean, you can write if you wish.
And as I say, it's rather exciting to receive an actual...
This was an actual handwritten letter.
I feel like it was a 19th century.
It was really a fun thing.
But you can go to the amran.com page and go to the Contact Us tab, and you can send a comment, a suggestion, a complaint, a correction straight to me.
Or you can send me an email at becausewelivehere at proton.me.
Once again, that's at becausewelivehere.
At Proton.me.
And I really encourage all of you listening to Jump on X. There's so much fun conversation that takes place there.
You can find me at B-W-L-H underscore.
Or, well, you can find me, if you prefer, at real Jar Taylor.
J-A-R-T-A-Y-L-O-R.
You know, Jarhead used to be slang for army recruits.
That's not why I used it.
I used J-A-R, short for Jar.
In case you're wondering.
Now, Mr. Kersey, the first story is you on South Africa and this new brand, this new breed of refugees that are coming our way.
Please do tell.
Well, before we jump into that, I just want to ask, you've joked before that you can imagine a lot, but did you ever think you'd see a day like this when the State Department is tweeting out a welcome to...
49 South African refugees, one of whom was quite striking, mind you.
And this then became a moment, almost a mask-off moment by those remaining adherents to the corporate media who want to position this as some horrible moment.
It was quite a beautiful day yesterday, and I'm referring to May 12th.
Yes, as a formal matter, yes, I can imagine anything.
But that is, as I say, just a matter of pure logic.
I would never have expected this.
Never, ever, ever.
Although I have imagined South Africans streaming out of South Africa, whites, only with the clothes on their back, completely stripped of all their possessions, some of them bleeding, bloody.
And I wondered under those circumstances whether they would be received as...
As refugees in white countries.
And I can even imagine under those circumstances, they're being turned away.
No, no, no.
You're wicked.
You're wicked engineers of apartheid.
This is exactly what you deserve.
But no, to be arriving under these circumstances is a huge surprise.
So please, do tell.
Yeah.
You know, yesterday, a group of just under 50, 49 white South African Afrikaners, they landed at an airport I know quite well, Dulles International Airport, as refugees.
They came to the United States under humanitarian designation meant for people fleeing war or persecution that the Trump admin has suspended for all other groups worldwide.
I really want you to let that sink in considering how many judges we've seen mandate that the temporary protective status for Venezuelans, for Haitians, for other groups where we have what?
350,000 to 500,000 Haitians who have protected status, who we're trying to send back.
And now this refugee resettlement, which is just a racket, it's basically just give us your tired, your poor, your hungry, primarily military-aged non-white individuals.
And now you see families coming, waving the American flag.
And if you saw some of the corporate media, Mr. Taylor, some of the things that they had to say comparing them to...
Well, do you have any direct quotes?
I'll pull some of those up.
I've got them in Twitter, so give me a few seconds.
But let me just read some of this.
Okay.
President Trump has said that the Afrikaners, a minority group, descended from the Dutch settlers in South Africa from 400 or 500 years ago.
They're facing racial discrimination.
Yesterday during a press conference where he was addressing new measures to lower pharmaceutical prices, he actually launched into a tirade, a broadside really against journalists and against the corporate media where he said, farmers are being killed.
They happen to be white.
Whether they're white or black, hey, it makes no difference to me.
But white farmers are being brutally killed, and their land is being confiscated in South Africa.
He would go on to say, and you guys aren't talking about it, asking basically, why are you guys turning a blind eye to this?
It was an incredible press conference, Mr. Taylor and listeners.
Now, black South African officials have called the effort to cast the Afrikaner families as refugees as a politically motivated ploy designed to question South Africa's constitutional democracy.
Again, it's one of those points that...
Just like the civil rights in the United States, we're never supposed to ask what happened after 1994.
That's the glorious year, Mr. Taylor, when Nelson Mandela was elected president when Blacks were given the full franchise.
But what actually happened to the country afterwards?
Just like with Montgomery.
What happened to the Montgomery bus system after Rosa Parks did her bus boycott?
Anyways, the South African Land Redistribution Law, which was signed in January of 2025, For property to be taken without compensation in some situations, subject to review by a judge.
So the group of mostly Afrikaner families, they landed at Dulles in Nova yesterday.
From there, they were set to board connecting flights to 10 states, where they will be resettled by local refugee organizations.
Mr. Taylor, if I were a Republican governor...
What I would do is I would try to get to the right of President Trump, and I would say we would love to have as many Afrikaners as possible resettle here.
We're going to give you this vast swath of land.
We want you to call it New Praetoria, and we want as many of you as possible, because we want you to come farm.
We want your expertise.
I think that would be quite illuminating, and again, it's a wonderful...
Realization that federalist answers to problems are far better than anti-federalists because this is all due to the federal government being under Donald Trump.
This is a really extraordinary moment, listeners.
So though refugees coming to the U.S. are typically vetted by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, which routinely refers people fleeing persecution and violence in their home countries to safer countries like the United States, this South African group did not go through such a screening.
A State Department memo obtained by the Washington Post said that most of the arriving Afrikaners have witnessed or experienced extreme violence with a racial nexus, including home invasions, murders, or carjackings.
If you ever want to take a deep dive into just what life is like in post-apartheid South Africa, Mr. Taylor, all you need to do is type in South Africa home security measures in your Google machine.
And you will be absolutely floored with the ever-growing market of new devices, new security measures that are available to those who still remain in South Africa.
Well, Mr. Kersey, I suspect that just about everything that these Afrikaners are fleeing can be found in the United States.
Home invasions, torture, murder.
Just gratuitous cruelty and violence of all kinds.
It just happens a little bit less often and doesn't always get the kind of attention it deserves.
I hope...
Ironically, you and I could be reading some story a month from now about one of these Afrikaners who fled something horrible and who ends up in exactly or a very similar situation today.
That's the kind of America they're coming to, whether they know it or not.
Yeah, you know, the African National Congress put out a press release where they bemoaned what's happening.
And they said that, you know, this year we commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Freedom Charter.
We recall its enduring truth that South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white.
This is further enshrined in our Constitution which affirms equality, dignity, and non-racialism as the bedrock of our national life.
What the instigators of this falsehood seek is not safety, but impunity from transformation.
They flee not from persecution, but from justice, equality, and accountability for historic privilege.
I mean, Mr. Taylor, that's the mindset of those who control the government of South Africa.
Of course.
Accountability.
Accountability.
And I would say that that translates to punishment for what happened, which of course you...
Go ahead.
They're also saying in that very first sentence, didn't they say that it is non-racially oriented, a non-racial South Africa?
How do they square that with black economic empowerment?
I set that up for you, a lob, and you hit the ball over the fence.
Tell us what...
B-E-E means, sir.
Well...
It is Affirmative Action, DEI, on super steroids.
You can't move a muscle if you're in corporate South Africa without just filling every possible slot with a black.
Black ownership, black participation, black governance, blacks on the board, blackity-black, black, black, black, black, black.
And no, it's all non-racial.
It's all pure equality.
Or if they had to justify it, they'd say, oh, well, this is in compensation for past outrages.
You know, it's really interesting what you just said because we talked.
Gosh, two months ago about the current situation at the South African Air Force, where you noted that of, what, 355 planes, roughly only six are actually capable of operation right now.
I read, for some reason, I looked this up today, and back in the horrible days of the late days when the South African Air Force was entirely white, they had 801 aircraft and helicopters of 24 different types in operation.
They had one of the most formidable air forces in the entire world.
And all of these planes, I'm sure, are just sitting there like in an airplane graveyard, all inoperational, all completely stripped of their parts, incapable of flight.
And you just think, you know, before the whites capitulated to worldwide pressure, they had nukes.
They were the nation that had the first open-heart surgery.
Successful open-heart surgeon?
No, I'm sorry.
Well, no, first transplant.
Transplant, yes.
Forgive me.
Christian Bernard.
He was the guy who did it.
Christian Bernard.
There's a fascinating book, an autobiography about him that's very much worth reading.
And no, it's unbelievable the civilization that existed in spite of all the racial pressure by the black majority under apartheid.
And it's incredible to look at the world that has been...
You know, again, a lot of people tried to warn what was going to happen.
And again, we're not supposed to really look at it and say, wow, are there any similarities of what could happen with the racial change in the United States?
And of course, all you have to do, sir, is look at a city like Detroit.
In 1925, Detroit was 95% white.
It was the Paris of the West.
It had some of the most beautiful skyscrapers, an unbelievable economy.
In 2025, the city, according to the census, is 9.8% white.
And it's synonymous with urban decay, crime, corruption, and misery.
And until we accept the reality of race in all of our policy, I think we're all going to be looking at the same situation.
Well, part of the problem, of course, is the attitude of so many whites.
Just before we started this podcast, I was browsing around on X. And I saw a little post that I wish I had thought of myself.
Someone had zoomed in on one of the photographs, into one of the photographs of this group of refugees from South Africa and cropped out.
Cropped in a really quite strikingly good-looking young blonde lady.
And somebody had written along with this photograph, one more plane full of refugees like this and the lib white boomer ladies will be bombing DHS offices and building a mile-high border wall.
I thought that was quite hilarious.
It's gorgeous.
Oh, yes.
And this tweet got 35,000 likes and been retweeted many times.
I confess, I retweeted it myself.
But yes, all these liberal white boomer leaders, they're going to think, God, something people like her coming in can't have that.
Oh, my dear.
One of the most elegant people I've ever met in my life was or is an Afrikaner who left South Africa in the mid-90s.
And she doesn't like to talk about.
What South Africa was like.
She's just said, I moved on.
I don't want to even read news about...
Let us move on, sir.
Let us move on.
A piece of news out of Duke University, its latest school to make a change following the 2023 Supreme Court ruling that ended affirmative action in admissions in universities.
According to its student publication, A Chronicle, Duke University in North Carolina has officially discontinued its Reginald Howard Memorial Scholarship program.
Since its inception in 1979, the scholarship was created exclusively for Black undergraduates, some of whom are required to demonstrate the need for financial assistance.
It covered the cost of full tuition and room and board.
Only some of them had to prove they needed financial assistance.
Others were just rewarded for being black.
The scholarship was named in honor of Duke's first black student government president, Reginaldo, otherwise known as Reggie Harris, whose life was cut short as the result of an automobile accident in 1976 during his sophomore year.
I wonder what the details on that are.
Was there a toxicology test run on Reginaldo?
Don't know.
While the original program will be no more, the Office of the University of Scholars and Fellows will partner with the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture to create the Reginaldo Howard Leadership Program, which will now be open to all undergraduate students, regardless of race.
It'll be open to all who will get the nod, Mr. Kersey.
And what I want to know is why is there a Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture?
Gosh, it seems like they're just going to smuggle them in the back door.
Moreover, the new scholarship installment will not include a competitive selection process.
How are they going to choose them?
I'd like to know.
When there's no competitive selection process, that makes it easy to select the pets.
Each year, roughly 15 to 20 black students were brought in as Reggie scholars, as they were known.
Wouldn't you like to be known as a Reggie scholar?
No.
No?
And the current scholars have expressed concern about not being a part of the decision to terminate the program.
I mean, well, gosh, what's it to them?
They've already got their gravy trained.
So the current Reggie scholars complaining that they weren't consulted.
Well, they got nothing to say about it.
Says sophomore Hannah Gideon, a Reggie scholarette.
We were just kind of told what was happening.
As it was happening, we felt very powerless, to be honest with you.
We're all frustrated, obviously.
So there you go.
They're frustrated because other people might be horning in on their gravy train.
So there you go.
Now, let's see.
Didn't you have a story from Kansas State?
Isn't Kansas State abolishing certain, I thought, absolutely sacred cows sacrosanctimages?
Well, it's not Kansas State.
It's actually a university I know quite well.
Kennesaw State, which is up I-20, heading toward Chattanooga from Atlanta, Georgia.
Kennesaw State University is facing criticism from students, professors, over its decision to eliminate three majors, including black studies.
Yeah.
Terrible stuff.
Terrible stuff.
Does it say what the other majors there are?
I believe it says down in the article.
Basically, they're doing this because they decided to let certain programs go based on low graduation numbers.
A professor of psychology in the Black Studies program, Roxanne Donovan, who I'm sure has contributed a lot to the academic and to scholarship, said, in truth, I'm devastated at the decision to deactivate the Black Studies major.
She took part in a virtual press conference this past Saturday.
She says she worries that the decision could impact Kennesaw State for years to come.
Especially hard.
When it's at a university where over 25% of students identify as Black, it risks sending troubling messages to those within and outside our community that Black thought, achievement, histories, and futures are not a priority here, she said.
You know, it's funny, I wonder what percentage of the Black student body overall...
Was majoring in said black studies, which of course is being eliminated precisely.
Well, one of the reasons is because of the low graduation numbers.
Well, see, I wonder what that means.
Does that mean very few people are enrolled or plenty of them are enrolled, but they can't manage to graduate?
My guess is it's stacked end to end with black professors and all the people who take it are black.
And my suspicion is that very few people fail, but maybe I'm being cynical.
In any case.
I guarantee you're correct.
Obviously, this is a – it's a jobs program for otherwise unemployable black academicians.
I remember – well, never mind.
I won't tell that.
I'll tell that story later.
But of my days in undergraduate, something that happened.
But basically, we're getting quotes from these black professors where they say, in my 17 years at KSU – I've never seen such a swift dismantling of degree programs without consultation with faculty, students, or community stakeholders.
I always love these huge words as if, you know, a Black Studies program is such an important cornerstone to university.
When again, I would love to know what percentage of Black students enrolled are actually getting a degree in Black Studies versus, say, a STEM or a STEM degree.
Now, is Kennesaw, is that HBCU?
No, Kennesaw State is a predominantly white university.
Well, that's right.
You just said it was 20-25%.
Yes, of course.
Yes, silly mean.
Wasn't paying attention as I should have been.
Yeah, and of course, the university, one thing, the university didn't immediately grovel.
They said that, as they explained the Black Studies removal, they maintained that it adhered to standard protocols and deactivating majors, citing low graduation numbers as the primary reason for their removal.
According to a statement, the Black Studies major, along with two others, averaged fewer than 10 graduates per year, failing to meet the criteria necessary for continuation.
And here we go.
You asked what those other majors were.
Here they are.
Kennesaw State University followed institutional protocols in the decision to deactivate Black Studies, Philosophy, and Technical Communications majors.
Wow, Philosophy.
Boy, nobody's interested in Aristotle.
Well, I'm sure there's been some merger where instead of Aristotle, you're reading Cornel West or Ibram Kendi in philosophy.
You're right.
Here's the pertinent information, though.
The Black Studies major has a three-year graduation average of 5.7 degrees per year, while philosophy averages 6.3 and technical communication 7.7.
So they underwent a multi-year remediation process, which included annual improvement plans focused on increasing enrollment.
As the required benchmarks weren't met, the university deactivated these programs.
I would also love to know what percentage of football players were enrolled in black studies.
Well, as I say, probably the failure rate in these courses was close to zero.
So this just means that all the black people at Kennesaw State had sense enough not to enroll in black studies.
Good for them.
I mean, really, seriously.
I think that's a tribute to the undergraduates.
They know better than to spend four years studying this rub.
Yeah, it might be true.
I'd love to know what the primary degree that they get is.
We need a backstory here.
That's good.
But anyways, Kennesaw State has now, like you said, you asked which three programs, which two programs are also eliminated.
Philosophy and technical communications, which I have no idea what that even represents, but whatever.
That probably means writing user's manuals.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Okay.
Well, let's see.
Oh, this was just a little amusing thing that I saw on X where I sometimes lurk about.
Someone called Eric Onassis 31 posted on X a photo of the cover of a book by that fraud, that spectacular fraud, Ibram X. Kendi.
And the book was stamped from the beginning.
And the message said, just read this book.
One word, colon.
Amazing.
So.
This guy posted, well, Ibram Kendi himself, whom I follow with great interest, he retweets this, reposts it, and three days later he had a total of five likes and two retweets.
Just thought that was an interesting commentary on what life is like on X for frauds like Ibram Kendi.
He is so desperate for pats on the head that he retweets this guy, this little tweet.
Calling his book amazing by an absolute nobody with, I think, maybe five followers.
And all he gets is five likes and two retweets.
Well, Ibram, welcome to the real world.
Now, this is a story about deportation.
The Trump administration is planning to transport a group of immigrants to Libya on a U.S. military plane.
Did you know about that?
I sure didn't know that.
To Libya of all places.
The nationalities of the immigrants were not immediately clear.
They might not all be Libyans.
According to officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the operation.
How often do you see that?
Some leaker, some leaker, who's not supposed to talk to the press, calls up the Washington Post and New York Times.
Hey, fellas, here's something.
Here's some dirt on the administration you'd like to know.
Now, don't quote me.
And, of course, the reporter says, of course I won't quote you.
And we won't but hear.
They're admitting here was a leak.
Now, human rights groups have called conditions in its network.
This is Libya's network of migrant detention centers as horrific and deplorable.
Well, human rights groups would say that.
They would say that probably about any prison or jail in the entire world, probably even in Sweden.
The Libya operation falls in line with the Trump administration's effort not only to deter migrants from trying to enter the country illegally, Hooray for that.
But also to send a strong message to those in the country illegally that they can be deported to countries where they could face brutal conditions.
The State Department warns against you and me, Mr. Kersey, traveling to Libya, quote, due to crime, terrorism, unexploded landmines, civil unrest, kidnapping, and armed conflict.
The country remains divided after years of civil war following the 2011 overthrow of its longtime dictator, Muar Gaddafi.
The New York Times says nothing about who helped overthrow Muammar Gaddafi.
I'm sure you remember very well Hillary Clinton.
I beg your pardon?
She was almost POTUS.
She was almost...
Well, she was Secretary of State at the time, and there's this horrible video of her after he was killed in a brutal way by some people who didn't like him.
It's just something like, we were there.
He died.
She's just giggling.
Just the most gruesome thing.
I will never forget the look on her face.
Wow.
She looked like she was inebriated in the photo celebrating the death of Qaddafi.
I think she was high on the idea of cruelty, of killing somebody, just absolutely intoxicated at the power she'd exercised.
Beef as much as you like about Libya, but he held the country together and he made sure that people weren't swarming across the Mediterranean into Europe.
It was one of those terrible, terrible things to have gotten rid of Muammar Gaddafi, especially after he'd done everything we told him about the nuclear enrichment program.
He stopped that completely.
None of this backdoor enrichment like may be going on in Iran.
And then we have to go kill him anyway.
And we giggle about it, at least if your Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Anyway, the New York Times continues.
Earlier this year, the Trump administration deported several hundred people to Panama.
Now, I didn't know we'd kicked them into Panama from countries in the eastern hemisphere, including Iran and China.
Imagine you're an Iranian or a Chinaman, and you get deported to Panama.
The migrants who said they didn't know where they were going were detained in a hotel for several days before being taken to a camp near the jungle.
Some of the migrants were later released.
From Panamanian custody.
I wonder what the heck they did.
And I just hope, though, that all the Chinese and the Iranians, they wrote back to everybody back home, I thought I was home for you in America, but now I'm in the Panamanian jungle.
Don't come to America.
Did you know about this?
See, this seems like a strange thing to me.
You are an illegal immigrant from China, and you end up in that Costa Rica Seacott prison, or in the Panamanian jungle?
Boy, if word gets out like that, they ain't going to come, and if they're here, they're going to go.
Now, I like to follow the activities of Hindus in the United States because, boy, are they active.
There is something called BAPS, B-A-P-S.
That's an acronym for a Hindu cult.
Ordinarily, I am pretty good about reading words written in languages I don't understand.
But the words that go into B-A-P-S are Indian, and they are such 19 jointed words that are almost unpronounceable, so I give up.
I just refer to it as BAPS.
And even their website mostly just calls itself BAPS.
But there is a BAPS temple that sits on 183 acres.
In Robbinsville, and that's in New Jersey, and it's the biggest Hindu temple in the United States.
Visitors walking along the grounds could think that they had taken a trip to India.
The temple took 12 years to build from 2000 to 2023, and it's designed according to ancient Hindu scriptural regulations, according to the temple.
It features 10,000 statues and statuettes.
It has carvings of Indian musical instruments and dance forms.
The photographs of it, I must say, are spectacular.
Just spectacular.
It includes the largest elliptical dome of traditional stone architecture ever made.
Now, I don't know how significant that is.
I don't know how many elliptical domes of traditional stone architecture there are in the world, but this one's the biggest.
The Brahma Kund, a well, contains water from more than 300 bodies of water all around the world, including from 108 holy rivers in India and all 50 U.S. states.
India has 108 holy rivers.
Holy cow!
That's a good Hindu expression, too, you know.
When one enters the grounds, one is met with a 49 golden gilded statue of Bhagwan Swaminarayan.
An Indian yogi who founded this major branch of Hinduism.
Now, it's not quite as big as the statue of Hanuman in Sugar Land, Texas, that is gold and 90 feet tall, about which we spoke the other day.
So they're competing with each other, these big golden statues.
The temple, Mr. Kersey, gets tens of thousands of visitors every day.
They get so many that the temple now has timed entry.
And yes, visitors have to book their free tickets on the internet in advance.
And...
They take this stuff seriously.
There's a dress code.
No sleeveless or low-cut tops.
No shorts.
No skirts or dresses above knee length.
None of this thigh flashing that honkies like.
No clothing featuring offensive language or imagery.
And if you violate the dress code, they say, okay, too bad you got a free ticket.
You ain't coming in.
And you also have to take your shoes off.
You pat around your bare feet in this holy place.
And the ancient idea, according to a spokesman, is when you build a temple, It will last for at least a thousand years.
Now think of that, Mr. Kersey.
It'll last, if it does so, it'll last longer than the United States.
Now, this sect, this BAPS sect, emphasizes devotion to Lord Swaminarayan and Ashkar Purushottam.
Whoever they are.
And it has built over 200 temples and centers worldwide, including in cities such as London and Nairobi, and has over 100 temples in the United States.
100 in the United States.
They're not all quite on this scale.
The first one was built in 1974 in Flushing, New York, and now they have them in Myrtle Beach, Montgomery, Alabama, and they have one in the state of Maryland.
I think I'll go visit.
I looked it up on its website.
Apparently it serves wonderful, delightful Indian food.
And it's not quite as swank and spectacular as this one, which is largest in the entire United States.
But this is all a very edifying experience of the new master race.
So I'll have to take a look.
Now, Mr. Kersey.
It is you who invented the remarkable and, I think, very creative and expressive term, expiring rapper.
It makes me laugh every time you...
No, because you've said it.
I think you also have taken that one step further and said an aspiring rapper has to be one of the most dangerous.
Avocations and vocations in America.
I mean, all these dead people, you know, they get described as aspiring rapper.
Well, it seems like, you know, 35%, maybe 50% of the young male black population are aspiring rappers.
But yes, we have another one on one of these tragic stories of an expiring rapper.
Take it away, Mr. Kate.
This rapper was firmly ensconced in the rap game.
This happened on Mother's Day in Philadelphia, not far from Liberty Bell and Independence Hall.
Philadelphia rapper who adopted the moniker of the Voice of the Youth was shot and killed in Northeast Philly.
Kiedre Johnson, known as LG.
What's his first name?
Quidere?
I have no idea.
How do you spell it?
Come on, give it your best shot.
Q-I-D-E-R-E.
Quidere?
I have no idea.
There's no, you know, literally every time you see the word, you know, Q, there's a U after, but this one it's Q-I, so.
Okay.
Well.
We'll just call him LGP Qua, a rapper who spoke about gun violence and promoted positivity in Philadelphia.
He was fatally shot in Juanita Park neighborhood just before 4.40 p.m., according to the Philly Police Department.
Again, that was on Mother's Day.
The 30-year-old suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was rushed to Temple University Hospital.
He was pronounced dead shortly thereafter.
Now, Meek Mill, one of Philadelphia's most famous rappers, Who has staved off the Grim Reaper for many years.
Took to Instagram to show respect for Johnson in the wake of his death.
Quote, Killing ambitious young bulls like this on Mother's Day is a Philly type of thing.
Shit will make you different.
Prayers to your family and let's collect some of them guns.
Shit sat out there.
Shit will make you different?
Shit will make you different.
I guess he's saying- What do you mean by that?
Referring that this type of killing is going to make you different.
It should make you have a different perspective on life.
Well, thank you.
Thank you for that translation.
Yeah, yeah.
Then he said, of course, shit sad out here.
Oh, I mean, again, it's Philadelphia.
Shit sad out here.
Yeah, I remember Philadelphia.
The newspaper's quoting this guy.
Shit sad out here.
Yeah, well, it does blot out the H-I-T in that word.
But I mean, again, this is a city where, you know, 12 years ago, Michael Nutter was the black mayor of Philadelphia, and there was a famous Philadelphia Monthly Magazine article which said, Johnson gained widespread attention for the freestyles he posted on Instagram.
I've never seen one, but I'm sure they're worthy of some form of adulation from some community.
His first viral freestyle, Mr. Taylor, emerged in 2017 when he rapped about the various issues affecting Philadelphia at that time, including...
These videos have accumulated 1 million views on Instagram, and his most successful freestyle video was released in 2022, receiving 1.6 million views, and it showed him rapping about the alarming number of murders occurring in Philadelphia at the time.
And if there's anyone in Philadelphia listening to this, Philadelphia used to publish an amazing breakdown of...
Fatal and non-fatal shootings, which would be broken down by race of both suspects and victim.
They stopped doing that in about 2017.
So hopefully they bring that back because...
Well, they were embarrassing, I'm sure.
They were pretty bad.
It was about like the New York City ones.
I suppose I should break in and do a little shameless self-promotion.
The next video that will be produced by your servant is about New York City.
Crime rates.
Yes, the crime report for 2024 just came up.
You called that to my attention, and I leapt upon it with not exactly shouts of joy, but it is dynamite.
And I recommend all of our listeners to tune in.
I interrupted you.
Rudely.
No, no, you didn't.
Because it's important to point this out, that you and I are probably the only two people in America.
And I'm not trying to be like, oh gosh, we're so great for doing this.
But every year, they release the Crime and Enforcement Report.
And not making this up, it breaks down crime by victim and suspect for almost every crime conceivable.
And I've never seen the New York Times or the New York Post ever, ever.
Nobody ever talks about it.
Nobody ever talks about it.
But all of these wonderful and, well, frankly, hair-raising statistics are in the video, ladies and gentlemen.
But anyway, this poor guy seems to have gone to his reward.
Yeah, no more rap videos from...
By the way, what is freestyle rapping?
Is that as opposed to breaststroke rapping?
Yeah, the backstroke, the freestyle.
Freestyle rapping is basically when there is no chorus.
You just start to rap without almost premeditation.
It's almost as if you and I were starting to talk here and then you just bust a rhyme.
Maybe someone...
Bust a rhyme.
So you and I are freestyle podcasting here.
We are extemporaneously...
We've got some notes, but if you were freestyle rapping, you'd give someone a subject and they would then just start rapping about a basketball in the park or...
Or a gun in the hand of a black person.
Okay, gosh.
Gosh, you know all this black stuff.
I'm glad to have you on the show.
Well, let's see.
Here's yet another story.
I don't want to know this stuff.
I do.
I do.
I'm very curious.
Now, this is a heartwarming story about a 36-year-old Democrat and Prince George's County council member.
And her name is Wanika.
Or it might be Wanika.
I'm not sure.
W-A-N-I-K-A.
My guess is like Shaniqua and Laquisha, probably accent on the second syllable, Wanika and not Wanaka.
But Wanaka would be kind of nice too.
Wanika B. Fisher, marriage and children have been on the back burner for 36-year-old Wanika as she pursued her political ambitions.
She is the daughter of a Yoluba Nigerian father and a South African mother of Indian heritage and has a BA and a law degree.
So she is pretty heavily degreed for a Wanika.
Over the years, she received advice on how to run for office and how to present herself as a young, educated woman.
No one, according to the Washington Post, ever offered her tips on dating and romantic relationships.
So she is manless and childless.
At the age of 36, she's part of a demographic of highly educated black women who have challenges finding partners with equal or higher educational achievement.
Well, it's tough when I think, what is it?
We were talking about this the other day.
What was it?
65% of the black students, undergraduates, are women and only 35% are men.
So, no, it's going to be tough.
It's going to be tough.
You're not going to find men of equal educational achievement.
So many of them are in jail.
So many of them have been in jail and have no job skills.
So it's pretty tough for these black ladies.
Well, so she's part of this demographic of highly educated black women who can't find suitable partners.
And so egg freezing seemed like a reasonable option.
Until, Mr. Kersey, she learned how much it costs.
The county health insurance would not cover the $10,000 to $15,000 it typically costs for a single cycle to freeze your eggs.
So what did Wanika do?
Wanika, who is on the Prince George's County Council Board, County Council, I mean to say, and Prince George's is majority black, and I think it is at least the richest or the second richest.
Majority black county in the entire United States because it borders on Washington, D.C. And there are a lot of these PhD and well-educated blacks who work for government, in this case, government of Prince George's County.
She got the county to pass a law that offers coverage for egg freezing to employees of Prince George's County, all 11,300 of them.
2,500 of them are women 49 years of age and younger.
Oh, what do you think of this?
I mean, I read about this in the Washington Post.
I was on a Washington Post JAG the other day.
And even the readers of the Washington Post said, well, hold on, hold on.
Here's this woman.
Who knows whether by the time...
She wants to unfreeze and implant these eggs.
Is she going to be of an age to actually carry a baby?
If not, is she going to hire somebody to be a surrogate womb?
Is there going to be a man involved or not?
When she's 40 years old, is she actually going to make this happen without a man?
And as somebody pointed out, this is somebody who was looking into this story and was in the comment section.
She makes $145,000 a year.
Single lady.
No other mouths to feed.
And she can't afford the $10,000 to $15,000 to freeze her eggs.
But this little law of hers got the unanimous support of everybody on the all-democratic board.
As it turns out, Prince George's County, as you would imagine, is not quite as bad as South Africa, but the lights tend to go out from time to time.
And this place is in great debt.
And she has just added another little burden.
Every one of the 11,000 Trader employees, so long as they're ladies, of which they're 2,500, age 49 and younger, will get their eggs frozen for free thanks to the taxpaying residents of Prince George's Now, as I say, this was kind of an interesting little idea of gimme, gimme, gimme, and I was particularly intrigued by how annoyed the readers of the Washington Post were about this.
They wrote in and said, no wonder people hate Democrats.
Well, this is also a county we talked about about a week and a half, about two podcasts ago.
Of being one of those two counties that is being hit very hard by austerity measures and doge measures.
That's right.
Government spending.
Well, you know, no wonder she can't afford the $10,000 to $15,000 to have her eggs frozen.
You know, of course, her job is not being doged out.
She works for the county, but the county is going to have less revenue than ever.
So let's see.
Oh, here's another story about illegals.
Costs are running out of time.
Boy, that happens every time.
You know, I think instead of, which story am I going to say?
Well, this is a Trump administration is, of course, pushing to deport more immigrants.
And as a consequence, scammers are using social media and messaging apps to offer fake legal advice and defraud what the New York Times called vulnerable people.
If you're an illegal immigrant, you're a vulnerable person.
And what happens is they set up TikTok accounts impersonating immigration lawyers.
And they buy fraudulent Facebook ads and even set up fake Court hearings on WhatsApp.
Can you imagine that?
I wonder if they get some collaborator to dress up like a judge or something.
In any case, victims lose thousands of dollars, and in some cases, these frauds actually file papers that are completely useless, and folks get deported anyway.
Now, the number of immigration fraud has skyrocketed since Donald Trump took office.
And immigration lawyers, now see, this is really very interesting.
Immigration lawyers who share information and source clients on TikTok, apparently that's where some people advertise on TikTok if you're the real thing, and that's how you get clients.
They said TikTok is plagued by fraud.
There is one Gloria Cardenas.
She's an immigration attorney.
Which side is she on?
I don't think we have to guess.
She shares legal tips to an audience of almost $300,000 on TikTok.
Can you imagine that?
Here you are, an immigration lawyer.
You've got an audience of $300,000.
She said whenever she posts a new video, it sets off a race between her social media staff and scammers who flock to the page.
In other words, people are seeking help.
They will ask questions like, What should I say if I'm stopped by an ICE officer?
Or can my undocumented husband fly safely onto domestic airlines?
Then she answers or accounts posing as Cardenas herself, the immigration lawyer, reply to the comments and provide a contact number on WhatsApp.
I guess it's like commenting on X, you know?
Somebody says, I've got this terrible problem.
And then anybody can write and say, hey, I'll help you, you know?
I'll help you stay in El Dorado.
Just get in touch with me and pony up.
Well, Cardenas has heard from at least 15 people who lost money to these scammers.
And there are likely many, many more who never reached out, she said, because for these bad folks, the risk of getting prosecuted is quite low because many immigrants are afraid to tangle with the legal system because they'd be illegal themselves.
So life's tough if you're an illegal immigrant in the era of Trump.
And Mr. Kersey, life's tough.
When you're out of time, you've got so much more to say on a podcast.
As always, ladies and gentlemen, it is a joy, a privilege, and honor to have spent this time with you.
Thank you so much.
We look forward.
Well, we may not be doing this next week for reasons that I won't go into now, but there may be something of a hiatus.
Well, I might take a bit of a sabbatical.
Mr. Kersey took a sabbatical.
Isn't Turnabout fair play, Mr. Kersey?
But we'll see what happens.
I'll be here same AR time.
Same AR place, same AR channel.
So we will see.
We will see.
Things will get a little bit out of the ordinary, but all will come right in the end.
So thank you so very much.
It is always our great pleasure and honor.
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