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June 19, 2025 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor

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Not One Catch-and-Release in May

Jared Taylor and Paul Kersey marvel at how much difference a single election can make. They also discuss Memphis, LA, the NAACP, and French degeneracy. Thumbnail credit: © State Department via ZUMA Wire

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	Ladies and gentlemen, your listeners, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
	I'm your host, Jared Taylor, and today is June 9th.
	Juneteenth.
	That means it's Juneteenth.
	Well, I assume all our listeners have expressed deep remorse for the sins of our white forefathers, for which we will be eternally guilty forever and ever.
	Now is your chance for expiation, so do your very best.
	Mr. Kersey, I assume that you gave prayerful reflection to the sins of your forefathers today.
	No, I didn't, actually.
	No, no.
	Well, you were just mentioning earlier that companies are less likely to be celebrating Juneteenth these days.
	I'm glad to hear that, if that's true.
	Yeah.
	Huffington Post put out a big article that our friends at one of the black Twitter accounts was lamenting that in Denver, for example, more than a dozen companies backed out of supporting the Juneteenth Music Festival, which is one of the city's biggest celebrations of the holiday.
	It's got a big music celebration for Juneteenth in Denver, Colorado.
	Well, Denver, Colorado was a hotbed of slavery, after all.
	Yes, it was, of course, obviously.
	Well, let us move on to comments.
	A listener writes in to say you might be interested in knowing that if you search for Jared Taylor on TikTok, you get zero results along with this message.
	This phrase may be associated with hateful behavior.
	TikTok is committed to keeping our community safe and working to prevent the spread of hate.
	So, gosh, the words Jared and Taylor in combination that may be associated with hateful behavior not to be tolerated on TikTok.
	Golly.
	Now, didn't TikTok just get another reprieve?
	It's got another, what, 90 days to find a U.S. buyer before Donald Trump blows it on the water?
	I did read that, yes.
	Well, I want to fail to decide that I'm not so hateful after all.
	Probably not.
	I don't think that would make much difference to Donald Trump.
	I think it would actually be pretty fun if you had a TikTok account, Mr. Taylor.
	I'm just Mr. Video.
	Yes, I can dance and cavort and show off different outfits.
	Isn't that what people do on TikTok?
	That's just me all the way.
	Sounds like you've seen way too many TikToks.
	Here is another comment.
	People should not waste energy complaining about Carmelo Anthony's bond being lowered.
	He is, of course, the guy who stabbed to death Austin Metcalf in Frisco, Texas, because he was sitting in the wrong place and he was told to move.
	Our listener writes in to say, It is typical for a magistrate who often didn't even go to law school to set initial bonds, and these can be dramatically high amounts.
	This makes it seem, again, dramatic and meaningful when a real judge lowers it, but it's often not.
	That's significant.
	The judge knows the history of criminal bonds in that area and is matching the bond for that crime in that state.
	Now, this person sounds like he knows a lot more about it than I do, and if that's true, that is good to know that this was not some sort of outraged decision by a racially unhinged judge.
	He was just fitting the bond level of crime.
	I don't know, but that is an interesting point of view that I think is worth passing off.
	Here's another comment.
	Characters in movies be race-swapped.
	For example, The Little Mermaid and Amazon's Lord of the Rings.
	Turning them obviously non-white was a disaster.
	However, the character doesn't have to actually look non-white, even if the actor is.
	Now, if this sounds mysterious to you, Mr. Kersey, it sounded mysterious to me.
	But our listener wrote in to say, you can have a half-black Now, I don't know who Nicole Parker is.
	I looked her up, and I suppose, depending on the light, she looks sort of black or maybe sort of not.
	But according to this person, when she was playing Astrid, they made her look whiter than she actually is and turned her black hair brown.
	And so everyone's happy.
	You get a black actress, but she looks white.
	This seems like a very weird way to go out of your way to do things.
	Why not just hire a white actress?
	Ah, Hollywood is beyond my comprehension.
	Now, here's another interesting comment.
	Only living family member is my older sister, who is America's number one Trump hater.
	That doesn't sound like the happiest offense.
	She cannot shut up about my political views.
	She laughs and scoffs and thinks I'm ignorant.
	Any view opposing hers is, in her mind, a lie.
	Or it's fake news.
	Today she's off to a left-wing protest.
	Why does our side never crowd the street with protesters?
	Why were there not hundreds of thousands of us in the street during the Biden administration?
	Well, I think there are reasonably good answers to that question.
	You'll have opinions of your own.
	It seems leftist movements are almost always about collective action, social justice, systemic change.
	They do imply sort of people getting together and fixing things.
	Conservatives, they typically care about individual responsibility.
	I suspect a lot of conservatives are really skeptical of street demonstrations.
	They think of them as disorderly, leftist, ragbag behavior.
	And of course, conservatives have jobs.
	They can't just take off and go gallivanting.
	And besides, I think they know that the leftist media are not going to give them any kind of coverage.
	You could have 100,000 conservators out there complaining about the border.
	New York Times is going to sniff and look the other way.
	And I think, I want to, conservators generally think that voting is the way to make your voice heard.
	It's certainly true that when there is a bunch of people out in the streets, it is almost always lefties and almost never conservatives.
	And that's an excellent question.
	What do you think explains that?
	Well, I think one of the things we know is that there is a risk-reward for doing anything like that, for having your picture taken and then having people say, oh, this person's associated with this movement or something as benign as just waving an American flag can be seen as fascistic by the left at this point.
	True.
	That's true.
	If you go out for something that's conservative, then you might pay the consequences.
	Very rarely are people fired for their jobs for demonstrating for rights for illegals or transsexuals or you name it.
	You could probably count on one hand the number of people who've lost their jobs.
	In fact, people are employed to get as many individuals out.
	I mean, as we're recording this podcast on Juneteenth, I believe that a number of ICE facilities across the country, particularly in Portland, have come under attack by Antifa leftists over the past week, with a pretty big battle taking place, according to Andy Nyo on Tuesday night.
	I think those are only going to continue.
	I mean, you, I believe a few years ago during the Stop the Steal rally, there were a couple rallies prior to the one on January 6th in Washington, D.C., and they were very well attended.
	It's true.
	That is true.
	I don't recall hearing anyone being fired for having attended the ones that preceded January 6th.
	I attended one of those.
	Lots and lots of people, all very peaceful, and they were pretty fired up about making sure that the right person got, or at least the person who won the votes, got the job.
	I don't know.
	I guess it can swing both ways.
	But speaking of left-wing protests, I was in town on Saturday for the No King's Day demonstration.
	I cooked up this big poster with pictures of Martin and Coretta and all the children who are now millionaires from dining out on Dead Daddy.
	And I had a big red line through them with a message, no kings, but nobody seemed to get it.
	How come nobody appreciated that, Mr. Kersey?
	Where did I go wrong?
	You know, I think somebody wanted to- Did I misunderstand something?
	Yeah, I think you may have misunderstood.
	Yeah, exactly.
	How so?
	I just know it's a mystery to me.
	I guess they just don't think like a leftist.
	Well, ladies and gentlemen, we love hearing from you.
	And please do not hesitate to get in touch.
	You can get a message to me by going to the AMRAN website.
	That's amren.com.
	And we have a contact us tab, which you can click.
	And you can write and tell me where I have gone wrong.
	Call things to our attention.
	Please let us know what you think about things.
	Or there's another way to get a message straight to Mr. Cook.
	Yeah, real simple.
	Because we live here at protonmail.com.
	Once again, that email address.
	We live here at ProtonMail.com.
	And we think someone sent in that suggestion as kind of a joke, and I think we both botched it.
	So sorry.
	Our end for...
	What did we botch?
	We were trying to have some fun there.
	I mean, again, the No Kings rally.
	Seems that way.
	But at least they were there.
	They were there.
	They're making their voices heard.
	So let's see.
	Big news as usual on immigration.
	And for the first time in at least half a century, it looks as though more people may leave the United States than arrive.
	Wow.
	And of course, Donald Trump's immigration policies have driven this reversal.
	And it's included the near total shutdown of the southern border, threats to international students to keep out, the loss of legal status for some new arrivals, more deportations.
	And of course, that's the aim of the workplace raids in Los Angeles and the cities all play a role.
	However, apparently it's not so much about deportations.
	It's just that those huge inflows are down so much.
	And not just at the Southern Board, but also through various legal programs.
	And already, and this has made big news, and it has warmed the cockles of my heart, already the Foreign Board workforce has shrunk by more than one million people since March.
	Two million people!
	And of course, on Inauguration Day, Donald Trump issued a directive requiring DHS to make all aliens present in the United States legal and otherwise registered with the federal government.
	And to prosecute those who don't.
	And by late February, HS Secretary Kristi Noem had set that program up.
	And it coincides with the offer of $1,000 for illegals who bugger off voluntarily.
	And of course, that's instead of physical deportation, which can cost taxpayers $17,000 per person.
	On average, yes, much cheaper just to offer them $1,000 and say bye, rather than having to catch them, house them, and do all of that.
	And the statistic I've been seeing lately is when President Eisenhower launched his famous deportation roundup in 1954, quite adorably known as Operation Wetback.
	Nearly 10 illegal aliens left voluntarily for each one arrested.
	I think that is a very, very good ratio.
	Obviously, DHS can't arrest and deport the estimated 15.5 million illegal aliens already A lot of them will get the message and clear out.
	And hundreds of thousands apparently already have.
	Adios, amigos!
	We are not looking forward to seeing you.
	Now, more information on immigration.
	The Department of Homeland Security on Monday told its staff that it was reversing guidance, or so-called guidance, that was issued last week.
	According to which agents were not to conduct immigration raids at farms, hotels, and restaurants.
	You were aware of this, of course, Mr. Kersey.
	All of us were rather startled because an official from DHS had sent an email, a message on Thursday, telling agents to hold off on worksite enforcement investigations in those three areas, farms, hotels, restaurants.
	That went out just a few hours after Trump had suggested he was sympathetic.
	Farmers and hospitality workers, business and industry groups, of course, have been lobbying heavily with White House, Senate, and congressional offices.
	We want our cheap labor, even if they're illegal.
	However, good old Steve Miller, my favorite man in the White House, Deputy Chief of Staff Steve Miller, said last month the administration wants ICE to make a minimum of 3,000 arrests a day and an interview last week.
	Tom Holman told the Post that arrests had increased to around 2,000 a day, but apparently we have backtracked that silly idea that there are going to be certain sectors that are going to get a reprieve, a carve-out from the all-illegals-out policy.
	That is what we voted Donald Trump into office to accomplish.
	So let's hope he sticks his guns.
	No weakness on this.
	No weakness.
	Because if you start saying, you know, imagine...
	I bet you the rate for prune pickers would go through the floor.
	All of a sudden, everybody would want to be a prune picker.
	All those people who are out there doing other things, they'd learn how to pick prunes.
	But no, no, we don't want to see that one day.
	And just one last thing about immigration before I turn it over to you, Mr. Kersey, and your insights and wisdom on the subject.
	This has to do with World Cup soccer.
	Tickets for the opening game in Miami for the Soccer World Cup went on sale at about $350 to begin with per seat, but fell as low as $20 just ahead of game time.
	And you know what was the big reason for this sudden fall in the price of tickets?
	It was the announcement that ICE was going to be at the game.
	That seems to have just terrified potential ticket holders.
	ICE told the local TV affiliate that all non-American citizens would have to carry proof of legal status.
	And then all of a sudden, nobody wanted to show up at the game anymore.
	Mr. General, think of all those times we've heard the United States soccer team, the men's soccer team playing the Mexican team in Los Angeles, and the United States men's soccer team, or the women's soccer team being booed in the national anthems played because the I believe there was one at the Olympic Stadium there in Los Angeles, that beautiful stadium, where the American team was just serenaded with booze by the primarily Hispanic, obviously illegal alien.
	They don't have to be.
	Look, look, I don't think most of them were illegal aliens.
	They don't have to be illegal to vote for a route for Mexico.
	They can be legal from Guatemala.
	They can be legal from Honduras or Venezuela.
	They still want their fellow Hispanics to win.
	No, it's an extraordinary set of circumstances because Atlanta, Georgia, they had a FIFA event as well, and the attendance was miserable for those who put on the event.
	And it was also because of what you said.
	The exact same scenario played out.
	Ice was going to be there, and just like at Home Depot, they're going to go where apparently Hispanics like to go see their football played.
	What I heard from this article is that although the prices really fell, I mean, if you get in for $20, heck, I might have gone to see a soccer game, World Cup soccer game for $20.
	Not that I'm much of a soccer fan or a sports fan, but attendance was still pretty good.
	Hard Rock Stadium in Miami.
	It can hold 65,000 fans, and there were 61,000 there, so not too many open seats.
	And apparently, other opening games also saw pretty good attendance across the U.S. So the big scare must have been special for Miami, but probably it just means that people who really want to see the game or people who don't have as much money want to see the game can't.
	So all of these interesting effects, nothing happens in isolation, does it?
	All of this is so amusing to me, all these different effects that Donald Trump has had.
	Anyway, now, Mr. Kersey, you said, and this is absolutely remarkable, what is it, in the last month, there was not a single catch and release at the border?
	Yeah, this just shows that it's a matter of simply doing your job, and the federal government under Donald Trump has done that.
	The White House put out a press release, quoting from a New York Post story, that they did not, in May of 20, The U.S. Border Patrol didn't release a single illegal immigrant into the interior of the U.S. in May of 2025.
	It's one of the latest victories of President Trump's relentless commitment to securing the homeland and a remarkable turnaround from the 62,000 illegals released into the country under the Biden administration in May of 2024.
	So just one year ago, you go from 62,000 to zero.
	Wonderful.
	This is wonderful.
	I want to go to sleep smiling tonight.
	Agents caught 8,725 illegal aliens crossing at the southern border last month.
	That was a 93% decrease from May of 2024 when 117,905 were nabbed, according to internal data obtained by the New York Post.
	Pete Flores, who is the Acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner, said it's a result of the Trump administration's tough border policies.
	Really, it's just tough.
	Thank you.
	Yeah.
	As opposed to saying, hey, you know what, let's just go ahead and let them go and give them one of those citations or court dates that they'll never appear at and then they just get lost in the system.
	This is one of the most monumental policy changes made by Trump was the reversal of Biden's catch and release scheme, which resulted in millions upon millions of illegal border jumpers.
	I know last week we didn't talk about a story that Washington Post did.
	They were wondering why the fentanyl crisis has completely been cut.
	Well, that's what happens when you actually control the border and it's coming from Mexico.
	It was just a very, very self-owned by the Washington Post editors.
	But anyways, with the massive drop in illegal crossings, National Border Control Council President Paul Perez, he told the Post last week that, again, operational control means this is the number you're supposed to get.
	And as you suggested, this is the way the law is supposed to be carried out.
	My gosh.
	You can complain about harsh policies.
	We arrested muggers and rapists and robbers.
	We are harsh.
	Oh, my gosh.
	Yes, they're just doing their job.
	Exactly.
	And it's about time.
	What a relief.
	What a startling difference from the last clown that was in the White House.
	Well, it just shows that decline is a choice and duty is an obligation under Biden from 2021 to 2022.
	You know, January of 2025.
	What happened under Mayorkas, DHS head, and Joe Biden was a deliberate policy of the federal government to just look the other way and cram as many illegals in.
	And of course, we know that the bipartisan effort for immigration reform always has centered around amnesty first, and then we'll get control of the border.
	Well, guess what?
	Get control of the border and you can continue to carry out Stephen Miller's mission of 3,000 arrests per day of illegals at Home Depot.
	Of course, one thing you mentioned, I believe, in passing, the fact that the whole farm and hotel being spared where illegals are employed in those fields, those vocations, that's been revoked.
	And most importantly, we know that New York, LA, and Chicago are places where the DHS and ICE are going to be going to try and get some of these worst of the worst illegals, these criminal aliens who are protected in these states and in these cities by sanctuary city policies.
	So it's going to get very interesting because Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles, Mr. Taylor, continues to be on a full court press for the rights of illegal aliens.
	I just want to see one of these individuals arrested for aiding and abetting illegal At least one was arrested right near Chambers.
	That was wonderful.
	That was a couple of weeks ago, maybe a month or two ago.
	a judge who had learned that ICE was there with a perfectly legally sworn out detainer, expected to pick up an illegal who had committed crimes, and she just ferreted him out the back door, got arrested.
	Wonderful.
	Yes.
	No, that would be great.
	For any, So going back real quick to the story about the National Border Patrol Council, President Perez said this, quote, it was unsecured because we didn't have enough agents on the line to actually protect and deter.
	So now we've got the complete opposite.
	All of our agents are actually patrolling the border for the first time in many Tom Homan, the aforementioned border czar, touted this drastic decrease when he said, That's the lowest number ever.
	Ever recorded.
	Compare that to the Biden administration, who surpassed more than 10,000 encounters per day.
	So you're talking about 30,000 to 31,000.
	If it's a leap year in February, 29,000.
	I mean, 95 just, you know, encountered.
	That's it.
	And 25, in 24 hours.
	I mean, that number going from 62,000 released in May of 2024 to zero in May of 2024.
	25, again, reinforce it.
	Decline is a choice.
	Simply doing a job, it's not drastic.
	It's not anything, you know, whatever pejorative or adjective you want to use to call it nasty or mean.
	It's simply doing the job to protect the interests of the American people.
	But, apparently, there are plenty of people in Los Angeles who think that that is absolutely harsh and awful.
	To actually enforce our laws.
	And I believe you had a follow-up story on this immigration aspect of what the L.A. Dodgers are up to.
	This is from The Bulwark.
	Now, The Bulwark, I believe, is a refuge for neocons and other center-right individuals who realize how irrelevant they are.
	So I thought this was interesting.
	The title is The Dodgers Own More to Their Latino Fan Base.
	There's a little argument that the LA Dodgers are the most Latino team in baseball.
	The team hosts Mexican and Salvadoran heritage nights.
	Fernando Venezuela is a revered figure.
	He was a pudgy pitcher, left-handed pitcher back in the 80s, Mr. Taylor, if you didn't know that.
	Was he any good?
	He was a pretty good pitcher.
	He had a very unique delivery, and again, he appealed to the Latino fan base.
	This is back in the days they had this guy, and they're still celebrating him as if he were Babe Ruth.
	He's Fernando Venezuela, so he's even bigger than Babe Ruth and Latinos.
	The ballpark features live mariachi bands before and after postseason games, but the Trump administration has militarized the team's home city.
	The Dodgers have remained notably painfully quiet.
	There's been no expression of solidarity with the immigrant neighborhoods under siege.
	No acts of protest as immigration officials invaded garment districts or spraying ambushes outside Home Depots in LA.
	The few remarks the team have offered sounded like they were filtered through several committees of professional communication consultants.
	I know that when you're having to bring people in and, you know, deport people and just kind of all the unrest, it's certainly unsettling for everyone, manager Dave Roberts said during his pregame press conference.
	He was speaking just hours after Senator Alex Padilla.
	How do you pronounce this guy's name?
	Probably Padilla.
	Again, why is there a Hispanic senator in California?
	Alex Padilla, at a federal building in L.A., had been wrestled to the ground and handcuffed for trying to ask Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem questions about the ICE actions in the city.
	That's so absurdly described.
	He wasn't asking a question.
	He was really trying to disrupt the thing.
	Yeah.
	Gosh.
	That's how the Bulwark describes Padilla's actions as probably noble.
	I'm sure some ombudsman said, oh, you can't say his actions were noble.
	Let's at least cut that.
	Roberts added that he didn't know enough and can't speak intelligently on it.
	Yes, just worry about baseball.
	Ask questions about baseball, not about ice doing their job.
	So the Dodgers'muted response to the humanitarian and political upheaval in their hometown has been so pronounced that it's caused unease among their fan base.
	And talk among local commentators about whether a boycott should be in order.
	I'm not sure if you saw that video, Mr. Taylor, but a few days ago, a...
	So I guess they have had some pushback.
	They should have shouted her down is what they should have done.
	Now, that's not the first time that's happened.
	I remember in Denver, Colorado, some lady sang the national anthem in Spanish despite being told by the mayor to sing in English.
	She ended up being a hero and people loved her on the counter.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I mean, the article goes on to spend a few minutes talking about what's all happened with professional sports and how they've interacted with President Trump throughout his first and now second administration.
	And then Bulwark writes this, four and a half years later, few if any athletes or coaches are speaking out against Donald Trump.
	Steve Kerr, he's a manager of the Golden State Warriors, white guy whose dad was actually murdered in the Middle East.
	He was a president of a university in the Middle East and he was murdered by Islamic.
	Terrorist, actually.
	Didn't know if you knew that.
	No, sure did.
	He's been perhaps the biggest exception.
	The professional leagues are guarding against getting too political, and even a slogan like, end racism, as banal as that may be, is apparently out of bounds.
	We've seen that erased from the NFL's end zones.
	Championship squads aren't just going to the White House now.
	Their star players are riding with Trump on Air Force One.
	Wings of change are blowing across America's stadia and playing fields, and it's about time.
	Yeah, one last quote.
	One last quote from this story, Mr. Taylor.
	L.A. Times column by Dylan Hernandez, hit old cowardly Dodgers, remained silent as ice raids terrorized their fans, said that, quote, the Dodgers boast that more than 40% of their fan base is Latino, but they can't even be bothered to offer the shaken community any words of comfort.
	It's not going to notice that two L.A. soccer clubs, Angel City Football Club and Los Angeles Football Club, both issued statements sympathizing with the residents experiencing fear and uncertainty while Angel City players wore shirts emblazoned with the phrase, Immigrant City Football Club.
	Just another reason to never watch soccer, ladies and gentlemen.
	These people don't understand the word illegal.
	I mean, if you're here legally, you may have a little bit of inconvenience if somebody asks you to show your papers, but you're not going to be stuck on an airplane and bounced across the border.
	The idea, really what they're saying is ICE dare not do its job.
	That anybody can come here and stay as long as he likes.
	This is outrageous.
	And for them to insist that the LA Dodgers have got to stand on the side of lawbreakers, people who are here illegally, that's simply outrageous.
	Of course, they write something like this.
	I wonder just how much sentiment there is, by the way, among Hispanics.
	Are they really going to boycott?
	We'll see.
	Of course, what an article like this is trying to do is to spook management of the L.A. Dodgers and try to make them say things they don't feel like saying that are completely inappropriate for them to say.
	This is typical, disgusting nonsense.
	And just one last quote.
	It goes on to talk about the history of the Los Angeles Dodgers and how eminent domain was used to displace 300 low-income Hispanic individuals who lived in a community where they built the stadium, Dodger, Dodger.
	This is an organization inextricably linked with the community, so people are wondering, why are they now tone-deaf and falling?
	This guy doesn't understand the word illegal.
	Is he here illegally?
	Well, then he needs to bugger off, too.
	This is just outrageous.
	He probably thinks Los Angeles is stolen Mexican land because, again, Fernando Venezuela was probably the most I think he had to use a translator during his entire time as a major league pitcher.
	So he never bothered learning English.
	I know...
	Just goes to show you where their loyalties lie.
	I'm sure his bones are not buried in the United States.
	They're probably back in Mexico under some enormous cenotaph.
	That would be an interesting thing to look up.
	What's this guy's name?
	Venezuela?
	Is that his name?
	Fernando, Venezuela.
	Venezuela?
	And he was Mexican and not Venezuelan?
	That's correct.
	Okay.
	Where is he buried?
	I bet he's buried in Mexico.
	That's where he really belongs.
	All his life he belonged there.
	Well, anyway, let's see.
	Moving on.
	Did you know that nearly two in three white men aged 18 to 29, there are about 12 million such people, men aged 18 to 29, feel the need to keep their mouths shut at work.
	They're afraid to speak freely for fear of being canceled.
	Called out, can.
	According to a new poll, about 6 million, that's half of them, say they've missed a promotion or some other opportunity because they are white men, or so they think.
	Yes, one never knows about these things, but still, that nearly 2 in 3 young white guys keep their mouths shut at work, and across all age groups, 43% are white men.
	That's about 41 million of them.
	Say they bite their tongues on the job because they might blurt out something that, no matter how true, could get them in trouble.
	Another 25 million.
	Claim they've lost out on jobs or advancement because they are white men.
	This is a very recent article, and you and I thought the DEI was on its way out.
	Well, I'm sure it is still firmly entrenched, even though it's hiding under different names.
	It's not quite as blatant as it once was.
	But these are dispiriting figures.
	Two and three white men, age 18 to 29, think they have to keep their mouths shut.
	Now, in the meanwhile, NAACP is not even going to invite Donald Trump to its national convention this year.
	This breaks a, believe it or not, 16-year tradition of inviting the president.
	Every year they invite the president, but they're going to make an exception for Donald J. Trump.
	Derek Johnson, president of the NAACP, explains why.
	I'm quoting, the president has signed unconstitutional executive orders to oppress voters and undo federal civil rights protections.
	He continually undermines every pillar of our democracy.
	Got that?
	Every single pillar undermines it.
	He's like a mole digging day and night, undermining every pillar.
	Well, as it turns out, although Mr. Trump was invited, he never attended a convention while he served as president.
	I'm delighted to hear that.
	I couldn't really imagine him up there at the podium for the NAACP's big whoop-de-doo, but he was invited and he politely turned them down.
	And did you know that Harry Truman spoke at its gala in 1947?
	Eisenhower did so in 1954.
	Ronald Reagan spoke at the NAACP's annual convention in 1981.
	But they're not even going to invite the president this year because blacks absolutely live and die and eat and drink DEI.
	They can't get along without DEI.
	And anybody who is...
	Because it turns out a black father who killed his infant daughter will soon walk free because an Oregon judge said that prosecutors acted with racial bias.
	Marion McWoods.
	He's had his life sentence overturned and reduced to 10 years.
	He was a pretty young guy.
	So what could have been, I don't know, 55, 60 years has been reduced to 10 years after appellate judge Josephine Mooney Now, he's already served eight and a half years, so Darian McWoods will be walking out of the big house in 18 months as long as he keeps his nose clean.
	In 2018, he was guilty of killing his daughter, Kite, with a methadone.
	Now, Mr. Kersey, how do you administer a methadone overdose to a toddler?
	I don't know.
	Did he inject the child?
	Did he shove the stuff down her throat?
	Any case, not only did she have a methadone overdose, she had broken ribs, she had bruises, she was bleeding, she had been strangled, but Judge Josephine Mooney, who is a blonde and blue-eyed white lady, she ruled that the jury didn't include two black candidates despite acknowledging that.
	They had perfectly good reasons for striking them.
	They had nothing to do with race.
	But she says, uh-oh, racial discrimination in the selection of jurors is harmful, she says.
	Well, she has since resigned from the Court of Appeals after having been accused of bias in that case.
	But yes, blonde and blue-eyed Judge Josephine Mooney says that even for cause, if you exclude two jurors off the case, well, then that was just no good, so this guy gets to walk.
	Well, Mr. Kersey, returning to a different part of the country, Memphis, I believe you have a story on some commentary on the crime rates there.
	One quick answer for you.
	He was actually buried.
	Fernando Venezuela was buried in Los Angeles.
	He died a few years ago.
	Oh my gosh.
	Well, shut my mouth.
	He did need a translator for most of his career because he never bothered learning English.
	And then he was part of the Los Angeles Dodgers Spanish language radio broadcast team.
	And this morning, mind you, the Los Angeles Dodgers official Twitter just tweeted this out.
	Mr. Taylor, here's a modest proposal for anybody who might be listening that's affiliated with the DHS or ICE.
	There are 30 Major League Baseball teams.
	That means that any given night, if every team is playing, there will be 15 stadiums where there will be fans going to watch Major League Baseball be played.
	All you need to do is If you see people who look like they might be here illegally, why not just simply ask, do you have papers, please?
	Let's see your license.
	Let's run it.
	Mr. Kersey, I suspect that if you did that in any efficient way, you would be guilty of racial profiling.
	You could be guilty of racial profiling, but at the same time, you'd also get some very big press, and it would force the left, once again, to side with illegal aliens.
	And I think that's something that we want to see.
	We want to see more mayors.
	We want to see more individuals.
	And again, this is a nonprofit, the New Century Foundation.
	We're not advocating for political parties, but what we do point out is the absurdity of elected officials in the United States aiding and abetting illegal aliens.
	Well, tell me, did this press release or this notice from the Los Angeles Dodgers, did they say they would not even let ICE into their parking lot?
	They were denied entry to the ground by the Los Angeles Dodgers organization.
	So this is why...
	Maybe?
	Well, I don't understand.
	You have to go to a gate?
	I have never driven to a baseball game.
	I know that in Atlanta, around Turner Field, you used to have, I think it was the gold.
	The gold lot was the best lot and you had to show proper authorization to access that lot.
	So who knows what's going on, but this is a case where, again, you allocate 20, 30 agents to the Los Angeles Dodgers game there in Dodger Stadium.
	I think you could...
	Maybe 5% of Stephen Miller's daily quota.
	But think of all the self-deporters that you would stimulate.
	Exactly.
	Yes, you want lots of PR.
	You want the TV there.
	You want mothers and children weeping as daddy is locked up.
	That will send them all scampering back across the border at $1,000 a head rather than $17,000 a head.
	Yeah, you do that in San Diego.
	You do that in Los Angeles.
	You do that in Anaheim.
	You do that in Dallas for the Texas Rangers, Houston for the Astros, Atlanta.
	You're bragging about how you know the names of all the teams.
	Yes, okay.
	Look, I'm just trying to make sure that Stephen Miller's dictum is reached.
	He's got a quota, Mr. Taylor.
	We've got to help him get it.
	Very good.
	Well, then shall we now zero in on Memphis?
	Yeah, you know, Memphis is in the news real quick.
	The Memphis Gun Violence Assessment Summary Report was put out in September 2021 by the National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform, Mr. Taylor, and it showed that in the 62% black city of known homicide suspects, 92% were black.
	Again, 92% of known suspects in the 62% black city were black.
	How many were Hispanic?
	It doesn't break that out.
	It doesn't break that out.
	It's not a very good report, I should say that, but it does go on to show that, because they actually classify Hispanics as white in this report, but it does show that Memphis has one of the lowest clearance rates for homicides in the country.
	It's about 46% right now for every year the homicide aggregated.
	Only about 46%, so less than half are cleared.
	So this brings us to a story involving ESPN.
	Yet again, we're with sports.
	People in Memphis should be thanking Stephen A. Smith for calling out how unsafe the city has become.
	Stephen A. Smith is a black sports reporter, sports personality.
	He was paid about three, $5 million a year, Mr. Taylor, if you didn't know.
	No, I did not know.
	Go ask anyone living in America today what the first thing that comes to mind is when they think of Memphis, Tennessee.
	What's the first thing that comes to your mind, Mr. Taylor?
	I've been to Memphis, and oddly enough, oddly enough, one of the first things that comes to my mind is Forest Park, which used to be in Memphis.
	Well, it's not named Forest Park anymore, is it?
	He's been exhumed, and it's been renamed, and the statue is gone.
	But it had this wonderful, magnificent equestrian statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest.
	I've photographed that statue, and I use it as an avatar in some of my social media.
	That's the first thing, I think.
	So sorry to disappoint you.
	No, that's okay.
	Unfortunately, that's gone, that beautiful statue.
	Who knows where it is?
	But this outkick.com story says, some will say Elvis, others may say barbecue, perhaps blues music, but the overwhelming majority will say either danger or crime.
	This isn't the case of Memphis getting picked on or being part of a sort of stigma or some faux perception.
	It's simply true.
	Memphis is among the most dangerous cities in the United States, and FBI crime reports it's the most dangerous city in the country based on city murder and property crime rates per 100,000 people.
	FBI Director Cash Patel labeled Memphis the homicide capital of America in May while announcing a task force is being sent to the city in an attempt to slow down the crime rate.
	If that doesn't send the message of...
	Things are bad in Memphis, then nothing will.
	With those inarguable facts based on statistics out of the way, this brings us to Steve A. Smith, the person that citizens of Memphis and people across the volunteer state should be applauding, not criticizing.
	During June 15th's edition of First Take on ESPN, there was a segment centered around the idea of the Memphis Grizzlies trading away Jay Morant to undergo a rebuild.
	This led Smith and his co-hosts to talk about the city itself, with Smith making the claim that players around the league don't want to play in Memphis because they, quote, don't feel like it's a safe environment, end quote.
	That's a pretty fair statement from Smith, according to OutKick, given the fact that Memphis isn't a safe environment.
	Nevertheless, Morant didn't appreciate Smith's comments and called him out on social media for speaking negatively about the city on a national level.
	Again.
	So Morant and Smith are both African-American fellow citizens of ours?
	They're both Africans in America.
	Yeah, they're both black.
	Okay.
	Yes, sir.
	One of them was honest about race and the other yelled at him for it.
	He was honest about crime.
	The stereotype is that Memphis, with it being 62% black, let's see, the population is 615,000 people.
	So it's got one of the larger black populations in the country when you're breaking.
	I actually looked up that story.
	This is a pretty big story in Memphis, just from these comments on ESPN.
	People are very upset in Memphis because they're trying to rebrand, if you will, from having that perception.
	Outkick goes on to say as if he's some sort of bully picking on little old Memphis, home to the small market Memphis Grizzlies to whom the city adores.
	Instead of reacting with emotion, the city should turn Smith's comments around in a positive way.
	Well, this is interesting.
	Outkick, it sounds with a name like that, that it would be some kind of relentlessly lefty outfit.
	But it is saying this guy spoke the truth, and it's about time this stuff was talked about publicly.
	We've actually talked about Outkick a lot on this podcast, Mr. Taylor.
	It's run by Clay Travis, who, believe it or not, took Rush Limbaugh's time slot across the nation with his radio program.
	He goes on Fox News all the time.
	I see.
	I see.
	So it is generally more or less a sensible outfit.
	Yeah, and the owner of the Grizzlies was actually really upset.
	A minority owner, Fred Jones, had this to say.
	I would say to Stephen A. Smith, this is a great place.
	We got great people.
	Lord knows we got great food.
	And this is a good place.
	Does it have issues?
	Yes.
	But I wouldn't let someone say, don't come to Memphis for things they have read.
	They don't live here.
	Considering Memphis' population is declining every year, I would say that the people who do live there don't want to live there.
	Yes, that's a good conclusion.
	But yeah, no, Memphis to me, the main thing, I've been there a number of times, and if anyone gets a chance, the only thing worth seeing there now, since, like you said, Nathan Bedford Forest statue is gone, it's the pyramid that used to be where the Grizzlies basketball team played, and it's now the world's largest Bassmasters pro shop.
	I see, see, okay.
	So if you're interested in sports equipment, go to Memphis.
	Yeah?
	Okay.
	That's about it.
	Well, very good.
	Well, I've got a story about a different city that is likewise in decline.
	It's Chicago.
	And this article starts, this is an article by ProPublica, by the way.
	ProPublica is relentlessly lefty.
	If outkick is okay, then this is absolutely inkick or upkick or something.
	It is kicking in absolutely the opposite direction.
	But it goes on to start by pointing out that there was a time when there were 4,000 students at DuSable High School.
	At that time, it was an all-black academic powerhouse, as they call it, on Chicago's south side.
	What remains today is an enormous building, and inside, two tiny schools cling to life.
	One has about 115 students.
	And that's in the North Corridors.
	The other has only 70 students.
	That's in the South Corridors.
	It has a pool, but nobody swims in it anymore because it is longer usable.
	So that means a building that used to have 4,000 students every day now has 185.
	Can you imagine going to school in a building like that?
	I think it'd be kind of spooky.
	There must be miles and miles and miles of corridor that are just completely abandoned.
	In any case, what happened to DuSable High School is that the Robert Taylor Home.
	At one time, the largest public housing project in the United States, it was built right nearby.
	But in 2007, the place was determined to be absolutely unsalvageable, and the reason is, to put it bluntly, that it was full of black people.
	So the place was demolished, and DuSable High School never recovered from the loss of those students.
	So again, from 4,000 students down to 185.
	Chicago Public Schools operates more than 500 schools and spends $18,700 per student, and at Disable, the cost is close to about $50,000 per student because they get to keep this enormous plant going for only 185 students.
	There are 47 schools, including the two that are inside Disable, that operate at less than one-third capacity.
	There's one called Hirsch High School.
	It was built.
	But the most extreme example is Frederick Douglass Academy High School, appropriately named for Frederick Douglass.
	It has 28 students this year and a per-student cost of $93,000.
	Theoretically, you can get an awful lot of education for $93,000, but it's on the city's west side.
	It now has 27 employees and 28 students now.
	How are the 27 employees employed?
	There are six regular education teachers, six special ed teachers.
	Get this, Mr. Kersen, for 28 students, they've got six special ed.
	They got that many defectives at this place.
	They have a school counselor, a college and career coach, a conflict resolution specialist, a restorative justice coordinator, and a principal and an assistant principal for 28 students.
	So they have one They have six ordinary teachers, six special eds, and then, as I say, a counselor, a college and career coach, conflict resolution specialist, 28 students.
	Are they always knifing each other?
	They need a conflict resolution, a restorative justice coordinator, and a principal and assistant principal.
	Boy, and it costs about $93,000 a year, yes, to teach folks.
	Many of the schools in Chicago are historic buildings, and they need millions of dollars in repairs, as you can just imagine.
	Of course, these schools have chronic truancy and high dropout rates, overwhelmingly black, and the district as a whole faces a budget deficit of half a billion dollars.
	Now, a decade ago, there were about 425,000 students.
	Now there are only about 325,000 seats.
	Citywide from 2011 to 2021, at the same time, But the Chicago Teachers Union insists the city is poised for a rebound.
	And can you believe why?
	They think Chicago is going great guns because Chicago, under Mayor Johnson, can claim that it is progressive.
	It's a place that protects immigrants.
	It offers abortion care, LGBTQ plus rights, and access to gender-affirming care.
	Thus saith Jackson Parter.
	And so he thinks that all of this, protecting immigrants, offering abortion care, LGBTQ++ +, and gender-affirming care, all that is going to bring young families swarming into Chicago, and they will fill in the public school.
	What a bonehead.
	You know, I lament the loss of that pool not being used because I'm sure that an auditorium is gorgeous at that school.
	And the fact that it's not being used, that's quite sad.
	I actually think Chicago is poised to be a world-class city again in ways that are unimaginable right now.
	I know, you know, you can imagine anything, but Chicago, just the city is so beautiful.
	And we know that there's been black migration out of the city back south, significant black migration.
	Again, it goes back to that story we just talked about.
	And I know a lot of people listening are saying, Kersi, well, come on.
	That's insane to think that one of these ardently left-wing cities could turn around.
	Look at the border.
	You have the right administration come in and simply enforce the law.
	And that's going to be like Chicago.
	And I think Chicago is going to be one of the epicenters for some incredible images of just when ICE starts to do its job.
	Because Chicago has a massive illegal immigration problem, and not just the city, but the suburbs as well.
	I hope you're right.
	I would love to see the city come back.
	I think it's got a beautiful downtown, all those gorgeous buildings.
	But whenever I've been there recently, it just seems like it's very much on the decline to me.
	It'd be great if it could come back.
	It is certainly true that the election of Donald Trump and the policies that he's implemented have shown elections matter.
	The people in charge matter, and things can go from zero to 60 or 60 to zero practically overnight if you've got the right people.
	So I hope you're right.
	And moving to France, Mr. Kersey.
	This is a story about a Mr. M. He is from Pakistan, but the poor darling must have his privacy protected so his full name is not released to the press.
	He's known as Mr. M. He was in court for sexual assault.
	And he claimed that all he did was walk up to a French lady and say that she was dressed very skimpily and that she was very beautiful.
	But he denied grabbing her between the legs.
	The man then, on the witness stand, appeared to be searching his memory under cross-examination when he said, well, maybe I touched her.
	I was drunk.
	At this point, the judge asked him what he was doing on his phone, at which he was stealing.
	Court officers took his phone and found that he was looking at photos of naked women.
	So, you know, we think we have degenerates in our country, Mr. Kersey, but the French do pretty well with their country, too.
	And when it came to sentencing, the Pakistani man's lawyer said, there's still a long way to go in educating men, especially when they come from Pakistan.
	This man is a product of a patriarchal system, of a culture where forced marriage is still practiced.
	And he went on to explain that...
	Well, isn't the policy to know all is to forgive all, Mr. Kirsten?
	Isn't that the way you feel about all this, too?
	But the lawyer went on to say his client had learned his lesson, which is that you have to approach a woman first before touching her.
	But now he knows better.
	He will go and sin no more.
	And in order to help Mr. M control his sexual urges, the lawyer asked for psychological treatment.
	Well, the judge found this guy, who again was watching pornography while he was on the witness stand in trial, found him guilty of sexual assault, violence, and use of cannabis and alcohol, and sentenced him to, guess how many months?
	Eight months!
	Along with a 10-year ban on entering French territory.
	Now, I don't know why you wouldn't give a guy a permanent ban for something like this.
	And the problem is, I don't recall the figure off the top of my head, but I think it's something like 80%.
	Eighty percent of the people who've been ordered out of France are still there months and years later because the French are no good at actually tracking them down and giving them the boot.
	Probably the same thing here in the United States.
	I'm sure we have a similar story, almost verbatim to that sort of details you just told.
	Yes, I probably should have even included this story, but we must face the facts as we see them grimly and march on.
	Now, Mr. Kersey, have we run out of time or do we have one more time left?
	I'm afraid we've probably run out of our allotted hour.
	We are a program that wants to stay fastidious.
	Yes, yes, yes.
	Well, you know, we keep not getting to your story on the South African Navy.
	Well, the South African Navy will sail on, and it will probably still be in a rather parlous state next time we get around to it.
	But then we must come to an end.
	Ladies and gentlemen, it is always a pleasure, a joy, and an honor to spend this time with you.

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